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...
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Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Story of My Red Pants
Where are the places and memories that have brought you great wounds and great suffering?
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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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...