We all deserve the best quality of life out there! Meaningful leisure involvement is an essential component to living your best life. Unfortunately limitations that are often associated with illness and disease may prohibit one from participating in meaningful leisure pursuits. The benefits of leading a healthy leisure lifestyle are endless and include, but are not limited to the following:

• Improved physical health
• Decreased symptoms of depression
• Increased self esteem
• Enjoyment
• Sense of belonging
• Improved self worth
• Enhanced quality of life

"Therapeutic Recreation is a purposeful intervention that uses recreation to bring about health restoration and has the potential to enhance health or produce high-level wellness."
(David Austin, Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Therapeutic Recreation, Indiana University.)

Therapeutic Recreation is a professional field that is quickly growing within Ontario's Healthcare System. Recreation Therapists provide meaningful recreation opportunities that hold therapeutic value individual to each clients needs based upon a comprehensive assessment.

Therapeutic Recreation is an empowering alternative to increasing quality of life in individuals regardless of their abilities or disabilities.

Vitality Health Services is owned and operated by an educated Recreation Therapist who values the individual needs of each client and takes pride in providing meaningful therapeutic recreation interventions.

"Recreation is not to kill time but to make time live; not to keep a person occupied but to keep them refreshed; not to offer an escape from life but to provide a discovery of life"
(Unknown Author)