So you survived this year? Now what?

Many many teachers have ‘survived’ the most difficult year yet, but at what cost? 

Do you feel like a fragment of your former self? 

Do you feel like only an ember of your teaching fire still glows? 

Now what?

Most teachers I speak to are showing several signs and symptoms of teacher burnout. 

Teacher Burnout: A syndrome resulting from prolonged stress due to increasing demands over time. A teacher's capacity...

Are you a teacher at the end of their rope and contemplating leaving teaching? Grades? Schools? The country?

After the year we’ve had many teachers are starting to wonder how to create a safer and more sustainable way to teach and have work/life balance. While some are exploring ways to relax, recoup, set boundaries and are getting all kinds of support from therapy to coaching (with me!) Many teachers I know are also contemplating changing grades, schools, in some cases countries as a...

The unprecedented demands and expectations in teacher life right now has put even the most well intentioned educator on the path to burnout and illness. The unrealistic expectations that teachers should have to devote their whole selves and their whole lives to be effective is precisely what drives stress, overwhelm and eventually burnout. Never-mind, the internal pressure to succeed can push us over the edge.

Stress can impact the achievement of a fulfilled life at best. It can ruin...

While I am a huge advocate of personal empowerment and self-healing, let me be the first to tell you; you are not to blame for your burnout. Read that again. 

Burnout among teachers is the new epidemic. The systemic changes in the education system are leaving educators, with the best hearts and intentions, feeling emotionally, physically and mentally exhausted. The things that once brought so much joy to the hearts of teachers like those beautiful ‘A-ha’ moments, or...

Do you ever feel like you want to…

• Numb with Overeating, drink to excess or supplement with sugar? 
• Hide away and isolate? 
• Cry or scream?
• Sleep for days?

I am no stranger to being ‘not okay’. I didn’t realize it then but I didn’t like myself very much when I was deep in the throes of teacher burnout. I dreaded going into work every day. I was new to a community and didn’t fit in. I had to go along with a system that I didn’t...

^{I only began to see my burnout when I began my journey of healing. It was with a step back I could see all the symptoms and signs.  I began to rely on some old faithful coping mechanisms I had learned early on as a way to self-protect. By understanding my own conditioning and accepting it, I began to heal.}

I’ve been thinking a lot about my teacher burnout recently. I am seeing teachers head back to work already anxious, already tired and really afraid. There are risk...

Crippling teacher burnout abruptly ended my teaching career in the classroom. A year and a half of pushing, grinding, doing ‘what I was supposed to’ got me nowhere but deeper in a dark hole. I believe that this is the next ‘pandemic’ for educators. The signs and symptoms are all there. The question remains if we are ready to do something about it before it’s too late. 

For decades I relied heavily on perfectionist tendencies, blaming others and...