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Brief Summary
Vermivora cyanoptera
A medium-sized (4 ½ -5 inches) wood warbler, the male Blue-winged Warbler is most easily identified by its olive-green back, yellow breast, yellow forehead, black eye-stripes, and gray-blue wings with white wing bars. Female Blue-winged Warblers are similar to males, but are somewhat duller overall with an olive-green cast on the head and back. This species occasionally hybridizes with the related Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera), producing a dominant hybrid form ("Brewster's Warbler," which is pale below and olive green above with the Blue-winged Warbler's black eye-stripes) and, more rarely, a recessive hybrid form ("Lawrence's Warbler," which is yellow below and olive-green above with the Golden-winged Warbler's black facial markings). The Blue-winged Warbler breeds in portions of the eastern United States and southern Canada from Minnesota east to Massachusetts and from Ontario south to northern Alabama. In winter, this species migrates south to southern Mexico and Central America. This species has recently expanded its range northward into areas inhabited by Golden-winged Warblers, perhaps being partially responsible for the latter species' recent declines. Blue-winged Warblers primarily breed in semi-open woodland habitats, particularly around forest edges, clearings, and places where ecological disturbance (forest fires, for example) has recently occurred. In winter, this species utilizes similar types of habitat in humid tropical forests. Blue-winged Warblers eat a variety of small invertebrates, primarily moths. In appropriate habitat, Blue-winged Warblers may be seen foraging for food on leaves and branches at middle heights in the canopy. Birdwatchers may also listen for this species' song, a buzzing "beee-bzzz" dropping in pitch at the end. Blue-winged Warblers are primarily active during the day.
occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
National Distribution
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Breeding
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Breeding
Global Range: BREEDING: eastern Nebraska east across Great Lakes region to New England, south to Arkansas, northern Alabama, northern Georgia, Maryland, and Delaware (AOU 1998). NON-BREEDING: Puebla south through Veracruz, Oaxaca, Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, to central Panama (Stiles and Skutch 1989, AOU 1998).
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Physical Description
Length: 12 cm
Weight: 8 grams
Habitat and Ecology
- Terrestrial
Comments: BREEDING: Brushy hillsides, second growth, partly open situations with saplings, bogs, woodland edge and clearings, stream edges, overgrown pastures, swamps. Nests close to or on ground, in bushes, weeds, or grasses, or under bushes, or between exposed roots of stump (Terres 1980).
NON-BREEDING: In migration and winter, occurs in brushy areas, scrub, and open woodland (Terres 1980). In the Yucatan, Mexico is a tropical forest specialist (Lynch 1989).
Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.
Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).
Locally Migrant: Yes. At least some populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.
Arrives (but uncommon to rare) in Costa Rica early to mid-September, departs by mid- to late April (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Trophic Strategy
Comments: Eats insects and spiders (Terres 1980). NON-BREEDING: pries open rolled leaves and probes for insect larvae and spiders. Hovers or hangs under leaves to snatch prey (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Life History and Behavior
Life Expectancy
Lifespan, longevity, and ageing
Clutch size is four-seven (usually five-six). Incubation, by female, lasts about 10-12 days. Young leave nest at 8-11 days.
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Barcode data: Vermivora pinus
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
There are 5 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.
Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.
See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Vermivora pinus
Public Records: 5
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
Red List Criteria
Year Assessed
National NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded National Status Rank: N4B - Apparently Secure
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N5B - Secure
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Comments: Frequent host of Brown-headed Cowbird (MOLOTHRUS ATER; Ehrlich et al. 1988).
Restoration Potential: In upland forest areas, rotational harvesting of timber could supply adequate habitat where appropriate, should restoration become an issue. (Askins, unpubl. data).
Preserve Selection and Design Considerations: Preserves should include dense vegetation in the herbaceous and shrub layers up to 1.5 meters in height, and little vegetation above 3 meters. Will only use abandoned fields in which the canopy height does not exceed 7 meters (Ficken and Ficken 1968). Will nest in relatively young clearcuts with low canopy heights, preferably close to powerlines, roads, or other openings, size of opening apparently not being a factor if larger than 1.0 hectare (Askins, unpubl. data). Foliage profiles of nest sites suggest that a more open area, with thicker grass and herb layer and fewer shrubs, are important components of a breeding territory. Brown-headed cowbirds (MOLOTHRUS ATER) are a possible management concern because prefer clearcuts with a large number of snags in similar habitats, but a study of nesting success shows no increase in brood parasitism in some areas (Askins, unpubl. data).
Management Requirements: Highly specialized to early successional habitat. Will quickly disappear as the trees age and the canopy consolidates. A constant supply of newly disturbed habitat is necessary to sustain populations in upland forest sites. Nests successfully in small clearcuts (less than 5 hectares); large expanses of continuous early successional habitat are not necessary (Askins, unpubl. data). Management of feral and domestic cat populations and shrubland habitat across breeding range will help most ground-nesting shrub species in many local areas to recover from decline (Gill et al., in prep).
