After trying to “find myself” at Tao Garden QiGong Health Center, the mountains of Chiang Mai, and the 2026 World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress I’m spending the final days of my late life crisis in Bangkok having fun. Upon recommendation from the blogs I visited the bling bling Bangkok shopping malls and had a blast! […]

Following my visits to Qatar ; Hua Hin ; Tao Garden ; and Old Town Chiang Mai I flew back to Bangkok where my WFOT “World Federation of Occupational Therapists 2026” Conference has just begun. I began the Conference by visiting Yuwaprasart Waithayopathum Children & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital and Autism Treatment facility in Bangkok Thailand. I

During my Fusion 1, 2, & 3 QiGong Course I stayed in Doi Sacket Chiang Mai After the course I stayed in the Old City Chiang Mai for another week. Chiang Mai firsts included seeing three people riding together on a motor scooter and frequent diverse smells (e.g., pot, incense, street food). I took a

I took the 2 week Tao Garden Fusion 1, 2, & 3 Courses led by Master Chia after my visits in Qatar Part 1 and Hua Hin Part 2. The retreat is in Chiang Mai teaching QiGong Taoist strategies to recycle extreme negative feelings (like overwhelming anger and anxiety) with more balanced emotions (such as love

After arriving at Bangkok Airport OT Journey Part1  in Bangkok I took a shuttle bus to Hua Hin Beach. After the rigid orderliness of my stopover in Qatar airport, Hua Hin felt like the Caribbean on crack. My week long vacation in Hua Hin was full of new experiences. It was a tourist attraction where

I began my 40 day journey to Thailand that I’ll conclude by attending the 2026 World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress from February 9-12, 2026.    I’ve already had new learning experiences just getting to Bangkok, a 17 hour flight with an overnight stop in Qatar. While getting off the plane for my stop-over at

  My craziest stories are true. While attending the Quinnipiac College occupational therapy program in 1979. my math professor gave us an assignment to make a punch card program using the colleges’ big computer. I told Kim about this quote, stupid assignment, since “ computers are just a fad that won’t last year“. Kim disagreed,

Recent breakthroughs in embodied cognition research are revitalizing how we approach school-based occupational therapy—as well opening new therapeutic doors for physical therapists, speech/language pathologists, and mental health professionals. Therapists across disciplines are now integrating interoceptive awareness, emotion regulation, movement, and environmental adaptation strategies to support learning and mental health in both general and special education

Recent research relating embodied cognition, emotional regulation, arousal levels, interoceptive awareness, sensory processing (Sung et al.,2024; Brown & Dunn, 2023; Aziz-Zadeh et al., 2018), mental health and learning is revitalizing school occupational therapy intervention (Barmpagiannis & Baldimtsi, 2025; Jeon & Lee, 2018; Shapiro & Stolz, 2019).  Embodied cognition research suggests that body-based movement, gestures, imitation, hands

“Functionally Alert Behavior” FAB Strategies® are a trans-disciplinary, goal-directed curriculum that improves the functional behavior of children, adolescents and young adults who have mental health, developmental and sensory challenges their natural environments. The FAB Strategies® curriculum is individualized by occupational, physical, speech and mental health therapists for coordinated use in conjunction with the client, teachers,