As the school year comes to a close, educators are presented with a golden opportunity to embrace the much-needed respite of summer. In this episode of Educate and Rejuvenate: The Podcast, Kelsey guides us through a transformative journey, focusing on self-reflection and creating an action plan for a rejuvenating summer break. By carefully balancing self-care, personal growth, and professional development, this two-part series aims to ensure that educators make the most of their well-deserved time off.

Reigniting Your Passion for Teaching:

Kelsey shares her struggles with juggling work and family and acknowledges the challenges of balancing commitments. These episodes encourage educators to reignite the spark of excitement in teaching during the summer break. By tapping into your energy and passion, educators are guided to restore themselves to a former state of vigor or create something completely new and fresh.

Rejuvenating Your Mind, Body, and Space:

The importance of physical and mental rejuvenation is emphasized, with a focus on addressing stress-related health issues and rewiring negative thought patterns. To do so, Kelsey asks a series of questions for you to ask yourself. Write down your answers to the questions (especially to the questions that resonate with you!). 

Resources mentioned:

• Get your tickets to Educate & Rejuvenate
• Educate & Rejuvenate: A Three-Step Guide to Revitalize Your Teaching, Renew Your Spirit, and Reignite Your Passion For Life 

Connect with Kelsey:

• Follow her on Instagram @educateandrejuvenate
• Join our Facebook group: Wife Teacher Mommies Unite.
• Follow on Pinterest for more helpful resources.
• Preorder Kelsey’s book- Educate & Rejuvenate: A Three-Step Guide to Revitalize Your Teaching, Renew Your Spirit, and Reignite Your Passion For Life

Welcome to episode 130 of educate and rejuvenate the

podcast. How to have your best summer yet part

1. Do you ever feel like you have these grand intentions to

rest and get a lot of things done over the summer, but then you blink

and it's gone? And you feel like, why didn't I get

rested? Why didn't I get all the things done? And you feel some regret, like,

I wasted my summer. Anybody relate to this? I hear

you. But it doesn't have to happen this way again. That's what today

is for. Let's make this your best summer yet.

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.

Okay. I am back recording this episode for the

second time. The first time, it didn't save for some reason. But you know

what? Everything happens for a reason. Right? And I think it's going to be

even better this second time around. But I will just tell

you, I am coming here humbly to you, sharing information

from my heart, while I'm also a little bit of a hot mess

myself. Like, today, I'm like, I need to record all these episodes. Somehow,

this one didn't get recorded. I've got a vendor booth the next 3 days,

and then we're headed down to another one down in Arizona.

So, like, I plan that one for my family to leave the day after, and

now I'm getting to this week, and I'm like, why didn't I plan that better?

So, honestly, I'm kind of sharing information that I'm like, oh, yeah. When I follow

this, it goes a lot better. And then sometimes, I'm human, and I

realize I kinda schedule things close together. But you know what? I still use these

strategies, and I show up in the best way I can. Like,

I feel like today, I've had a lot. And then, again, this episode

didn't save, but I was able to handle

it a lot more gracefully than I would have a few years ago.

So very happy about that. Also, what I plan to and

did the first time I record this episode is share that I'm just so excited

at summer. I hope you are too. And I'm really excited about the vendor

boost. Like I just mentioned, I get to meet with people from our community

or new members who then join our community in person, and it is

just so much fun. Last year the past 2 years, we've just done 1 bend

vendor booth. We've done show up for teachers in the Salt Lake, but

this year, we have 5. So I'm about to do a homeschool conference here in

Salt Lake, going down to Arizona for another one, another one in Tampa for teach

your heart out, and then show up for teachers again, and then another one in

Utah called be kind to your mind. So if you live in any of those

areas, please come say hi to me at some point. I would love love to

see you. Okay. But, also, if you won't

be, we do have our educate and rejuvenate virtual event, July

16th 17th, where we will all be able to connect together

virtually, have so much fun. So I hope to see you there, if nothing else.

