Danielle De La Mare shares how to foster self compassion as a professor on episode 519 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn’t work hard, people would see that I wasn’t worthy of being their teacher.

Let’s just take a second and really feel all the pain that you’ve been feeling. And put your hands over your heart.

Don’t say yes if it’s not something that really speaks to you, if it’s not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.

What is it like to be me? Do I even know right now?