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 […]
Adult coloring books will decrease your stress!
Let’s face it we all do it, and it happens when we least want it. We get STRESSED! “To some it seems that stress has been a part of everyday life for as long as they can remember and they expect it to remain that way for time to come.” Many things can cause the […]
Time to live Stress free
Stressed out? Here’s what a Rec. Therapist recommends: Do something fun. When you do something that is boring you feel like you never want to do it again, however, when you choose something you enjoy, you are willing to do that activity often. Every person will choose something different, but when you do make a […]