And, again, next summer, we'll see how this summer goes. I think it might be

fun next summer maybe for my family to, like, do a road trip during the

summer and hit some more locations so I can meet more of you. But for

now, 5 going from 1 to 5 is, like, a big enough jump for me.

So that's what we're doing right now. Okay. So this is part

1 of a 2 part series. I decided to divide this episode into 2 parts,

so you've kinda time to think about this first part. And then the second part

is when we're gonna take what we learn about ourselves from this first part and

make an action plan. So the whole goal of this series

is to help you get really clear on what you want this summer so you

can basically make it happen. And we we want to start by

observing ourselves and seeing where you want to go with it. And that

means that today, this episode is full of a lot of questions. As

a life coach, I've learned that questions are some of the best

tools to help you learn more about yourself. Like, it's really

what what I use, what therapists use when I go see my therapist.

My life coach is, like, questions are basically just magic. It's like you

ask a like, you get asked a question, you let your mind focus on that

question and find the answer. And especially if you allow yourself

time to really just think and ponder on these questions, like, it can

really unearth some gold that's inside of you that you didn't know was there.

So a lot of questions today. And the reason for this is last

summer. So last summer, our educate in rejuvenate event was in June, and we

wanted something in July too. I wasn't doing all the events we're doing this

summer last summer. In July, we decided to do a 3 day teacher

transformation is what we called it. It was like a 3 day Anybody could come.

It was like 3 days of coaching. It was so much fun. But I kind

of saw a pattern in what we were coaching people on, and it was in

the month of July. It was like the twenties. Like, July

25th, 26th, 27th, if I remember right, or somewhere around there.

And by that time, a lot of teachers were feeling like their summer was starting

to wind down. And, you know, a lot of teachers might even go back, like,

beginning of August, starting to get ready for their classroom and everything. And

what I noticed was a lot of teachers feeling regret at this point. They felt

like their summer wasn't what they wanted. They felt like they either didn't get enough

things done that were on their to do list. They feel like they didn't rest

enough. They were just go go going, and they never found that time to rest,

and now it's time to get back into the school year. They felt like they

were just filling all that time with, like, home projects or with other things they

were doing, and they didn't actually find that time to rest. Or some just they're

like, I don't even know. I don't I just know this isn't it. You know?

I just know that something wasn't quite right. And as we

know, summer just flies by for us now that we're grown up. So it's not

like when we're children, and summer just feels like a lifetime. It goes

by so fast. We want to be really intentional

about our summer because otherwise, like and then there's nothing wrong with it. Like

I said, so many teachers were relating with each other about this summer wasn't going

exactly where we want it, and we can do plenty of mindset coaching then in

July if you're still feeling like that. Right? Because nothing's ever gonna

go perfectly like quinoa. Even if you follow all the steps in what I'm sharing

with you today, like, you're not going to have a, quote, perfect summer. That's why

I didn't title this how to, have the perfect summer. I titled it how to

have your best summer yet. So this summer can be your best summer yet, and

the next summer, you can take what you learned from this summer and create your

next best summer yet. And every summer can be the best summer yet. Right? So

we're just, like, getting a little bit better and better and better each time. So,

actually, there was a coaching clip that I got permission to share. I've shared it

in some webinars, but haven't I don't think I've shared it yet on the podcast.

I'll have to double check. But if I haven't, I actually plan to share it

again around that time when some of you might be feeling that way so you

can get that validation, but also see how I coach that person on it. I

got permission to share it, like I said. But today, what I'm hoping

to do is help prevent you from feeling as much that way by the time

we get to that point. So in this podcast series, I want to help you

strike the right balance between rejuvenating yourself

and educating yourself. It's kind of the backwards of educate and

rejuvenate because with summer like, during the school year, it's like we're educating, and then

we want to rejuvenate ourselves. Like, we're spending a lot of our time teaching. Right?

