Self-Compassionate Professor

In the trailer, I tell my own career-wellness story, explain how self-compassion has changed the shape of my own career, and describe my vision for the Self-Compassionate Professor community--a place where, above all, faculty, grad students, and those in altac careers feel supported by others to take counter-cultural career paths. #careerwellness #selfcompassion #happyhealthyfulfilled  

In this episode, I discuss how you can take sabbatical right now, even in the midst of coronavirus! I talk about the three things you can do to buy yourself time and space so that you can show up for yourself and others more compassionately, feel less anxious and stressed, and feel more fulfilled in your daily life. I also suggest that finding this peace now will pay off in the future because it will pave the way for you to make wiser career and life decisions. 

In this episode, Natasha Thomas-Jackson and I talk about her balanced and truthful way of navigating life and career. As a social justice advocate, she says, “...social justice is internal and external. It’s psycho-spiritual as well as socio-political...All of my work, at its root, involves healing… healing ourselves, homes, communities, political system, and our world…My why is that I’m in love with people. I want all people to be free and my tools are love and truth.” In this episode, Natasha offers tangible strategies for healing ourselves and our world. PLEASE listen! It will make you a better person. 

In this episode, I talk about how turning into your difficult emotions can ground you and help you to become a stronger, healthier, and more compassionate human being while also helping you to make better decisions, take better care of yourself, and take better care of loved ones. Oh! And my husband makes a weird and unexpected cameo. LOL. 

In this episode, I describe how turning into your difficult emotions--rather than avoiding them--can launch you into a more meaningful life and career. 

In this episode, Shawna discusses how she lives by her own rules and how she created her own career in her own way! In this episode, we talk about the flexibility and freedom she's been able to create and how she's stayed resilient during the hard times. Unlike most, Shawna doesn't abandon her own needs, values, and happiness in pursuit of culturally-defined rules. This is a great episode!

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Ginger Moran, former Professor of English Literature. She describes her transition from an academic career to creating her own own career, involving writing, coaching, and entrepreneurship. Ginger emphasizes the challenges of living your dreams, but she also emphasizes the pain of living a small life.