No one can understand the demands of your life like you can. Not one piece of blanket advice will support your regulation and zen-status... But figuring out what works is the most valuable thing you can do for the kids.

Hi there! I'm Katie, a pediatric occupational therapist.  

2018: you were nothing I thought you would be and everything I didn’t know I needed.

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My vision of you was linear, clean - and you were messy, swirling in the most transformative of ways.

It pains me to know there are brilliant works, inventions, and resolutions out there in others because we humans are primed to care what others/society thinks and adjust our behavior and words accordingly. Nothing - not circumstance, not lack of talent, lack of wealth, lack of intelligence, holds us back more than our stories about ourselves and what we “cannot do.”

If you are reading this, you are likely an achiever, a doer, a dreamer, a striver to be more.  Yet there is lots within that can be missed in the growth process if we are focused on the “growing” instead of “being.”

As my girl Brene says: “These chemicals trigger the uniquely human ability to connect, empathize, and make meaning. Storytelling is literally in our DNA.”

The more you feel, the more you are receptive to good vibes - and the more things will fall into place. 

If we dive fully into even the hardest waves, wave after wave, we may just end up with a confidence and clarity unlike any we’ve known before. Because embracing it all - the good, the bad, the ugly, may just leave us drenched in contentedness like never before.