A student’s tongue, jaw, and lips aren’t just moving randomly. They need muscle awareness, tone, and coordination to turn movement into speech. Michelle and Ashley dove into this at the Ohio speech‑therapist conference, where they challenged the idea that oral motor work is only a background detail.

While meditating everyday might not take you to the heights of a Buddhist monastery, it will help you cultivate a center of resilience, empathy, and calm. Here’s one women’s story on how remaining open through her early struggles led to a consistent meditation practice.

“Ma’am, your daughter’s fine,” every doctor and specialist that I took my baby to said to me. They looked at me in a way that rattled my waning confidence and grip on reality.

How could they NOT see that she wasn’t healthy?? Was I going crazy?

I became THAT mom. I knew that my child needed help, yet every doctor and specialist was telling me otherwise. I was becoming desperate.