The glossy “good teacher” lists look harmless until you read the fine print: love more, inspire constantly, and be willing to “do anything.” We pull that poster off the wall and take it apart, exposing how duty-laced love, performative inspiration, and endless adaptability become tools for empathy extraction and self-erasure. Instead of chasing approval through toxic positivity, we make a case for a teacher identity that is human first and sustainable by design. We walk through each buzzword...
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The glossy “good teacher” lists look harmless until you read the fine print: love more, inspire constantly, and be willing to “do anything.” We pull that poster off the wall and take it apart, exposing how duty-laced love, performative inspiration, and endless adaptability become tools for empathy extraction and self-erasure. Instead of chasing approval through toxic positivity, we make a case for a teacher identity that is human first and sustainable by design. We walk through each buzzword...
Why Your Nervous System Is On Fire (And Why You Can't Just Calm Down)
The Burned Out B: Dear Teachers
18 minutes
3 months ago
Why Your Nervous System Is On Fire (And Why You Can't Just Calm Down)
The system is dysregulating—and it’s not you, it’s your vagus nerve. Have you ever gotten an email and your heart rate spiked before you even opened it? Ever frozen in a staff meeting or snapped at your own kid after holding it together all day? Yeah. That’s not you being dramatic. That’s your nervous system sounding the alarm. In this episode of Burned Out B: Dear Teachers, we go way beyond stress management and into the science of survival mode. I share a legendary 4th-period classroom stor...
The Burned Out B: Dear Teachers
The glossy “good teacher” lists look harmless until you read the fine print: love more, inspire constantly, and be willing to “do anything.” We pull that poster off the wall and take it apart, exposing how duty-laced love, performative inspiration, and endless adaptability become tools for empathy extraction and self-erasure. Instead of chasing approval through toxic positivity, we make a case for a teacher identity that is human first and sustainable by design. We walk through each buzzword...
