Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

Have you ever had that feeling where things just feel out of your control and the overwhelm of all the to-do's seem just to make your chest hurt. You start to have short breaths,

and then you feel like you can't even breathe at all, all while being at school and having nowhere to go.

In this episode, we're going to get really vulnerable with our experiences around panic attacks.

But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Sarah.

Sarah says, my TSAH is, I'm tired. I've taught every grade K through 8 in my 15 years of teaching.

I've taught through my mom passing away, a school scandal, a massive California fire, the pandemic,

and now post-pandemic. I'm tired,

not burnt out, but tired. I've lost my creativity along the way and I can't seem to find it.

How can I reignite the creative spark? Not just within my classroom, but in me.

Oh, Sarah, like this gets to my heart so much. And I think the part that you wrote, which says, I'm tired, not burnt out, I'm tired. That's the part that I think really resonated with me the most because I understand what you mean. It's like you still have this passion

and love for education, for teaching, for the thing that you're doing. But the energy, it doesn't

match, right? Like, you just can't think of like, how do I keep going? Like, this is just exhausting.

Like, my body, my mind, my spirit, like all of it is

exhausted, but I still love what I do. And I think that's kind of the key with burnout. And I don't

know, Michelle, what do you think? Do you think that's the same, like, I don't know if that's

the same thing or are they different? I I don't know so I'm going to let

you marinate on that Michelle but anyways I think the biggest thing is finding other avenues in which

you can be creative and finding different paths of your life that maybe you can explore to help

reignite some of that creativity that you

still have. And so I recently felt this exact same way with one of the teaching positions

that I had at a school where it was like, I still love education, but I'm tired of all the

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