Adventures in Birmingham

07/20/2020

Patience: Every season serves a purpose.

Birmingham, Alabama Hello there. I hope opening up this post finds you well- wherever you are. Though I may no longer write weekly, the journey continues and this installment brings me to the begin…

07/09/2020

New post coming to a blog near you!

Patience.

06/08/2020

Black.Lives.Matter: Silent no more.

Below are my thoughts on the historic protests across our world for the Black Lives Matter movement. There are a lot of opinions on this topic, but regardless of where you stand, I hope that we can…

06/03/2020

Black. Lives. Matter. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

6.7.2020

04/19/2020

The Presidency:..They say that behind every great organization is a great leader, but I would like to think behind every great organization, are the people...

  Jan. 24. 2020 When I think about my time on the SOTA Board, I think back to my time when I wrestled in high school. Y’know, that story I talked about in Introspection last year. When I was o…

04/17/2020

The Presidency

4.19.2020

04/05/2020

Always Changing. Always the Same.

Adventures in Birmingham is honored to welcome our very first OT practitioner to this journey. She is the current President of ALOTA. An OT manager. Practitioner. A mom. She is Rachel Ashcraft. She shares her thoughts on COVID-19, occupational disruption, privilege, and what we as OT students can start taking... notice of…

Thank you so much, Rachel!

“…Don’t be afraid of what change is coming, that’s where OTs do our best work…”

  By: Rachel Ashcraft Occupation is when the value of doing and the meaning of being converge in the life decisions of becoming. Martin asked me to write this blog a while ago and I’m always…

04/05/2020

Occupational Disruption...

03/19/2020

The Inevitable: To my cohort, the class of 2020. Our time together under the same roof has ended abruptly, but our journey is not over and our goal has not changed. We will see each other again - soon.

Signal Mountain, Tennessee Semester 5: The COVID-19 Pandemic Last night the inevitable came. SK and I had just returned back to my parents’ house from a three-mile hike at Rainbow Lake on Signal Mo…

02/19/2020

Soon. 👀

01/13/2020

The Paths That Lead Us: Tomorrow, the spring semester begins. We all travel down winding paths that lead us to where we are now. Lauren Cutting reflects on her previous semester and thoughts entering into her last academic one of occupational therapy school...

Thank you, Lauren.

"...I can honestly say that I have never felt more encouraged by professors, more comfortable with my classmates, and more confident in my career choice since becoming a Blazer..."

Lauren Cutting Tuscaloosa, AL/ Mobile, AL The University of Alabama A month ago we completed our 4th semester of occupational therapy school. This past semester taught me now more than ever to reco…

01/11/2020

As we wrap up the winter blog series, we reflect one final time on our fall semester before our guest blogger shares about what is ahead for the class of 2020...

"......One of the most important lessons I have learned this semester is... that will allow me to have.. "

1.12.20