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A teacher's self-care guide for building resilience, boosting
emotional strength, and finding hope in the face of daily stress
and overwhelming challenges. If you're an educator who works with
children, you often face intense pressure in the classroom. This
was true before the pandemic, but now you may be feeling it even
more. You aren't alone. From having to adapt to remote learning on
the spot, to balancing the impacts of the pandemic on your personal
life, many teachers are experiencing record levels of stress,
trauma, and burnout. In addition, as an entire generation of
students struggle to meet the academic and social emotional
learning (SEL) challenges caused by a extended remote learning, you
may be dealing with kids who are anxious, traumatized, and likely a
year or two behind developmentally as they return to the classroom.
It's a lot to manage, and you may feel like you are at your
breaking point. Written by an educational director at the Greater
Good Science Center, Surviving Teacher Burnout is a 52-week
self-care guide for teachers that features simple, low-lift
strategies for increasing resilience and fostering greater
well-being, confidence, and hope. Grounded in research-based
positive psychology, the book offers tons of practical activities
and journal-style prompts to help you cultivate feelings of
gratitude, optimism, mindfulness, forgiveness, empathic joy,
self-compassion, purpose, and curiosity--so you can return to your
classroom each day with renewed energy and inspiration. You'll also
find doable strategies to share with other educators to help infuse
more positive energy in classrooms and schools, and create more
supportive systems that promote a sense of meaning, belonging, and
connectedness among teachers and students. If you're like many
educators, you may feel you lack the time and energy to engage in
self-care practices. This guide offers bite-sized insights and
activities that are simple, approachable, and usable, so you can
thrive in the classroom, in your community, and in life!
The practice of mindfulness has received increasing attention and
recognition in recent years as a simple, important, and effective
means for maintaining physical and emotional health and well-being.
Mindfulness involves focusing your attention on immediate present
experiences with a compassionate, nonjudgmental attitude. This book
presents a practical, step-by-step approach for establishing your
own mindfulness practice. Brief introductory chapters explain the
scientifically proven effects on health, as well as the philosophy
behind this ancient practice. The remainder of the book consists of
25 experiential lessons that guide you through various meditative
practices. You will learn to be mindful of your breath, sounds,
sights, tastes, movements, physical sensations, thoughts, and
feelings as you maintain a compassionate attitude toward yourself
and others. With sustained attention, you will develop the ability
to respond to life's experiences with calmness and acceptance, even
the difficult experiences that we cannot control. Given the
prevalence of anxiety, stress, depression, and other emotional
turmoil in our fast-paced environment, mindfulness has become more
important than ever. This book is essential reading for everyone
who wants to begin or expand their own mindfulness practice
In our busy modern lives it can be easy to feel stressed out,
burned out and overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. The Art of Calm
Living is a pocket-sized collection of simple tips and soothing
quotes to help you de-stress and return to a state of inner calm.
We all know that stress not only makes us unhappy but also has
negative effects on our health over time - that's why it's
important to have strategies for returning ourselves to a calm
state when we start to feel overwhelmed. From breathing exercises
to helpful tips for managing your time and keeping things in
perspective, The Art of Calm Living is full of practical tips for
preventing stress, calming your anxiety and moving through life
mindfully.
OPTIMUM NUTRITION FOR THE MIND is the classic guide to improving
your mood, boosting your memory, sharpening your mind and solving
mental health problems through nutrition. The book outlines
breakthrough discoveries on how specific essential fats, vitamins
and minerals can improve depression and anxiety; discusses the
effects of stress, alcohol and exercise on mental health; gives
details of new discoveries in the treatment of autism and
schizophrenia; and provides concrete and well-researched guidance
for those with mental health difficulties. With a
questionnaire-based method to work out your own nutritional
programme for improving your mood, mind and memory this book is
essential reading for anyone wanting to stay in top mental health
throughout life, free from depression, memory decline and other
common mental health problems.
Everyone has a mental health. So we asked:
What does yours mean to you?
THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDINARY.
Over 60 people have shared their stories. Powerful, funny, moving, this book is here to tell you:
It's OK.
