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 […]
Stress
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 […]
Recreation Railroad
My family and I had the utmost pleasure attending our first train ride facilitated by the California Railroad Association in Sacramento, CA. The pure joy emitting from my sons face made the small ticket price (and the fact that we almost missed the train because we could not find the shoes my threenager wanted) feel […]
Are you mentally healthy????
As we conclude Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to take the opportunity to highlight what mental health is and the importance it plays into our everyday lives. According to Workplace Mental Health Promotion, mental health “is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with […]
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 […]