Movement with Meaning

12/12/2025

I have 2 open eval times on Monday, Dec 15th for 1:1 in-person OT sessions!💕
Message for details.

12/10/2025

🥳I’m taking a moment to celebrate today, because today is my birthday!

🔥With each year, I reflect on my truths. This year, here they are:

1. Time, health & mindset are gifts.

2. Most everything that feels like a problem is figure-out-able.

3. Gratitude + curiosity + kindness are ingredients to help with 1 and 2.

4. The Universe has my back ...and yours, if you let it!

5. Learning the skill of discernment and how to trust your intuition even though others try to tell you you're wrong is a gift. Refine it and you'll be successful at whatever success means to you.

🎂Fun fact: Did you know when I was a kid I hated birthdays? Still not fond of them. It's actually not because "I'm getting older" like most people think.

✅ Age is just a number.
✅ Mostly sensory, social, and anxiety related.
✅ But l've always been grateful for the wisdom age brought. And I always find a way to treat myself and honor how far l've come. s

12/09/2025

🕵🏻 Let’s play a game called Sensory Detective!

Can you guess if I’m a sensory seeker or a sensory avoider based on this throwback photo of me!?

Develop Educate Nurture - DEN

12/08/2025

One of the many ways I’ve been thinking outside-the-box lately to support my sensory systems with an ongoing health issue! 😂

What’s one silly or ridiculous thing you’ve done to support your nervous system or sensory system!? (No need to add a picture for proof, lol, only if you feel called to).

12/06/2025

🚨Resource Spotlight for Parents, teachers, & therapists of Tampa Bay! 🤩 A Pop-Up Parenting Class all about making Sensory Simple for parents of kids ages 3-10 years old!

Hosted by Develop Educate Nurture - DEN and The Little Lounge ! Check it out! 😍

If you are a parent, caregiver, or therapist of a child ages 3-10 years old with intense sensory preferences, has a hard time sitting still, shows big emotions or behaviors, this is for you!🤸‍♂️

DEN +The Little Lounge of Tampa are proudly partnering together to present our Pop Up Parenting Classes on Tuesdays, from 10am-11am, beginning December 9th, 2025.

Our first Pop Up Parenting classes are all about Simplifying Sensory through purposeful play to help parents confidently use sensory and behavioral strategies at home, school & in the community using a simple 3-step method to transform chaos into calm.

What You’ll Learn:
✨ Sensory tips that make sense — understand the why behind behaviors & how to change them

✨ How to “think like a detective” — what to look for & how to respond

✨ Strategies for daily routines — for home, school, and community

✨ Our simple 3-step method — grounded in neuroscience & used with 500+ clients over 40 years

✅Who This is for:

Parents, therapists, or caregivers supporting kids ages 3–10 with big emotions, impulsivity, short attention spans, or intense sensory needs. May have ADHD, Autism ODD, PDA or Sensory Processing Disorder.

✅Save the Date:

Tuesdays from 10–11 AM

Dec 9 · Dec 16 · Jan 6 · Jan 13

🔥Dec 9: Sensory Seekers
🔥Dec 16: Sensory Avoiders
🔥Jan 6: Mixed Sensory Profile (Seekers + Avoiders)
🔥Jan 13: Supporting Sensory Routines through Childhood

You'll walk away with strategies you can use immediately after each class!

📍 Address:
4318 W El Prado Blvd, 33629
💲Fee: $33 per class

🚨Seats are limited — grab yours now! Comment SENSORY and we'll DM you the link to save your seat!

12/05/2025

👀Wondering if our Pediatric OTs and parent coaches are a good match for you, your child, and family dynamics?💞

Read a sample of our parent reviews, success stories & why parents, professionals, and children have trusted us for the past 15 years.

Develop Educate Nurture - DEN

11/29/2025

This game-changer could transform parenting your Autistic / ADHD / highly sensitive kid forever. 🤯

🥳 In honor of celebrating our 10 year business anniversary of my Pediatric OT private practice, Movement with Meaning, I am doing something I’ve NEVER done before!

I am giving away a LIMITED number of discounted evaluations if you book an evaluation in December!

✅ This discount will expire in January 2026.

✅ It can be applied to initial Parent Coaching or Pediatric OT evaluations.

❌ The discount will NEVER be available again.

✍️ Comment or message me the word DISCOUNT if you’d like the $100 off code when you book.

✅ We do not accept insurance. We are a small, busy, private practice and our priority is direct quality time with our clients.