With writing from:
Adam Kay - Alastair Campbell - Alexis Caught - Ben Platt - Bryony Gordon - Candice Carty-Williams - Charlie Mackesy - Charly Cox - Chidera Eggerue - Claire Stancliffe - Davina McCall - Dawn O'Porter - Elizabeth Day - Elizabeth Uviebinené - Ella Purnell - Emilia Clarke - Emma Thompson - Eve Delaney - Fearne Cotton - Gabby Edlin - Gemma Styles - GIRLI (Milly Toomey) - Grace Beverley - Hannah Witton - Honey Ross - Hussain Manawer - Jack Rooke - James Blake - Jamie Flook - Jamie Windust - Jessie Cave - Jo Irwin - Jonah Freud - Jonny Benjamin - Jordan Stephens - Kai-Isaiah Jamal - Kate Weinberg - Kelechi Okafor - Khalil Aldabbas - KUCHENGA - Lauren Mahon - Lena Dunham - Maggie Matic - Martha Lane Fox - Mathew Kollamkulam - Matt Haig - Megan Crabbe - Michael Kitching - Michelle Elman - Miranda Hart - Mitch Price - Mona Chalabi - Montana Brown - Nadia Craddock - Naomi Campbell - Poorna Bell - Poppy Jamie - Reggie Yates - Ripley Parker - Robert Kazandjian - Rosa Mercuriadis - Saba Asif - Sam Smith - Scarlett Curtis - Scarlett Moffatt - Scottee - Sharon Chalkin Feldstein - Shonagh Marie - Simon Amstell - Steve Ali - Tanya Byron - Travon Free - Yomi Adegoke - Yusuf Al Majarhi
Difficult experiences are unavoidable; transform your resilience in
three simple steps. Contrary to long-held belief, trauma is not
only caused by exposure to a single, extreme event. The cumulative
effect of common stressors that we encounter in our day-to-day
lives can have an equally significant impact on our mental and
physical well-being. From difficult childhoods, to bereavements,
pregnancy and childbirth, and even stressful jobs, traumas - both
large and small - are a part of life we can't control, but we can
change the way we respond to them. In Everyday Trauma,
distinguished neuroscientist Dr Tracey Shors draws on over thirty
years of research to explain how your mind and body responds to
trauma and how you can take control. Her science-based, three-step
method is designed to help you process any kind of personal trauma
from your past, reverse your symptoms and strengthen your
resilience for stressors in your future. Its beauty is in its
simplicity; by practicing her three simple mental and physical
steps in combination twice a week, research has shown you can
reduce the ruminative thoughts that trauma so often leaves us with,
and avoid the trap of ongoing mental struggles such as anxiety,
depression, insomnia and PTSD. Whether you can access formal
therapy or not, in this important book Dr Tracey Shors has provided
the tools for you to help yourself through traumas in your past,
present and future. No matter what life throws at you, you can take
positive steps to heal your mind for a better life.
Are you struggling to control your anger? Feel like you're on a
short fuse all the time? Do little things tip you over the edge?
Unhelpful beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of
unhealthy anger, which can be dangerous and destructive. Windy
Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and
shows you how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding
what triggers it. The good news is that you have the power to
change this pattern, and to develop strategies to express your
anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate what you feel
without scaring yourself, or those close to you. Practical,
rational, strategic and supportive, this updated second edition
contains the latest therapeutic insights, allowing you to make
lasting and meaningful changes to the way you process your beliefs
and manage overwhelming or destructive emotions.
If you feel stressed out, you aren't alone. Stress is a modern-day
epidemic, and if you don't make healthy changes to keep it under
control, you could end up with a weakened immune system or a number
of health and mental health issues. This book offers the solution:
Yoga Nidra-a practice based on a lucid, sleep-like state of
relaxation-focuses specifically on alleviating both the mental and
physical manifestations of stress, so you can live a better life.
Packed with meditations, relaxation skills, and visualization
techniques, the ancient practices in this book will help you relax,
reflect, and revitalize for unshakable peace and joy.
There are many challenges to be faced in contemporary society including the stresses of everyday living in the technological age and changes in patterns of employment and family life. Depression is being experienced in "epidemic" proportions in many Western communities, and in particular amongst young people. The search for effective ways to reverse this trend has resulted in a significant shift in psychological approach from a focus on helplessness and pathology to a more positive orientation that emphasises health and well-being. This volume brings together leading researchers in the field of stress and coping to consider ways in which coping research contributes to our understanding of how people in different sectors of life meet goals and challenges. It provides a synthesis of different but compatible theoretical models that have been developed in the field of stress and coping and provides a way forward beyond the traditional stress and coping paradigms The emergent model is able to be used to assess a wide range of issues in the stress and coping domain. Written to be accessible to students and researchers in social, educational, and health psychology, this will be a valuable and important addition to the literature.
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