During the summer, I want us to really focus on that rejuvenation piece, but also

make sure we don't completely forget about the education piece. Okay? So

that's really what we're going to be talking about a lot today. I think it's

important to have a balance of both, And make

sure that it's not just like, oh, I'm gonna do some rejuvenating. I'm gonna do

some learning, but it's actually really what you want, really what's going to light

you up, really what's going to fill your cup. So with that, that's why I'm

doing all the questions, to help you ponder on all of that. So with those

questions, like I mentioned before, like, I really just feel like questions are so magical.

So if you're not driving or otherwise multitasking, you might wanna get out your

phone and have your notes app ready or even get a notebook and a pencil

to be ready to write down your answers. But if not, if you are doing

something else, I know that's often the case when you're listening to or watching a

podcast. We will have all of these listed in the show notes.

So you will be able to refer back and find

the questions that kind of resonated with you the most. And I'm going to ask

a lot of questions because I feel like you some are like me

rephrasing things or explaining the questions, giving some context, and then just more

questions. Because the reason for that being, some are really gonna stick out to

you. Like, some of it this was the question for me. And another

question that maybe wasn't the one for you was the one for someone else, because

there are certain ones that'll just hit you at different times that you need. I'm

asking different questions. Some of them might hit you more than others. Focus on the

questions where you're like, oh, yeah. That one was for me. She's reading my mind.

So pick your favorites, and ideally journal about them if you can. You'll

get so much more out of them that way. Writing down the answers is so

powerful. Like, I I mean, I will tell you. I used so much. I've been

like, oh, I can't just have a podcast on while I'm doing things and listen

to it. And still, I I don't take notes or journal on every podcast or

every training I listen to. That wouldn't be possible. But on certain ones, when

I do and I take those notes, it really just makes the work that

much more powerful because there are things that come when you put pen to paper

that wouldn't come if you're just thinking about it in your mind. So it really

can just be such a magical process. I really recommend it. Those who did the

self love challenge back in February and did the journal prompts with

it saw so much progress. Like, they said, wow. These journal prompts were

just really powerful. So I highly recommend journaling about

this too. And then also if you wanna do that self love challenge after is

evergreen. You can go back to the lessons that on this podcast feed that say

self love challenge. Go back and listen to it if you need to cultivate more

self love this summer. This might fall into your summer plan that we're going to

talk about. Either way, though, even if you do just listen like, again,

you're going to get a lot out of just listening too, so don't feel bad

if you don't get around to it. I'm just sharing an opportunity with you to

journal about it. Would highly recommend it. First, we're going

to talk about our general

observations of ourselves in the school year versus the

summer and last summer and how we're feeling about this summer, all of that. We're

gonna just kind of think about that. So let's think about

last summer. How do you feel when you think about last

summer? What went well for you last summer? What are you like? Oh, yeah. I

did this. I definitely want to do that again. Do you feel like you've got

enough rejuvenation? Do you feel like you've got enough, like, up leveling

yourself and educating and learning things you wanted to learn, whether it has to

do with teaching or not. Do you feel like you got enough of both sides

of that last summer? Think about it. Do you feel like you had that right

balance between the 2, or do you feel like you were a little off on

1? Do you feel like you did a lot to prepare for the school year

and then you didn't feel rejuvenated? Or do you feel like you were like, oh,

yeah. I really rested, but then by the time the school year started, I was

like, oh, man. I'm so unprepared. Just kind of think back to that

time. Think back and be like, what is it that went well? And what

is it I definitely want to change this summer? And then also just know is

how do you feel when you think about it? Do you feel, like, relaxed? Do

you feel a little bit of regret come up? Do you feel a little bit

of dread about is it gonna repeat itself this year? Do you

feel indifferent? How do you feel when you think about last summer

and then the transition from last summer into the school year?

Now let's talk about that transition into the school year. So we have, like, our

summer and then as we got into the school year. How do you feel like

that transition went? Do you feel like it was smooth? And, again, as smooth as

it could be. Right? Do you feel like you were prepared, or do you feel

like there's more you want to do? And then what was your most common feeling

during the school year? If you were to name one feeling, one that comes

up a lot in my coaching with educators in the educate and

rejuvenate club is overwhelm. That one comes up a lot. So

think about how much overwhelm did you feel last school year,

And then compare how much overwhelm did you feel last school year compared to how

much overwhelm you felt during the summer. And just kinda think about that.

