The Sneaky Way Your Teacher Brain Steals Your Last Weeks of Summer
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Kelsey Sorenson discusses the impact of the 'teacher brain' on summer relaxation and shares insights from a live coaching session.
The Sneaky Way Your Teacher Brain Steals Your Last Weeks of Summer If you're down to your last couple of weeks of summer and staring at a list of everything you meant to get done, this episode is for you. Kelsey shares a live coaching clip from this year's Summer Refresh event, over 1,000 teachers watched it happen in real time, featuring a teacher named Tori, who came to the call with two weeks of summer left, an unfinished to-do list, and a heavy, anxious feeling she hadn't quite named yet. What unfolds is a masterclass in noticing your "teacher brain" in action: the stories we tell ourselves ("it'll get better when school's out... when testing's over... when I leave the classroom"), the loops those stories keep us stuck in, and what it actually looks like to pause and find, as Kelsey puts it, "the space between stimulus and response." What You'll Hear The teacher brain story loop — why "it'll get better when ___" rarely delivers, and how it shows up as both a weekly micro-cycle and a full school-year macro-cycle The Viktor Frankl-attributed quote that anchors the whole episode: "Between the stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose." Tori's…
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