Management Research Needs: Population density is not a reliable indicator of habitat quality. With several species, unmated first-year males or reproductively unsuccessful pairs may occur in high densities in marginal habitats (Van Horne 1983). More information on breeding success is needed (Askins, unpubl. data).
Biological Research Needs: Interactions and hybridization with golden-winged warblers (VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA) across broad geographic areas and habitats merit additional study to understand the causal mechanisms of species replacement. (Gill et al., in prep).
Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
Stewardship Overview: Found in most of the north-central eastern states; mostly absent from the Gulf Coastal Plain. Nests in overgrown fields or thickets in a variety of open country situations. Listed as significantly rare in North Carolina. North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data indicate declines in Connecticut of 2.8 percent per year over the last 28 years. Thirteen percent of the total population is found in that state (Rosenberg and Wells 1995), indicating a need for extended monitoring and study. Has been expanding range northward into golden-winged warbler's (VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA) range, resulting in hybridization that may negatively impact that species. Threats are habitat loss due to suburban development of oldfields and shrublands, clearing/burning of successional shrublands for pasture/agriculture, succession of shrublands to forest, brood parasitism by brown-headed cowbird (MOLOTHRUS ATER). Preserve design/management plans should incorporate practices that would maintain the required oldfield/shrub component.
Species Impact: Has expanded range over the last century north into the breeding range of golden-winged warbler (VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA), typically replacing that species within 50 years (Gill 1980).
Blue-winged warbler
The blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) is a fairly common New World warbler, 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long and weighing 8.5 g (0.30 oz). It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern United States. Its range is extending northwards, where it is replacing the very closely related golden-winged warbler, Vermivora chrysoptera.
The common name blue-winged warbler refers to the bluish-gray color of the wings that contrast with the bright yellow body of the male. The name of the genus Vermivora means "worm-eating". The genus used to include nine other new world warblers but now includes only the golden-winged warbler and Bachman's warbler which is believed to be extinct.
The blue-winged warbler was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, though the scientific name has changed several times.[2] The species epithet Pinus was given by Linnaeus in 1766 but was a mistake as the original description of the species was actually based on illustrations of "pine creepers" drawn by others. The drawings depicted two different species, what we now call a pine warbler and blue-winged warbler. In 2010 the blue-winged warbler's scientific name was changed by the American Ornithologists Union to correct the error. Pine warblers retained the species name Pinus but the species epithet for blue-winged warbler was changed to cyanoptera.[3]
Hybridization with golden-winged warbler[edit]
This species forms two distinctive hybrids with golden-winged warbler where their ranges overlap in the Great Lakes and New England area. The more common and genetically dominant Brewster's warbler is gray above and whitish (male) or yellow (female) below. It has a black eye stripe and two white wing bars. The rarer recessive Lawrence's warbler has a male plumage which is green and yellow above and yellow below, with white wing bars and the same face pattern as male golden-winged. The female is gray above and whitish below with two yellow wing bars and the same face pattern as female golden-winged.
The blue-winged warbler is a small warbler at 11.4–12.7 cm (4.5–5.0 in) long, with a wingspan of 17–19.5 cm (6.7–7.7 in). The breeding plumage of the male consists of a bright yellow head, breast and underparts. There is no streaking of the underparts of the bird. It has a narrow black line though the eyes and light blueish gray with two white wing-bars, which are diagnostic field marks.
The female is duller overall with less yellow on the crown. Immatures are olive green with wings similar to the adults.[4]
The song is a series of buzzing notes. The call is a sharp chip.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Blue-winged warblers are migratory New World warblers. They winter in southern Central America and breed from east-central Nebraska in the west to southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and southern Ontario in the north to central New York, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire and New England to the east, south to western South Carolina, northern Georgia, northern Alabama, eastern Tennessee and southern Missouri.[4] It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, with one bird wandering to Ireland.
The breeding habitat is open scrubby areas.
Diet consists of insects, and spiders.
Blue-winged warblers nest on the ground or low in a bush, laying four to seven eggs in a cup nest. The females incubate the eggs for 10–11 days. The young are altricial and fledge in 8–10 days.[5]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Vermivora cyanoptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. (in Latin). Holmia: Laurentius Salvius. p. 187.
- ^ Chesser, R. Terry; Banks, Richard C.; Barker, F. Keith; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.; Kratter, Andrew W.; Lovette, Irby J.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, J. V.; Rising, James D.; Stotz, Douglas F.; Winker, Kevin (2010). "Fifty-First supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds" (PDF). The Auk (The American Ornithologists' Union) 127 (3): 726–744. doi:10.1525/auk.2010.127.3.726.
- ^ a b Terres, J. K. (1980). The Audubon Society encyclopedia of North American Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 967. ISBN 0-394-46651-9.
- ^ Ehrlich, Paul R.; Dobkin, D and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. p. 500. ISBN 0-671-65989-8.
- Curson, Jon; Quinn, David; Beadle, David (1994). Warblers of the Americas: an Identification Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-70998-9.
