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Day 6 of my Self care challenge: practicing self regulation and self compassion

If you’ve been following along my self care challenge, or if you’re new to this post, 6 days ago I decided to challenge myself to 10 days of self care activities. The hope was to care for myself in this transition between programs at work, and to get into routines of self care…. But it’sContinue reading “Day 6 of my Self care challenge: practicing self regulation and self compassion”

Day 5 of my Self care challenge: completing passion projects

Five days ago I was inspired to challenge myself to 10 days of self care, with the hopes to start setting myself up for a good pattern of self care for the new school year. I really just intended to share it in blog posts to normalize self care looking different than fancy spa activities.Continue reading “Day 5 of my Self care challenge: completing passion projects”

Day 2 of my Self Care challenge: learning about myself 🤍

Yesterday I decided to give myself a 10 day self care challenge! The post is linked down below, but basically I am going to try to intentionally do nice things for myself all this week to remind myself of how important I am. It seems that this challenge is also starting to open up myContinue reading “Day 2 of my Self Care challenge: learning about myself 🤍”

10 day self care challenge

A little different than my usual post, so perhaps I’ll re-introduce myself if new humans find me! Hi! My name is Kristina, I am an Occupational therapist from Ontario Canada! As much as my blog revolves mostly around my role as an OT, I am so much more than that and am trying to findContinue reading “10 day self care challenge”

Quote of the Day 💚

Today’s quote of the day comes as I am on a long weekend between the transition from summer camp programming to more structured “school year” programming at work! At the outdoor facility I work at as an Occupational Therapist, our day programs look different during summer vs school year. In the summer the biggest goalContinue reading “Quote of the Day 💚”

Reflections of an Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Preceptor

As an occupational therapist, I don’t like to call myself an expert of anything, because my role is so broad. Not only do I work in two different jobs, But in one of my jobs, I work with children and teens and adults, with is very wide variety of strength, needs, and challenges. Each dayContinue reading “Reflections of an Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Preceptor”

Grounded to Grow: professional exploration in Occupational Therapy

The countdown is on! In less than a week I’ll be flying to the United States to meet up with 24 other nature based Occupational Therapists for a weekend of connection and professional development. Last year, four OTs got together and created this love child event in which occupational therapists that practice in nature couldContinue reading “Grounded to Grow: professional exploration in Occupational Therapy”

Self compassion challenge

Happy day everyone! I posted this on my Instagram account and I thought I’d share this here as a bit of an interactive conversation starter! In one of my previous Quote of the Day posts I shared a bit about self compassion and how we can incorporate that more in our lives instead of selfContinue reading “Self compassion challenge”