When we step into awareness about what feelings are the hardest for us to feel inside the classroom, what feelings inside the a classroom really make you feel quote triggered, so triggered or uncomfortable that you can not sit with it and have to “react” - that is when you are one step closer to taking back your powerSo, yes, in my opinion one of the most important things I believe a teacher can do for their student is be open and willing to feel all of their emotions, without listening to the primitive part of our brain that shouts we are in danger of losing control or being taken over by rebellious students. When Teachers are willing to practice allowing the uncomfortable feelings without instantly needing to react to get rid of the feeling, or take “power back” a teacher takes her brain back from her primitive nature, they engage their prefrontal cortex. A teacher willing to feel any feeling, and allow it, is a teacher who is able to manage their thoughts, feel their emotions and then engage their prefrontal cortex to plan how they are going to react out of a place of love and compassion, instead of self judgment and self criticism is a model for their student

As you listen to this Podcast I want you to know I KNOW everything is not all butterflies and rainbows and I don’t think it is supposed to be or should be. I do not believe we will always have Positive thoughts or positive experiences with every student all the time because we ALL have human brains. BUT i do believe that as the adult in the situation, and as an educator it is our responsibility to ourselves and our students to really dive into how we are showing up for ourselves and how we are showing up for our students. The classroom environment that we are creating. Thought work, and learning about the brain has really changed how I think about students, parents, and colleagues. So these next several podcasts I am really going to be diving into that work. I want to support teachers AND students. I want to help coach Teachers so that we can truly be there for kids! Kids have been at the center of my heart. In today's Episode I am going to be Teaching about our brain and how teaching students about their brain is important.

Learning to Allow Urges and Live life on purpose!

Learning how to rewrite circumstances and coming into awareness that all circumstances are neutral.

We all have a manual in our brain that no one else can see, but we expect them to just know and to follow it and if they follow it and hit every check box (unrealistic) then they love us and they are worthy.If they don’t follow our manual well then that means they don’t love us, they don’t care about us or they aren’t a good (insert role here) Let me tell you how this doesn’t work out well for anyone- haha Why doesn’t this work? For several reasons First, let me say it again, as I will often remind you, others do not cause our thoughts and feelings, they do not cause us to act a certain way. Our thoughts and our emotions cause us to act a certain way. Secondly We do not cause other’s thoughts or feelings, or their actions. And we are not incontrol of their behavior or how they respond to our thoughts and feelings and actions.

Lets re-write our manual so that we know our value and worthiness!

We all have human brains so our brain will consistently produce unmanaged thoughts that will trigger emotions that cause us to take certain actions. Unmanaged thoughts are part if not entirely the human experience, but that is okay it doesn’t mean that all your hard work isn't’ working- you will find yourself switching between unmanaged models and managed intentional models, asking yourself is this a thought that is helpful, is this thought serving me, it will allow you to be aware of your emotions and be touch with the actions that you take with certain emotions arise the more time we spend getting to know ourselves without judgement but with acceptance it allows us to feel and think any thought without fear of being suck in those feelings and thoughts and we will see our brain start creating alternate thoughts that create the feelings and actions we want the more we live the results that we want to live.

Changing our perspective, our thoughts and our own inner beliefs around all relationships will create a different experience for sure. We know what we go through inside our own head, and all the mental drama we create with our own thoughts, our thought patterns, personal narratives, confirmation biases (whatever you want to call it) WE CAN CHANGE IT, with practice, time, learning how to do thought downloads, thought ladders and doing models around unintentional thoughts so that we can do intentional models to create thoughts that we want to think on purpose it's a game changer. IF you want support in this feel free to email [email protected] and visit taking back her brain.com.