Names and Taxonomy
Comments: Formerly Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus), but see Olson and Reveal (2009), who showed that the 1766 Linnaean name Certhia pinus is a composite name based on illustrations of birds of two species, the Pine Warbler, now known as Dendroica pinus, and the Blue-winged Warbler, until now Vermivora pinus. They concluded that the name Certhia pinus applies to the Pine Warbler, and that the name Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus) is not available for the Blue-winged Warbler, nor is Sylvia solitaria (Wilson) or any other name. They proposed the new name Vermivora cyanoptera for this species (AOU 2010).


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If there's one thing you can say about Bassnectar, aka Santa Cruz electro artist Lorin Ashton, its that he loves his fans almost at the fanatical level at which they love him--apparent through his "family photo" tradition. But judging by the the throngs of of bassheads--and their inordinate amount of glow sticks, dreadlocks, and body paint--who (wisely) spent the opening sets in the Paramount's lobby, that same love was not shared for opening acts Filastine and SuperDre.
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The National Museum of the Marine Corps Dedication Ceremony took place on Friday, November 10, 2006. The following photos are from this event.
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Here's a party trick (Granted, it only works in Seattle): Offer to divine what your conversation partner ate and drank yesterday. If the number of licensed restaurants in King County is any guide, you've got a pretty good shot of guessing right so long as you say -- listen close -- Starbucks coffee and pad thai.
Seattle loves its Thai food. And while most eaters tend to choose their favorite Thai restaurants by proximity, there are plenty of examples of standout Thai across the city. Here, our picks for the 10 very best, with contributors' comments compiled by Erin Thompson. As always, the list is arbitrarily ordered, with the exception of the winning restaurant, which you'll find in the number one slot -- because after you've amazed strangers by telling them what they've recently eaten, they just might ask where to eat next.
10. Little Uncle
Little Uncle took on many forms before it became the Thai take-out restaurant in Capitol Hill, evolving from a stand at the Columbia City farmers market to Monday night pop-ups at Licorous and La Bête, before the term "pop-ups" saturated the local food scene. The business that eventually became husband-and-wife owners Wiley Frank and Poncharee Kounpungchart's current take-out restaurant focuses on family recipes, like sarabao (soft steamed buns stuffed with braised beef cheeks) and khao soi gai (a hot and spicy curry dish of fresh rice noodles, sauteed veggies, and locally-sourced chicken.)
9. Spice Room
Spice Room shoots for an upscale Thai dining experience, much like Buddha Ruksa and May Thai in Wallingford. On Columbia City's charming main drag, the restaurant was smoking hot when it first opened in late 2009, with the locals lining up for the first Thai restaurant in the 'hood. Joining the colorful chorus of Thai standards, high notes include catfish curry and a New York strip. The kitchen has taken a page from Buddha Ruksa's playbook and offers crispy garlic chicken and drunken noodles. There's also a full bar.
Popular for its lunch buffet, the charming Araya keeps an all-vegan kitchen, so its dining room draws a diverse group of college students, animal lovers, Muslims, Hindus, Jews--as well as eaters who aren't driven by dietary restrictions. The restaurant's decades-long history shows in its decor, a dark wood scheme that's a few leaves short of a fern bar, and its mastery of Thai cooking. The custardy fried tofu could pass for dessert, and the silky green curry is terrific. Many of the dishes made with meat substitute somehow taste meatier than the real deal, perhaps because Araya has cut out the bovine middleman and put stunning vegetal flavors straight on the plate.
The Thai Curry Simple empire keeps expanding--first a small International District eatery, it installed a walk up shack on Capitol Hill and then another sit-down space in South Lake Union. How does Thai Curry Simple stay so popular? By staying true to their name--the prices are simple (the most expensive item on the menu, shrimp pad thai, is $8) and so is the menu. There are four types of curries to choose from (they're all $6 and come with rice), the best of which is a spicy red chili panang curry, and then five noodle dishes. It's an easy, breezy, and tasty dining experience.
6. Thai Tom
There's very little guesswork with the U District's storied Thai Tom. It's really small, you will probably wait, you will sit crammed at the counter or tucked around a small table, you will order off a menu inscribed on a chunk of wood, and you may have to squint since the place is pretty dimly lit. Everything's basically the same (cheap) price, and your meal will be served right out of the pan into a ceramic boat-shaped bowl heaped with jasmine rice. While the vegetable and curry dishes are commendable and dependably good, Thai Tom does two things spectacularly: pad Thai and swimming rama. They're also very serious about spice: Five stars is rocket ship status.
5. Tup Tim Thai
There's no forgetting the famously brisk, bustling vibe and excellent value to Tup Tim Thai. Usually there's a wait in the crowded vestibule before getting a table, but two not-to-miss dishes make it worth it: No. 40 (Mussaman Neua beef curry) and No. 61 (phad Thai with whatever you want). Spring rolls and chicken satay skewers make for tasty starters. You can get out of here with a lot of food without flattening your wallet--one reason for the crowds.
