Hello!
As a researcher and practitioner, I have spent much of my career exploring how people find balance and meaning in their lives. Over time, I began to notice that in all our talk about wellness, something essential was missing. We spoke about the mind and heart but rarely about the body, not just what it can do, but what it can perceive.
Through my work I had seen how sensory awareness could restore calm and clarity in ways that words alone could not. Outside the therapy session, I saw a world that was sensory overloaded, yet sensory under-aware. We were racing through life without realizing how profoundly our sensory systems shape every moment of balance, peace, and connection.
That realization sparked Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving, a book born from the belief that thriving begins when we return to the wisdom of our senses. For me, wellness is not about doing more. It is about remembering how to come home to ourselves.
ROBYN CHU, MOT/OTRL
AUTHOR. RESEARCHER, AND PRACTITIONER
Hello!
As a researcher and practitioner, I have spent much of my career exploring how people find balance and meaning in their lives. Over time, I began to notice that in all our talk about wellness, something essential was missing. We spoke about the mind and heart but rarely about the body, not just what it can do, but what it can perceive.
Through my work I had seen how sensory awareness could restore calm and clarity in ways that words alone could not. Outside the therapy session, I saw a world that was sensory overloaded, yet sensory under-aware. We were racing through life without realizing how profoundly our sensory systems shape every moment of balance, peace, and connection.
That realization sparked Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving, a book born from the belief that thriving begins when we return to the wisdom of our senses. For me, wellness is not about doing more. It is about remembering how to come home to ourselves.
ROBYN CHU, MOT/OTRL
AUTHOR. RESEARCHER, AND PRACTITIONER
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About Robyn
Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L is an occupational therapist, author, and educator specializing in sensory integration and processing across the lifespan. With a passion for supporting children, families, and adults with sensory differences, Robyn is dedicated to helping people understand how sensory experiences shape emotional regulation, relationships, social skills, and overall mental health. She approaches her work with a strengths-based lens, empowering individuals to thrive in daily life.
Robyn is recognized as a thought leader in the research, assessment, and treatment of sensory integration and development. She designs and teaches continuing education courses that have reached practitioners around the world, blending practical insight with evidence-based approaches.
Over seventeen years ago, Robyn founded Growing Healthy Seasons, a pediatric therapy practice that has grown into a collaborative team of over 75 therapists. Under her leadership, the company has not only embedded sensory wellness principles into its own culture but has also extended them into leadership training for organizations nationwide.
In addition to clinical work, Robyn consults with businesses seeking to become more sensory-friendly and inclusive, offering tools to support regulation, connection, and optimal performance for all team members. Drawing on real-life experience and research from her work at UCLA and UCSF, Robyn helps others understand the powerful impact of sensory processing, at home, at work, and at play. At its core, Robyn’s body of work invites all of us to live sensationally!
About Robyn
Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L is an occupational therapist, author, and educator specializing in sensory integration and processing across the lifespan. With a passion for supporting children, families, and adults with sensory differences, Robyn is dedicated to helping people understand how sensory experiences shape emotional regulation, relationships, social skills, and overall mental health. She approaches her work with a strengths-based lens, empowering individuals to thrive in daily life.
Robyn is recognized as a thought leader in the research, assessment, and treatment of sensory integration and development. She designs and teaches continuing education courses that have reached practitioners around the world, blending practical insight with evidence-based approaches.
Over seventeen years ago, Robyn founded Growing Healthy Seasons, a pediatric therapy practice that has grown into a collaborative team of over 75 therapists. Under her leadership, the company has not only embedded sensory wellness principles into its own culture but has also extended them into leadership training for organizations nationwide.
In addition to clinical work, Robyn consults with businesses seeking to become more sensory-friendly and inclusive, offering tools to support regulation, connection, and optimal performance for all team members. Drawing on real-life experience and research from her work at UCLA and UCSF, Robyn helps others understand the powerful impact of sensory processing, at home, at work, and at play. At its core, Robyn’s body of work invites all of us to live sensationally!
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