✅ It is private pay or we are direct billers for FES-UA.

✅ We’ll only be giving away 5 of these codes.

When you book your evaluation, mention the code. 🗣️

We will not set up evaluations through social media, only giving codes and saying hello! 👋🥰

We prioritize our direct 1:1 time with clients and our own families, so the fastest way to set up a consult and/or evaluation is through written communication.

To book a consult call or evaluation, text or email:

📲 813-448-2858
📩 info@movementwithmeaningtampa.com

We reply to texts and emails between business hours, Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm.

💞 If you’re done gatekeeping helpful resources for neurodivergent families - share with your favorite school, business, parent, therapist, or teacher. 📲

What are you waiting for!?

✍️ Comment or message me the word DISCOUNT if you’d like the $100 off code when you book. 👇

11/28/2025

I’m grateful for all the little things because they truly are the big things. ✨

For my health, family, friends, and clients- current, past and present. Taking a moment to brag here 👀👇

➡️ I work with some *incredible* moms who keep showing up in big ways in a million little unseen ways that no one else notices.

Thank you for the trust you put in me and the work you do for your family every single day. It is an honor to be a part of it. 🙏🏻

I’ve quietly navigated some health challenges this year and I am grateful it has finally started improving.

Thank you for being here, for every like, share, follow, and for your word of mouth referrals. It allows me to do what I love and help neurodivergent families transform obstacles into opportunities. 💫

11/09/2025

It’s a BIG celebration today! 🥳 It’s my Health-iversary! 4 years ago today, I almost died from toxic shock syndrome from a tampon.

💔My body was giving me clues but I ignored them until my body shut down fast (like minutes and hours fast).

I am fortunate & grateful to still be here today! ❤️‍🩹

It’s common for those with TSS to lose limbs and lives. Thankfully, I only evicted my uterus, but it had its complications before it even got to that point. I was also escaping an abusive relationship that had gotten worse at a time when I was the most vulnerable I had ever been.

➡️ It took me a year to reset my nervous system with the same emotional regulation strategies I teach parents, therapists, teachers & kids.

✨I also learned new somatic & energy healing practices with 4 different mentors and 500+ hours of research + practice. This is still an active part of my personal life to maintain my health.

With the help of some incredible humans & community, I was able to recover and eventually thrive (Some days are still challenging - don’t get me wrong!)

💥This is a BIG reason why I advocate & teach parents and children to listen to their intuition and body signals, no matter what an “expert” says and find professionals, humans, and community that shares a piece of your unique lived experience.

It is life saving. 🩷

➡️➡️➡️ PS…. This is one of the WHYs behind DEN - a parenting community for parents of neurodivergent kids, looking for resources and clarity on emotional regulation and nervous system regulation for the whole family, not just your child.

Develop Educate Nurture - DEN

10/20/2025

🤔Wondering if Teen Night is for your
teen? Read messages I've received over the last year from parents and teens about our events. 👀

FYI

✅ We try to host Teen Nights monthly but there are certain times of year when we are unable to maintain this schedule.
👉🏼 We will happily connect you with other community organizations if/when our events do not occur and your teen is in need of community. Just ask!

✅ We are a neuroinclusive, gender-affirming, and a sensory-accommodating community.

⁉️Want to stay in the loop about our Teen & Tween Events?

Follow Movement with Meaning and werockthespectrumclearwater to stay up-to-date
on our latest Teen and Tween night events!

⁉️Questions? DM me or call Sophia at 727-240-1785

10/17/2025

Back due to popular demand!🥳 Teen Night: A Halloween Event!🎃

If you’re in the Tampa Bay Area, & your neurodivergent Teen is looking for Halloween Events - you’re not going to want to miss this one!

When: Oct 24th, 6-9pm
Where: 12505 Starkey Road, Suite H, Largo
Who: For ages 14+
How much: $39 per person (group discount available)

‼️How to win the $50 Hot Topic Gift Card!

✅ Follow We Rock the Spectrum - Clearwater and Movement with Meaning
✅ Like this post & share it with a school, FB group, teacher, therapist, or parent
✅ Tag a friend in the comments (1 tag = 1 entry! Unlimited)

Are you attending in a group of 2 or more?!
‼️ Ask about our group discount!

Giveaway rules: You do not have to attend the event to win. We will announce the winner on Saturday Oct 25th.

🔥Thank you Hot Topic (St Petersburg, FL location) for your gift card donations for our Teen Night Events!

We can’t wait to see you there!!! 🥳