by JaharaSara | Aug 14, 2024 | Body-mind, Healing, Occupational Therapy
The Highly Sensitive Person I can hear my mother’s voice saying “when you were a baby, you vomited everything, you were so very sensitive.” She has told me many times over the last four decades of my life that I have always been highly sensitive. For my entire life I...
by JaharaSara | Jul 22, 2024 | Body-mind, Chronic Pain Relief, Healing, Occupational Therapy
Finding Relief from Chronic Low Back Pain with Somatic Occupational Therapy For this month’s blog I will be sharing one example of a client life cycle. A person who had tried many avenues of healing, seeking relief from chronic lower back pain, with little...
by JaharaSara | Jun 10, 2024 | Chronic Pain Relief, Healing, Myofascial Release, Occupational Therapy
What are body-mind approaches and how can they help you? Body mind approaches combine mindfulness, somatics, sensory awareness, and self-regulation practices. This approach can help people heal emotional, mental, and physical symptoms. As well, help people to develop...
by JaharaSara | Apr 17, 2024 | Healing, Occupational Therapy
Somatic Occupational Therapy for Whole Person Healing I deeply value the profession of occupational therapy. I love our scope of practice because it is a whole person approach. Occupational therapists are experts at holistic, functional, systems focused interventions....
by JaharaSara | Nov 24, 2021 | Healing
The need to be heard in our healing process is both true of individual healing and of collective healing. On that note, I want to first acknowledge this week’s holiday and honor that many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of settlers on this land, as it is a...