And then think about how do you want to feel this summer

and then going into next school year? What do you wanna cultivate this summer that

you can then bring with you into the next school year? Is it a

feeling of peace? Is it a feeling of excitement? Is it

a feeling of contentment, happiness? What is it that

you want to feel and bring it with you? And, of course, we're human, and

we're not gonna feel one feeling all the time. But if you were to just

come up with, like, what is the ideal just, like, feeling the emotion that you

want to feel that you want to cultivate this summer and learn how to not

just have it in the summer, but to be able to bring it with you

into next school year And that's going to bring us into that rejuvenation piece.

Like, how are we going to make that happen? So now we're going to talk

about the rejuvenation we want to have over the summer. What

does rejuvenation look like for you this summer? I want you to

think about that because it's going to be different for everybody. Rejuvenation for

me, what I need to rejuvenate myself is going to be different than what you

need and what the next listener needs to rejuvenate themselves. And

it's really personal. What is it you need? Some might be, oh, I need to

lay out by the pool, and that is going to rejuvenate me. But for other

people, that might, like, be like, oh, that's nice, but that's not what actually fills

me up. What is it that fills you up? Now I want to read

the actual dictionary definition of rejuvenate to you. So there were

2 ones that I pulled that I felt were applicable. So the first was to

make young again, restore to youthful, bigger

appearance, etcetera. What I love about that is thinking about to make ourselves

young again. Now picture our summers now compared to, like I mentioned,

when summer felt like a lifetime in our childhood, when it was like, wow. A

whole summer vacation to do whatever I want. Now it might not be do whatever

we want now, especially if we have our own children too or if you're teaching

summer school or anything else. But what is it that we can do to

bring some more of our youth in to have more fun with whatever we're doing

this summer? Think about tapping into some of that energy of when were you a

kid. How can you tap into that now? What is it like to

restore to a youthful vigor? So when you think about, like, oh, if

you've been teaching, like, say, 15 years, you're just, I'm not looking forward to

going into the next school year. But think about when you were just about to

start going and teaching your 1st year. You probably had a lot of ideas, that

spark of, like, oh, I can't wait to try this. I can't wait to try

that. So what can you do this summer to help, like, reignite that

spark and be like, oh, I can't wait to teach this. And whether it's, you

know, in a traditional classroom with your own kids, like, what can what is it

you can do to reignite that spark so you can be like, I am so

excited to get back to teaching in the school year? Like,

so excited. What would that be? What could be something new to, like, reinvent

the wheel with your teaching? Again, and that can be part of the rejuvenation, but

a a lot of that falls under the education piece too, but I just kind

of went off on that one. But the second definition I pulled was

to restore to a former state, to make fresh or new

again. And what I loved about this, and I feel like that's kind of

2 pieces. So to restore to a former state would be like, what former state

are you wanting to get back to? Are you wanting to get back to some

of that energy like when you summer was just, like, this golden opportunity? Are

you wanting to tap into that? Are you wanting to tap into

again, like, when you were first decided you wanted to teach in whatever capacity

you teach? Are you wanting to tap back into when you felt more alive

whenever that was in your life? Like, what former state are you wanting to get

back to? And how can this summer be the time that you can do that

that you can restore yourself back to a former state where you

felt more alive, more happiness, more peace, more free,

whatever that is for you. And then the second piece is to make

fresh or new again. So maybe I can't even think of a time

where I want to get back to. I wanna move forward. I wanna create something

completely new and become just fresh, like, even get more in

tune with the true version of me, which is what we've talked a lot about

on the podcast too. So what does it mean for you to

become fresh and new again? And I just love this question.

