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TheraPeeds Continuing Education

Professional Development by Dr. Julia Harper PhD, MS, OTR/L

At TheraPeeds Continuing Education, we are dedicated to providing Occupational Therapists with high quality, online and live professional development. We offer the most up to date, researched based occupational therapy content with the latest brain, neuroplasticity practices and treatment planning. For over 20 years, our CEO, Dr. Julia Harper (PhD, MS, OTR/L), through her live and online classes, has trained thousands of OT's, becoming a renowned professional development trainer for occupational therapy professionals around the world wanting to enhance their industry knowledge. TheraPeeds Continuing Education as an AOTA approved provider, offers a variety of accredited CEUs for Occupational, Physical Therapists, COTA’s, PTA’s, Special Educators and Administrators.

02/20/2026

The Key to Your Work Lives in Small “Don’t Wants”

I often say, how you do one thing is how you do everything. In the WAY process, it’s a skill to increase your awareness. Today’s is a protip- pay attention to the SMALL don’t wants.

If you really want to deepen in this work, practice mindfulness when the stakes are low, when the inconvenience is minor. That way, you are training your mind to be more aware during the bigger don’t wants. If you melt down when you are stuck in traffic, how do you expect to handle life’s big blows (i.e. death in the family, job layoff, etc.)?

My WAY program is a process of getting to know yourself better through increased awareness and daily mindfulness. The best way to do that is to practice even on smaller don’t wants. That is the time to apply the steps you’ve learned until it becomes second nature.

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02/14/2026

Are you accidentally creating codependent children?

Evolutionarily, humans are dependent on others to survive. As babies, we need our parents to provide everything. Dependency isn’t a bad thing, it is natural. However, CO-DEPENDENCY is maladaptive.

Co-dependency is when we THINK we need the external other for something. As we grow, we gain more and more independence. As a society, we value physical and financial independence, but we aren’t teaching our youth how to be emotionally and psychologically independent.

Many parents are accidentally teaching their children co-dependency by modeling it. Today’s asks you to notice where you are co-dependent. Look at where you are looking towards the external other to regulate YOUR internal emotions. Look at how often you try to control what others think or feel.

In order to raise independent young people, break this cycle of co-dependency and control and move towards more positive parenting practices.

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02/06/2026

Building Awareness Endurance

Awareness is a skill like everything else. Today’s is a lesson on building your awareness endurance.

It’s easy to be aware when things are calm. It’s much harder to apply the skills when your kids are misbehaving or you’re in a tense argument with a peer for example.

The challenge is being aware that you’re in a don’t want WHILE it’s happening. That’s where the real work happens. Can you see yourself reacting? Can you see your thoughts? Are you arguing right now to be right? Or are you trying to communicate, it’s just not happening effectively?

Asking yourself these questions is how you stretch your endurance muscles.

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01/30/2026

Are you spinning in unhappiness? Are you stuck in the story of the thing/moment/event etc. that caused you pain?

If you find yourself talking about how unhappy you are over and over again, it can serve two different purposes.

Firstly, it garners attention. People listen and they care for you and you feel supported by your loved ones. This is wonderful and necessary at the beginning of a healing process. But after a while, people are tired. They won’t tell you to your face but they are definitely thinking “enough already, get over it”.

While no one should rush your healing process and you’re allowed to take as much time as you need, there does come a point where the unhappiness is no longer serving you. You’re not even getting positive attention anymore. You’re just stuck.

Today’s encouraged you to let that unhappiness serve your EVOLUTION instead. How do you do that? You must move from ruminating to analyzing with curiosity. Ask yourself from a place of conscious awareness, “What is here for me? How can I grow from this experience?”

First SEE that you’re stuck. Then CHANGE from ruminating to asking yourself those important questions and lastly DO something different by approaching your unhappiness as something to learn from not something to suffer in.

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01/25/2026

The new virtual course I ran last fall has undergone a total revamp! Welcome to “Rewiring Home” 2.0 starting February 4th.

🧠 Join me live on Wednesday evenings for a 6-week journey to develop Consciousness Intelligence™ for every brain in your family.

💜 Through this course you’ll learn all about the Emotional Dysregulation Epidemic™ and how to combat its effects for yourself and your family.

‼️ This course is open to anyone, not only parents or neurodivergent individuals. Link in bio to learn more and register for our limited spots!

01/21/2026

🧠 Surprise! I’ll be teaching my LIVE 6-week online course, Rewiring Home, starting Wednesday Feb 4th! This revamped version of the course I debuted in October is all about building Consciousness Intelligence™ so that every brain in your home can regulate, connect, and thrive.

💜 For those who aren’t signed up for our mailing list, be sure to click the link in bio to learn more about the Emotional Dysregulation Epidemic™ we are all living through and REGISTER for the course!

