It is back-to-school season! And Kelsey is ready to get you all pumped up and inspired for the school year ahead! Whether you're an educator or a homeschooling parent, it's time to rejuvenate your spirit and set yourself up for success. Let's dive into these amazing insights from one of Kelsey’s sessions at our virtual Educate & Rejuvenate Summer Conference 2024. These tips are going to help you rock the upcoming school year like a superstar!

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If you want to start your back to full season, we success.

Then that energy begins right now, right here during the

second half of the summer. In today's episode, I have some real

coaching that you get to hear from somebody who'd worried about why

they didn't get all the things done this summer. I want you to hear and

really get inside their head and see what's going on. Plus, I'm going to share

my 5 tips for you to have your best summer yet here on

episode 140 of educate and rejuvenate the podcast.

Welcome to educate and rejuvenate the podcast to help you

revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your

passion for life. I'm your host, Kelsey Sorensen, a former

teacher, current homeschool mom, published author, and certified life

coach. Whether you are a teacher in a traditional classroom, homeschool

from your kitchen table, or anywhere in between, I am on a mission to help

you not only survive as an educator, but thrive. Get ready

to up level your skills with incredible insights from guest experts

and discover the missing piece, rejuvenating yourself. Are

you ready to both educate and rejuvenate? Let's

go.

Hello, everybody. I'm so excited as you're listening today because today

is day 1 of educate and rejuvenate our virtual conference,

our 3rd year. I'm so excited. And to celebrate that

today's podcast episode is actually my first session that I

recorded for the event, but it has so much valuable content for you here on

the podcast because you're going to get to hear some real coaching, which you don't

get to hear on the podcast too often. So I'm really excited for

today's episode. So when you're hearing this, you're going to hear me talk to you

is if you're already signed up for the educate and rejuvenate event because

it's actually the full recording from that session where I'm letting

everybody know, like, content that itself so you can have the best experience

at the event too. So if you are a part of the event, then

definitely you can check it out there too and do all the things I

mentioned to you here. If you're not, if you're like, oh, wait, I want to

be able to do that too. It not too late to snag your ticket to

update and we're doing it 2024 if you're listening to this before July

31st, 2024. But you can go through the link in the show

note or just go to escatemreducinate.com. There'll be the big banner on the

top where you can still join the event. We would love to see you there.

But either way, I have my session for you. My first one is a

gift to you today. So let's dive

in. Welcome to the educate and rejuvenate virtual conference summer

2024. I am so excited that you're here, that you're joining us

for our 3rd year of this event. My name is Kelsey

Sorensen, and I am the owner here at Educate and Rejuvenate. I'm the

author of the upcoming book, Educate and Rejuvenate, the podcaster, Educate and

Rejuvenate the podcast, TPT store owner, all the

things. And I am just so glad you're here. I'm excited

to have this event where we come together as thousands of

educators and speakers, and all come together

and share our ideas. We have the prerecorded sessions on

the teacher track and the parent track. We have the live sessions. We have keynotes.

We have coaching. I'm just so excited for all the things. And I'm going to

get into that and how I recommend that you set yourself up for the

best experience possible here at Educate and Rejuvenate 2024.

Now if you need to know, like, the logistics of, like, how do I get

into this event? How do I watch it? How do I get on the lives?

I'm not covering that in this video. That you'll find on the very first

video under about educate and rejuvenate. We also will email

out a Loom video. It's a video where I go through and show where you

get to each thing. We'll email that out and we'll put it in the Facebook

group. And if you have any questions, just email us at hello at educate and

rejuvenate.com. But what I'm going over in this start here

video, this 5 steps to get yourself set up for success

in 2024 here at educate and rejuvenate is

how to get the most out of being here at this event.

You've invested your time into you've invested

your money into attending this event And also your time is very

valuable. I would say that's even more so than the money you put in to

be here. So I wanna make sure that you get the experience that

you need, because everyone's experience here is going to be unique.

Right? We all have access to the same videos, we have

access to the same lives, but we're coming in with different context.

We teach in different places, in different ways. We have different background

knowledge. We might have been doing it for different lengths amount of time. We might

be coming in feeling different emotions, or having different thoughts, feelings, beliefs

about ourselves, or about our ability as teachers. And

so with all that, I want to make sure that you are able to get

exactly what you need from this event.

And why I think it's so great that you are here

at this event is because to set yourself up for success

this back to school season, it starts right now

this summer because the energy that you have right now is what you're going to

bring with you into the coming school year.

