While singing one of the Sunday hymns at church about God’s mighty power, I became overwhelmed by the realization of what restoration He’d brought me over the course of just one week. Here’s the story of how God brought us joy in Tate while mourning the loss of our dog, Hank. On Sunday, September 18th […]
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Tate’s Bootcamp Journey
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 Day One Yesterday I cried off and on for 2.5 hours over Tate. Every day, twice a day, for three months (while home, doing distance learning in March, April, and May), I’d taken him outside, off-leash, to play fetch with his shock collar on. Not once did we ever have a […]
Meet Jordan!
This is the guy who stands beside me, and this is the story of how my best friend and high school “chauffeur” became the man to whom I said “I do.” Jordan is a fire and explosives investigator for the Columbus Division of Fire. He joined the department when he was 20 years old. During […]
The ColorfullyEnthused* OT
Hi, I’m Ashlee—The ColorfullyEnthused* OT! I’m a licensed, school-based occupational therapist (OT) in Columbus, Ohio. I am a vibrant, authentic, enthusiastic, joyful, and driven woman of God—a daughter of The King. My mission in life is to encourage, motivate, and uplift others with my words, my work, and my smile. I live with my two (AWESOME) […]
Stop Straining, Abide and He Will
Verse Map No. 2 – Colossians 1:9-12Stop Straining, Abide and He Will Oh wow! This is interesting. I’m just realizing as I type that I studied verses “9-12” (of Colossians, chapter one) from Tuesday, January 9th through Friday, January 12th! Wow. Wow. Wow. That’s pretty cool. It’s like Father Rohr wrote in a meditation that […]
Top Nine: 2023
Wow. What a year. 2023 has been a ride! For those who don’t know and for myself in years to come, when I’m reading this and have forgotten, I’m in Falls Church, Virginia (about fifteen minutes west of D.C.), serving for two years on active duty orders with the Navy. I’m one year down and […]
Christianity Gets Weird
This past week was hard. Tuesday, after a decent day of teleworking and taking an Appreciative Inquiry course, I ended up in quiet, unseen tears during an afternoon meeting, as mere voices triggered angst. After a frustrating Wednesday, I was blessed by the gratitude of a patient on Thursday who’d just undergone a double mastectomy; […]
Secure and Glorious
“Ohhh, my devotions this morning . . . ” – the words I texted to a best friend this morning. I’ve been loving each day’s words in “New Morning Mercies” by Paul David Tripp, but today’s spoke so clearly to my heart that I decided to write a post about it – for those of […]
Quantico, Round One: The Most Challenging and The Biggest Blast of My Life
Being thrown in as the Officer in Charge (OIC) of a highly medical unit, for my first-ever Annual Training (AT) exercise, after just a year and half since graduating from Officer Development School (ODS), amidst a bunch of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Officers was, indeed, an intimidating feat. I keep saying this about every […]
Here Are Three Strategies That Are Helping My Students Develop Self-Regulation
Self-regulation, defined by Deborah Schwind, a pediatric occupational therapist, as “a child’s ability to do what needs to be done for a particular situation in an optimal state,” is a foundational skill; it is needed for the acquisition of all other skills. In order to make gains in areas such as visual motor integration and […]