TheraPeeds Continuing Education

TheraPeeds Continuing Education Professional Development by Dr. Julia Harper PhD, MS, OTR/L

At TheraPeeds Continuing Education, we are dedicated to providing Occupational Therapists with high quality, online and live professional development. We offer the most up to date, researched based occupational therapy content with the latest brain, neuroplasticity practices and treatment planning. For over 20 years, our CEO, Dr. Julia Harper (PhD, MS, OTR/L), through her live and online classes, has trained thousands of OT's, becoming a renowned professional development trainer for occupational therapy professionals around the world wanting to enhance their industry knowledge. TheraPeeds Continuing Education as an AOTA approved provider, offers a variety of accredited CEUs for Occupational, Physical Therapists, COTA’s, PTA’s, Special Educators and Administrators.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you join the Rewiring Home Series ⬇️
1️⃣ The Science of Change: How Brains Are Built at Ho...
10/27/2025

Here’s what you’ll learn when you join the Rewiring Home Series ⬇️

1️⃣ The Science of Change: How Brains Are Built at Home
2️⃣ Screens, Stimulation & the Reward Circuit
3️⃣ AI, Comfort, and the “Easy Brain” Trap
4️⃣Parenting in Balance: Protection, Challenge, and Growth
5️⃣ Connection as the Cure
6️⃣ Integration, Practice, and Q&A Masterclass

Today is the LAST day to get Early Bird registration before class starts on Thurs. Oct 30 ⏰
There are limited spots, so don’t miss your chance! Registration link in Bio.


10/26/2025

Recently, I spoke with the of Ontario, CA. I addressed burnt-out clinicians who learned all the “tools” to best serve clients but didn’t necessarily see the results they or their clients’ families wanted. This is because most people don’t learn how crucial a child’s environment is to their brain development. Parents, YOU create that environment.

🧠Learn to make small daily tweaks that can seriously level up EVERYONE in your family’s brain health in the upcoming 6-week virtual course. If you can relate to the frustration of not having a clear path forward for your child, this course is for you. We will go over the 4 damaging factors that are sneaking into our daily lives, how to rewire our brains through consistent, small actions, and so much more starting Thursday, Oct. 30th.


Can you relate to. This experience?

10/26/2025
“The Talk That Started It All”Last week in Key Biscayne, I revealed something powerful to the audience —In today’s fast-...
10/24/2025

“The Talk That Started It All”

Last week in Key Biscayne, I revealed something powerful to the audience —
In today’s fast-changing world, we’re actually using the power of neuroplasticity against ourselves.

Every moment of stress, distraction, and chaos is rewiring your brain — in the wrong direction — without you even realizing it.

But here’s the hope: you can change it. You can REWIRE your brain — and your environment — to work for you, not against you.

That’s exactly what we’ll do together in my 6-Week Rewiring Home Series, a guided journey to use the science of neuroplasticity to create calm, clarity, and connection — starting right where you live.

🚨 Class starts THIS Thursday, Oct. 30.
Enrollment is open now — and closing soon.
Don’t wait until your wiring becomes your wall.
This is your moment to rewire your home, your habits, and your life.

👉 Tap the link in bio to register now — before doors close.

10/17/2025

Your truth facilitates Brave Action

Have you ever noticed that sometimes we avoid hard truths? You know, that truth that is too big to deny? This happens because the truth at your core demands action. The friction comes in when, in your heart of hearts, you know what you may have to change. However, change is scary. Change requires us to do something different and move away from what we know. That’s why we sometimes choose to believe a lie instead. It keeps us safe, comfortable, and it’s easier than the risk of being brave and doing something different.

However, the myth of the “comfort zone” is that you’re not actually comfortable. There’s discomfort when a lie sits in there with you, poking at your conscience. The lie shows you what you DON’T BELIEVE, what you actually want, and who you actually want to be. That lie keeps you in your comfort zone, but it pushes you away from truth, authenticity, and freedom.

When you move towards your truth, I commend you for your bravery! Brave doesn’t mean acting without fear. It means acting despite fear. It is a huge step to let go of a lie that you see is holding you back, despite what community, beliefs, or life you might lose. When you go towards your truth, that is an incredible step towards your biggest, boldest, most authentic life. There is much more safety in living your truth than staying in your comfort zone, but going against yourself.

Any action taken in truth and bravery is responsive and responsible. It will always pay off to take that action. The more we all move towards are truths as individuals and as a society, the more we will heal ourselves and our world.

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Poll: Do you avoid hard truths?

10/10/2025

What do you value?

What we put attention, time, and money into is what we value. Today’s asks you to think about what you value. What is it that you’re putting your energy towards? For example, people who exercise and eat healthily clearly value their physical health. That’s wonderful! What are you doing to prioritize your mental and emotional health? Are you putting in the time, money, and effort for your inner work? Are you doing your W.A.Y. steps?

Remember, the program is called “WAY: What About You” for a reason! It is normalized to prioritize what is external: whether that be our physical self AND/OR other people (our relationships). It is totally fine to do this. However, know that if you keep devaluing your inner emotional work, you will not see any improvements in your emotional and mental health. It’s not called internal WORK just because. It takes a level of investment to grow your awareness and create a good relationship with yourself.

