Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L shares “Healing Environment” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 52. Emmy shares that we desire healing as we all experience dis-ease during our lives. She shares how to improve your external and internal environment for optimal healing. She gives prompts for you to consider how to improve what you experience with your…
Happy New Year 2022
We wish you a very Happy New Year 2022! What are your intentions for 2022? Name them aloud! Focus on them. Watch them manifest. One thing we’ve learned at Holistic OT is that our minds are very powerful. We have also learned that we can create a lot of goodness in the world with pure…
Happy Winter Solstice from Emmy Vadnais
Emmy wishes you a Happy Winter Solstice and Happy Holidays 2021! She encourages you to reflect upon what is working well in your life and to consider what you want to create or manifest going forward into the New Year 2022. She shares what she’s grateful for and what she intends to manifest in the…
Gifts of Intuition for Self-Care and OT Practice
Gifts of Intuition for Self-Care and OT Practice Instructor: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Dates: January 22, 2022 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Central Time Location: Zoom Live Video CEU: 1.5 Price: $29 Register Here Emmy Vadnais will provide education about intuitive development, and how it may enhance OT practice and the OT practitioner’s self-care. Emmy will guide…
Magical Healing
Dr. Paul J. Leslie was interviewed about “Magical Healing” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 51. Paul shares that magical healing can occur when a therapist or health care practitioner moves beyond the medical or disease based model that primarily focuses on a problem. Magical healing happens in an interaction model where both the client…
Getting Clarity and Direction
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L shares “Getting Clarity and Direction” on the Healing Connections Podcast. There are times in your life where you may have confusion and need more clarity on what direction to take. Emmy offers four tips plus a bonus technique that may help you. 1. Take time to think about what you what and…
Yoga and Occupational Therapy
Yoga can be used with occupational therapy to enhance health, wellness, prevention of disease, and rehab and recovery. This is something OTs have been doing for several years now. We keep getting questions and inquiries from OTs about how to use this in their practice. This is good new! More OTs are learning about the…
Signs and Symbols
Signs and Symbols Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L shares “Signs and Symbols” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 49. Emmy shares how signs and symbols are subtle yet powerful ways to connect to your intuition. She provides examples of how signs can come in your life through music, the radio, podcasts, dreams, and something you read, see,…
Building Stress Resilience and Wellbeing with Mindfulness Training to OT Students
A recent curriculum-based mindfulness stress-reduction program was implemented at Baker College in Michigan for entry-level occupational therapy students in an MOT program, given the fact that stress in college students is on the rise. The seven-week study used a combination of mindfulness-based stress reduction strategies, including phone applications, podcasts, guided meditation, mindfulness of breath, yoga,…
Addiction and Spirituality
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Dave Roberts, LMSW about “Addiction and Spirituality” on the Healing Connections Podcast. Dave shares that there are many forms of addiction, including substance use, gambling, sex, internet, food, and shopping. He provides ways that spirituality may enhance a person to feel more hope and a greater connection to the universe to…