4. Naam Thai
Thai restaurants are to Seattle what foreclosed tract homes are to any King County suburb: an inescapable part of the landscape. The market is so glutted and the competition so fierce, it's a wonder proprietors haven't started getting gimmicky in an effort to draw customers, like dressing comely waitresses in nothing but strategically placed basil leaves. Thankfully, Naam Thai doesn't need T&A to elevate itself above the fray; it can overcome the economic forces of supply and demand strictly through execution alone. Naam Thai's fresh rolls are just a little more fresh, its larb just a little larbier, and its fisherman's madness just a little madder than all the others. It's like that same vinyl-siding-wrapped two-bedroom you see in most empty planned communities, only with a flat-screen in every room.
3. May Thai
If you get pad thai at Wallingford's May Thai Restaurant and Lounge (that ornate, wooden two-story building you always drive by on 45th), it's the real deal. The noodles have been freshly sautéed with eggs, chives, and bean sprouts, and they're not even spiced until they reach your table--servers toss the noodles right in front of you with lime, ground peanuts, a kicky homemade tamarind sauce, and fresh banana flowers. You've got to start with the phenomenal pad thai, but do move on and try May's other tasty noodle dishes, like the kao soi gai--an amalgam of fresh, thick egg noodles, a rich yellow curry, coconut broth, tender chicken legs, and Chinese cabbage.
2. Buddha Ruksa
The instant you walk into Buddha Ruksa, the servers greet you warmly, as if they've been preparing a meal in anticipation of your arrival. The air is rich with the aroma of spices, the dining room adorned with warm colors, candles, and statues of deities. Buddha Ruksa serves classic Thai cuisine, as do countless other restaurants in the city. But it's their signature dishes that bring customers back again and again. Their red curry contains succulent prawns and hearty pieces of pumpkin that come up with almost every dip of the spoon. The crispy garlic chicken, dubbed "crack chicken" by regulars, is sautéed in a savory sauce and served atop a bed of crispy, seasoned basil. Dishes such as these are intended for sharing, but you won't want to. Be prepared to battle your company for every last morsel.
1. Noodle Boat
Is it worth traveling all the way to Issaquah to experience "Seattle's" best Thai restaurant? Well, consider that members of the family-run Noodle Boat go all the way to Thailand each year to research new dishes and make chile paste to ship back to Seattle. The restaurant doesn't dumb down its spice levels, and ingredients are fresh, as evidenced in its popular starter, mieng kum. The menu is full of similarly intriguing and delicious items, from "Queen of Banana" (with banana blossoms) to "Dragon's Antenna" (with bean-thread noodles). Now, if only Noodle Boat would offer boat noodles, which are impossible to find in Seattle.
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I have been through something similar with my husband. A year ago, January, my husband came to me and admitted he had been looking at pictures of women for the past 3 years...we had only been married 4 years. He said he was done with it and wanted to admit what he had done. I felt like my world ended. I felt like like I had been cheated on. I didn't want to look at him or let him touch me. I wanted to run away and never look back. I felt worthless. Unloved. I can only imagine you are feeling the same. He told me it had nothing to do with me. It was an addiction he had. It didn't change his love for me. I had a hard time grasping that until I understood that men who look at porn don't have any attachment to the women in the pictures. They do it to satisfy an urge. It is a horrible addiction. Learning more about the addiction helped me to understand my husband still loves me. It's hard to see it now, but your husband does love you.
The most important thing I did was to stand by him, pray with him and forgive him. Just like your husband, my husband was and is filled with tremendous guilt over this. He gave up facebook for a while and we installed X3watch on our computer. The emails are sent to me and his best friend. We also recently got rid of our smart phones. The less temptations, the better. He also had his father or best friend call once a day to check up on him.
Pray that God will convict him to give up this addiction. In my husband's case, he said that was the only way he was able to stop. Pray against the feelings or worthlessness and the anger you feel toward your husband. Even a year later, I still get bombarded with sadness and anger over this and have to pray against it.
I'll be praying for you and your husband and for healing.
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I realize that you are religious but a man needs sexual variety, excitement and often. If you are neglecting him, then he will turn elsewhere. Some men turn to prostitutes, coworkers, or anyone willing. Lucky for you he turned to the computer screen. Ask yourself if you are doing everything you can to fulfill him.
Be careful that you aren't confusing him as an addict over being sex starved from his wife.
My relationship with my husband was affected by it. Praise God we are overcoming the trials it presents! I won't repeat what everyone else has said, but I want you to know it is possible to overcome it.
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We have had "dry" seasons in our marriage and he never turned to porn. Instead, he waited patiently for me or I waited for him. We need to be careful in telling women that if they don't do xyz then their men will look elsewhere. A married man should not have to be kept by what happens between his sheets.
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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - Sills Field was jam packed with inflatable bouncers, games, rides, activity booths, food vendors, a rock climbing wall, and more than 5,000 Soldiers and family members during the 15th Annual Fun Fest & Information, Ticketing and Registration (ITR) Travel Fair here, April 11.
The Fun Fest began as a penny carnival to celebrate Easter and has continued to grow each year, according to Kathy Giannetti, chief, Recreation Delivery Services, Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (FMWR).
Giannetti explained the intent of "fun fest" is to provide an atmosphere filled with fun and games for every member of the family.
"It's supposed to be fun," said Giannetti, "and it is."
