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 […]
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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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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 […]