101. How To Process Back-to-School Emotions

Back to school time is here! Can you believe it? If you're a teacher or a parent, I'm sure you're bustling and hurrying around making sure you have everything ready.

The new school year is an exciting time of year, as well as a stressful one. Back to school tends to bring up a lot of emotions. Excitement, dread, anxiety, curiosity, and so much more. Have you ever slowed down to examine how back to school time feels to you?

That's what we're doing on today's special back to school focused episode. We're talking all about how to handle back to school emotions.

Do you know how back to school time makes you feel? Understanding our emotions during this time of year is incredibly important and helpful. It is so important to notice your feelings and take the time to feel our emotions rather than resisting or avoiding them.

We discuss the difference between emotions, feelings and sensations in our body, as well as common ways we deal with emotions, such as resisting, reacting, avoiding or buffering them, rather than allowing ourselves to fully process and feel them.

On today's episode we dive into the importance of our mental and emotional well-being during this time of year and how they are the most important thing we bring to teaching and that how we show up emotionally impacts our students and families. This episode provides strategies for identifying and working through difficult emotions as the new school year begins.

If you're worried about the coming school year or just need some insight into understanding your emotions better, this episode is for you!

Head over to the show notes: https://www.wifeteachermommy.com/podcast/back-to-school-emotions

In this episode on how to handle back to school emotions:

• How we show up emotionally impacts not only ourselves but also our students and families
• Why our mental and emotional well-being is the most important thing we bring to teaching
• Why it's important to feel the full range of human emotions, both positive and negative
• How processing emotions involves allowing yourself to fully feel the emotion with compassion
• The difference between emotions/feelings and sensations in our body
• How our thoughts create our feelings, but we experience life through our feelings

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