McGruff the Crime Dog made an appearance, courtesy of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, to sing to kids and raise awareness about safety and crime.
Dancers from the Polynesian Cultural Center and the Hale Koa Hotel lined the stage as family members tapped their feet to the beat and children danced in front.
"This event has always been popular," said Kelly Andrews, community recreation marketing representative, FMWR. "It has something for everyone and is themed around the idea for families to let go and have some fun."
Family members claimed door prizes throughout the day, including a trip for two to Las Vegas. Children participated in an egg hunt and enjoyed an early visit from the Easter Bunny.
Two-year-old Riley Richards saw the bunny hopping across the field from yards away. She darted towards the famous rabbit with her arms wide open, grabbed hold of his furry leg and refused to let go.
The Easter Bunny hugged the child back, waved at passing children and made his way to a photo booth where children and families were waiting to meet him.
Four-year-old Isabella Moore's eyes lit up at the sight of the bunny, as well. She excitedly sat next to him, smiling from ear to ear.
"I asked for candy," said Moore, giggling.
The field was filled with numerous games keeping children entertained for hours, including ball bounce, ring toss, skee roll, plinko and tic-tac-toe.
"I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the event," said Capt. Christopher Cross, 8th Theater Sustainment Command. "It's great to spend time with the family and experience something new."
Cross' son, 19-month old Christopher Jr., experienced his first tea cup ride at the fest.
"He seemed to like it," said Cross. "There is so much to do here today to keep us all entertained."
Children walked around with brightly colored hair and painted faces resembling tigers and bears.
Parents snacked on funnel cakes and waved to their children riding the carousel.
As the clock neared 2 p.m., the crowd faded, bouncers deflated, games wrapped up and the Easter Bunny made his way home to rest up for Easter Sunday.
Three-year-old Traceya Summers, waived good-bye to the bunny over her shoulder as she followed her mom across the field.
"Bye, Easter Bunny," said Summers. "I'll see you tomorrow."
For the fifth straight year, ITR partnered with FMWR to provide information during the Fun Fest about discounted travel deals, luau, cruises and other recreational opportunities available in Hawaii and on the mainland.
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Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) have been growing rapidly in the psychodynamic and humanistic traditions of psychotherapy to help meet the needs of our growing chronic public physical and mental health disease crisis. The current demand for highly qualified professionals who teach the skills of mindfulness has grown exponentially in recent years. The year 1990 was a watershed, after which "mindfulness" as a discrete term began to take hold in the discourse of academic medicine and psychology (Dryden and Still, 2006). This is the publication date for Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Full Catastrophe Living, describing the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program that he developed in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. The curriculum started at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center has produced nearly 1,000 certified MBSR instructors who are in nearly every state in the US and more than 30 countries.
Almost every major medical center in the US currently has an IM center and many include mindfulness and or MBSR as an integral component to their programming. MBSR is now used as a therapeutic intervention in over 700 hospitals worldwide. Meditation and mindfulness have been featured in cover stories in the Scientific American, New York Times, Time Magazine, and Newsweek (Kalb, 2003, Stein, 2003). MBSR and other mindfulness-based approaches are now considered "evidence-based treatment" due to the extensive amount and quality of research with randomized, controlled clinical trials that has abounded over the past 10 years. In fact, 52 papers were published in 2003, rising to 477 by 2012. Nearly 100 randomized controlled trials had published by early 2014.
Clinical trials that are currently underway studying the efficacy of MBIs are with the following: asthma, bone marrow transplant, breast cancer, chronic pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), HIV/AIDS, hot flashes, hypertension, immune response to HPV, IBS, lupus, myocardial ischemia, obesity, cancer, arthritis, organ transplant, type-2 diabetes, other medical conditions including psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, PTSD, schizophrenia, suicidality, and others (Clinical Trials, 2008). Grossman et al. (2004) characterized the current research findings with this statement, "Thus far, the literature seems to clearly slant toward support for basic hypothesis concerning the effects of mindfulness on mental and physical well-being." (Fang, C. Y., 2010; Morgan, N., 2014).
Mindfulness and MBSR are not just in Western medicine. More than 2,000 people from companies like Google, Facebook and Instagram showed up earlier this year in San Francisco for a mindfulness conference called Wisdom 2.0. Google now offers their 52,000 employees free lessons in mindfulness. Corporations such as General Mills have made it available to their employees and set aside rooms for meditation. Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan published a book in 2012 titled A Mindful Nation and he has helped organize regular group meditation periods on Capitol Hill. An all-party parliamentary mindfulness group was developed in the UK for the House of Lords. In the UK, three universities offer master's level post-graduate professional training in mindfulness-based approaches: The University of Exeter and Oxford University Mindfulness Centre in England, and Bangor University Center for Mindfulness, Research, and Practice in Wales.
Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) are growing in number as well. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are three MBIs that are drawing the most cultural attention at this moment. Occupational therapists are currently using all three of these MBIs as interventions within their practice. It is clear that the time is right for the profession of occupational therapy to embrace this emerging demand and create it's own path by merging the therapeutic skills of mindfulness with the depth and complexity of the profession of occupational therapy to create a new practice area called Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy (MBOT).
