The Next Level Teacher Podcast

If you're like most teachers--most humans--you may find yourself feeling especially "busy" during the holiday season. While this is completely normal, there is another way to operate during this time of year that doesn't involve copious amounts of stress, panic, and overwhelm!

It all starts with learning to manage our brains! Tune in to discover how to shift your thinking to create a better holiday season for you!

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What if I were to tell you that there was one free, simple daily practice you could take that would:
- lower stress levels
- reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression
- improve your relationships
- strengthen your immune system
- lower your blood pressure
- improve the quality of your sleep
- increase your self-esteem
- and more?

If you're like most people, you would be ecstatic to discover what this one habit is, right?

Amazingly, choosing to practice feeling gratitude each day creates all these results and more!

Listen in to discover:
- what gratitude is and what it feels like
- how gratitude changes our brains on a neurochemical level
- the ways gratitude practices improve our mental, physical, and emotional health
- simple actions you can take to receive these benefits in your life
- what to think and do if you face circumstances that feel especially challenging.

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Sources:
The Mayo Clinic Health System

Gratitude, depression and PTSD: Assessment of structural relationships
John P Van Dusen 1, Mojisola F Tiamiyu 1, Todd B Kashdan 2, Jon D Elhai 3
Psychology Today
"Gratitude is the Best Attitude for Chronic Pain Patients"

Welcome to another episode of The Strength of Teachers!  In this episode, we delve into The 50-50 Priniciple which helps us learn to embrace the good and the bad in teaching, in life, and in the world. Doing so allows us to experience negative emotion without layering on additional negative emotion. When we resist the negative side of life, we only create more emotional pain and suffering!

Join me to learn how to manage the negative half of life in a way that serves YOU better! 

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Whether we are cognizant of it or not, emotions play an enormous role in our lives! Everything we do or don't do is driven by the way we think we want to feel.

Many of us grew up with an incomplete emotional education. We have wrongly learned--by no fault of our own--that emotions are caused by circumstances, while in fact, emotions are a result of our own thinking!

But what do we do when we experience an uncomfortable emotion? Tune in to learn the four responses we can have to emotions and how to be present with all our human emotions and experience true emotional health!

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Teachers, perhaps more than most, know what it is like to feel weighed down with all the many roles we fill and the responsibilities we carry.  While we may be able to shoulder a large load temporarily, over time we can begin to feel overburdened and suffer mentally, emotionally, and even physically.

Tune in to learn why we should consider simplifying and how to decide what things in our lives we can cut back on!

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Teachers are presented with endless opportunities to be new at something: new classes, new coworkers, new policies, etc. Whether we've been teaching for a few months or a few decades, teachers are constantly asked to learn new things!

But, like most humans, we don't like being beginners! It's uncomfortable!

Tune in to discover what makes being a beginner so painful and the steps we can take to ease the discomfort of learning something new!

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Teacher friends, do you know your own worth? Do you know your own value? Tune in to find out how understanding your worth as a human being will help you show up better for yourself, your students, and your life!

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When it comes to how to approach education, teachers will find no shortage of ideas on the "best way" to accomplish their various goals. Everywhere you look teachers will find endless opinions from a variety of sources touting their method as the "right" method. However, this kind of thinking can often lead to indecision and judgment--both of which create unnecessary negative emotion for teachers!  Tune in to find out why this happens and what questions to ask instead!

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Teachers are no strangers to stories! We use them to teach everything from mathematics to critical thinking to artistic expression on the stage! However, some of may not be aware that we--or our brains--are constantly telling stories in the attempt to create meaning in the world, our classrooms, and ourselves. Tune into to learn about the stories you are telling--consciously or unconsciously and discover how to start creating stories that will help you show up in your life and your classroom as your best self!

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Hey Teacher Friends! Teaching is hard! As a classroom teacher, it is often easy to feel like we are spinning out of control under the weight of all the responsibilities we shoulder in the classroom and in our lives!

While these challenges are real and valid, there is a better way to navigate those difficulties! My hope is this podcast will help you do just that!

My name is Brenna Nelson. I am a former middle school Language Arts teacher turned Certified Life Coach from The Life Coach School. I am here to help you understand the root cause of all the struggles you face as a teacher: your thoughts!

In this episode, we will take a look at how our brains work and how to start creating a teacher life you love by choosing to think on purpose! See you inside!

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