Kick Back? Not Yet... Fighting the Exhaustion with Probiotics.
Kickin' it with Karen: Beyond Sauerkraut Is anybody else out there a teacher? We are just a week and a half out from winter break and I feel like I have been hit by a bus. Exhausted much? Holy Hallelujah! These are they days when waking up - even if I have gotten 9 hours of sleep - feels like I'm waking from the grave. I think most professionals would say, "What are you doing for self-care?" - something I think teachers regularly forget about. We are so busy caring for our students, making sure they are meeting the standards and making progress, as well as making sure they are "OK" in and out of school. Our students face a myriad of challenges and with that comes the trauma and the drama. Everything that happens to them out there in their world often comes back with them to school. When we get wrapped up in their story, we can experience secondary trauma. This takes an emotional toll that if we don't pay attention to it, this can end up having rea...