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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]