EP344 So what are we doing here? Expanding into retreats, video essays, mindfulness, and more
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After 20+ years of creating exclusively for educators, I'm expanding into some new creative spaces.
In this podcast episode, I share the "why" behind my new YouTube channel ("So What Are We Doing Here?"), my Substack publication, my free guided meditations on Insight Timer, and some other fun new places to find me.
I also talk about how my own work has shifted more toward adults, and why so much of what I've always talked about on this podcast (productivity, mindset, burnout, boundaries) goes way beyond the classroom.
Then I get into something I've been wanting to demystify for a while: the restorative practices that are at the heart of my retreats. I break down what forest bathing, sound baths, and restorative yoga actually are, what the research says about why they work, and what it felt like to lead these sessions at my Books in the Wild retreat last month.
I also make a case for planning your year around restorative practices instead of around work, and using the concept of "due season" to build intentional periods of rest into your calendar before the busyness fills it up.
Truth for Teachers isn't going anywhere. But you're not JUST a teacher, and I want to create for ALL of you, not just the part of you standing in front of a classroom.
Article/Transcript for this epsiode: https://truthforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/so-what-are-we-doing-here-expanding-into-retreats-video-essays-mindfulness-and-more/
Retreats: https://dueseasonpress.com/
Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/AngelaWatson
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sowhatarewedoinghere
Substack: https://angelaswatson.substack.com/
Motivation Lab: https://studio.com/apps/angela/motivationlab
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 344 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host, Angela Watson, |
| 0:10.1 | and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of educators and get you informed and energized |
| 0:15.3 | for the week ahead. Today, I'm talking about some fun new places to find me that go beyond just work and teaching. |
| 0:24.4 | Visit truthforteachers.com for an easy-to-read, easy-to-share a version of this podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | When's the last time that you had three or four full days with nothing to do except rest, |
| 0:41.3 | relax, laugh with people who get it, wander around in nature, have someone else cook and |
| 0:47.3 | clean up so you could just be? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, this summer, I am hosting two teacher retreats built around what your nervous system |
| 0:56.4 | actually needs in order to decompress after this school year. |
| 1:01.3 | We're talking restorative yoga, live sound baths, guided meditative forest walks, nourishing |
| 1:07.7 | meals, and the kind of deep connection that happens when you're surrounded by |
| 1:11.6 | people who truly understand your life. There's two opportunities to join us in summer |
| 1:17.3 | 2026, June 12th through 15th in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and July 24th through 26th in Charlotte, North |
| 1:26.4 | Carolina. Go to doseasonpress.com to learn more. |
| 1:31.1 | That's the website for My Truth for Teachers parent company. |
| 1:34.3 | It's d ue seasonpress.com. |
| 1:37.1 | Or just click the link in the show notes to learn more. |
| 1:40.2 | Future you will be so glad that you did. |
| 1:46.5 | So, what? Future you will be so glad that you did. So what are we doing here? |
| 1:50.1 | That's a question I've been sitting with a lot lately, |
| 1:53.0 | and I want to be really honest with you about where it's taking me. |
| 1:56.9 | I'm going to also be very transparent about my motivation and intentions because I feel like |
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