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...
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- Feb 19
- 6 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...
- Sep 23, 2022
- 6 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...
- Jun 14, 2022
- 11 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, 2022
- 9 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...
- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 3 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....
- Jul 11, 2021
- 7 min
SEL Opportunities to Support Student Mental Health Post-Pandemic
I was recently asked why I have such a problem with the term “learning loss” (or any version of that term). It’s not that I don’t believe...
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
How Resilient Do We Want Districts To Be?
Resilience has become a buzzword throughout the pandemic. I’ve used it myself – admittedly we need to cultivate resilience in ourselves...
- May 6, 2021
- 5 min
How Learning to Love Myself Impacts My Service to Others
Over the course of the Pandemic I’ve taken the opportunity to dive into reflection and learning more about emotions and how they control...
- Mar 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Potential for Sensory Overload Post-Lockdown
I like warm hugs. There, I said it. I’ve never considered myself much of a hugger, but since the pandemic, I have developed a new...
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
Give Yourself the Grace & Time to Heal From Educator Burnout & Disengagement
One of my professional interests that I am most passionate about is the concept of how I came back from the strong desire I had to leave...
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
Asking Questions that May Lead to Better Mental Health Support for Black Students and Students of Co
This blog post, like many of my posts, is my version of processing my own thinking and emotions “out loud” with others so I can learn and...
- Jun 25, 2020
- 7 min
The Return to School: Asking the Great Questions
When we think about this fall, the only thing we know for sure is that nothing is going to be the same. Our choices to begin school and...
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Educator Mental Health and the New Hot Topic
Years ago when I began speaking about educator mental health, I was met with a lot of blank stares and uncomfortable glances. When I...
- May 17, 2020
- 4 min
The Little Journeys to Self-Healing
One of the reasons that I think mental health can be a difficult concept for some people to make sense of is because it’s so complicated....
- May 13, 2020
- 6 min
How Chronic Stress Impacts Our Physical & #MentalHealth (With Coping Strategies)
Stress is any stimulus that requires us to change. Stress isn’t inherently bad or negative, but when it becomes traumatic stress or...
- May 5, 2020
- 5 min
Four of Many Reasons We Need To Talk About Mental Health Issues
A few years ago when I started openly discussing my own mental health issues, it was out of complete irritation that I felt like I needed...
- May 1, 2020
- 3 min
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and Defining Mental Health, Issues, and #SEL
A few weeks ago I was on a panel for mental health for #DigCitTO and about half-way through, one of the student panelists brought us back...
- Apr 20, 2020
- 5 min
Four Ways You “Should” Give Yourself Grace
It can be a bit overwhelming with all the “you shoulds” right now. You should be working online, offline, harder, smarter, on technology,...
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