It doesn't begin when you step into your classroom or when you open up your

homeschool curriculum. It begins right now during

the rest of the summer. And a lot of people might be like, oh, like

I'm not yet I haven't gotten enough done yet this summer. There's only half left,

but we can also be so like there's still time, right, to get in that

energy, to get inspiration and new ideas here at the event, to

revitalize your teaching, and be like, oh, I can't wait to implement that. That makes

me excited to go back. And also, rejuvenate yourself, and get your

mindset in the

and get into the mindset where you're going to feel a lot more excited

to go back and start teaching again in the fall.

And that's what this event is for. Again, I mean, even the subtitle of my

book and really it kind of talks about this event too. We're gonna help you

revitalize your teaching. We're We're gonna help you renew your spirit and your passion for

life inside and outside of teaching here at this event to help you

get excited. And we brought so many educators to help you with the

educate part, who are going to help you to learn all the different tips and

tricks. And so what I'm here to do a lot of here at this event

is to help you with the rejuvenate part. As your life coach, I'm certified as

a life coach.

I have developed a 3 step coaching framework that I'm going to teach you

in-depth during my live sessions on Tuesday Wednesday.

And knowing this framework is going to help you to be able to go into

the school year and kind of even become your own life coach. You can take

these tools and you can utilize them in the coming school year just

from attending these sessions. Now the 3 step framework is 1st to

observe yourself, your thoughts, your feelings, your nervous system. 2nd to

choose your direction kind of understand what it is you actually want and

need so you can know where is you're headed, and then

align yourself. It's kind of like a compass. Like, the map is choosing your direction

and aligning yourself is checking in. Am I headed the direction I want? Is this

the direction I wanna go? And again, continuing to do all three of those

things. And I'm not talking about that in-depth right now. We're going to talk about

that during my 2 live sessions. What I'm going to do today is I'm going

to show you. So I got permission to share a coaching clip

that happened about a year ago. And in this clip, you will see

Tori, who's actually one of our speakers here at educate and rejuvenate too,

and she's my sister. So I got permission to share her clip. She came

on for coaching. I was like, okay, sis. Sure. Why not?

So she gave me permission. I didn't wanna pressure any of our members or anything.

So we've got this clip here for you to watch, and

the thing is, it's perfect because

the thing is it's perfect because it is going to help you,

and that, but the great thing was, it was the perfect coaching that absolutely

everyone needed to hear. Like you should have seen the comments of everybody when she

was being coached. Like, oh my gosh. This is how I feel right now. I

feel like I haven't gotten enough done this summer and all of that. So I

want you to see this and kind of see how we're observing what's going on

so that she can choose her direction and align herself to what she wants

for the rest of the summer. So I want you to watch kind of for

the light bulb moments and see kind of like, oh, yeah. What

is it I want? And kind of use what you see in this coaching to

help you see what you want from this event. So before I even dive into

those 5 steps to get yourself set up for success, I want you to see

this coaching. Okay. Tori, what would you like coaching on today? Okay. Well, this

is silly. Maybe people can or can't relate. I don't even

know. It's just I wanna be able to enjoy the rest of

the summer, and I think I'm having a hard time doing that.

There's about for me, two and a half weeks

left until school starts. And there's

I put, like, a lot of pressure on what I wanna get done in the

summer. And now all of a sudden, you know, school's

starting, and I think I'm also struggling just because I I

wanted to have fun in this summer, but I do struggle when there's not

that structure of, like, here's the routine and here's how it

goes. Yeah. I was not comfortable because I know so many people, like, they

just live for the summers, but yeah. We've

got some different thoughts and different directions we could go here. So

our circumstance we can tell is summer. There are 2 weeks of summer

left. Yeah. We can all agree everybody here, can we all agree

on this? That we have 2 weeks of summer left for Tory here. Might be

different for everyone else. For her, that is when school starts again.

Okay. And then we have thoughts about the summer. So what is the

bigger problem for you? Is it that you want because you mentioned a few things,

like, wanting to enjoy this summer, but also struggling with the lack of structure.

Like, what is, like, the biggest problem with there being 2

weeks left? I think it's just on my

expectations because at the beginning of summer, it's like, yes. I'm gonna get all

this done, and then it's gone almost. And

how do I process that? So you think that summer like, 2

weeks left of summer, you're thinking it's gone or you didn't get

all the done? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

So I didn't get all the things done I wanted to or the summer's gone.