Health professionals including occupational therapists are working in increasingly fast-paced, production-oriented, resource-driven environments that disproportionately value hard work and self sacrifice. Increased productivity standards, increased client loads, and self-care discrepancy measures among health professionals demonstrate staggering and unfortunate impacts on the health professional's mental and physical health and research has demonstrated that burnout among health professionals significantly impacts and reduces client outcomes, the development of the therapeutic use of self, and rapport building (Brice, 2001; Maslach, 1986; Raquepaw and Miller, 1989; Soderfeldt et al., 1995; Valente and Marotta, 2005). Burnout refers to a state of emotional exhaustion in health and mental health workers that can manifest in the form of mental health problems, physical ailments, illness, and disease and it is on the rise (Freudenberger, 1974; Maslach, 1986; Maslach et al., 1978; Pines & Maslach, 1978; Sturgess & Poulsen, 1983). Depression, suicide, substance abuse, sexual misconduct, burnout, and relational problems can all be realistic and serious concerns for therapists who do not effectively care for themselves and do not have the skills to effectively engage with the unique and staggering occupational stressors they face (Brady, Guy, & Norcross, 1994). The knowledge that therapists can do harm to their clients and themselves by not being aware of, and attending to, their own needs and not having developed the skills to be in relationship to this degree of intensity they participate in has driven this growing body of research.
Many studies have demonstrated the potential beneficial effects of mindfulness training on health care professional's personal self-care, improvements in interpersonal relationships, they are markedly more fully present with clients and their needs, less resentful, less reactive and less defensive, increased positive affect and self-compassion, more self-aware and accepting, they demonstrate improved attention and concentration, improved morale, enhanced meaning, performance and decision making, improved self-regulation and impulse control, improved empathic responses, enhanced creativity, improved sense of self-mastery, self-esteem, self-trust, and mental flexibility. These specific qualities of attention, attitude, and intentions are foundational components in the development of mindful awareness in one's life and work and can have profound and far reaching effects (Baker, 2003; Christopher et. al, 2006; Valente and Marotta, 2005; Shapiro, Brown, & Biegel, 2007).
Advanced training in Mindfulness in Occupational Therapy (or Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy - MBOT) would provide occupational therapists with in-depth training in foundations of mindfulness practice and mentorship to develop evidence-based MBOT interventions for their unique practice settings. This kind of training will ensure a depth of personal mindfulness practice combined with the intellectual, theoretical, and historical underpinnings of mindfulness practice and skills for facilitating mindfulness in clinical settings unique to occupational therapy. It would fulfill the growing demand for training specifically designed for occupational therapists who wish to include mindfulness as a significant part of their clinical practice in mental and physical health settings, and would set a standard demonstrating competency and international collegial collaboration in combining mindfulness and occupational therapy. Contact Rochelle McLaughlin to inquire about such training programs in development.
This emerging therapeutic approach, Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy (MBOT) blends the two therapeutic disciplines of occupational therapy (OT) and mindfulness into a new Mindfulness-Based Intervention (MBI). MBOT's focus is multifactorial. Elements of mindfulness foundations are woven into the fabric of skillful occupational engagement "interoccupational relationships", effective interpersonal therapeutic relations, the enhancement of the therapeutic use of self, and the development compassionate care of oneself and other. Application of mindfulness-based practices is an essential aspect of this intensive MBOT training certificate program. Integration of mindfulness-based methods and skills are appropriately merged with occupational therapy interventions using evidence-based approaches.
It can be a profound realization to recognize that the capacity to build mindful awareness of one's body and mind can be assistive in addressing many of the the underlying problems of modern diseases. Mindfulness is the practice of purposefully attending to the present moment with an attitude of openness and curiosity. When we teach the heartfulness and skillfulness of mindfulness as occupational therapists, we become healing facilitators of our client's capacity to become co-healers using the wisdom of their own body and mind. This can be incredibly empowering.
Mindfulness-Based Occupational Therapy (MBOT) explores true healing as a journey of learning and connecting. It is not a model of fixing, correcting, or repairing. MBOT is steeped in a model of cultivating deeper levels of personal understanding and greater degrees of insight. The skills of mindful awareness are tools that help us all engage in close connectivity with ourselves and our infinitely vast and complex human experience in each moment. The skills shed light on our present moment experience and help us build trust in our capacity to heal ourselves, our communities, and the world.
Occupational therapists work on the front lines of incredible human suffering. An occupational therapist who has his or her own personal mindfulness practice will be more able to remain present to his or her own internal mental and emotional experience and physical wellbeing from one moment to the next thereby reducing potential for burnout and enhancing self-efficacy. Dr. Dan Siegel, researcher, author, and director of The Mindsight Institute at UCLA describes this process as neurological "integration". He invites us to "connect rather than correct." Learning to be in wise relationship to our experience in each moment without needing it to be any other way and developing deeper levels of understanding. In this way, we are capable of learning, growing, and healing ourselves and cultivating a more wise relationship to our work as OTs.