Again, any of these questions that I'm mentioning, you can take. Swipe

that question, but that was mine. I'm going to journal on that one. So

what would it mean for you to become fresh and new again? And again, it's

gonna be different for each of us, and that's just what I love. Like, everybody

would come up with a different answer to each of these questions. Now

another thing I think is so important just to think of when we think of

restoring ourselves to a state or even to become fresh and new again,

tapping into that youth youthfulness, if we've been feeling a lot of overwhelm

this summer or or this school year that, like, I was been seeing a lot

of in my coaching in the club, like, you might your body

might even need to be restored to, like, its state or to

become fresh or new again because our body keeps the score. I mean, that's

actually a really amazing book. But, like, when we're chronically stressed,

our body actually reacts to it. And so we might actually need some healing, like,

quite literally in our body. Like, if we get stuck in a stress response in

my book when I was researching for it,

and I share this in chapter 5 that's all about the nervous system

piece. And if we get into a freeze or a

fawn stress response, we our body actually

slows down on, quote, not essential functions. They are

very essential, but not for, like, if you're in a moment where a bear is

chasing after you or whatever, but like things like our immune

system like less essential like in that moment where the bear

is attacking you right. But if you're chronically in that and you're

getting more sick, that could be why. Now I'm not a medical doctor, but, I

mean, WebMD and all the research I've done have set has, like,

verified that that is true, and it also shuts down

things such as our digestive system. So even if you just have some tummy

issues when you're stressed, like, there's a reason for that. So as you

de stress, you'll rejuvenate your physical body as well as

your mental state, your emotional state, all of that. So

that's why this rejuvenation piece is honestly so

important. Now another part I wanna talk about is our

thoughts, the thoughts that you've been thinking. So what thoughts were on repeat for

you this school year that might not have been helpful for you?

Like, maybe and I actually talk about this in an upcoming interview with Katie

from the Joy at Home podcast. The one that comes up a lot is I

am busy or I'm so stressed or I have too much to I have so

much to do. When we repeat that constantly all the

time, even if, like, you could try to objectively argue that it's true, but

even if it were, quote, true, is it helpful to keep ruminating on that?

Because then you're just causing more and more stress and overwhelm. Because when

you think that, how does that make you feel? Makes you feel overwhelmed. And then

how do you what do you do when you're overwhelmed? You don't do a good

as good of a job at getting all that stuff done. Now do you? You

don't because none of us do. We're human. So, again,

what thoughts kept coming up? Or was it something like imposter syndrome, like you felt

like you weren't good enough or or that you felt like other people at your

school didn't like you or other people in your community, your homeschool coop,

whatever, didn't like you. There's a lot of wanting to fit in and things that

go on. What are just some common thoughts, like, patterns that

you've noticed? It could not be anything that I mentioned. It's, you

know, personal to you. But what are some consistent thoughts that have come up

on repeat that you can use this summer to rewire using, like,

a bridge thought or a ladder thought, which, for example, like, if we are using

I am busy, you would, you know, ideally be like, I have

just enough time to get the things done I need. That might be the ideal

thought. You might need a thought in between being like, I am learning that everything

gets done at its own time or something. You can just remind yourself of that

and work on rewiring it your thoughts over these next few months so that

by the time school comes back, you kind of rejuvenated your mindset

so you can feel better in the next school year. Now the last

piece of rejuvenation is I do know it's a common theme

of educators wanting to rejuvenate their space during the summer because you do have

some extra time where you can do that. You might wanna take on some projects,

get your closet organized, and things like that. Now it's

important to not just dive in and just wait. I'm gonna organize my whole

house. This is a mistake I find a lot of people make is it's like,

oh, I just you know, I have all this time. I'm gonna start reorganizing my

house. But if you don't do it really intentionally and literally ask yourself

right now, where do you feel the most calm? Like, how does your

space feel? And where is it you feel good? How can you cultivate more of

that elsewhere in your house? Right? You just kinda get an overall feel of what

you need. But, also, what would help you the most? If you could just pick

one little thing? For me, a recent one I did is I organized the

medicine cabinet above my sink in my bathroom and underneath,

and it has stayed organized for so long. And it just took me, like, a

few hours on one Saturday, and I've been able to keep it. And it is

so nice. I just feel like every day now because I need to get ready

every day. Right? And so it just feels so much better.

