By Kelly Clancy, OTR/L, CHT Whole Person Healthcare I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about this concept lately. It is a familiar one, one that brings me back to my early college days as a young twenty-something trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life. Looking back, it was the thought…
Holistic Healing Certificate Program Free Info Session 9/15/18
Holistic Healing Certificate Program The Holistic Healing Certificate Program will give you a strong experience and skills in Integrative Health. Go Here to register for the FREE Holistic Healing Certificate Program Info Session on September 15, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Central Time via teleconference. Learn more about the program here. This program designed to give you…
Happy OT Month 2018
Happy OT Month! We’re celebrating with a new low full membership rate of $5/month or $60/year. Join Here Occupational Therapy month is the time of year when we raise awareness about what it is OTs do and how an OT can help you. Please visit our blog, FAQ, Podcasts and other resources at HolisticOT.org. What…
Top 10 Holistic OT Blog Posts 2017
We’ve had another amazing year learning, sharing, and growing Occupational Therapy with Complementary and Integrative Health, Wellness, and Prevention! Thank you to every practitioner who is expanding in these much needed areas, those practicing self care, and receiving the benefits of these approaches. After all, 75% of chronic health care conditions can be prevented with…
Harmony and Disharmony in Health and Wellness
By Michael Gagliano, OT/L, Reiki Master and Tai Chi Practitioner Isn’t it time to challenge our response to health, disease & healthcare? Our journey starts by re-framing disease and health into the concepts of Harmony and Disharmony. Let’s change our assumption on “how things are supposed to be.” The following are some thoughts for you…
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…
Wholism in Health Care
By Michael Gagliano, OT/L, Reiki Master and Tai Chi Practitioner Wholism – Uncovering Harmony It would be so simple if all disharmonies could be traced to just one root cause. This is actually the practice in the current allopathic “western” state of healthcare. Root causes are routinely discussed & researched, and if not found only…
Please Provide Feedback to ACOTE for a Complementary and Integrative Health Standard
Occupational Therapists, Please provide feedback asking for Complementary Health Approaches and Integrative Health to be included in the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) standards by November 3, 2017. The standards for OT education are reviewed every 7 years, and we don’t want to wait that long for this to get adopted! Please take…
OTs Raised the Roof on Health Care at the “Holistic OT Yoga & Meditation Retreat”
Occupational Therapists gathered in St. Paul, MN and joined via Online Live Video on September 29 & 30, 2017 for the “Holistic OT Yoga & Meditation Retreat: Restoring Mind, Body & Soul for You & Your Clients.” A “Holistic Yoga & Meditation Retreat: Self Care for Health Care Professionals and Their Clients” will be held…
Free Info Session – Holistic Healing Certificate Program
The Holistic Healing Certificate Program will give you a strong experience and skills in Complementary & Integrative Health. Register Here for the Free Info Session for September 14, 2017 at 7 p.m. Central Time This program is designed to give you a strong theoretical and practical foundation of Holistic or Mind-Body-Spirit Healing, Prevention, and Wellness. The…