<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Becoming Is The Point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Essays, courses, and stickers for healthcare people becoming someone new. Written by an occupational therapist exploring identity, burnout, and reinvention — for clinicians navigating who they are becoming, on and off the job.]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/theletters</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:12:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Certification Won’t Fix It]]></title><description><![CDATA[on the difference between learning and hiding I’ve been the person signing up for the next course before I’d even finished the last one. I have a folder in my email - I just checked it while writing this - with a  few unopened continuing-ed confirmations going back three years. Some of them I never even started. I paid for the certificate, put the login information somewhere I told myself I’d find later, and moved on to researching the next one before the first had finished loading. For a...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/the-certification-won-t-fix-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ce456830cbda37bc16d70</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:56:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe it isn’t burnout.]]></title><description><![CDATA[on the difference between running empty and running out of room One of the most common messages I get from OT practitioners is some version of the same sentence: I think I’m burned out. Sometimes they’re right. The signs are usually all there - the dread on Sunday night, the flatness by Wednesday, the sense that you’re pouring from a cup nobody’s refilling. That’s burnout, and it deserves to be taken seriously as exactly that. But sometimes, reading those messages, I don’t think burnout is...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/maybe-it-isn-t-burnout</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ce205383816e00d403235</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:47:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting fight or flight]]></title><description><![CDATA[I saw a meme recently that said something along the lines of, “My body doesn’t know the difference between running from a bear and answering a work email.” I laughed…and then immediately thought, Well, that’s a little too relatable. For most of my career, I worked in healthcare. Whether it was inpatient rehab or outpatient pediatrics, the pace was always fast. Between treatments, documentation, meetings, medical complexities, phone calls, and trying to stay on schedule, “go, go, go” wasn’t...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/fighting-fight-or-flight</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cdfc5830cbda37bc16485</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:34:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear clinician. Dear academic.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been learning what boundaries actually look like. And honestly? I’m still figuring them out. Being both an academic and a fieldwork coordinator, I spent a long time believing that being good at my job meant being available all the time. For students. For clinicians. For fieldwork sites. For anyone who needed something. Because I wanted to help. Because I didn’t want to let anyone down. And if I’m being really honest…because somewhere along the way, I started tying my worth to how...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/dear-clinician-dear-academic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cdf61383816e00d402d69</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:30:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest fear as an academic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Academia was always on my radar. It’s one of the reasons I decided to pursue a doctoral degree in the first place. So when the opportunity arose to become faculty, I was beyond excited. I know that’s a cliché thing to say, but I genuinely don’t think I could put into words how excited I was. I loved being a student. I had professors who challenged me, invested in me, and helped shape the clinician I would become. Getting the chance to play even a small role in someone else’s occupational...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/my-biggest-fear-as-an-academic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cdf16aa66ec7ba9cccd0c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:28:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 things i needed to hear as an OT student]]></title><description><![CDATA[I remember thinking that if I could just make it through this semester, everything would magically feel easier. Then it was the next semester. Then Level I fieldwork. Then Level II. Then the NBCOT. Then my first job. Funny enough, every stage came with its own version of, “Maybe I’m not ready for this.” Now I’ve been the student, the clinician, the academic, and the fieldwork coordinator. And if I could sit down with the version of me who was just beginning OT school, here’s what I’d tell...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/10-things-i-needed-to-hear-as-an-ot-student</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cdee1830cbda37bc162e0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:27:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn’t realize I was living on autopilot until I started questioning my job]]></title><description><![CDATA[I didn’t have a breaking point (welllll maybe a little one) Nothing dramatic happened. No big collapse. No clear moment where everything fell apart. It was (a little) quieter than that. I just started noticing that I was moving through my days in a way that didn’t fully feel like me. I would show up to work, do what needed to be done, have the conversations, do the treatment interventions, answer the emails, keep everything moving…and still feel like part of me wasn’t fully inside of it. At...]]></description><link>https://www.becomingisthepoint.com/post/i-didn-t-realize-i-was-living-on-autopilot-until-i-started-questioning-my-job</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cde97830cbda37bc16247</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:26:33 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>The Kozey OT</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>