Occupational therapy promotes health by enabling people to perform meaningful and purposeful occupations. [1] However it is often the case that we are not present or "conscious" during these meaningful occupations. Not only are we not present but we are often lost in ruminative thoughts and unacknowledged judgements. This mental phenomena can often be dysfunctional or destructive to our emotional, mental, and physical health. We can be significantly limiting our experience of our lives by living only in the unacknowledged, often habitual, cognitive domain of experience. We can be drawn away and disconnected from our experience for long periods of time and even life times.
When we are disconnected from our lives we are unable to fully experience our daily activities even those that we might consider "meaningful" and the quality of participation in meaningful occupations can suffer. MBOT invites us to live the following questions as a journey of inquiry, healing, growth, and learning:
"What is my quality of participation and engagement in my daily occupations?"
"How can I cultivate a healthy and meaningful relationship to my daily activities?"
"How can I assist my client in cultivating a higher quality of participation, engagement, and relationship to their occupations?"
As the occupational therapist integrates mindful awareness into his or her own daily personal and professional life they begin to become aware of their personal quality of participation in daily occupations. Through the engaged participation in meaningful occupations the OT will gain insight into the significance of the healing nature of being more aware and present with our unfolding experience in each given moment. Establishing connection to our experience during daily occupations gives us the opportunity to develop deeper levels of understanding of the significance of daily occupations in one's life and deeper levels of awareness of our own habitual patterns of behavior and the effect of these patterns on our health and wellbeing. The enhanced awareness allows us to notice our relationship to our daily occupations and offers us the opportunity to choose and establish deeper levels of wise relationship to the fullness of our lives. Through this gained insight, the seeds of awareness are then infused into all clinical interventions as well as personal and professional interactions.
MBOT is appropriate for any population an occupational therapist would work with: pediatric to geriatric populations, stroke survivors to individuals on the autistic spectrum. MBOT is a valuable practice to help improve clinical outcomes and reduce stress and anxiety on the part of the clinician and the patient. MBOT draws from awareness-based practices and somatic approaches to healing. It incorporates features of mindfulness into interventions: awareness, compassion, acceptance, motivation, embodiment, and learning skills and tools for how to be in wise relationship to intensity for vastly varying expressions of physical and mental suffering.
Ways for Occupational Therapists to incorporate mindfulness into their work:
- Mindfulness of Self: Awareness of body/needs of body, breath, thoughts, emotions, clarity of values during the participation in daily occupations (interoccupational relationships - IOR). Awareness of interpersonal relationships: approach, personal communication styles, verbal cues, body language, presence. Weaving mindfulness practices into informal aspects of OT interventions and other OT daily work activities. Continue to develop the foundations of mindfulness in one's life and build the practices into one's life.
- Maintaining awareness of self and state of being, not needing to be drawn into other's state of being.
- Daily Practice of Mindfulness Practice and Skills
- Situational Awareness even during "active experimentation" during interventions.
- Awareness of Self
- Self compassion
- Mindful Yoga for Flexibility of Body and Mind
- Therapeutic Use of Self
- openness, kindness
- active listening, warmth
- acceptance
- non-judgmental
- remaining present
- awareness of energy levels
- capacity to build rapport
- model appropriate emotional regulation skills
- awareness of own affect, body & facial, awareness of affect on others.
- mindful listening
- reflective observation
- Being mindful of acknowledging and recognizing sadness and grief, learning to be with it.
- Embracing the beauty/power of enabling a client to engage in occupation.
- Not needing to take things personally, not about "you".
- Awareness of client's verbal & physical expressions, be sensitive, moved by them. Still staying firm in how you feel, not needing to be "drawn in" and yet still "touched" by the experience/interpersonal interaction.
- Validating and honoring own feelings and experiences.
- Awareness of biases, fears, etc. See them for what they are. Bracketing them when unable to let them go.
- Checking in with self regarding intensions for session.
- Awareness of self-esteem levels, understanding we are always doing the best we can in the moment with what we know at the time, vow of imperfection, self-compassion and kindness.
- Awareness of contraindications and precautions, intention to "do no harm".
- Occupational-Relationship Awareness, make adjustments to those inter-occupational relationships that do not fit with your values and intensions, desire for health and wellbeing.
- Reflection on experiences
- Reflection on reactions
- Implement strategies for balance and calmness
- Patience
- Share experiences with those that support you, allow you to be who you are, appropriate "mirror models".
- Taking time to be in community
- Slowing down, connecting with the breath
- Awareness Tools and Skills: Share what you "know". The skills and tools must be embodied in order to be modeled or shared authentically. If any mindfulness skills, tools, or practices do not ring true for you, don't use them. If you bring an awareness tool, practice, or skill as a therapeutic modality bring it with the intention that you will also benefit and grow from the practice. The OT becomes a part of the process of the authentic healing relationship.
Explicitly guiding MBSR practices such as the body scan, formal sitting practice, mindful yoga, mindful walking. Practice with your client with the intention of authentically working with the practices as well. OTs must teach the formal practices from the inside meaning that they have a well- establish personal mindfulness practice first. Also using informal practices of mindfulness as a therapeutic modality.
