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A Newfoundland sat through an entire restaurant dinner and nobody noticed him until he left. Size is not the issue. Behavior is.

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#ChatWithDrKat #DogEtiquette

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If your dog can't sit quietly at your feet without barking, lunging, or needing a muzzle — it's not ready for a restaurant. That's not a judgment. It's dog etiquette.

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"Can you give your teacher grace? Because teachers are practicing too."

She asked that to kids who were frustrated — and every one of them said yes. Children are more forgiving than we give them credit for. We just have to ask.

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Grief doesn't require a death. A lost job, a rejected application, a friendship that ended — those all move through the same stages. Not recognizing them as grief is part of why people get stuck.

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#ChatWithDrKat #GriefAndLoss

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When a child acts out, the question rarely asked is: what did the adult miss before that moment? https://t.co/Bpl8nR8hEM #ChatWithDrKat #ChildDevelopment

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This school director runs DISC assessments, love languages, and Enneagram profiles on every staff member before building classroom teams. Her reasoning: a staff that understands each other creates classrooms that work.

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Used to get suspended constantly. Same kid, same diagnosis. Now he walks away, sits separately, stays calm — because someone was patient with him long enough for him to learn patience himself.

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Same kid. Same diagnoses. Used to get suspended constantly. Now he walks away, sits separately, stays calm — because someone was patient with him long enough for him to learn patience himself.

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A miscarriage isn't just the loss of a pregnancy. It's the loss of the fantasy — every future moment you'd already imagined. That grief is real. It doesn't need a minimum gestational age to count.

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Schools aren't failing every student. They're failing the ones who don't fit. And the response — blame, humiliation, separation — isn't a behavior plan. It's a surrender.

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#ChatWithDrKat #EducationReform

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"I came at you too strong yesterday. Let's work together."

That sentence from a teacher gives a child something most classrooms never offer: the feeling that someone is actually on their side.

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Even the person who ended the relationship grieves. Not just the person — the fantasy of what it was supposed to become. That loss doesn't belong only to whoever was left behind.

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"If you're the trained adult, why is the child going home and not you?"

One question. It ended a school's habit of sending kids home for every behavior problem.

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Grief doesn't just live in your emotions — it takes up residence in your body, your sleep, your appetite, your ability to think clearly. https://t.co/UXhj4cBHQV #ChatWithDrKat #GriefAndLoss

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Grief isn't only emotional. Aches, nausea, disrupted sleep, loss of appetite, no joy in things you used to love — those are all physical symptoms of grief. Your body is processing what your mind is carrying.

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When you're grieving, your brain doesn't go quiet — it lights up. It's stuck in fight-or-flight, trying to problem-solve something that can't be solved that way. That's the spiral. That's not weakness.

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Grief doesn't go denial → anger → bargaining → depression → acceptance. You can bounce, skip, loop back — or freeze in shock before any of it starts. There's no wrong way to grieve.

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Pen to paper — not your phone. Your brain processes a handwritten list completely differently than a thought you're cycling through. When burnout has closed every door, that difference can open one.

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#ChatWithDrKat #Burnout

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She gave up her salon appointment for a stranger. The stranger started to cry — not from relief, but because she genuinely couldn't believe someone would just be kind.

That reaction says everything.

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When helping others has been the only identity you've ever known, burnout doesn't just mean exhaustion — it means a crisis of self. https://t.co/TT9zEXGOO0 #ChatWithDrKat #Burnout