Not too long ago I was getting ready to go on a trip and I realized how stressful it can be when preparing to travel and actually traveling. I think it’s important to enjoy my trips so if travel causes you anxiety or stress then you should read on because it’s difficult to enjoy your […]
Area of practice
Mental Health Awareness month(or year)
May is Mental Health Awareness Month (AKA Mental health month)! As we close the month we at Rec, Play, Live want show how mental health affects Recreation Therapy. In the course of providing Rec Therapy Services, we cross paths with all types of persons including those with mental illness. In the US alone 43.8 million […]
Recreation Therapists can also get Compassion Fatigue
It’s ironic that we as Recreation Therapists who provide so much joy in other people’s life, sometimes forget to take care of ourselves. In those cases, we risk being hit with compassion fatigue. If you’ve never heard of it, it is often characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion and a profound decrease in the ability to empathize. […]
RT Institute video
HI Everyone! We decided to try something different this year with the RT institute and instead give you guys a glimpse of some of the activities we experienced. Enjoy!!! Music by www.bensound.com
Therapeutic Boxing
For a while, I have wanted to write about boxing. It’s something that amazed me as a child and as an adult, I participated in it for several years. Boxing is difficult in contrast to my previous thought where I believed it was simple. In retrospect, boxing is limited and finite, and its main difficulty […]
This Recreation Therapy Month we must Unite!
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21 things you can do in 5 minutes or less to improve your quality of life
Have less than 5 minutes or in a pinch? Awesome! That should be more than enough time. In the busy world, we live in we should not take our time for granted. Instead, we should allow ourselves to take breaks throughout the day. We need to take control of our lives and impose free time […]
You decided you want to start an RT business, but what’s next?
We are used to working for someone else, so when it’s time to be your own boss and start our own RT business, we don’t always know all the intricacies. The inevitability is that we must proactively act to ensure we protect ourselves in the lawsuit happy world. Here are some tips to help you think […]
Making no progress on your goals? Try a Vision Board
Now that we are officially past the New Year we all have some goal or New Year’s resolution. Unfortunately, many of us will forget to progress on our goal unless we have consistent motivation. Cue in a vision board. It is a powerful tool which has the potential to help you meet your own goals […]
We have a caffeine situation!!!
Recently I was speaking with a Psychiatrist colleague of mine. During this talk, she mentioned the effects of caffeine and how it can actually provoke anxiety. It never dawned on me that these symptoms were a possibility, but I knew that as soon as I could, I would find what the internet has to offer. […]