0701 - Season premiere! Let´s talk about: Interoception w/ Kelly Mahler
Finally—after a couple of additional special episodes—season 7 is now underway with regular installments.
As with earlier seasons, this one will present many engaging and informative episodes designed to increase awareness and share practical professional knowledge across a wide range of topics. Each episode aims to equip listeners with insights they can apply in educational, clinical, and everyday contexts.
This season introduces a focused theme: the senses. Exploring how we perceive the world is both fascinating and essential for understanding human behaviour, learning, and well‑being. It has been an immensely rewarding journey to meet and speak with the diverse professionals who generously contributed their time, knowledge, and clinical experience to this series. Their perspectives have shed light on how the senses shape development, communication, participation, and quality of life.
We’ll examine smell, taste, hearing, vision, touch—and interoception. What do these senses mean to us on a day‑to‑day level? What does it feel like to live with sensory loss, difference, or sensory processing challenges?
I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to these episodes—your expertise, honesty, and generosity made this season possible.
Recording began last summer, and one of the conversations you’ll soon hear is with Kelly Mahler, an occupational therapist and educator. I reached out to Kelly to deepen my understanding of interoception: what this lesser‑known sense is, how it affects regulation and behaviour, and how we can recognize and support differences in interoceptive awareness.
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