The Teacher Mindset Coach

One of the ways I think a system can heal itself is from within.
Who are the people inside the Education System?
Teachers.
Teachers are the ones who run this mutha.
And if we are equipped with the empowerment to stand up for what's right, do best by our students and ourselves, what can stop us?
Awesome part is, we do all this most of the time anyway.

So let's not just sit back and comment on how broken the system is.
Let's lead ourselves through our own transformations and watch as our students and coworkers stand in awe with how much we enjoy our lives, our career and being examples.

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Dreaming is part of creating the future we most desire.
Do you allow yourself to dream or do you stop yourself, shame yourself and tell yourself you *shouldn't* be dreaming at all?
This is important to note. 
There's nothing wrong with dreaming, spending time creating a dream life AND telling yourself that it's possible, no matter how impossible you think it is.
When we go to how IMPOSSIBLE our dreams are, it's most likely because we don't know every single step of the process to getting to the end result.
But this is no reason NOT to dream.
In this episode, I'll be sharing a seed of an idea that I am allowing myself to be fully immersed in while I dream about it.
Not only do I dream about the final result, but I dream of how amazing it will be.
Yes, my brain likes to come up with ways that this'll fail and won't be worth my time,
But that's just my brain doing it's best job to keep me from what I fear the most, humiliation, ridicule and failure.
I'm in good company.
But I don't want to stay in that stagnant comfortable discomfort of NOT creating.
If I had to guess, neither do you.

Get on my schedule so we can figure out the life you dream of:  https://calendly.com/coachwithwolfe/30-minute-session 

Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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My gift to all the educators in the world has been quite a hit.
I call them my Self-Care Sticky Notes.

Teachers love sayings.
We love sticky notes.
We love putting sayings on sticky notes.

And I'm giving out sayings that are meant for both your self-care AND to make you think deeper about your mental health.

If you're not receiving my Self-Care Sticky Notes each month to your inbox...
Why???
Email me at [email protected] to get yours!
I don't want to leave anyone out!

Enjoy this episode as I teach you a bit more and include some BONUS sticky notes for you, ready to write and stick!

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We all have requirements as professional teachers.  I break them down into three categories in the episode for your consideration:
1) State mandates/legal requirements for teaching
2) District and campus requirements as communicated by the manuals and plans
3) Requirements we place on ourselves to fit in, be "perfect" and to please others on your campus.

That last one y'all... that last one.

That's what I go on about in the episode.

If you're a teacher in Texas and you're curious about the TASB document I referred to in the episode, it is here: https://www.tasb.org/services/legal-services/tasb-school-law-esource/personnel/documents/faq-regarding-teacher-planning-periods.pdf 

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Welcome to my Peace of Mind in Under a Minute webinar recording.

Click here or copy/paste this link to view the recording so you can get the visual with the slides.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m29me4Pur0k9lo7RGufu7WqhnBsk_zRs/view?usp=sharing

Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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Join me today for another interview, this time with a former teacher who left the profession to start her own Life Coach company for Educators.

Meet my friend, Lisa Friend from New York.  She shares her story with what made her decide to leave teaching, what mind drama came up around retiring early and the simple thoughts and beliefs that keep her going to this day.

Find Lisa at
https://www.lisafriendcoaching.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lisafriendlifecoach/

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"Worry is like a rocking horse, it'll never get you anywhere." -Anonymous
I'm hosting a free 30-minute webinar on Oct 29, 2022 that helps worried teachers find peace of mind in under a minute.
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Invite a friend by sending them the link above.  You won't want to miss it.

In today's episode, I'm revealing the way I like to describe the process of worrying.
I'll give you an approach that you've never heard before, most likely, and ways you can help yourself when you're having a good, old fashioned worry session.

Funny enough, I catch myself worrying quite a bit about things that are out of my control.  So don't be fooled when you think to yourself that I've got this whole thing figured out and I never worry anymore ever.

Worry is part of our primitive hard-wiring, if you ask me.  We are so well-practiced at it.  

Worry is a habit.

But like any habit, we can learn how to pause the act of that habit and redirect our brain to something more productive.

