OT 4 Lyfe Sarah Putt, MA, OTR/L

Want to know what I would tell a student who has just finished fieldwork? Today I’m sharing 5 things that I would tell my fieldwork student who just finished their placement with my private practice. I only wished that I had heard this as a student or a new grad just entering the field of occupational therapy. If you’re a student, listen up. If you’re a practitioner who takes students, listen up too!

Do you engage in negative self talk? Guess what, I do and I feel like I’ve gotten pretty negative with the negative self talk. And to be honest with you I was just called out for it and I have been thinking about it ever since. And of course I’ve found lots of occupational ties and insights with all this thinking about self talk.

If you had to do it all over again, what occupational therapy specialty would you choose and why? Wanna know my answer, just listen to today’s episode.

Are you an occupational therapy practitioner or student who dreams of maybe one day starting an OT business? Maybe you have a million and one ideas of what you want to do and don’t know how to narrow it down or maybe you want to start a business but don’t even know the first step in order to make that dream a reality. Today I’m sharing something super special for anyone that is considering OT entrepreneurship.

Have you ever used mindfulness in your occupational therapy sessions? Today on the show Michelle Amussen joins us to dig into the wonderful practice of mindfulness and how it can be used in occupational therapy.

Would you believe me if I said that becoming a podcaster has changed my lyfe? Spoiler alert, it has. And after some reflection I realized that being a podcaster has also made me a better OT practitioner. Now lyfe has been a little busy over at the OT 4 Lyfe HQs, so busy that I didn’t have a chance to celebrate my 4 year anniversary of the OT 4 Lyfe podcast (which don’t judge but happened back in October). So since it’s been 4 years, I figured why not share 4 ways that podcasting has made me a better OT practitioner. And head on over to ot4lyfe.com for more resources and to connect with the show.