What would it be like to approach overwhelming times of the semester with self-compassion? How might we experience overwhelm differently if we supported our basic needs and gently questioned expectations? Today we explore what to do when you’re overwhelmed: how to set aside self-blame, expand our capacity, reduce our obligations, and pause to reflect. Plus, I discuss what I did when I got overwhelmed working on this episode!

Find the Transcript for Episode 09, “What To Do When You’re Overwhelmed” here.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
• I’ll be sharing my assessment of my own period of overwhelm in this month’s newsletter. Sign up here to get on my email list!

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Today I’m taking on academic grind culture through the lens of anti-dieting. I explore how we can mobilize the anti-diet critique of diet culture to better understand how the values, promises, and practices of academic grind culture keep us stuck in cycles of overwork. Based on anti-diet principles, I offer three alternatives for creating new ways of being in academia.

Find the Transcript for Episode 08, “Let’s Un-Diet Academia!” here. 

Links mentioned in this episode: 

• Sonia Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not An Apology
• Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet:  Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
• Health at Every Size® Principles

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In this episode, I answer your questions about the challenges of the new semester and share my take on how to put your wellbeing and what matters to you first when you are prepping a new course, coping with dysfunctional gate-keepers, feeling like your best-laid plans get derailed by mid-semester, and staying tuned in with yourself.

Find the Transcript for Episode 07, “Support for the New Semester” here. 

Mentioned in this episode:  Plan Your Semester Pop-Up!

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