Health & Fitness Episodes

June 2, 2026

Chronic Aspiration

What happens when we can’t stop aspiration?In this episode, Eva and Emily talk about chronic aspiration and what happens when small, repeated events start to add up. From inflammation and airway damage to serious complications like pneumonitis and lung abscess, we break down what’s really happe…

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May 19, 2026

The River and The Rock: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Ever feel like you’re fighting your patient just to get through a session?Explore Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a framework for speech therapy—not psychotherapy, but a way to rethink how we approach resistance, engagement, and progress.Using the metaphor of “the river and the r…

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Nov. 4, 2025

Should Food be Pretty?

In this episode, I, Eva, alongside co-host Emily, discuss the often-overlooked topic of puree diets in speech therapy. Wondering- Should food be pretty? Does food presentation help with patients' perceptions of unappetizing puree food and share insights from a study revealing that molded puree enha…

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July 1, 2025

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): what it is, how it shows up, and what SLPs can actually do about it. In this episode, Emily and Eva break down how MCI differs from moderate and advanced dementia, how to approach screening, and how to design meaningful therapy when patients are still “too high” for…

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May 5, 2025

We Do the Research, You Do the Rest

Two speech-language pathologists walk into a podcast. There’s no punchline, but for some reason we’re still laughing.Emily and Eva embark on reading the research so you don’t have to. If you’ve ever squinted at a pillbox, questioned your own functional goals, or wondered how to sneak more clini…

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