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Year 4 – Part 1
Ah, It’s here, it’s here. The year it all fell about apart. The year humpty dumpty finally fell off the wall and cracked her head. I feel awash with anxiety as I think about this year. But I’m going to get a cup of tea before I go into it. I’m back, and I just…
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Year 3
2023-2024 Okay, it’s time to go back again. Back to year 3. I slept so long last night, but I think I am healing, I think the cogs in my brain are clicking and synapses are rewiring. Because I have been feeling upset and angry that I gave my late 20s to this school and…
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List of Cognitive Distortions
Creating in reference with Therapist Aid; Dr. Burns; and Psychology Today Below are a list of cognitive distortions, as well as some examples from my personal experiences. Magnification and minimization Definition: Exaggerating or minimizing the importance of events. You might believe your own achievements are unimportant or that your mistakes are excessively important. Example: I…
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Complete Least of Lessons and Solutions for Preventing Teacher Burnout
By Sammy Ginsberg Below you’ll find my complete list of solutions that I wish had existed or been in place to prevent me from burning out. I am going to use this as the starting point for the nonprofit that I am going to create the implement these solutions so that one day I can…
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Break!
A couple weeks ago, I decided it was time to finish writing and publishing Burnt Out Bitch. I went on medical leave (AGAIN) because of a traumatic situation at the school I transferred to in the middle of Year 4!!Why had this happened again?!?!? To figure it out, I thought, “I need to finish the…
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Update #11: Mush
I am falling off of reality again. The skeleton of being human is turning into mush. It’s an avalanche of sorts. I am here in London – transported. I was in the middle of a crisis, and now I am here in London. I am in a completely different reality. I am trying to find…
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Year 2
Well, as you know I did survive year two, but it was worse- much worse. That summer off though – was brilliantly delightful. I had made it. I survived my first year and got to my first ever teacher summer. I flew to London and Europe, where I hadn’t gone for three years since COVID…
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Year 1
Okay, so I titled this originally “Problem 1 ELA” but then when I was in yoga all the thoughts that came up were about the full-inclusion academy so then I was like, well obviously I want to write about that but then I was like – they won’t understand why the problem was so bad…
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I am able to get my needs met and my boundaries respected
When I stopped working, I started going to yoga twice a day. My therapist said, without this, they didn’t understand how I was still functioning and hadn’t completely lost it. This going to yoga was my medicine. To help me feel safe in my own body. To connect the mind and body together to rest…
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I hate my life and who I have become to be a teacher
This was the thought that I couldn’t control. This was the thought that would cause me to start crying and collapsing inward whenever anything didn’t go as expected. This was the thought that caused me to be nostalgic and constantly referencing when I lived in London and worked in publishing, or when I lived in…