I think the bigger thing is the problem that the summer's gone or that you

didn't get the things done. The problem is definitely just not

getting the things done. Okay. Sometimes basis, like, what

I get done, I kind of I thrive off of

that. Mhmm. Okay. So you have

2 weeks left this summer. I didn't get what I wanted to done.

And and you're thinking you don't have time in that 2 weeks. But, like like

right? It's alright. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And how do

you feel when you think that? I think anxious would

be a good word. Let me think. Yeah. I think anxious maybe.

Okay. Or maybe a little disappointed. I think there's a little anxiety, but

also a little disappointment. Anxious with a twinge of disappointment in

there. I like the word twinge. That works good.

Okay. And when you're feeling that way, what are you doing when you

are feeling anxious with this little twinge of disappointment in there

about not getting those things?

It's hilarious. I'm laughing now because they think it's preventing me

from actually enjoying the last few weeks.

Is because I'm being disappointed about what I didn't do in the past

couple months. So I'm not taking advantage of the time right

now. So you were like already jumping ahead a little bit. You're not enjoying the

last 2 weeks. That's one thing you said. You're so we're you're not enjoying it,

but also you said it's preventing you from getting those things done in these last

2 weeks? Or Yeah. It's like preventing stuff because

instead of, I don't know, just focusing on what I want to

do, or doing the things that I want to enjoy,

giving myself some leisure instead of doing that, I'm

getting anxious and disappointed which And what do you

do when you're anxious and disappointed? Let's look at, like, if I were an outside

observer, and I'm just, like, watching for her while she's feeling anxious.

What are you doing? Did today was I hopped on this call, but I

think what I also do

is I, ruminate. I ruminate a lot.

Oh, yeah. So you're in your head. What are you ruminating about?

It's just different things. I'm a like, when I say I'm a ruminator, just meaning

that there's a lot of, it's kind of like a thought cascade.

They're just all the thought coming, you know, and they just

circle. And so it kinda leads to inaction maybe because I

just think I'm a thinker. So just So

everything that's going on is in your head. So if our watky is an outside

observer, I wouldn't actually see you taking action. I wouldn't see what's going on

in your head. Yeah. You might just see me, like, doing the dishes or walking

around or

disappointment and the anxiety. Yeah. And this is disappointment and the anxiety.

Yeah. And this is exactly what Chrissy was talking about yesterday with those thoughts. What

it was that you called it, Chrissy? Well, I think sometimes,

yeah, I think sometimes we also have these, like, sort of bat villages, like

I call them the bat the cat bouncing around.

Yeah. And just, Tori, as you're doing and because you have such an amazing curve

right here in Kelsey, isn't it so cool? I'm

just watching you and your awareness story, like your face just,

like, opened up and you're like, realize

because I'm ruminating. I realized because I'm

not taking advantage of leisure. I'm I'm sure.

And I'm just Yeah. I need about my anxiety that I'm not in

the last 2 weeks of summer, and it was like an for you. Yeah.

Like, we jumped to that. Like, you came up, like, usually as a coach, I'll

offer you a result line, and you just kinda had that moment yourself, which was

so powerful that you were kind of like, oh, wait. This is what is

happening. I see it now as we started working through this model,

which it That's that's that's that's why I love this model. Yeah.

Yeah. But the other thing you mentioned too, so you are in your head. And

then if you're in your head, I want to ask you, are you processing that

emotion, that anxiety with that twinge of disappointment? Are you

just in your head about it? I'm I would say I'm

not processing it because even if you think of

processing, processing means it's leading somewhere.

Like, if you think about your computer processing, like, it's moving toward the result,

any kind of process. And I would say that it's not processing

because it's literally just stuck in a loop. Right? Yeah.

So I would yeah. It's not productive processing, even if it's

trying to process. Yeah. Because one thing I wanna point out when

we're in our heads, it prevents us from getting into our body and

processing strong emotions like anxiety or,

disappointment. And that is when we are resisting the

emotions, we're pushing them away, which actually then

makes us continue in those thought loops instead of just like, oh, okay, I'm

feeling this. It's okay to feel this

emotion. Let it pass through. Acknowledge, like, where it

is in your body. Like, okay, Anxious. What does that

feel like? I'm feeling tight in my chest. Like, how does it feel for you,

Tori? I actually kinda feel it in the

in the back of my shoulders and my neck a little bit, I think. But

this is the first time I've actually stopped to consider that,

because before, I guess, I wasn't even noticing the anxiety. I was

only noticing that I was

feeling some kind of stress. Like there was something off. Like I was feeling in

a funk. I didn't even really know what that was.

