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    Redefining Work Breaks
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Redefining Work Breaks

    Breaks can be used to improve workplace culture, support staff wellness and the building of resilience skills. If you need help trying...
    Finding What You Love
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Finding What You Love

    Do what you love should be more than a slogan or meme. It should be the preoccupation of every workspace. Finding love is not just...
    The Myth of the Family Dinner
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    The Myth of the Family Dinner

    How many meals do you eat together as one household per week? How many meals do you eat together as one household undistracted? Not in...
    Weaponizing Sorry
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Weaponizing Sorry

    Without an active plan of what has been learned or what will change, I am sorry can be used to perpetuate the imbalance of power between...
    Stop Using the Word Bully
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 3 min

    Stop Using the Word Bully

    A Guide for Parents In the majority of cases what we call “bullying” is someone poorly managing their own nervous system. What we must do...
    Letter to Leo
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Letter to Leo

    Pets have the ability to teach, to heal, to bring companionship and light into someone's world. They can become the safe place to...
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Adjusting to the New Normal

    Find the right time. Take small steps. Repeat. This will help you adapt to a new normal. Adjusting to a new normal is going to require...
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    There is An Opening

    A crisis leaves space where hard feelings can become undone and softened. Vulnerability provides an opportunity for broken spaces to...
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 4 min

    What is Crisis?

    We think that crisis arrives as a sudden explosive disruption but that is an illusion. The roots of crisis move slowly. There is a...
    Relationship Over Rules
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 4 min

    Relationship Over Rules

    What do you do when someone you love defies the rules that define you? There is a grieving father in front of me. His shoulders are...
    Let Your Children Carry Their Own Backpack!
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Let Your Children Carry Their Own Backpack!

    Last year while walking on my home commute from my workday, I watched two of my elementary aged students toss their back packs to what...
    Martyrs Make Terrible Caregivers
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 4 min

    Martyrs Make Terrible Caregivers

    There are many ways a child will use a Kleenex inside my counselling space. There is the one-blow-and-trash-it method; the...
    The Story of My Red Pants
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 3 min

    The Story of My Red Pants

    Where are the places and memories that have brought you great wounds and great suffering?
    Where is the Silence?
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Where is the Silence?

    There is no Sleepy Hollow on the internet, no peaceful spot where contemplativeness can work its restorative magic. There is only the...
    Racial Profiling and Bouillon Powder
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    Racial Profiling and Bouillon Powder

    I am a little nervous going through American customs. My husband's skin colour and last name meant that when we were dating during the...
    Power of Community
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 3 min

    Power of Community

    I am once again staring out at miserable rain and snow.  It is March.  Spring is just around the corner. Outside my window there are big...
    Can We Teach Children to be Happy?
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 3 min

    Can We Teach Children to be Happy?

    I am at a school meeting attended by a classroom teacher, a resource teacher, a school administrator, a  support worker and myself as a...
    When is Cheese No Longer Cheese?
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    When is Cheese No Longer Cheese?

    My love affair for cheese is well documented.  You can see my blog post on my cheese making course experience here.  If I ever go to...
    Youtube, Netflix and the New Normal
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 3 min

    Youtube, Netflix and the New Normal

    All of that practice in social engagement helps us learn to regulate our own feelings.  It helps us practice those all important social...
    A Label is Not a Solution
    Dr. Emi Garzitto
    • 2 min

    A Label is Not a Solution

    Schools are looking for ways to best serve a diverse group of students. One of the ways students qualify for additional support is...
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