Because just like a rocking horse, worry feels like we're accomplishing something because our brain is busy.  But that's simply not the case.

Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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The 50/50 of life just seems like such an appropriate topic for my 50th podcast episode, right?

Like a two-lane road that is divided in half down the middle, so is life.  

I like to believe that life gives us equal and opposite positive and negative, in all things.  Pros and cons, yes and no, yin and yang.  

So, like that two-lane road, if we drive down the middle, with two tires of our car in the right land and two in the left lane, we will be able to think of life as giving us both good and bad.  

Recently I used a personal example of becoming the head coach of my son's baseball team, by default, because the head coach basically ghosted.  My brain really wanted to focus on the negative but the positive, in equal amounts, was blossoming all around me.  Parents and coaches stepped up to help and the kids never quit or stopped enjoying the game or practices.  So let's take this idea of the mirror effect of the 50/50.  

In this example, the first head coach of my son's team quit and I stepped in.  One negative, one positive.  Parents stepped in to help but some parents were over-helping and starting to actually impede my progress as a coach for the kids.  

What if this mirror effect of positive and negative is coming true in our lives, all around us, but our brains are so focused on the negative through practice that we allow the positive to float right on by?

Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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Today we're talking about showing up and seeing the positive unfold in front of you.

I tell you a story of becoming a Little League Baseball Head Coach by default when the official head coach stopped showing up, after ONE practice!  Ahem!

So, being the Assistant Coach and being committed to helping the players still have a season, I stepped up to pick up the slack.

But my old victimy habit brain got in the way and I started hearing myself complain about how unfair it was, how much work I was going to have to do, etc. And that kept me from realizing something very important.

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Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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Get a hold of my Cards Against Educators game to strengthen your community of fun-loving, supportive educators.  Start at CardsAgainstEducators.com

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This is part two of the two part series about the lessons I’ve learned from my mother’s death. Today I’ll be talking about relationships and experiencing joy after death.  If you haven’t heard Part I of this podcast series, I invite you to start at episode 46, if you are so inclined.  My ultimate goal is to help others during one of the most challenging times of being alive; dealing with death.

We left off last episode talking briefly about relationships with those we have lost.

My mother’s death has taught me that relationships continue as long as I want them to.  I’ve learned over the years that a relationship is not some outside entity between two people.  It’s not a person plus a person equals a relationship and that the three can be separated. To me, it's the thoughts I have about another person that are the foundation of my relationship with them.  I can still have thoughts about my mom.  Therefore, I can still have a relationship with her.  I made it that simple for myself.  And you have the same opportunity.  My relationship has changed because my mom is not physically here with me, but I talk to my mom all the time in my head and in my journaling.  Do you allow yourself to do this with the people who aren’t physically in your life anymore, living or dead?

In my experience, it has been very healing because I know that my mom is with me. I know my mom knows my mind and my heart.  I know I can still share with her. I can still hear her cheer for me, compliment me and be proud of me.  Yes, there are times when I question whether I’m sane or not but you know, I let that judgment fall away.  I love talking with my mom and I do it now more than ever, because I can and I want to.

Even with someone who hasn’t passed away, you can still have a relationship with them if you so choose.  It’s as simple as a thought.  It’s as simple as creating an answer.  Because your thoughts cause you to feel, your relationship with someone will come from your nourished thoughts, whether positive or negative, useful or not useful.  Whichever thoughts and stories you are giving attention to in your headspace about another person, those are the foundation of your relationship with them.  And if you want the relationship to change, what do you think needs to change first? It’s not them.  It’s your thoughts about them.

If you’re ready to try this out, think of a person you miss desperately.  Perhaps you don’t see them as often as you’d like, perhaps their life has come to a completion.  What would you like to say to them right now? Think it. Think of their face. Then imagine their response back to you.  It’s probably more simple and straightforward than you think.

Don't be caught without a plan. Make your Mental & Emotional Health Strategy Plan with me before going back to school!  Click on the link to schedule your time.
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Get a hold of my Cards Against Educators game to strengthen your community of fun-loving, supportive educators.  Start at CardsAgainstEducators.com

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