Yes. And you can see in the chat, like, so many like, this is so

relatable. Like, this happens to, like, so many teachers who were

talking about the same thing in the comments. But feeling in that funk when

you're in your head, you're not getting in your body or processing it, that could

help you to, like you said, process. I loved your analogy the computer. I'm like,

Dory, you get up here. We're touch record. But,

when we're processing, we are kinda moving through it. And so this is just kind

of noticing where you might be stuck if you're not again, there's nothing has even

gone wrong here. Because you could sit here in anxiety and frustration.

You can resist it. You can, you know, not get the thing

done you want. And there's not, like, a problem with that per se at all.

But it's just what do you want in your life? Is that what you want

right now? And if it's not, then this is where we can kind of start

to look. Yeah. And I think I wanna

change. I think I I mean, I don't know exactly all about the model, but

I think maybe there is some stuff in there that I could change because I

don't think it's productive or helpful to fit

in anxiety for, the rest of the 2 weeks.

Like, I'd rather I'd rather just enjoy it,

I guess. So what where where would you go from there?

Yeah. So I guess my thing for you would be, like, if you're want to

enjoy your summer more, those are the words you said. I would ask, like, what

does it mean to enjoy your summer more? Yeah.

I think it mean not doing the things that I wanna do.

And also I think not being in I don't wanna

say impatient, but not focusing on the impending

deadline. I think just kind of letting it what it

is. Okay. So you've got some clarity on

that. Like, okay, I don't want to have this impending

deadline be like prevent me from

enjoying my summer or whatever, then you need to kinda think about,

okay, how do I want to think about this so I

can maybe not put all that pressure. You mentioned all this

pressure you're putting on yourself. What is it you're doing to put on that pressure,

and what can you let go of so you're not feeling that pressure? And

what just pained to me too is that pressure could possibly be coming from not

sitting in those feelings because resisting, that is pressure.

Maybe it's even just taking some time to, like, acknowledge those feelings, notice

they're there, and then that might leave you some more space

to think on what you just said, what it is you really

do want. And when you process that and when you think on

that, that will give you the space to be

able to try on a new thought that'll work for

you about this deadline, about your summer.

I just I really actually, that's perfect because,

I think even if I just sit here and think about it, what if I

wouldn't have come on this call and then I just wasted 2 weeks

being in that space? But I think even just acknowledging, hey, I'm in

this space right now. Maybe, like, I noticed some people in the

comments saying things about, like, thought dumps or downloads and stuff, and

maybe just doing doing that so I can,

process it instead of staying in a loop. And once I process it, being

able to do some of those things that I enjoy, for for

the last of the summer.

Yes. I love that, Tori. That sounds like you have

some great clarity, and you are well on your

way to figuring out what it is that you want for your

summer and processing these emotions that are not a problem. They're your

normal human emotions that are coming up. Thank you both so much. I

really appreciate your time on it. Hey. Have any of you seen yourself

in that clip? Have you been, like, oh, my gosh. I'm thinking this. I'm doing

that. Or is it even just giving you some realization of some different thoughts and

feelings you might be having, and how you can kind of observe yourself and do

all of that. And that's what I want you to do. I want you to

do exactly kind of what I was telling Tory to do, and I want you

to visualize what is it you want for the rest of your summer and going

into this school year. What is it you truly want to get out of this

event? So that is really what is gonna help set

you up for success. So there are 5 things that I recommend for you

to do to get the most out of this event. So first is really what

I was just talking about. Decide what it is you want to get

out of the event. Decide what it is you want for the rest of your

summer and into the school year. And now what I thought was interesting in Tori's

coaching, for example, is a lot of times we think what we want is we

wanna get all the things done. But really, it's because how we think getting those

things done is going to make us feel. How we're going to feel about ourselves

when we do it. So just remember, what is it you truly want? How you

wanna feel? And how can you bring that energy with you now and into the

coming school year. So keep that in mind as you participate in the

sessions here at Educate and Rejuvenate. Thing number 2 I

recommend is to attend the live sessions.

At all possible, if you're watching this before July 16 17th or

during it, attend as many lives as you can. For 1, we've

got lots of great giveaways going on during those lives, but really, the

lives are where the community really shines. It's where

people are in the chat, like, having conversations with each other. It is where you

get to interact with me and the speakers and each other. And during the

live coaching, it's where you can, even if you want, raise your hand and come

on and get coached and witness others get coached. It's such an

incredible experience. So again, please come to the

lives if you can. They are so invigorating.

