O.T.Wellness Pediatric Occupational therapy

11/06/2025

🛠️ Build Your Best Day 🛠️
​Your mood has an architect, and it starts with you.

🛠​You have the power to design your emotional state. But the structure you build is only as strong as the people you allow onto your construction site!🛠

🏗​Be intentional about your inner environment:
​Design Your Structure: Start with intentional routines (sleep, movement, breathing).

🚧​Choose Inspiring Materials: Seek out friends who inspire you. Spend time with people who lift your vision, validate your goals, and push you toward positive action. Their energy is contagious, and their presence makes the building process brighter.

🧰​Edit the Blueprint: When setbacks happen, use executive function skills (like flexibility) to consciously redraw the mood map and refocus on your purpose.

🚧​Take ownership of your mood and your circle. Start building something beautiful and inspiring today!🚧
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11/02/2025

📚 Study Smarter, Not Harder! 🧠

💪🧠EF-Powered Study Habits🧠💪

💪 Plan Your Attack (Planning & Prioritizing): Don't just open your books. Before you start, spend 5 minutes identifying exactly what you will accomplish (e.g., "Outline Chapter 3," not "Study history"). Break large tasks into small, timed chunks.

🧠Ditch the Distraction (Inhibition): Your phone is the enemy of focus. Use the Inhibition skill to suppress the urge to check notifications. Use website blockers or the Pomodoro Technique (25 mins focus, 5 mins break) to manage distractions effectively.

💪Check Your Work (Self-Monitoring): After studying a section, don't just move on. Actively test yourself (flashcards, summarizing aloud) to check if the information actually stuck. This skill helps you course-correct before the exam.

Choose ONE of these strategies and commit to using it during your next study session. Which one will you try first? 👇

11/02/2025

💪Unlock Your Executive Power💪

​Difficult challenges aren't obstacles; they're opportunities to use your Executive Functions! Use these simple strategies to break down the barrier:

🛑​Stop & Plan (Inhibition & Planning): Before rushing in, pause! Break the big challenge into 3-5 small, manageable steps.

​🎵Filter the Noise (Selective Attention): Focus only on the first step. Filter out worries about the last step.
​Self-Check (Self-Monitoring): After completing a step, check your work. Ask: "Is this working? What needs to change?"

💫​The path to success is rarely straight. When you feel overwhelmed, just return to Step 1: Pause and Plan.
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​What tough challenge are you tackling this week? Name the first small step you'll take below! 👇
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11/01/2025

✨️Why It Matters
​As Level I OT students, your job is to find where that work is happening and where it isn't.
​Forget the sterile definitions.

✨️💫You are exploring:
​Where does the community's design unintentionally exclude?
❓️​What does genuine belonging look like for all people?
​How can OT principles reclaim participation outside the clinic walls?

💫✨️​This isn't theory; this is Occupational Therapy in action. Go find the real work, analyze the barriers, and start shaping your role as an agent of change!

📣Our Community:






And so many more!

🦜📣Barry University Alumni
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10/30/2025

✨️✨️✨️No words need, just good beats!✨️✨️✨️✨️

10/30/2025

🏆 The Mastery Mindset in OT 🏆

✨️Nothing like mastering a new skill! ✨️
That triumphant 📣moment when a client nails the "Just Right Challenge" is what we live for!

It might take 2 attempts or well over 2,970 attempts, but the formula remains the same: Practice, patience, consistency. Repeat! 🙌💪

💫We celebrate the final Mastery, but we honor every single step, setback, and effort it took to get there. That's the power of Occupational Therapy.

10/30/2025

🍳 Parent Burnout SOS 🍳
🥖🍞🥐 Feeling the burnout? You're not alone. Fight back with these 3 quick tips:
🍞 5-Minute Reset: Schedule one true break daily. Sit, breathe, drink water. Just 5 minutes of solitude can reset your nervous system.
🍞 Delegate Without Guilt: Hand off tasks that don't absolutely require you. Lower your bar for "good enough" and ask for help.
🍞 Ditch Perfection: A happier parent is better than a "perfect" one. Focus on connection over checklists.
You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of you!

Would you like one specific idea for a 5-minute reset you can do right now?

10/30/2025

✨ Clip & Connect: The Ultimate Pre-Writing Warm-Up! ✨

Why This Activity Boosts Pre-Writing Skills:
✍️ Grasp & Fine Motor Control: Opening and closing the clothespins is the perfect resistance exercise, strengthening the pincer grasp muscles (thumb and pointer finger) needed to hold a pencil correctly.

🧠 Bilateral Coordination: Crossing the midline (reaching from one side of the body to the other) helps both sides of the brain communicate. This skill is essential for everything from buttoning a shirt to drawing a horizontal line across a page!

👀 Sustained Attention & Visual Perception: The visual task of matching colors and the focus required to manipulate the clothespin and transfer items helps little ones develop sustained attention and visual discrimination.

✨️THIS IS key for recognizing letters and shapes.
It’s amazing how much learning can happen with everyday items. Give this simple setup a try to build strong, coordinated, and focused pre-writers!

10/27/2025

10/26/2025

Here is a sneak peek.✨️🪄Intrinsic Motivation Nation!

10/26/2025

✨️✨️✨️Just Right Challenge Inspiration✨️✨️✨️

​That moment when your client's face lights up because they nailed the task you set, not too hard, not too easy, but JUST RIGHT! That's the magic of OT.🪄

It's where challenge meets success and true growth begins. 🪄❤️✨️

❤️We live for these breakthrough moments!
What kind of challenge did your client master recently? I'd love to hear about it!

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