Again, I am not judging you if you can’t prioritize your internal self right now. There is a time and place for everything. However, I challenge those who want to commit to the WAY to truly value what this process requires by investing the time, energy, and money you have for everyone else and re-invest a portion of it into yourself. YOU are worth it.

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Do you value internal work?

10/04/2025

Keys to Efficient Emotional Assessment

Assessment is necessary to problem-solve internally, just as experts do externally. One must look within and be curious. Ask questions. Evaluate the emotional and cognitive landscape to decide on the next best course of action. There’s a lot of “self-help” advice out in the ether, but at the end of the day, YOU are the key. Unless YOU can pause to recognize what factors, thoughts, and emotions are at play during a don’t want situation, you’ll implement all types of strategies that may not work for you.

Don’t just throw a bunch of solutions at the wall, hoping something sticks. Be efficient. Step back and analyze what is really going on with you internally. That way, you can bring awareness to the problem and decide what is the best course of action for YOU, even if that course of action is simply asking for help from an expert.

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09/19/2025

Strong Parenting STARTS with Strong Awareness

Clients often come to me asking for my help as a parenting expert. While there is a lot of information on parenting styles, what to do to make your kids listen, etc., today, I want to go to the core of what makes one a strong parent. Strong parenting starts with strong AWARENESS!

Tenets of good parenting are connection, guidance, and respect within the parent-child relationship. None of these is achieved without awareness in your parenting practices. Awareness allows you to connect to your children. If you are so distracted and busy that you don’t even realize you’re disconnected from loved ones, how will you be an improved parent? First, you must be aware of the type of connection (or lack thereof) you have with your child. If you can’t see what’s going on, you can't offer effective guidance.

Parenting is the action, but you are the person doing the parenting. As always, my coaching program is called W.A.Y.: What About You, because everything ultimately comes back to you. If the ultimate goal is to be a better parent, you can’t do that without being a good person. The way you do everything is how you do anything, so growing your awareness is the ROOT of a better connection to your kids, and in turn, you’ll be able to guide them more effectively and foster more respect, ultimately strengthening the parent-child relationship.

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08/29/2025

Imperfection is the Key to Connection

Today’s is about meeting people where they are, especially children. The key to authentic connections is to let your guard down. Let the real you be seen and loved.

This means showing up even when you are not perfect. This means letting your loved ones see your imperfections- let them see you sick or nervous about something or even scared. Showing your children that you are not perfect and that you deal with the same problems and emotions that they do teaches them that problems are a part of life and having emotions about that is totally normal.

When you show your children the real, imperfect you and not a “perfect parent” robot you allow them to be authentic with you too instead of “the perfect child”. You show them they are not alone in life. You show them that they can know someone fully. That is the meaning of true connection.

The same goes for any authentic connection whether it be children in your life, among friends, or romantic connections. Meet people at their level and be honest about what you feel in order to be in perfectly imperfect (and authentic!) relationship.

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08/22/2025

"Weakness": A sensation or a thought? Know the difference

One of the important aspects of my educational series is to decode some of the language often used in the coaching and mental health space. Without shared understanding of the meaning and application of certain words, the information you receive is no good.

Today, let’s look at the word “weak.” The tricky thing about weakness is that it can be a sensation in the body or a thought in the mind. It is important to name EXACTLY what you are experiencing internally during Step 1 of the W.A.Y. process so that you can move through the rest of your steps and respond appropriately. We treat sensations differently than emotions and differently than thoughts. So when you say “I feel weak” check in, do you actually feel weak in the body? Or are you THINKING “I am weak for doing xyz”. Those are two very different scenarios and they need different responses.

Be careful not to get tricked by certain words that are actually thoughts and not fact.

Are there any other words that refer to both a sensation OR a thought that you can recognize? Comment those below.

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08/15/2025

Brain vs. Mind: Know the Difference

Today’s is going back to a basic foundational concept. I often talk about changing brain patterns and growing awareness of the mind. But do you know the difference between the two?

The brain is the physical structure. Brain functions are physiological. It’s about how your neurons fire to give you information about the world and synaptic connections for example.

The mind deals with psychology. It’s not a physical thing in the body but instead how you interpret and use the information gathered by your brain and then produce thoughts/ feelings about that information.

Think of the brain as the hardware of your smart phone and the mind as the software.

It’s important to know the difference between the two to fully understand HOW the concept of neuroplasticity works to grow our awareness and create real, lasting change.

If you still have questions, comment them below 💜

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08/08/2025

Stop Betraying Yourself!

You all know is all about building awareness. Today’s message is a warning. Be careful about the little “don’t wants” in your life. We tend to dismiss those small moments in life where we are slightly disappointed, slightly frustrated, slightly annoyed, etc.

Today, I’m asking you to listen to your intuition. Can you be aware of those small moments instead of saying “Eh, it doesn’t matter.” When the small don’t want doesn’t matter, you are conditioning yourself to think YOU don’t matter. This is the slippery slope that erodes self trust.

Instead of dismissing those small moments, listen to them. What is your relationship with yourself? Pay attention! In the simple act of growing your awareness, you are learning valuable information about yourself.

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