Wintering
Over winter break I listened to a podcast called "How 'Wintering' Replenishes" from the On Being podcast, and just loved it. A couple weeks later, I began my first occupational therapy fieldwork rotation in a hospital working with kids/adolescents who are admitted for severe mental illnesses. A few days ago I decided to re-listen to this podcast because I felt I could understand this fieldwork in a whole different way. I wrote the following blog post to connect "wintering" (quotes from the podcast are in italics) to an inpatient mental health setting. __________ I walk down a long, cold, windowless hallway with white walls. To my left is a handwritten poster that reads life is tough, but you are tougher. I reach in the pocket of my grey scrubs until my fingers find a cluster of metal keys. I let each fall through my fingers, running my fingertip gently across the cold ridges of the last key before it falls back down into my pocket. "Have you ever b...