Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols

What is the "it" for you that you would love to let go?

Is it an emotion? 

Is it an aspect of teaching or family life that you wish would simply melt away?

Is it letting go about releasing control in some area in your life?

In Episode 86, I share my own personal journey of how letting go can be incredibly helpful and has made me feel more free.

What can you let go of in your life right now?

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Want to improve your classroom management ?

In Episode 85, we rewire, innovate and manage our brains in order to connect before we correct. In this episode, you'll learn how these three statements will change engagement, focus, and student attitudes: "I belong here." "I matter." "This is fun."

How would you be as a teacher if you repeated these three statements each day? How would it be for your students if they practiced these ideas for themselves? Mind management is the key to classroom management and I give you real tips and strategies to have a more connective and vulnerable classroom experience.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Are you in a toxic relationship with your school?

Are you getting the message that you're not a team player or you should really LOVE doing more without getting paid?

No! No! No!

In this Episode, I do a deep dive into all the ways toxic schools can be like bad relationships and show you that IT IS 100% OK TO WANT WHAT YOU WANT!

No, you are not crazy for wanting to have a decent wage and retirement benefits. You are not asking for "too much" or pushing "too hard."

Get what you want--I'll show you how. 

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 83, I share my two passions: teaching and skiing. 

How is skiing like teaching?

Skiing, like teaching, is incredibly difficult. Even if you use a lift, skiing can make you so sore that you feel muscles you didn’t even know you had the next day. 

Teaching challenges us to use all sorts of emotional and pedagogical muscles that you never knew we had. We may not even know we needed to flex those muscles until the situation arises, like in skiing, until we have to turn a certain way, until we need to react in just the right way to a student or a parent or a colleague.

Inevitably, in skiing, just like in teaching, there is falling. 

When we make a mistake in our classrooms, when we lose our balance, when our lessons literally fall flat, some days our teaching mistakes feel not so big and we just fall into some gentle powder.

Other days, our mistakes feel so big and so bad, we hit the metaphorical hard snow and really fall so hard, it feels like we bounce.

It’s in those moments that it feels hard to get up. But we do. We may be bruised but we come back to work, get on the chairlift again, and point our skis downhill, into the challenge of our day to day at school. 

Finally skiing can be slightly dangerous as we ask our legs and our bodies to literally flow into the gravity that takes us downhill. If we resist, if we clench up, if we tighten, we resist how the gravitational flow can help us. 

But if we allow the flow of our teaching day to support us and trust it to help us down the mountain, we don’t need to effort as much, we don’t need to feel as if we have to control what is not in our control. We just submit. 

ENJOY THIS EPISODE!

Resources:

Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept.

Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

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Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 81, I gave you the first part of how to self-coach yourself in any challenging relationship and that first part is to  take responsibility for your thoughts and feelings about this person. 

(Do not underestimate this step, my friends! Responsibility means getting out of victim mentality and it is HUGE!)

Step 2 is to INTENTIONALLY decide to be in a relationship with this person. You heard me. You need to deliberately decide to be in relationship with them.

To decide to be in a relationship, ask yourself:
1. Who do I want to be? (NOT WHO DO YOU WANT THEM TO BE, who do YOU want to be?)

2. How do you want to behave?

3. How do you want to think about this person?

4. How do you want to act?

There is SO MUCH power, especially at school, to decide that you will be a CERTAIN way no matter how someone else acts.

So Step 1 is doing your own work of taking responsibility.

Step 2 is deciding ahead of time who you want to be so that you are not a helpless victim without any power with this person. 

Step 3: Realize that everyone gets to act exactly as they want. It is EXHAUSTING to even think we can control others and we know we can’t. 

To repair any relationship, only one person needs to clean up his/her side of the street.

Ready to clean up yours? Don't miss this episode which is right on time for teachers and the school year!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Teachers, are you celebrating YOU?

This bonus episode is not your typical gratitude episode.

In this episode, I remind all teachers to celebrate what is going right-what can you celebrate about you?

What makes you, well, YOU? 

I am so grateful for this mind thought work and I celebrate YOU. I celebrate your wins and losses, the tough moments, and yep, the fails.

But please be sure you are celebrating yourselves!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In this episode, we are going to look at WHY a relationship at school is tough and how you can identify if you have certain thoughts about a person at your school or in your life that no longer serve you.

You'll learn:

• How to identify your thoughts;

• The one action we all do to help identify if you have thoughts about a colleague;

• What taking responsibility for your thoughts really looks like;

• Why thought responsibility is essential to staying in your power;

By owning our own thinking, we can ask ourselves these very important questions: What am I thinking? What am I feeling in this relationship that is creating challenge? Notice it. That is your homework. 

Can you just be with it?

Enjoy this part 1 of a two part series!

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

In Episode 80, I describe some real life scenarios that I have experienced or seen in classes and ask you, "Do you have a Thought Plan for this?" Scenario: A student pulls out his/her phone without permission. Scenario: A student refuses to sit in his seat and says "This f****ing class is BS," and leaves class without permission. Sound familiar? The point is you can prepare for that. You can create a thought plan for yourself. Thought preparation, like all of our preps, involves preparation and practice. Have you practiced your thoughts? Here's one: I have a plan for that. Enjoy this valentine for your ears. Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call. More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Episode 79 starts with one simple question: Would you date yourself right now?

Would you?

If you are a teacher who is looking for a partner who is kind, are you speaking to yourself with kindness?

If you want a partner who is FUN, ask yourself, "Am I fun? How do I know that I am fun? Do I have fun with myself?"

If the answer is "yes," great. But if the answer is "no," keep listening to this episode for ways to date yourself, ways of seeing yourself with new eyes, ways of evaluating what you have to bring to the table. 

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.

Why did Teddy Anderson leave teaching?

In this episode, you'll find out how this inspired teacher of math and physics felt the kind of fatigue that left her, well, exhausted.

But, the silver lining?

Teddy reminds us we all have power. We are not powerless.

Enjoy this conversation about burnout, fatigue, and why teachers need to use our power.

Resources: Follow Chrissy on Instagram @chrissyconcept. Sign up for a FREE 30 minute coaching call.

More About Teacher Talk with Chrissy Nichols: Teacher Talk is the podcast for educators like you who are on the brink of burnout, or are already there. It’s your guide to feeling better about being at school and being in your life. Your host, Chrissy Nichols, is a life coach for teachers. In her weekly episodes, she will give you quick tools, tips, and brain hacks to understand that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It’s time to find the joy in teaching again and get back to feeling like the best version of yourself.