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...

^{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...