TRANSCRIPT: 3 Strategies for Coping With & Preventing Educator Burnout (feat. Molly Davis from Wild Goose Counseling & the Beautiful Boundaries Bootcamp)
KKristen CrainJan 25, 2022 at 2:06 pm46min
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00:00Molly
You are a renewable resource. So if you want some help with this one, I recommend thinking of yourself like a, like your bamboo forest or, you know, pick whatever renewable resource you want, but one that will renew itself with a little time. And you actually have this ever refilling energy bucket, I kind of think about inside. But it has to have some time and space to renew itself in order to keep giving. So in this, on the one hand, we can give and give and give and give as humans but on the other hand, we can't give without any breaks. It doesn't, you can't just dump it out and expect it to keep pouring. But if you think of yourself as a renewable resource, like a bamboo forest, you can harvest it use it that's fantastic, but it needs some time to come back up. If you can start thinking about yourself using yourself sustainably, then you can actually meet some needs and you can continue to meet you will meet way more needs that way than you will meet if you pull yourself up to the point of exhaustion.
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01:04Nikki
I'm Nikki Herta and this is bright stories of hope and innovation in Michigan classrooms. A podcast where we celebrate our state's educators and explore the future of learning. Right is brought to you in part by Meemic insurance company, insuring the educational community for more than 70 years. teachers and school employees visit meemic.com/quote to see how much you can save. In today's episode of bright a chat with Molly Davis, a counselor and psychotherapist from Alaska, who runs an eight week online boundaries intensive, the beautiful boundaries boot camp, which is designed for professional women who may cognitively understand what boundaries are but struggled to implement them in everyday life, work and relationships. After following Molly's popular wildgoose counseling Facebook page for some time, I officially met her last fall when I participated in her eight week boundaries bootcamp. The experience was incredibly eye opening. And along the way, I met many other amazing women undergoing similar journeys. In this episode, Molly dives into the relationship between boundaries and burnout. She has a bit of wisdom about how she walks this line is professional counselor, and offers three strategies for coping with and preventing educator burnout. Well, Molly, I'm delighted to have you on our podcast today. And obviously, this is a delight for me because I know you personally and have worked with you through your boundary boot camp. But I was wondering for our listeners, if you could just tell us a little bit about who you are what you do. So just give us a little background.
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02:52Molly
Yeah, I'd be glad to. And thank you for having me. So my name is Molly Davis, and I am a counselor, a psychotherapist and I run a little private practice appear in Alaska. And I get to see a lot of teachers that way. And I teach some college classes from time to time, usually for graduate students. And I also have a online program for women helping them get healthy boundaries. Oh, and I'm a mom. I've got five kids actually. All of whom are grown up except the very last one. And so that keeps me plenty busy.
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03:31Nikki
Alright, and a new thing that we're doing for this season is we're asking everybody, what is the most interesting thing you're doing professionally right now.
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03:39Molly
So I've had this dream for a while it's like just this itch inside of me to, to compile some stuff that I've just been collecting about boundaries that I just noticed as a constant need and almost everybody that I work with, and I thought, man, somebody needs to put the stuff together and make like a program. And then I was like, Oh, maybe I should put this stuff together and make a program and and so I finally did this year and it is a blast. I am loving it. It is super, super fun.
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04:10Nikki
Well, obviously I can personally say that I'm very deeply grateful that you did take this inner feeling that you had that somebody needs to do this and that you did it because that's how I met. That's how I met Molly. And that's have met and a lot of a lot of other awesome women who are working on boundaries. And if you're not familiar with what boundaries are, we're gonna we're gonna dive into that pretty quick here. So So today we are going to be talking about three strategies for coping with and preventing educator burner. I think anybody in education is aware that there are really high rates of burnout right now. And I was just wondering, Molly, if we could first start to unpack a few key terms. So how is it that you define burnout? What typically causes it and what are the effects?
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