Jennifer Brueton Occupational Therapy

13/12/2025

29/10/2025

A stroke isn’t just a sudden event — it’s the result of years of poor metabolic health and vascular damage. 🧠

As OTs, we can play a vital role in stroke prevention by helping people stabilise blood sugar, move more, and eat real food to protect their brains and blood vessels.

Read more about stroke and insulin resistance here 👉https://thenoakesfoundation.org/stroke-proofing-starts-with-insulin/

27/10/2025

🌍✨ Happy World Occupational Therapy Day! ✨🌍

Today, we celebrate the heart of Occupational Therapy in Action — empowering people of all ages to participate fully in the activities that bring meaning and purpose to their lives.

From helping a child master play and independence, to guiding someone’s recovery after a stroke, to supporting adults in returning to work or daily life after illness or injury — OTs are there, adapting, enabling, and inspiring change every step of the way. 💪

OT isn’t just about rehabilitation — it’s about possibility. It’s creativity, problem-solving, and compassion in motion.

Here’s to every Occupational Therapist making a difference, one meaningful occupation at a time. 💚👐

15/10/2025

Teaching our clients to look after themselves, structure their daily routines, build meaningful habits, and manage their own health and wellbeing is one of the most valuable things we can do to prevent chronic disease.

08/10/2025

🚧 You are working hard to take care of your family, manage your practice, and plan excellent therapy programmes for your clients, paying bills and ensuring that you can make it through all the month end admin tasks.

Everyone's needs come first, and you are running on fumes, but you can't see how to stop. 🛑

You're exhausted, foggy, and stretched too thin. You've always been the strong one, but lately, you feel like things are starting to slip.. 🫠

✨️ Join me on my first group coaching programme to discover how to build simple self-care routines into your day, without guilt.

✨️ Learn how to prioritise your health while creating ripple effects for your whole family.

✨️ Teach you energy pacing and sensory regulation strategies to prevent burnout and chronic illness.

Doors are closing soon!

📩 DM 'Self-Care', and I will send you all the details or click on the link in bio to book your spot. 🌿

05/10/2025

✨ What is Self-Care? ✨

“Self-care is the most important type of care for people with long-term health problems. Healthcare systems are essential for diagnosis, acute care and initiating optimal therapy, but people are on their own over 99.95% of waking hours going forwards. We must accept and encourage the contribution that other people with the same long-term health problem can make and enable both types of care through face-to-face and virtual group consultations.”
— Birrell, Collen & Gray (2023)

💭 In Occupational Therapy, self-care is a core occupation — it’s not just hygiene or daily tasks. It’s how we structure our routines, build meaningful habits, and manage our health and wellbeing. True healing happens in everyday life — in the meals we eat, the habits we build, and the way we care for our bodies and minds.

That’s where my 6-Week Metabolic Health Reset comes in. 💪

It’s a guided group coaching programme that supports women to:

🌿 Reclaim their energy and confidence — improve occupational performance in daily life
🍳 Learn how to eat real, nourishing food — practical habits that fit routines
💗 Build habits that prevent or even reverse chronic health problems — taking ownership of health as a meaningful occupation

Self-care isn’t selfish — it’s essential for maintaining independence, function, and long-term well-being. By investing in structured, intentional self-care, women can change the trajectory of their health and their daily lives.

Join me and a community of women taking their occupations, habits, and health into their own hands — with knowledge, support, and action.

💌 DM me “RESET” to join the next virtual 6-week group programme starting on 14 October.

23/09/2025

🧠 Did you know sugar activates the brain’s reward pathways like other addictive substances?

As OTs, we often see clients who are struggling with cravings, fatigue and metabolic health challenges which is impacting their function.

🎥 I’m hosting a FREE webinar on Sugar Addiction & Overeating — perfect for upskilling your own knowledge and for supporting your clients with sugar/carb addiction.

🗓 Thursday 25 September | 🕛 19:00 – 20:30

You’ll learn:
• Neuroscience of sugar addiction
• How cravings impact executive functioning & behaviour
• OT-relevant strategies for behaviour change

💌 Register now (link in bio).

26/08/2025

*Ladies, this one’s just for YOU*, in celebration of Women’s Month.

I’m hosting a *free Women’s Health Webinar* on Thursday, 28 August 2025 from 19:00 – 20:30 with the incredible Dr. Lize van Nieuwkoop, a GP specialising in metabolic health.

Together, we’ll be diving into topics every woman should know about:
•⁠ ⁠PCOS, perimenopause & menopause
•⁠ ⁠Why eating enough healthy fats is essential for hormones & brain health
•⁠ ⁠How stress, sleep & lifestyle drive weight gain, brain fog & fatigue
•⁠ ⁠The #1 food women must include in their diets to thrive & age well

*PLUS! 2 spot prizes up for grabs for anyone who attends on the evening! Stand a chance to win a free 60-minute Metabolic Health Coaching Session with me AND a free Nia Dance Class (a joyful, mind-body movement practice that blends dance, martial arts & healing arts).*

👉 Register now: https://www.jenniferbrueton.co.za/event-details/free-womens-webinar-hormones-brain-fog-weight-gain-2

09/08/2025

💐 Happy Women’s Day! 💐

Today, we celebrate the strength, courage, and resilience of women everywhere – and especially the incredible women we have the privilege to walk alongside in our work.

As a women-owned and run occupational therapy practice, our passion lies in helping women reclaim their health, independence, and ability to engage fully in life’s meaningful and purposeful tasks. Whether it’s returning to work, caring for loved ones, or simply enjoying everyday moments without pain or limitation – we believe every woman deserves to thrive, no matter their situation.

Here’s to strong women:
✨ May we know them.
✨ May we be them.
✨ May we raise them.

From our hearts to yours – thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey. 💛

Jen xx.

08/08/2025

Appreciation post: 💐

Sometimes a little 'Thank You' goes a long way.. especially in our job, which is mostly a thankless one.

Opening ourselves and my practice up to accept students wanting to learn more about OT or to get the necessary job shadowing hours required by the universities is also met (mostly) with the same grateful but thankless response.

But this week, we received a beautiful bunch of flowers to say THANK YOU for giving a Grade 11 student the chance to see what OT looks like in a neuro rehab and acute hospital setting for 2 days.

So, thank YOU! We appreciate it so much! 💓

01/08/2025

The truth is this... we need our nervous systems to feel safe in order to heal.

Living in constant stress, overload, and overwhelm keeps us in FIGHT or FLIGHT mode, which increases cortisol, adrenaline, and glucagon (stress hormones). This promotes insulin resistance and chronic inflammation.

Over time, our cells become reprogrammed and struggle to turn this stress response off, leading to poor health and chronic disease. 🤒

Having recently become certified as a practitioner, I understand how important a calm and regulated nervous system is if we want to improve our health, wellness, relationships, and productivity at work. 📈

It is essential for higher order thinking and making better choices to help stabilise blood sugar. 🧠

Stay tuned for some simple tips you can do right now to help organise and calm your brain.