How does technology relate to mental health? (Is it as obvious as you might think?)
I get this very question all the time. At the beginning of my career, I was deeply rooted in edtech. I was an elementary teacher who...
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Dec 22, 20234 min
Tips for Emotionally Navigating the Upcoming Break
You’ve been running and working and grading and subbing and goal setting and scheduling meetings, planning meetings, attending meetings,...
May 13, 20234 min
Compartmentalization Is Not a Healing Strategy
Most of us have heard some sort of metaphor about keeping our personal challenges and professional lives separate such as "keep it in...
Apr 14, 20239 min
6 Ways ChatGPT and AI Can Empower Your Wellbeing
Two of the biggest topics in education right now are artificial intelligence (AI) and mental health. Everyone seems to be talking about...
Mar 28, 20235 min
The Oversimplification of Emotional Regulation
As educators, we often strive to create a calm and positive learning environment for our students. We work hard to regulate our own...
Mar 2, 20236 min
Mental Health Advocacy
I have been asked more in the last two months than ever in my life if I am a licensed counselor or therapist. I feel like I always make...
Feb 19, 20236 min
An Excerpt from the Wounded Healer: My experience with understanding healers and healing
This is an excerpt from my newest manuscript which is co-written with Dr. Ashley Streeter tentatively titled The Wounded Healer due out...
Oct 1, 20224 min
The Hardest Part of Creating Boundaries: Step 2
I am the ultimate people pleaser, so when I discuss boundaries it comes from a place of knowing what it's like to disregard your own...
Sep 23, 20226 min
Is Their Trauma Valid?
It's human nature to try to organize information onto a continuum or into boxes. Especially during the course of an increased level of...
Sep 3, 20227 min
Advice for New Teachers - Know when to hang on, let go, and lean in
I am confident in saying that most educators remember their first year of teaching, or at least remember parts of it in the blur that it...
Aug 7, 20225 min
Clearly Communicating an Ecosystem of Mental Health Support for Students
To help our students be successful, we know that teaching them to problem solve and search resources for what they need is a necessary...
Jun 14, 202211 min
Who is responsible for educators' mental health and wellness?
There are few other professions or systems that need to be more closely aligned than education in order to function. Administration...
May 31, 20229 min
How do we support traumatized students while still protecting those who aren't?
My youngest daughter is adopted. She was brought home as a 10-month-old baby from Guatemala all chunkiness and big brown eyes. We were in...
May 17, 20223 min
Dealing with Overwhelm
Even people who speak on mental health and know the impact of mental health issues can struggle. I've been dealing with emotional...
Apr 4, 20225 min
Dear Districts: Time to Wake Up, The Teachers Aren't Coming
There's an interesting phenomenon that happens when it comes to change where the catalyst is adversity - people don't want to believe...
Feb 21, 20224 min
Why is Discussing Teacher Pay Important?
The idea of discussing teacher pay has long been largely ignored. At the root, it seems that as a society we underpay professions that...
Feb 6, 20224 min
Five Focuses: A strategy for prioritizing and calming work chaos
For many of us, work has been a source of overwhelming emotions for the last couple of years, and even though my focus is mental health I...
Nov 10, 20214 min
The Fight: Self-care vs. Systemic Change
As a mental health advocate and consultant, I speak about self-care. A lot. Districts ask me to come in and speak about self-care. A...
Oct 14, 20213 min
The Wounded Healer - Teacher
The wounded healer is a pretty common psychological term that refers to the idea that people who consider themselves healers can only...
Jul 29, 20213 min
Things I Will Never Do As a Mental Health Advocate
Since the day I started speaking openly about my own mental health issues roughly seven years ago, I have owned my issues and my healing....
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