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 […]
Leisure Inc.
I remember the classroom like it was yesterday. It was an evening grad class and I was studying the foundation and elements of leisure. This was one of my first graduate level classes as a Recreation grad student and I had just worked a full day at my job. My professor was educating us on […]
The Garden Chronicles
The Garden This year became the year I would plant a garden. This isn’t my first attempt at putting a garden together, but it certainly is the attempt I feel the most motivated. My first few attempts went horribly wrong resulting in plants growing followed by plants dying. Not my best work then, but I’m […]