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10/23/2025

Healthy Aging Tip: Exercise!

We’ve all heard that exercise is good for our bodies. Did you also know that exercise can reduce risk of developing Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia?

ANY exercise is better than NO exercise at all. However, the current evidence recommends 150 minutes of exercise a week.

“Exercise” is any physical activity that “gets your heart pumping”, or gets your heart rate up a bit.

Some exercise ideas:
* A brisk walk
* Yoga
* Gardening / yard work
* Jogging / running
* Tennis or pickleball
* Biking
* Dancing
* Strength training

What are your favorite ways to exercise? How to you fit 150 minutes into each week? Let us know in the comments ⬇️

**This information was from the Maine Initiative for Neurologic Aging and Health (MAINAH) webinar, and the presenter was Dr. Susan Wehry.

09/19/2025

🧠 Concussion Awareness 🧠

The third Friday of September is National Concussion Awareness Day - which means this year it’s Friday September 19th, 2025.

Swipe through today’s post to learn a little about concussions, and how a speech-language pathologist (SLP) can help with cognitive-communication symptoms to help people live their lives to the fullest.

Sources / resources are listed on the final slide.

05/07/2025

May is National Speech Language Hearing Month!

When I reflect on the work that SLPs do, I think of the profound role of communication in our everyday lives. It is so integral to everything we do, moment to moment, day to day. Whether greeting a loved one or neighbor or coworker in the morning; learning or teaching in a classroom; attending a doctor’s appointment; chatting over lunch with friends; doing fun NYTimes games… the list goes on. And on. And on. I’m honored to do this work where I can help people communicate with confidence in their day-to-day lives.

What if we each wrote an example in the comments below of something we use COMMUNICATION for every day. I just listed a bunch of examples above but I’ll start! It doesn’t have to be something big or profound, but just think about how you communicate, verbally or in writing, each day. Go!

03/11/2025

Medicare coverage of telehealth services ends on March 31, 2025 (that’s less than 3 weeks away!) unless Congress takes action this month. And that includes speech therapy!

I have been offering speech therapy services via telehealth since 2021. I created a map showing the Maine cities and towns where my Lotus Speech & Wellness clients have lived. Some of my clients have lived over 150 miles away, and would certainly not have been able to access my services had I not offered them virtually. Swipe through the post to learn more. Because I specialize in neuro rehab, about 2/3 of my clients are Medicare beneficiaries.

I’ve included a link in my bio to the ASHA’s online form where SLPs can email your representatives and ask them to ensure Medicare beneficiaries retain access to critical telehealth services, including speech therapy. It took me about 5 minutes to complete the form (and I even edited the text a little to personalize it to Maine and my practice before submitting. My elected US congressional officials are , , and )

And if you ask me, I think it’s time to make telehealth coverage PERMANENT instead of just extending for another few months. There’s been enough “kicking this down the road” over the past 5 years, which puts beneficiaries and service providers in a tough spot.

Please feel free to share this post to help spread the word!

03/07/2025

Sharon and I co-advised another great “Aphasia and Wellness” conversation group with the National Aphasia Association () yesterday afternoon. Our group members shared some of the activities they participated in over the past month to focus on their own wellness. As they shared their ideas, I created this visual on .

Sharing this here for our wonderful group members, and also for anyone else looking for self-care and wellness ideas, whether or not you have aphasia - these are some good ones!!

Let us know in the comments what YOUR favorite wellness activities or rituals are! ⬇️

03/06/2025

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month!

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) play a key role in neuro rehabilitation after a brain injury. Communication is ESSENTIAL for daily personal, medical, professional, academic, and social activities.

Neuro SLPs: Tag yourself (or a fellow SLP you know and love) in the comments! And give each other a follow! Let’s show our fellow some love!

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️💕

02/10/2025

Mark your calendars and save this post! The Maine Brain Injury Association’s Resource Fair is next month, on Thursday March 20 from 12-4pm at the Augusta Armory.

The purpose of the fair is to share local resources and services related to brain injury. People with brain injury, their families and caregivers, and healthcare and other service providers are all welcome.

The fair is free to attend - you just need to register in advance through their website biausa.org/maine.

Let me know in the comments if you’ll be there as an attendee or exhibitor this year!

01/30/2025

✨Benefits of a Home Yoga Practice✨

If you’ve been following me lately, you’ll know that I’ve been getting back into a more regular yoga practice. I’m doing this for my physical and mental health, and am already feeling the benefits.

Fun fact: I have been doing ALL of my yoga at home. In fact, I haven’t been to a yoga studio in-person since before the pandemic!

WHY? Because it makes it easier to fit into my day. It’s comfortable. It saves me time and money. Because there truly are so many good options for how to practice yoga at home. Yoga with Adriene alone has hundreds of free (yes, free) yoga practices on YouTube and she is lovely.

I’ve shared more about the benefits of a home yoga practice here, and will also link to my blog post about this in today’s stories. I also wanted to remind you about my own collection of on-demand yoga practices on my website, lotusslp.com/yoga. The majority of my videos are chair yoga, and there are a few “Yoga for SLPs” practices as well.

If you practice yoga, let me know in the poll if you prefer practicing at home, in the studio, or both:

01/20/2025

“The time is always right to do what is right.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

12/31/2024

Another year in the books! Sharing my “top 9” posts of the year. Thanks everyone for following along!

Plus… a bonus shot I took walking on the beach this afternoon with my son. It’s unseasonably warm and sunny here in Maine today, we got to pet a cute puppy named Pumpkin…it’s a beautiful day and life is good ☀️

Happy New Year everyone!

12/19/2024

Somehow we’ve arrived at the end of 2024! I’ve reflected on the past year and shared a glimpse of what’s ahead for 2025 in my latest blog post. Visit LotusSLP.com/blog or find the link in my bio and stories to read my musings.

Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025!

Katherine

(Pictured: Bug Light in South Portland, ME)

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