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Emily Wicks

Emily Wicks

Co-founder of Feel Your Best Self and Manager of Operations and Collections at UConn's Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry.

Sep 23, 2026

20:18
Emily, do you want to take on creativity and joy?
20:21
Sure.
20:21
Yeah.
20:22
So, I mean, I think kind of like I was saying before, I think we really wanted to bring creativity and joy into every aspect of Feel Your Best Self because it makes it easier to learn when you're feeling better, when you're having fun, right? So that you're more engaged.
20:38
So we like to think of Feel Your Best Self as a chance to explore.
20:41
We're not telling kids that they have to belly breathe, like Sandy said.
20:45
They can have fun exploring these 12-minute strategies to see what works best for them.

21 MINS LATER

41:27
Talk to us a little bit, Emily, about that story, because that again shows so much collaboration here at the university and what is capable of being accomplished when you work outside of just being a silo.

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