As educators, we often strive to create a calm and positive learning environment for our students. We work hard to regulate our own...

This is an excerpt from my newest manuscript which is co-written with Dr. Ashley Streeter tentatively titled The Wounded Healer due out...

It's human nature to try to organize information onto a continuum or into boxes. Especially during the course of an increased level of...

There are few other professions or systems that need to be more closely aligned than education in order to function. Administration...

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...

The wounded healer is a pretty common psychological term that refers to the idea that people who consider themselves healers can only...

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....

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...

Resilience has become a buzzword throughout the pandemic. I’ve used it myself – admittedly we need to cultivate resilience in ourselves...

Over the course of the Pandemic I’ve taken the opportunity to dive into reflection and learning more about emotions and how they control...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Years ago when I began speaking about educator mental health, I was met with a lot of blank stares and uncomfortable glances. When I...

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....

Stress is any stimulus that requires us to change. Stress isn’t inherently bad or negative, but when it becomes traumatic stress or...

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...

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...

It can be a bit overwhelming with all the “you shoulds” right now. You should be working online, offline, harder, smarter, on technology,...