We have all experienced the guilt when we are ill. When you have to make that decision to force yourself into work or stay at home and rest. As a teacher, you know that if you take time off, it means more work for the people at school. Somebody has to cover you and you …
How many of you look to others for validation? How many of you are constantly searching for that compliment or pat on the back for a job well done? From a young age It is not surprising. From a young age we are exposed to exams, tests and grouping by ability throughout our school experience. …
♥ Special gift at the end of this post ♥ How our minds work You all know that I love learning about how our minds work. As someone who is naturally anxious, it fascinates me to see how each of us view situations in different ways. If we take teaching as an example, I am sure …
Planning overload! When we first start out in teaching, it can be incredibly overwhelming. There is so much to remember and do and oh yes, don’t forget to actually teach too! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out why teacher retention is dropping. However, teaching can be fun, fulfilling and rewarding so how …
Asking for help I have always been bad at asking for help. I wasn’t even aware of it until I had my own children and I saw the same quality in my son. Previous to this discovery, It had always been important to me that I could do things on my own. I didn’t want …
PowerPoint As teachers, we all use PowerPoint. They can be a safety net for us. However, sometimes, if we follow them too rigidly, they can hinder the learning in the lesson. Moving away from them every so often can re-invigorate us as teachers, encourage enthusiasm in our students and reduce our planning time. So what …
Observations I am a big believer that one-off lesson observations do not give a clear indication of student progress. However, I do believe they can be used as a tool to support teachers in their reflections on their practice. When we first start teaching, we have so much to think about that sometimes we struggle …
Is Teacher Well-being an Oxymoron? I have been a little obsessed with this topic over the last year. As a teacher myself, I understand the very real pressures of teaching. I am also aware that there is a lot of opinion about well-being and teaching so I set myself the task of finding out more! …
Teacher Well-being Well-being is such a buzz word at the moment and while I think it is vital, it is sometimes used as a plaster to cover up the tougher issues. It needs to be more than just adding yoga to the school diary each week. I love yoga but I am also aware that …
So you have just started Teaching… How to survive your first week of teaching! The amount of arguments I have had with people over the years about teaching. The truth is that it is unlike most jobs out there because it is not just one job. Your main job is teaching, we know this, but …
I am talking to you! I know you work hard. I know you want to do everything and do it well. I know you want to be the best mum, wife, daughter, employee and I know you are constantly comparing yourself to others who you think are doing much better then you. The Truth? No …
Life is Short You know that life is short and yet most of you will spend your days going through the motions or worse, doing things you hate. Why? Because it is completely normal. It is the norm to go to work, to bring in money so you can have the things you value and …
Excited to share this I am so excited to share this post with you. As you know, I love anything and everything about well-being. Over the last few months, I have had the privilege to get to know Manisha Tare and I love her energy and her perspective on both physical and mental health. I …
FREE 7 day journal included in this post. Keep reading, to find out how to download Are you a thinker or a doer? There is a general agreement that we can either think in detail or do in detail but we cannot do them at the same time. If I asked you to describe how …
What is Negative Self Talk? We all have an inner critic. It likes to remind us of all the supposed mistakes and bad decisions we have made. Some of us listen like we would an annoying sibling and then let it go, moving on, both mentally and physically. Some of us (I was completely in this …
What is Success? I have heard it said that the industry we work in, defines success for us. For example, a teacher will only be seen as successful if she works long hours and is constantly planning, marking and ensuring all students make rapid progress. This idea of success is not within the control of …
Do you feel incompetent or worse an impostor? Do you feel a fraud and you are just waiting for someone to catch you out? For some of us, it has nothing to do with us actually being bad at anything but rather a feeling that we are inadequate. This mindset is often referred to as …
Do you feel that you are stuck? trapped? or just going through the motions? After talking to a lot of different people about what they want out of life, I find the most common answer is ‘I don’t know.’ As we get older, we take on more responsibilities; a house, a mortgage, a partner, children …
Hi all, I cannot believe that I am writing a post like this! How awesome to have been nominated for the Sunshine Award 2018?! I started my blog in November 2017 because I had some huge breakthroughs in my personal life after experiencing anxiety and panic attacks from an early age and I wanted to …
Do you ever feel like you are not good enough? This is a post which I have wanted to write for a while as it is something which is personal to me. As a worrier and a bit of an introvert, self-confidence is not something I have had bags of, in the past. I have …
Why Self-Care? We all know our lives are busy and with the increase in use of modern technology, it feels like every moment is spent doing something and most of the time we are doing them for someone else, right? When do we get time to Self-Care? The consequences of always being busy The consequences …
5 lessons from my twenties I have recently discovered Twitter. I KNOW, I am waaaay behind the times here! A few things I have discovered since using it are; fellow bloggers are incredibly supportive, there are some absolutely amazing writers out there and there are a lot of them who are in their twenties. It …
Happy New Year Hope you have all had a very happy holiday. Mine involved taking my little family to go and stay with my bigger family which consisted of my mum, dad, sisters and their families. It was crazy but I wouldn’t have it any other way. While I was there, I got to thinking …
Do you ever look at those fit women and think, ‘How do they do it?’ After having my second child nearly 5 weeks early in 2015, I really struggled to bounce back. All of my old anxieties came back and I knew something needed to change. I was 3 stone overweight and I would look …
As you may have realised from my posts, I am all about living the best life possible. I started this blog as a way to give something back to help others. To help YOU realise what an amazing person YOU are and what you can offer the world. I want to make sure you are …
