Love Notes for Educators: Building a Reservoir of Energy
This episode of the Mindful Turtle Podcast originally aired December 15, 2024. To receive podcast updates and other nature-based early childhood education news, subscribe to Samara Early Learning’s weekly newsletter written by Dr. Rachel A. Larimore.
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In this episode of the Mindful Turtle, Rachel encourages educators to collect and create an archive of positive feedback and recognition. Then, on those harder days, we can find the encouragement we need to keep going.
This week’s invitation is to create a folder in your email for any email with compliments and kind words.
Why is it important that you do this? Sometimes we forget that we’re having a positive impact on children and their families and it can he hard to keep going. Having a reservoir of kind words, compliments & kudos can be the motivation you need when you’re down about yourself and your work.
This time of year, as a collective, we tend to be more intentional about expressing our gratitude to others so it’s a good time to create a folder and begin collecting that feedback.
It’s so important to remind yourself of the nice things people say and think about you -even if it makes us uncomfortable, if for no other reason than it helps you keep moving forward and you ARE changing lives.