🚨Early Bird Registration ends tomorrow at midnight so don’t miss your opportunity to snag one of our limited spots.

Have you registered yet?

01/09/2026

Vulnerability births REAL Connection

Today’s is all about the relationship between vulnerability and connection. Everyone wants deeper connections; however, they are not always willing to do what is necessary to cultivate deeper connections. The key to real connections is vulnerability! Are you willing to give some vulnerability? Yes, it is a risk to open up emotionally, I understand that. However, the other side of that is the reward of connection. You have to be able to take that risk in order to create those deep, meaningful relationships.

Of course, use discretion. There’s no need to risk emotional exposure with everyone. However, those relationships that mean a lot to you require vulnerability for those real connections to thrive.

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01/02/2026

This is NOT the Wizard of Oz

Happy New Year community. I’m coming in hot for the new year. This is often a time for reflection, setting goals, and making resolutions. While you are deciding what you want for 2026, I’d like to remind you that there is no magic wizard, secret formula, or shortcut on this life journey. YOU are the magic you are looking for.

My coaching program is called W.A.Y. (What About You) for that specific reason. The logo for my company features an arrow pointing inward, for that reason. All the goals and aspirations you have for the new year begin and end with YOU. Are you tapped into what you are truly thinking and feeling? Are you being honest with yourself? Or are you letting the influence of others decide what your life should be? Of course, guidance is valuable, but don’t ever let someone else’s guidance make you stray from the path you want for yourself.

I often remind clients that I am not the Wizard of Oz. I can’t solve their problems or give them answers on what to do next. What my coaching does is guide you towards a deeper, more aware relationship with yourself. That way, you can have trust and confidence in your own decisions. You are your own magic.

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12/26/2025

A Sincere Thank you to the Vitamin J Community

Today’s opens with a Trinidadian proverb: “What doh meet yuh, doh pass yuh.” Translated into American English, this proverb says, “What hasn’t met you yet, hasn’t passed you.” In other words, whatever you are experiencing in life is meant FOR YOU. On this journey of life, you will meet what is meant for you, even if you are trying to avoid it.

Yes, I start this video off jokingly, but today I would like to thank each and every person who follows this account. My words were meant to come across your feeds, and you all were meant to touch my life with the gift of your comments, likes, DMs, etc. It is humbling to see this community grow over the last seven years, completely organically. Whether you are former clients who have come to TheraPeeds Family Center, or clinicians who have taken my online and in-person courses, or if you are a young person who found me right here on Instagram and we have yet to meet in person, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENCE. I make these videos from the heart with each and every person in mind. It is such a gift to be considered a source of information for all of you.

I am so deeply honoured community. Have a wonderful holiday season, and we shall see each other in the new year.

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12/19/2025

Don't WAIT to be Happy

Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the iconic 90s film, Waiting to Exhale. This movie was a favorite of mine as a 22-year-old black woman. Revisiting this classic in my 50s has me pondering a question for the community: Has your life turned into a waiting room?

A theme that resonated with a lot of people was the “waiting” for something, someone, the PERFECT circumstance for life to get good. Today, I want you to ask yourself, “What am I waiting on to be happy? To find peace? To feel joy?” The trap of this type of thinking is that you’ll be waiting forever if you’re focused on FUTURE happiness. There will always be something new to move the goalpost farther away from you. Don’t focus so much on the future that you miss the good parts of life RIGHT NOW!

Please don’t think I am saying not to have goals, aspirations, and dreams in life. The question is, while you’re on the journey towards your dreams, are you noticing the goodness in your current life? Or are you waiting for the accomplishment to define you? Accomplish things you want, of course! But eliminate the “waiting room” mindset. Notice the small blessings in your present moment WHILE you go towards your goal

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12/12/2025

Fight isn’t the ONLY bad reaction

During my coaching sessions with clients, I broke down the differences between small, medium, and large reactions in relation to small, medium, and large “don’t want” situations for my clients. Prior to our session, they mistakenly thought that a huge blowup was the only bad reaction. When a large don’t want happens, and they get into fight and start yelling at loved ones because they are angry, they could recognize this as costly. However, in milder situations, my clients were dismissing their emotions and their REACTIONS.

The thing is, milder don’t want situations still have costly reactions. It could be freeze, it could be internal fight, you could be avoiding. The difference between that big blowup and something like avoidance is that one is external and one is internal. The “cost” of external fight is that it makes you look bad. Most people are very concerned with how they are PERCEIVED by others. With the more internal reactions, you might look calm, but your thoughts and emotions are a mess! It is still costly.

For today’s , I ask you to pay less attention to your image in the eyes of others and instead pay more attention to how you are reacting internally during those smaller don’t wants. Those sneakier, less obvious reactions are just as costly as the rare big blowup.

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