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From 2014–2019, I spent five years teaching continuing education for the American Physical Therapy Asso. (APTA), traveling to a different state each week. When I taught a six-hour mind-body-spirit course in Oklahoma—where I had once nearly failed a physical therapy class at the Univ. of Oklahoma—that former professor attended.

 

By then, she was working as a monitor for the APTA. I was scared of her. She had almost ruined my career, once.

 

Afterward, she made a beeline to me (which freaked me out), and then said, “Most APTA instructors promise six hours but deliver three and we are canceling their programs. You, however, delivered ten hours worth of content in six hours—I’ve never seen that before.” I felt validated and honored. She was a tough cookie!

 

This is my way of saying: I ALWAYS deliver a wealth of content because you paid for it, you deserve it, and we have it.  So, I recommend retaking "The Essentials” in a year to absorb even more, because you can, there is a lot of information, and it may take repitition to absorb it all. The brain loves repetition for learning. You may always retake any workshop you have previously taken.

 

—Enbjoy with Love, Dr. Kim Byrd-Rider