OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Kathy!

Let's Meet Kendra!

Hey Party People! Join me for the next episode where we meet my dear friend Kendra! "Kendra is first and foremost a mom of four boys who loves spending time with family, watching her kids play sports, and anything cozy. Professionally, she is an occupational therapist, educator, and assistant professor. She has worked in pediatrics and school based practice for most of her OT career and has been an OT practitioner since 2012, first as a COTA, then as an OTR, and later completing her post professional doctorate. She is currently midway through Ayres Sensory Integration training and has strong interests in sensory integration, nervous system regulation, trauma informed care, and the neuro piece behind sensory processing and everyday functioning. More recently, she has also become interested in community based and population health approaches within occupational therapy. She is also very open about living with ADHD and navigating the world with a brain that is probably a little neurospicy in more ways than one." Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform! Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG @sensory_everything Also, the video we reference, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGrZIbRSY0s&t=333s

Trailer: Let's Meet Kendra!

Hey Party People! Join me for the next episode where we meet my dear friend Kendra! This episode gets relatively weird relatively quickly as Kendra replicates the call of her chickens – yea, that’s right, she makes some chicken noises. The weirdness evens out as we discuss life with chickens, sensory icks, and what unites the two of us: friendship. Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform! Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG

Let's Meet Krystal!

Hey Party People!   Join me for the next episode where we share time and space with Krystal!   Krystal Jackson, LPC is a licensed therapist, speaker, and mental wellness consultant dedicated to transforming how healthcare organizations support their people. As Founder and Clinical Director of Simply Being Wellness Counseling in Connecticut, she brings 15 years of experience across correctional, emergency, and outpatient care to one urgent message: sustainable healthcare starts with mentally well people. Krystal helps frontline workers reclaim their wellbeing and helps leaders build cultures where great providers choose to stay. Her work has been featured in Forbes Health, Healthline, Yahoo, and NBC Connecticut’s CT Live. When she isn’t working, you can find her traveling the world and learning Spanish. In this episode, Krystal talks about her approach to travel, how she embraces opportunity... even when uncomfortable, auntie life, and - of course - what it means to be weird. Krystal-isms abound -- so get paper and pen ready, you'll want to take notes! Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG Instagram: @iamkrystalcj  LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/krystalcjackson

Trailer: Let's Meet Krystal!

Hey Party People!   Join me for the next episode where we meet Krystal, world traveler, mental health professional, entrepreneur, and auntie extraordinaire! In this episode, Krystal talks about her approach to travel, how she embraces opportunity... even when uncomfortable, auntie life, and - of course - what it means to be weird. Krystal-isms abound -- so get paper and pen ready, you'll want to take notes! Tune in and get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG

OT & Autism Acceptance Month Special: Let's Meet Marci & Charlie! [Parts 1 & 2]

Hey Party People! Let's Meet Marci & Charlie!   Most of Marci's career has been dedicated to supporting elders to remain safely in the community in a variety of roles. This included case management, shine counseling, as well as becoming the director of the ombudsman program at with a local elder service agency. Since leaving this line of work, her main focus has been more in the private sector of renovating and renting multifamily properties. This role has demanded significant problem solving skills, people skills, and knowing how to both offer people a great product but also protecting herself and the people that live in these properties. Other areas of interest and expertise include nutrition coaching and subtle body work. Through some encouragement from her husband, Charlie, she have also become a puppeteer [an exceptional one, at that!] Charlie is a mental Health Occupational therapist, as well as a storyteller, filmmaker, actor and puppeteer.  He has been an OT at a local children's mental health program for more than than 8 years and has mostly focused on empowering kids with mental illness and their families in a therapeutic group home setting.  He loves to blend his expertise as an OT and a storyteller any chance he can because the richness of skill building. We’ll meet Marci and Charlie and we’ll discuss their origin story, a place that shall not be named..., and their mutual affinity for creativity. Tune in get weird with us by listening to “…but are you weird?” streaming on your favorite podcast platform!   Until then, stay curious, stay kind, and definitely stay weird! @butareyouweird on IG Watch Marzi & Costa here, on youtube!! [https://www.youtube.com/@MarziandCosta-wx5hj]