GHS Book Club
The GHS Book Club is a nurturing sanctuary where parents and caregivers of children with all types of abilities come together to explore, learn, and recharge. This cherished gathering transcends the traditional book club experience, offering a ‘sacred’ space for deep connection and mutual understanding. Through carefully selected readings, we embark on shared journeys of discovery, illuminating the diverse tapestry of human experiences and abilities. Here, every story resonates, every perspective enriches, and every participant finds solace in the warmth of community. Join us as we turn pages and open hearts.
GHS Book Club
The GHS Book Club is a nurturing sanctuary where parents and caregivers of children with all types of abilities come together to explore, learn, and recharge. This cherished gathering transcends the traditional book club experience, offering a ‘sacred’ space for deep connection and mutual understanding. Through carefully selected readings, we embark on shared journeys of discovery, illuminating the diverse tapestry of human experiences and abilities. Here, every story resonates, every perspective enriches, and every participant finds solace in the warmth of community. Join us as we turn pages and open hearts.
About the Author: Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist, researcher, and practitioner who has spent more than twenty years helping people understand how sensory experience shapes emotional regulation, mental health, relationships, and performance. She is the founder of Growing Healthy Seasons, a clinically led therapy practice with more than 75 therapists, and is recognized as a thought leader in sensory integration and development. Her continuing education courses have reached practitioners around the world, and her work draws on research from UCLA and UCSF. Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving is the first of her Sensory Wellness series.
Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving
A practical guide to unlocking the power of your senses to restore balance, peace, and wholeness through sensory wellness.
by Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L
Book: Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving
Most of us know the feeling, but not the reason. The fluorescent lights that won’t quit. The meeting that leaves you more drained than the work itself. The morning you do everything right and still feel like you’re underwater. For millions of people, the gap between knowing what to do and actually being able to do it is not a discipline problem. It is a sensory one.
In Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving, occupational therapist and researcher Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L, draws on more than twenty years of clinical practice and research from UCLA and UCSF to introduce the eight sensory systems silently shaping every thought, emotion, decision, and relationship. When those systems are in overload, no other wellness practice can fully land. This book provides the foundation that everything else depends on.
Inside, you will understand:
- Why your body is communicating, not malfunctioning.
- What the eight sensory systems are and how they shape every moment of your day.
- Why regulation means flexibility, not forced calm.
- How small shifts in light, sound, touch, and movement can reshape how a day feels.
- Why stress lives in the body and must be completed through it, not just resolved in the mind.
- How sleep, nourishment, movement, play, and connection are all sensory experiences working together.
- Why your values are felt in the body and what happens when you live in alignment with them.
- How sensory wellness grows and evolves with you across every season of life.
Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving is the book for anyone who has ever felt exhausted, overwhelmed, and overstimulated all at once and is ready to understand why. That includes the occupational therapists and care providers who spend their days helping others regulate.
Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving
A practical guide to unlocking the power of your senses to restore balance, peace, and wholeness through sensory wellness.
by Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L
Journal: Sensory Wellness Reflection Journal
Reading opens the door. The Sensory Wellness Reflection Journal is how you walk through it.
Designed as a companion to Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving, this journal offers more than 150 pages of thoughtfully structured space to explore sensory experience over time. Through a steady rhythm of daily, weekly, and monthly pages, it supports ongoing awareness rather than quick insight, helping you notice patterns, shifts, and moments of regulation as they naturally unfold.
This is not a goal-setting planner. It is a practice of noticing.
Inside, you will find space to:
- Listen to the body’s sensory signals before they turn into overwhelm.
- Notice patterns in energy, stress, rest, and connection across weeks and months.
- Track what restores you and what depletes you.
- Build self-trust through curiosity and self-compassion.
- Return, each day, to a grounding relationship with your own senses.
Each week of our book club, we will work through one chapter of Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving alongside the corresponding journal pages. Come ready to read, reflect, and share what you are noticing.
Book Club Schedule
Our book club meets the third Monday of every month from September 2026 through May 2027, 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time. Each session covers one chapter, so come having read ahead and with your journal ready.
| Session | Date | Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday, September 21, 2026 | 1-2 |
| 2 | Monday, October 19, 2026 | 3-4 |
| 3 | Monday, November 16, 2026 | 5-6 |
| 4 | Monday, December 21, 2026 | 7-8 |
| 5 | Monday, January 18, 2027 | 9-10 |
| 6 | Monday, February 15, 2027 | 11-12 |
| 7 | Monday, March 15, 2027 | 13-14 |
| 8 | Monday, April 19, 2027 | 15 |
| 9 | Monday, May 17, 2027 | 16 |
Join the Book Club
All are welcomed!
This virtual book club open to everyone reading Sensory Wellness: The Art and Science of Thriving by Robyn Chu, MOT, OTR/L. Whether you are a therapist, a caregiver, or simply someone curious about your own sensory wellness, you are welcome here. Sign up for free and we will send the Zoom link to your inbox.