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Sensory Life Assessment & Wellness Julia Colman, OTD, OTR/L, BCP

October is ADHD awareness month! 🥳 Share if you are neurodivergent and agree that we can celebrate the good parts AND ne...
10/04/2026

October is ADHD awareness month! 🥳 Share if you are neurodivergent and agree that we can celebrate the good parts AND need support for the hard parts 🤍

10/02/2026

Grief and joy were never meant to be mutually exclusive.

October 7, 2023 came on a sacred holiday meant for happiness, when Jewish communities would ordinarily be singing, dancing, gathering, and celebrating. And then unimaginable grief entered that same day.

For many, the holiday, called Simchat Torah, now asks us to make space for joy even while carrying deep sorrow. This is not because grief just disappears, but because both can be true at once.

As an occupational therapist, I also think about how spirituality, ritual, meaning, and grief shape the way we all move through daily life.

May there be room for the grief, the glimmers, and everything in between.

Shabbat shalom and Chag Sameach 🤍

All the things! 🙌 October is full of disability, neurodiversity, mental health, communication, and accessibility awarene...
10/02/2026

All the things! 🙌 October is full of disability, neurodiversity, mental health, communication, and accessibility awareness dates. 🍂

Swipe through and consider how you can help advocate all throughout October 🍁

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Sensory Life is expanding! We offer neurodiversity affirming mental health & executive functioning support for all ages ...
10/02/2026

Sensory Life is expanding! We offer neurodiversity affirming mental health & executive functioning support for all ages 🤍 Telehealth services now available in Arizona, California, and Ohio! 🧠

Unmasking isn’t something you have to do all at once. Or alone.💗 In OT, we get curious about what your body and brain ac...
09/27/2026

Unmasking isn’t something you have to do all at once. Or alone.💗

In OT, we get curious about what your body and brain actually need, so you can build routines, spaces, and relationships where being yourself feels safe.

Less “who am I supposed to be?”
More “oh, this is what feels true to me.”

Telehealth OT for kids, teens, and adults in Arizona, California, & Ohio. Link in bio.

Educational content only, not a substitute for individualized care.

I keep coming back to this statistic. Researchers estimate about a quarter of kids in the US have already lived through ...
09/27/2026

I keep coming back to this statistic.
Researchers estimate about a quarter of kids in the US have already lived through or witnessed something traumatic before they turn 4.

So picture a classroom of 20 kids. Statistically, about 5 of them walked in that morning already carrying something in their body. Not attitude. Not a discipline problem. A nervous system that learned early the world wasn’t a safe place, with no reason to update that belief yet.

Now hold that next to what I found when I read every course description in a real special education teaching degree. 89 required units. Zero of them required coursework on the nervous system.

Which means we’ve got roughly a quarter of every classroom walking in already dysregulated, and a training pipeline that never once taught the adults in the room what that looks like, or what actually helps.

That’s not a small gap. That’s the math not adding up, with kids on the losing side of it.

This is the entire reason I do the work I do. Nervous system literacy isn’t a nice extra on top of good teaching. It’s the essential missing piece in most classrooms.

Save this for the teacher, parent, or provider in your life. 🌿

Source: Briggs-Gowan et al. “Creating Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms”

This post is general education, not a clinical assessment of any specific child or classroom.

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Helping people understand and work through big emotions matters far beyond the moment. 💛These are skills we carry into o...
08/13/2026

Helping people understand and work through big emotions matters far beyond the moment. 💛

These are skills we carry into our relationships, our families, our workplaces, and our communities.

Supporting regulation isn’t about never having big feelings. It’s about having the tools and support to move through them. 🌱

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