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97 Handling Daily Life with Vanessa Gorelkin, OT

About this episode

Vanessa Gorelkin is an Occupational Therapist who often works with ND folks. She shares about compassionate approaches to daily life tasks.


The main tool she shared is creating a crisis kit to use when experiencing distress in public, at work, or anywhere that you can't be fully unmasked. List of suggested items below.


Crisis kit items suggested in episode:

  1. alcohol swabs (to smell for state change)
  2. instant ice packs
  3. extreme sour candies
  4. lemon juice packet
  5. hot sauce packet (mustard is Mattia's)
  6. distress card requesting using the bathroom (or whatever's helpful for you)


Connect with Vanessa:

  1. Her website, vanessagorelkin.com
  2. @otwhisperer on TikTok


Love Your Brain course info & live round update


Resources:

  1. Transcript Doc
  2. Email Newsletter: Nothing Wrong With Us
  3. Like Your Brain community space (Patreon)



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