AnonymousOT - love her blog

I was searching the Internet for something I had written about a child's handwriting progress as I wanted to bring up the picture for his upcoming IEP meeting - essentially when we started together, it was some of the worst I had seen - I had all these papers with a single line or two on them with pencil, then red marker scribbles on the rest. Now the handwriting is so amazing. Anyway, as I searched, I came across a mention of my name and it was in this post, http://theanonymousot.com/2013/06/21/therapist-burnout/ Now that I link it, it sounds like maybe AnonymousOT was talking about burnout for us, but actually she was talking about the challenges of burnout in general and referenced several "OT superheroes", I am proud to say I was included in her list. I've had a hard time reading blogs this summer between a lot of distraction in personal life AND, most importantly of all, the sad demise of Google Reader which is how I did all my blog perusals.  ANYWAY, I wanted to share this post because I know many of us have struggled with these burn-out feelings, or will struggle, or currently struggle. I'm currently in a great place where I LOVE LOVE LOVE what I am doing with the kids and need to write more soon as well as make more videos, but I have definitely been in dark places OT-wise. Not so much literal burnout so much as feeling like I wasn't doing as good of a job as I should be able to. But here's the thing about burnout. The quest...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs