Behind the Scenes of Book Writing with Lizzie Langston [#157]

November 19, 2024

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Key themes from Behind the Scenes of Book Writing with Lizzie Langston [#157]:

Personal Growth Through Creative Challenges- Writing *Educate and Rejuvenate* wasn’t just about completing a book; it was a journey of personal transformation for Kelsey. Facing and overcoming creative blocks became an opportunity to deepen self-awareness and resilience. Lizzie’s coaching played a pivotal role in helping her grow through the writing process.
The Importance of Self-Regulation and the Nervous System- The book emphasizes the role of self-regulation—learning to move from a stressed, “fight-or-flight” state into a calm, balanced mode. By understanding and managing the nervous system, teachers can bring greater calm and presence to their classrooms, creating a more supportive learning environment.
Empowering Educators with Practical Mindset Tools- Kelsey’s three-step framework—*Observe, Choose, Align*—guides educators in understanding their thoughts, setting intentions, and aligning actions with their values. This approach encourages teachers to be mindful of their emotions and intentional in how they show up for themselves and their students.
The Ripple Effect of Teacher Well-being- When teachers prioritize self-care and personal growth, the positive effects ripple out to their students, colleagues, and even their families. The episode emphasizes how this work, while personal, has far-reaching impacts on the educational community and beyond.
Creating a Supportive, Reflective Teaching Practice- Through stories and examples, the episode encourages teachers to approach their careers as a journey of continuous reflection and growth. By fostering awareness, setting meaningful goals, and choosing to stay aligned with their intentions, teachers can create a fulfilling, resilient teaching practice.

Ever wondered how the journey of writing a book can lead to breakthroughs in both life and teaching? Today, I’m thrilled to share an insightful conversation with my dear friend and first-ever life coach, Lizzie Langston, as we dive deep into the transformative process behind writing my book, *Educate and Rejuvenate.* Lizzie was instrumental in helping me shape my ideas, overcome creative blocks, and bring the vision for this book to life. In this conversation, you’ll discover how these insights could profoundly shift how you show up in the classroom and beyond.

The Beginning of the Journey

When I first started working on my book, I knew I wanted to create a resource that would truly resonate with educators, but I quickly learned that writing a book is no easy task. Lizzie, who had been my coach during one of the most challenging periods of my life, was there to guide me again. She helped me move from feeling overwhelmed to finding clarity in my message.

Embracing Personal Growth During Writing

Writing a book isn’t just about putting words on a page—it’s a journey of self-discovery and growth. Lizzie and I talk about how her coaching techniques helped me handle the stress of book-writing while balancing my roles as a mom, educator, and coach.

Through her guidance, I discovered the importance of self-regulation, a key theme in *Educate and Rejuvenate*, and developed a three-step framework for educators to manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions. This framework became central to the book, and in many ways, it’s thanks to Lizzie that I was able to articulate it so clearly.

Building the Framework: Observe, Choose, Align

Our conversation digs into the creation of the book’s core framework:

Observe Yourself – Recognize what’s happening internally without judgment.
Choose Your Direction – Decide on the intention behind your actions.
Align Yourself – Commit to choices that reflect your desired path.

Lizzie helped me take these coaching concepts and make them actionable for teachers, showing how they could use these tools not just in their personal lives but also in their classrooms.

The Power of the Nervous System

One of Lizzie’s unique teachings involved understanding the body’s nervous system. In our conversation, she explains the importance of transitioning from “fight-or-flight” mode to a state of calm, particularly for teachers who often face high-stress environments. We explore how this shift can help educators create a calm, supportive classroom atmosphere, not only benefiting students but also contributing to their own well-being.

The Ripple Effect of Transformative Work

As Lizzie and I discussed, there’s a ripple effect when teachers embrace personal growth. This work isn’t just about improving individual resilience; it’s about creating a positive, supportive environment that influences students, colleagues, and even family. I’ve seen the ripple effect in my Educate and Rejuvenate community, as teachers take the concepts from the book and bring them into their classrooms and homes.

Wrapping Up with Gratitude

Thank you for joining us in this special episode, and a big thanks to Lizzie Langston for her incredible support throughout this journey. If you’d like to learn more, join us at the upcoming Winter Educate & Rejuvenate event for more in-depth discussions and practical strategies. And if you haven’t picked up *Educate and Rejuvenate* yet, it’s available on Amazon and other major retailers. Let’s continue to uplift ourselves and each other as we educate and rejuvenate together!

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Ever wondered how the process of writing a book can actually transform your teaching? Today, I’m bringing on my friend and my first ever life coach, Lizzie Langston, on the podcast to chat about the real story and struggles behind me writing the book, Educate and Rejuvenate. We’re diving into the breakthroughs and personal growth it took to bring my book to life. And Lizzie was a huge part of it, as you’ll hear on the show, and why these insight might just change how you show up in the classroom. Welcome to educate and rejuvenate the podcast, episode 157, behind the scenes of book writing with Lizzy Langston.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:00:39 – 00:01:02

Welcome to educate and Rejuvenate, the podcast to help you revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your passion for life. I’m your host, Kelsey Sorensen, a former teacher, current homeschool mom, published author, and certified life coach. Whether you are a teacher in a traditional class room, homeschool from your kitchen table, or anywhere in between, I am on a mission to help you not only survive

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:02 – 00:01:04

as an educator, but thrive.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:04 – 00:01:16

Get ready to up level your skills with incredible insights from guest experts and discover the missing piece, rejuvenating yourself. Are you ready to both educate and rejuvenate? Let’s go.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:22 – 00:01:47

Oh, my goodness. It is sure sweater weather today over here. I am in my green sweater as you’ll see if you’re watching on the educate and rejuvenate app. And we just recently, here in the US, had daylight savings. Days are getting darker and colder. And the sweater weather and pumpkin spice are kind of a little bit old news now. Some of you might even be leaving school when it’s dark already. Like, so it can be pretty crazy.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:47 – 00:02:15

And sometimes winter, a lot of us, like, start to feel the winter blues as things get so crazy with the holidays. We’re feeling stressed. We’re not getting as much sunshine, that vitamin d. We talked a lot about winter blues last year on the podcast. So if you’re feeling it, make sure to scroll back to some of those episodes last year where we really dive deep into that. But I also wanted to give you something to look forward to this winter. And it’s really something I’m looking forward to as well. So I’m so excited to announce our winter educate and rejuvenate event for the first time.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:02:15 – 00:02:56

We’re not just doing a little mini event for our club members during the winter break. We are doing a full fledged event. It is the winter 2024, 2025 event. Actually, the live portion is mostly taking part at the beginning of January because we’re gonna be working on your new year’s goals. So we’re gonna going to have a pre party on December 30th with some really great stuff but I’m I can’t give it all away today because actually this episode is airing on the day of our reveal party on November 19th. Now there’s a good chance you’re listening after that so if you are, go to our website to see the information about the event. If you’re listening before December, January 2025. If you’re listening later, just look at whatever we’ve got next.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:02:56 – 00:03:38

But if you’re listening literally as this episode comes out, make sure to check your email and our website to join us at the reveal party tonight. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. So I cannot wait to share more about this event. We’ll have more in next week’s episode if nothing else. But today, I’m sharing an incredible conversation with me and my first ever life coach, Lizzie Langston. This was actually a recording of a call we did during my book launch week, but it was such a good conversation that I wanted to air it again here on the podcast today because so most of you probably didn’t get to hear it. We had so many lives during that launch week, and this is one of the ones that ended up being rescheduled at kind of a weird time. So I wanted everybody to have a chance to hear this conversation because it was so good.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:03:38 – 00:04:14

It was so candid. It was so real. And let me tell you, Lizzie, she was my first ever life coach who I started working with after my major panic attack I had in 2019 when I was overwhelmed with homeschooling and postpartum. I’ve shared that episode near the beginning of the podcast. I share more about that story so make sure to check that out if you need to. It’s also in the book, in the educate and rejuvenate book. You’ll get to learn more about that But I actually, what you may not know is that I hired her again as my life coach while I was writing the book, Educate and Rejuvenate, and specifically to help me through the struggles that came up as I was writing the book and helping me when I got stuck. And she actually ended up helping me come up with the framework that was in the book.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:04:14 – 00:05:03

We’re going to teach you the framework if you haven’t heard it yet. If you’re like, this is maybe your first time tuning in or you didn’t listen to the 3 part series back in September when the book was coming out and you aren’t familiar with my 3 step coaching framework that I teach in my book, educate and rejuvenate, we’re going to, share a bit about it with you today with some real life examples, back and forth conversation, or review it if you know it and just get to hear it from another vantage point. So you’re going to walk away feeling inspired and with some laughs, definitely, along the way for sure. So let’s dive into this awesome interview. This book. Oh, my gosh. I am so thrilled, and it has been so much fun doing this launch party and hearing from those of you. I actually just got my physical copies of the book yester

Lizzie Langston 00:05:04 – 00:05:07

Okay. Probably should. I’m like, you know what

Kelsey Sorenson 00:05:07 – 00:05:12

I’m saying? Probably should. Probably should. They’re like, who’s this girl here? I am Lizzie.

Lizzie Langston 00:05:13 – 00:05:22

I am a friend of Kelsey’s and have been her life coach and business coach before. And what else? Do we oh, we we had our first babies on the same day?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:05:23 – 00:05:26

We did, but we didn’t know this until we known each other for, like, a year.

Lizzie Langston 00:05:26 – 00:05:31

April 23, 2014. 14. We both became a mom that day. How cool is that?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:05:31 – 00:05:33

We did. So cool. It’s

Lizzie Langston 00:05:33 – 00:05:43

such a gorgeous because I live in Arizona. I’ve coached postpartum women, and I help women through spiritual awakenings. So Very fun.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:05:43 – 00:06:19

You’re a writer. She’s a writer. She’s, yeah, amazing. So we are talking today because Lizzie was, like, she mentioned actually my first life coach. And in fact, like she mentioned, for so long, she’s coached postpartum women, and that’s how I got connected with Lizzie is because when I tell the story in my book of when I have my anxiety attack postpartum. Right? And this is shortly after I’d it wasn’t like I had a the first panic attack I talk about in the book was when I was on the floor crying with rubbery book, but then later on in the book That was in the classroom. Right? That was in the classroom. Yes.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:06:19 – 00:06:42

And then later in the book, I shared the postpartum one. I thought leaving the classroom was going to solve everything. Right? I thought that it was that circumstance that that was going to keep me like, I was going to just be better. Right? Like, oh, when I’m not teaching, I’m not gonna be anxious anymore. But what I found is it didn’t go away. It followed you home. How fun. I’m following you home.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:06:42 – 00:06:59

Followed me for like 5 years, right? Because it was my 3rd child when the second one happened and started getting help and then ran into you as my postpartum life coach. Hannah says y’all are making me laugh. I kind of get you laugh when you were tired and everything is hilarious. And was

Lizzie Langston 00:06:59 – 00:07:04

the kind of laugh where you didn’t realize that you lost your coffee midway through the day, then you just found it, and so you’re sipping on it

Kelsey Sorenson 00:07:04 – 00:07:10

at 7 o’clock at night. You’re like, oh, yeah. I’m gonna sleep. It’s a good idea. Cheers.

Lizzie Langston 00:07:12 – 00:07:33

Okay. Here’s a memorable story about Kelsey, actually. I will say this. It was the pandemic, and it kind of had just hit us that the world wasn’t gonna go back to normal after 2 weeks, like all of the people said and all we all thought, okay, it’ll be a couple weeks. Well, maybe it’ll be a couple months. Right? And at the time, wife, teacher, mommy, which is now educate and rejuvenate

Kelsey Sorenson 00:07:33 – 00:07:34

Yeah. At the

Lizzie Langston 00:07:34 – 00:07:37

time of the pandemic, I’m telling him about the pandemic pivot. Oh, yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:07:37 – 00:07:39

The big handovers had to do. I got

Lizzie Langston 00:07:39 – 00:08:02

to watch Kelsey go through it. Oh, yeah. Through it. It was beautiful. And at the time, she was just serving schools and teachers, like teachers that worked at schools, I should say. Yeah. And it was at that time that she realized what a need there really was beyond just the classroom and extended it to homeschooling parents. And what else did

Kelsey Sorenson 00:08:02 – 00:08:07

you do? Time, like, everybody had turned into kind of a homeschooling parent. Right? So this is kind of like Yes.

Lizzie Langston 00:08:07 – 00:08:14

And I just really loved it. Even though you had your moment to freak out, like, every business you did in the world.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:08:14 – 00:08:15

My moment. For sure.

Lizzie Langston 00:08:15 – 00:08:18

We we processed it. Right? Like, let’s go on walks.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:08:18 – 00:08:20

Oh oh oh, we did.

Lizzie Langston 00:08:20 – 00:08:31

You ultimately dug really deep into your because you were terrified. Everybody’s terrified. And you were like and not just about business, but also about the actual virus and, like, what is

Kelsey Sorenson 00:08:31 – 00:08:33

the world doing? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:08:34 – 00:09:15

And I remember you just really digging deep and remembering your purpose. You got into that visionary CEO energy that you carry that’s, like, literally in your blood. It’s in your human design. It’s one of the gifts you bring into the world. It’s like this role model energy, and you just got it out from within you, and you were like, well, what about all the people now that are trying to be teachers who have never been teachers before? You just were like, we’re gonna do this and you made a decision and then you implemented it and then, of course, it was amazing and successful and, of course, you’ve searched people this way and families Yeah. Children and adults, and it’s just been so awesome to watch the impact. And then getting to help you write your book. Let’s talk about your book.

Lizzie Langston 00:09:16 – 00:09:37

Kayla, let’s talk about the book. You guys know how hard it is to write a book. You know what a mind warp it is? I watched this poor girl slave over all the things she could say and choose so deliberately what is in this book. And, you know, I’m sure there were tears. I don’t remember a time where you were crying with me, but if I had to guess

Kelsey Sorenson 00:09:38 – 00:09:39

No. There were. There were.