So for you, what would be a little thing like that where it's like, okay.

This would take like 1 Saturday or 1 Thursday. I mean it's summer

whenever 1 afternoon for me to get this done so pick little things

Focus on the little ones rather than I'm gonna organize my whole house. And you

can make a plan to, like, do more of it if you want, of course,

but just really try to think about it so you can make a more clear

plan, which we're going to do on part 2 of this. But just try

not try to just focus first. Prioritize. Like, what is it that's going to

help you feel rejuvenated in your life the most? Okay. And

then the final question I have for you, and this is just an in general

one. I just feel like summer is a really good time to focus on this,

is how much time do you tend to like, and during the

school year. Because then maybe, like, during the summer, you can work on this so

you can then bring it into next school year. So during last school year, how

much time did you get in touch with what you were thinking and feeling? Like,

you realized what you're thinking, realized what you're thinking instead of,

just going through the motions and being in it and not noticing what you're thinking

and feeling. Just being in it. Now all of us spend

some time in both. Most of us naturally spend more time just

going with it and not even noticing necessarily what our current thoughts and feelings are.

We're just in it. Right? So what we want to work on, what really helps

us to even become our own life coach is to become that observer, to step

out and look at what is it I'm thinking, what is it I'm feeling.

So I want you to just think how much time were you able to do

that versus just being in it. Just kinda think about that, and then think

about what would you like to get to? What is a realistic way that you'd

like to move that up more time in the noticing what you're thinking and feeling?

How much improvement would you like to see in that area?

Okay. So to kind of recap that whole section of rejuvenation, we want to rejuvenate

our mind rejuvenate our body, and rejuvenate our space. And they

just asked you a whole bunch of questions you can think of, which you can

definitely refer back to in the show notes. And the last part is

the educate portion. And educate also goes with

learning, like, getting your own education about how to better

educate or how to do the things I mentioned. If you're like, well, I don't

even know how to observe my mind and how I'm feeling. Like, you might need

to do some learning about that. Right? You might want to

listen back onto a bunch of the past episodes on this podcast feed while you

have more time during the summer or while you're doing all your things, while you're

doing your travels or whatever. Save some of the episodes here on the fee on

this podcast feed. There are so many that will help you do just that. You

might wanna take some time to learn stress or time management tools that will help

you create good habits now during the summer that you can take with you

into the next school year. And we'll talk about the how on that more on

part 2. Today, I really just want you to think about what is it that

you need the most in that aspect. Do you need to get do you need

to understand, like, how your thoughts impact your life more? Do you need do you

feel like you get that, but you need to get more connected with processing your

feelings and all of that? Just think about what it is that you need.

And then another part we wanna focus on, like I've I have touched on

before, is to what is it you wanna do or learn to up level

your teaching next year? If there's one thing you could improve in your teaching next

year, what would that be? Is there something that actually makes you eager

and excited to learn to get back to the classroom? Are you like, I would

love to learn more about, like, STEM or STEAM activities I can incorporate into my

classroom, or I really wanna learn some cool new ways to organize things, like

the little hacks and tips and tricks, or I want some new

column response or different things to improve classroom management, or

I wanna learn how to do the science of reading, or I wanna find a

new homeschool curriculum that's more fun. Like, whatever it is

that could up level your experience next school year, what is it you could do?

Kind of that gift to your future self who's going back to teaching next year?

And what would could you do to reignite that spark back, to make you excited,

to get back into the test lab of, oh, yeah. I learned these things. Now

I need to get back into where I'm teaching where I can actually try out

these things. Kinda takes you back into, again, like we mentioned, that youthful, that

newer teacher energy, no matter how long we've been teaching because we're still trying something

new because we aren't made to remain stagnant where we

are. As teachers, we are lifelong learners. We always want to keep

learning and growing and improving our skills as

teachers, improving our skills in taking care of

ourselves and understanding our mindset and our

feelings, and we also want to follow our dreams.