- Mindfulness of Client:
- Breathing/breath awareness
- Emotional role play
- Expressive Arts
- Mindful Yoga, Qi-gong, Mindful movement
- Mindful of body as much as possible
- Encouraging client to practice kindness and acceptance, modeling this for them.
- Body Scan practices, practice with your clients.
- Walking meditation, kind, patient, increased balance, and safety.
- Noticing how emotions manifest in his/her own body, educate client or simply ask, "How are you feeling?"
- Moving/guiding client into their body
- sensory diet
- mindfulness practices & exercises
- awareness of feet on floor
- awarenee of breath
- Educate family about validating emotions in child, significance of interpersonal attunement, slowing down, simplifying, healthy attachments and bond formation.
- Reaction vs. responding education.
- Recognizing different communication styles
- Introspection, reflection, "dropping in", tuning in.
- Teaching self-acceptance, acceptance of emotions.
- Recognizing and acknowledging emotional reactions in others. Not needing to take it personally.
- Allowing other's to have their own experiences, not needing to imprint your desires for them to have a particular experience.
- Letting it, them be.
- Modeling frustration tolerance, distress tolerance.
- Compassionate body perceptions
- Nonjudgment of abilities, being with things as they, putting out the welcome mat for what is.
- Understand complexities of stress response, teach this, educate others.
- Not projecting or assuming. Asking for explicit self-reflections, help them articulate their experience if they have difficulty doing this.
- Trying to understand what works best for client.
- Reflecting on what they can still do.
- "There is more right with you than wrong with you."
- "Let's pour energy in the form of attention into what is right with you".
- Activities that highlight sensory experiences, getting client in their body.
- Allow them to experience what is right with them, adjusting environment in this way and adjusting activity to support this awareness.
- Mindfulness Context/Situation: In-tune with client's experience by slowing down enough to be aware of subtleties of the situation, the context, and client in the moment. "Connecting rather than correcting" (Siegel, 2013), expressing compassion, and being motivated by personal empathic drives that are developed through personal awareness practices. Becoming present to the unfolding experience. Allowing the client to be fully seen and heard.
- Minimize distractions to improve awareness
- Create spaces/pauses into temporal context
- Intentional set-up of objects in environment
- Being mindful of the day to day reality of the setting.
- Letting things go, recognizing what you have control over (your perceptions/thoughts/beliefs/actions) and what you do not have control over.
- Being present with the client.
- Encouraging colleagues to practice mindfulness, take MBSR or MBCT courses, do inservices to introduce settings to mindfulness, educating staff.
- Mindful and accepting of cultures and embrace diversity.
- Be open to learning new things.
- Recognizing, honoring, and acknowledging cultural expectations/implications.
- Non-identification: not taking things personally.
- Situational awareness, awareness of environment, whole context, bigger picture.
- Recognizing perceptions and thoughts that may be limiting, letting go.
- Sensory diet menu
- Identifying environmental triggers, noticing when wanting to numb or subjugate one's experience.
- Noticing when it is difficult to "show up for" another's suffering, extending self-compassion.
- Timliness/mindfulness of routines (not too late or too early)
- Noticing present experiences and sensations.
- Caring for one's body, making adjustments to stay safe.
- Understanding of others in living environment
- changing harmful environments
- changing harmful reactions
- accepting self in the situation as you/they are.
- Right food, sleep, therapy
- Letting the situation to be as it is, not needing it to be any other way.
- Beginner's mind, seeing things from fresh eyes, expanded context, new and fresh perceptions.
- Each experience will be new and fresh, not needing to mentally label/limit the experience.
- Taking time to process events of the day throughout the day, recognizing how they "sit" with you, letting it be, extending self-compassion.
- Environmental modifications to support mindfulness. Make small and incremental adjustments to foster this intension.
- reduce chaos, busyness, noise, stimulations, simplify
- fish tanks, gardens, plants
- Recognize and take advantage of environmental supports
- including supportive and inspiring "mirroring models", surround yourself with those that inspire you.
- Those that have qualities that resonate with your deepest values and hopes.
- Mindfulness breaks
- Help everyone have permission to manage stress skillfully.
- Research: Mindfulness and MBSR are very well researched. Use evidence-based knowledge to back up your recommendations. In 2012 there were 477 peer reviewed studies published on mindfulness. Nearly 100 randomized controlled trials had published by early 2014. Here is a link to a resource for Mindfulness Research: http://www.mindfulexperience.org/
Resources for mindfulness training for OTs:
Dr. Brewer's Mindfulness and Addiction Treatment can be found here
Teacher Training Programs in SF Bay Area here.
You can watch a Mindfulness-Based OT video here.
A few additional resources:
Time Magazine Article: The Mindful Revolution can be found here and here.
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Babbling Mr. Fox - Ari Gabriel Fox (Oct 29, 2013)
Wow congrats Safety Turtle. I will PAN!
Good luck Teaberry( or should I type Dawn?)! Keep us posted.
New thread coming in 14 days.
"Um, I'd like to take "Because she's an attention whore for $500, Alex" ~ OM