🌶☕️🫖🧋🥨🛍 #Organize a #Drawer with Me

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj53eKvEBN8

🌶☕️🫖🥨🛍 Organize a Drawer | Join with Me

Join along and follow as I organize a drawer in the kitchen!

Practical, real-world OT (Occupational Therapy), Speech Therapy and Vision Rehab skills learned in cognitive rehab will be demonstrated. Feel free to apply these compensation & accomodation strategies to your life as you navigate recovery from brain injury, be it TBI, ABI, concussion, stroke, chemo brain fog or Long Covid. Those with ADD/ADHD or who are looking to improve their productivity, organziation & executive functioning skills may also find some of these techniques helpful.

Topics Covered:

-Containering -Transforming boxes by removing boxtops

-Grouping partnered items that function together & aren’t utilized individually

-Staggering & interweaving narrow sauce packet items for ease with visual chunking, & space-saving

-Visual tracking assistance with large items attached to you

-Nausea aversion

-Pre-attentive visual cues and attributes in a visual composition design & analyzation -Cognitive energy cost & conservation

-Visual scanning strategies when searching for an item

Further tips can be found on the blog at: www.HowToTBI.com

Chapters:

0:00 Organize a Drawer with Me

1:38 Why is this video relevant to brain injury? OT & Speech Therapy

2:04 Quick Hack for Organizing: Clip off boxtop lids with kitchen scissor shears ✂️ 📦 inspired by @OrganizeWithTracey

3:08 Save & Set Aside leftover bits to repurpose later as dividers

3:24 Clean Slate: putting things back inside the drawer

3:35 Real-Life Jigsaw Puzzle

3:45 Parking Lot Car OT Game: Rush Hour Traffic Jam Logic Game 🚗 🚙 🚦

4:32 K*nex-like OT Helicopter 🚁

5:37 Warning: Avert eyes from fast-moving video the next few minutes if you have difficulty with visual tracking or vestibular issues ⚠️ ⛔️ 👀

6:50 Clip boxtop some more from coffee pods package container ✂️ 📦

7:59 Use what you already have

8:27 Re-purposing & Re-configuring

9:12 Speech Therapy Container-ing: putting alike items together

9:53 Grouping together things you would use, together (coffee pod, creamer, sugar, stirrer) ☕️🫖🥛🍭

10:38 Little collections of things example from cognitive rehab part of speech therapy

11:16 Re-orient texts of packaging all in the same direction for easier legibility & readability 11:38 Extra overflow packaging behind & out of the way of that which is currently being used 12:13 Yellow craft paper liner underneath in the background

13:09 Extra bits pulled out of the drawer & set aside

13:20 Pretzel salts 🥨

13:48 Use remnant bits from the same box to turn into dividers

14:08 Mini sauce packets 🌶

15:06 Hodgepodge: it’s ok to move stuff around

15:50 Umbrella-ing category names ☂

16:37 Inserting custom dividers

18:32 A little to the left, a little to the right: staggering skinny sauce packets ⬅️🌶➡️ inspired by @OrganizeWithTracey

19:03 Organizing based on level of spiciness 🌶

21:20 Proud of how drawer is turning out 🙂🎖

21:43 Decaf green tea box 🍵

22:15 Tips for container-ing at home? Please share!

23:12 Meditative flow with repetitive OT hand motion activities 🖐 ✂️

23:55 Cultivating a sense of curiosity & wonder 🤔 ✨

25:15 Little bits & pieces

25:38 Flip coffee box around ☕️

26:10 Columns of coffee by coffee pod label color

26:41 Cognitive effort, energy, & cost to every little thing 🧠 ⚡️💰

27:06 Cognitive energy conservation ♻️

27:16 Fragrant loose leaf teas 🌸 🍃 ☕️

28:44 Hygge coziness 🤗

30:13 Proud of trying new configurations

30:34 Doing what works better, not best

31:31 Willingness to keep trying new configurations

31:46 Automatic everyday habits before brain injury & intentional choices with everything afterwards

32:04 Interwoven packets 🌶🧶 & The Power of Habit book 📒

33:08 Tea steepers ☕️

34:20 Robot tea leaf togetherness 🤖🫖🍃

35:50 Learned skill of patience / Good things take time ⏳

36:28 whatever the amount of time it takes you is the right amount of time

36:39 taking breaks & naps 😴

37:00 there’s only so much you personally can do s you cultivate patience

37:15 Doing your best

39:23 Upper left to upper right, middle left to middle right, lower left to lower right

39:57 Speech therapy skill: using your fingers, hand & arm as a large cursor to assist with directional visual tracking of a busy landscape in your visual field

40:30 Overwhelmed with visual tracking in a bright & visually busy background grocery store 40:55 Less nauseating

43:43 Pre-attentive attributes 🧠 🤔

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