Like as soon as you get online, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. I

mean, the lives are really why we have people coming for their 3rd year. This

is our 3rd year, and why people are coming back again and again

because of the community that happens during the live

sessions. The number 3 is, of course, to set aside time for

the incredible prerecorded sessions. So you will have

access to those through 31st. And what you can do is you can

pick, like, which lives you want to attend. Honestly, I would recommend attending

definitely the coaching, definitely the keynotes in my sessions, and then pick the round

tables that apply to you. If there's one that doesn't apply to you, then use

that time to watch a prerecorded session. And then remember, depending on when

you purchased your ticket, we'll unlock access here really soon so

you can watch sessions leading up to the pre record

you can watch the prerecorded sessions leading up to the lives, and then you'll have

all the way until July 31st to continue watching

the incredible prerecorded sessions. So set aside some time

to do that. If you have a general mission ticket, access does go away on

the 31st. So you have from now until then to

watch. If you have platinum pass, you have until the 31st.

And then our club members have until next summer's event as long as

their membership subscription is active. The cool thing is our

Platinum Pass and Educate and Rejuvenate members, we are going to give

access for you to continue watching sessions on our mobile app, which we

were hoping was going to be ready by now. It is, like,

really close, but we just had too much to get ready for this event. So

we're hoping that in August, once general admission closes, you'll continue

to have access on the website. But as soon after that, we will email app

access to all of those who have continued access to these

sessions to make it easier to consume those prerecorded sessions on

the go. Now the one thing I do want you to keep in mind as

you watch the prerecorded sessions is that there are a

ton of sessions. We have like 72 speakers this year, I think it was, when

we did our live recently. And so don't feel like you

have to watch every single session, but pick and choose what is applicable to you

and what your needs and goals are. That's why the part where

I talk about at the beginning of what is it that you want is going

to help you clarify where to focus your attention. And then if you want to

binge them all, that's totally an option for you as well. This is your educate

and rejuvenate experience. There's no one right way to do it. So you get

to make it happen. Number 4 is to own

your wins. I feel like so often when we're watching all these sessions, you might

be like, oh, I haven't done that. Oh, I haven't done that. And you might

make it like, oh, all the things you're doing wrong. And I wanna make sure

that that's not what you're doing as you're watching these sessions. I wanna make sure

that along the way, you're like, oh, I'm doing these amazing things. And

guess what? These are all additional amazing things I can try. But remember that

you have already come so far. At one point, you either wanted you decided you

wanted to homeschool your kids, or you decided that you wanted to become a

teacher. And now you're there. And at one point, you bought a ticket to this

event and you've logged in and you're watching this video now, and there's

probably somebody who bought a ticket and never logged in. So own that

win. You are here. You are at educate and rejuvenate. And you are going

to learn and apply so much, but you are already awesome

just the way you are. So continue to own those wins each and every

day. And number 5, I highly recommend connecting with someone

new here, and that's why I really recommend attending the lives. Last year, we had

some people who connected with each other and they've stayed in touch and I

even had one person email me a

picture of a friend that she met through educate and rejuvenate, and they even

drove an hour to meet each other and meet in person. And I'm not saying

you have to do that, but I'm saying that this is an opportunity to

find connections because we've got thousands of lighthearted

teachers who have access to join us at these

events. And so there's a great opportunity

to find some community here. Like, maybe you have it at your school, maybe you

don't, but you can also find people outside of your school, or outside of

your community, and connect online with

other educators or homeschool parents from all around the world. So

I highly recommend utilizing the opportunity that you have while the event is

live to do just that. Those are my

5 tips for success here at Educate and Rejuvenate

2024. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach

out anytime at hello at educate and rejuvenate.com.

You can also post in the Facebook group, but honestly, I really recommend

emailing because we see that a lot quicker, and we're able to sometimes,

we might need to look at your account, and if you email us, we're able

to just skip that step of, oh well, I need your information or whatever on

Facebook. So if you need customer support, I highly recommend emailing

first to hello at educate and rejuvenate.com. And then

if you but then also make sure you're in the Facebook

group if you're not already because we have tons of giveaways going on in there.

We have discussion threads for each of the presenters.

And again, we're just gonna have a great time. Okay. That is it for right

now, but there's so much more to come. Cannot wait. Let's

party here at educate and rejuvenate 2024.

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