If there's any other spark in you, such as, like, a hobby or a desire

for a side hustle or something you used to do that you haven't been

making the time for anymore, that you've been like, any of those things is

like I wanna do that someday consider the summer is now

the time the answer could be yes or it could be no. You're the one

who knows, not me. But just consider, is it the time to do

whatever that little thing is that's been on your heart? And if so, could this

summer be a good time to carve out some time for that dream you've been

having? Even just a little bit of time, and only you know the answer to

that question. So the education session section of this. Again,

we want to learn different ways to deal with our stress, to manage our

time during the summer so we could take that with us into the school year.

We also wanna figure out different teaching strategies or things we want to

learn to help us up level our teaching so we have something we're excited to

try in the coming school year, and make time for whatever other personal

passion we might have too. So recap of the whole thing. Basically, we

want to find that balance of educating and rejuvenating. And for this one,

for the summer, I actually reversed it. We did rejuvenation and then some

education too. But, again, we don't wanna completely forget that education piece, and I talk

a little bit more about why in part 2. So definitely make sure you

check back here. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss part 2.

But what we talked about today, we talked about rejuvenating yourself. You're

and that's like your mind, your body, your emotions, rejuvenating

your space, educating yourself on stress relief tools,

time management, planning ahead for the next school year,

up leveling professionally, following your dreams, and

really just seeking the answers to those questions for you

and journaling on them. Really recommend journaling on them if you have it. And I

would love to hear about your experience if you do. Like, please DM me on

educating rejuvenate on Instagram. Just last night, we were able to switch the

name. So excited about that. In case we missed it, for some

reason, this is your first episode. We just rebranded from wife, teacher, mommy

to educate and rejuvenate the podcast. So super excited about well, not just the

podcast, but the whole brand. Exciting Exciting stuff.

Today, we've gotten more clear on what you want this summer. Or maybe you're not

quite yet. Maybe you're like, oh, wait. My head is spinning from all those questions.

That's why you've got at least a few days till the next one airs. And,

again, this is a podcast. You can take whatever time you need even if both

episodes are live. The show notes page is on the website. It has all those

questions listed if you wanna refer back to them. Now in the

next part, we're going to talk about how will you not make sure to neglect

any of these areas and make sure you get it all done. We're talking about

all of that in part 2 of this series dropping on Friday. So

really today, like I mentioned in the first episode, once we rebranded of

just a few episodes ago though, to educate and rejuvenate the podcast, I

have my 3 step coaching framework, which is where we observe ourselves, then we

choose our direction, and then we align ourselves with that direction. And so today, we

really focused a lot on observing yourself with those questions and choosing your

direction kind of what it is you want. And then next time we're gonna talk

about like, okay, let's align ourselves. Let's make sure we get to where we want

to go. So, really excited for step 2. Make sure you're

subscribed so you don't miss it. Today, this week marks the start of my

summer episodes, which for the 3rd year in a row, I'm doing 2 in a

week now through my book release in August. Super excited to

be here in your earbuds as your life coach twice a week, helping

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about diving deeper into my 3 step framework where where you'll get to work with

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have a homeschool homeschool track too. So no matter whether you're a

teacher or a homeschool parent, we've got stuff for you. I'm a former teacher, current

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coming to the event is really going to help you implement everything you've learned here,

so would love to see you there. But until then, make sure you don't miss

part 2 of this series, and we'll talk then.

Hungry for more, be sure to check out the book that I wrote. It's called

Educate and Rejuvenate, a 3 step guide to revitalize your teaching,

renew your spirit, and reignite your passion for for life. It is

scheduled to be released in the summer of 2024. This book takes

all the life coaching skills we talk about here on the podcast and puts them

together in one easy to understand guide. Plus, when you pre order, you'll

receive a PDF workbook and additional resources to deepen your

understanding and application of the concepts we've covered on the book and on

this podcast. You won't find these resources anywhere else.

Visit the link in the show notes to join the wait list and be the

first to know when the book becomes available for pre order. Let's continue

this journey of growth and rejuvenation together. Until next time.