In the Gratitude Meditation, I guide you to create a sense of gratitude for yourself and others. The more you feel gratitude, the more you will likely develop a stronger sense of compassion for yourself and others. It may help you achieve a positive state to reach your goals. Regularly practicing gratitude has many health benefits.Happy…
Joyful Reflections: What Lights Up Your Life?
Gratitude It’s that time of year where we put focus on gratitude. As cliche as it sounds, having a gratitude practice is one of the best ways to be happy, positive, healthy, and well. This does not deny experiences that cause you trouble, but it can enhance your perspective, mindset, and physiology to stay well,…
Grateful for You
We wish you and yours a blessed holiday season. Thank you for supporting the Holistic OT Community by reading our blog, sharing our information, and to those who take our classes, and are members. We also acknowledge all of the native and indigenous cultures who contribute to our learning and practicing holistic and integrative health…
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…
Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage month. Together we can be grateful for the Native American culture. May we also give thanks to the indigenous cultures that have come before us, and that still remain, as we have so much to learn from each other. As we care for ourselves and clients as best we can,…
Success through Failure
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Scarlett V Clark about “Success through Failure” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 38. Scarlett V Clark is the CEO and founder of the Smart Girl Tribe that is the UK’s #1 female empowerment organization. Scarlett is the author of “The Smart Girls Handbook.” She has worked with UN Women,…
Holistic OT and Holistic Nurse Have a Familial Connection
On September 25 Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, Holistic OT and Katheryn “Katie” Darlington, RN, Holistic Nurse Clinician met for the first time – and they are also cousins. Katie and Emmy volunteered to be on a committee for a professional guided imagery association in 2015. Katie recognized Emmy’s last name as being the same as her…
How an Attitude of Gratitude Can Improve Your Life
By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L What are Your Grateful For? Taking a few moments each day or weekly to have an attitude of gratitude may improve your life. Research supports findings that there is an association with gratitude and an overall sense of well being. “Gratitude is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself…
Holistic OT "Attitude of Gratitude" Happy Thanksgiving 2014!
We asked OTs what they are grateful for about Holistic OT – Mind, Body, Spirit Medicine and Prevention and Wellness in working with others or for their own self care, or their own personal philosophy of Gratitude. Here’s what they had to say! “I am grateful to be alive and living on this tiny speck…