Lizzie Langston 00:09:39 – 00:10:11

And and it’s not it wasn’t like stress. It was like, this is a book. This it’s like a baby that’s gonna go out into the world and it’s gonna represent your brand, and it’s gonna actually reach into the hearts and minds of women who are struggling, teachers who are struggling. And if and one thing I was really passionate about as you were writing the book is there has never been a time in education where teachers are more burned out than right now. Never in ever, ever, ever. And not just school teachers, all the way around. Just the educational thing. I feel like that was my role.

Lizzie Langston 00:10:11 – 00:10:20

It was just holding the vision. When you had to get into the nitty gritty, I could just keep us focused on I got to be a book writing coach, first of all. That was so cool. Thanks for letting me do that.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:20 – 00:10:36

That was so fun. Yeah. I think we actually didn’t mention that yet. So Lindsay did hire her to be my so she was my 1st life coach back then for, like, a year and a half. And then we were postpartum stuff. Yeah. Yeah. The postpartum stuff.

Lizzie Langston 00:10:36 – 00:10:38

That’s side of business because I love business.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:39 – 00:10:44

So Yeah. I know. Well and it was a lot of just my stress coming up and you’d help me regulate my nervous system around it.

Lizzie Langston 00:10:44 – 00:10:48

You did so good. You’re such a warrior. You guys, she really is just as impressive

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:48 – 00:10:50

as she seems. I’m gonna I’m sorry

Lizzie Langston 00:10:50 – 00:10:52

if I can’t burst your bubble because she

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:52 – 00:11:02

Oh, Leonard. Leonard. He has created over 500 articles on LinkedIn. He knows how challenging it is. Yes. It can definitely be challenging to get your writing out there. 500. That is amazing.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:02 – 00:11:04

And the way you get in your head. Right? You’re like,

Lizzie Langston 00:11:04 – 00:11:13

oh, maybe people already said this, or am I saying it wrong? Is somebody gonna catch me out and complain to my editor? I mean, there’s so many things. Yeah. That’s impressive. 500 is a lot.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:14 – 00:11:26

Yes. So impressive. Hannah says it’s a beautiful book. Hannah was one of our early readers. So she’s read the entire book and she loved it. She’s amazing. Hey, Hannah. Jennifer started it last night.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:27 – 00:11:33

Excited to read more tonight. Yes. I’m so excited for you to read more too. Me too. I it feels

Lizzie Langston 00:11:33 – 00:11:56

like it’s not my book, obviously, but I’m like, I feel attached to it because I slaved with I I was there for the hard parts. You know? Some of them, not all of them. I would love to know in you guys in the comments, if you have read it, what stood out to you, whether it was a certain story Kelsey told or just a general energy of the book, or did you learn a new principle? I’m if you wanna share. I’d be, as we chat, you can think of something.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:56 – 00:12:09

Yeah. And feel free to share that anytime. We’ll be circling back to the chat as we continue to talk and everything. Amazing. LinkedIn user. I’ve been trying to get mine together, but it’s such a challenge. Yes. Trying to get your own book together.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:12:09 – 00:12:39

Is that what you’re talking about? I know so many of us actually do have a book in us. It was actually earlier this, in January, actually, I did a vision board challenge with members of the educate and rejuvenate club and actually quite a few people. I was like, you know, in the heat of writing my book and I, like, just talked about it as an example and I was not surprised, but also it was, like, I wasn’t expecting it, but it was, like, a bunch of, like, oh, yeah. I wanna write a book, too. I wanna write a book, too. And I love that. I mean, we can’t have too many books out there. I feel like a book is really a way to see into my my sister.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:12:39 – 00:12:41

Actually, my sister’s writing a book.

Lizzie Langston 00:12:41 – 00:12:41

Her

Kelsey Sorenson 00:12:41 – 00:13:16

name’s Tori her name’s Tori LaRue, by the way. It’s going to be about perfectionism, and what I’ve read is really good. Amazing. But, anyway, she posted a quote on her page the other day, and it was like, a book is a window into the author’s soul or something like that. It really is a glimpse into especially when it’s a book like this. What I’ve written is a self help book for educators, essentially. And it really is like a glimpse into what I’ve learned from my own personal development journey, which was while I was in the classroom and then transitioning out and then homeschooling my children and, you know,

Lizzie Langston 00:13:16 – 00:13:18

just pivoting a business during pandemic.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:13:19 – 00:14:05

Yeah, a lot of different things. And the great thing is the framework that came out when I was writing and Lizzy actually helped me with this. Granted, I mean, I came up with the framework, but what she did was she asked me I remember you gave me this homework because I was so stuck. Do you remember this moment where I was just stuck? I was like I feel like I’m just writing randomly. I’m writing about our thoughts, I’m writing about our nervous system, I’m writing about our feelings, I’m writing about creating an essential schedule. It just feels like this randomness of a lot of principles we talk about as coaches, but like, how do we actually put this together? And so you helped me you’re like, okay, well, what if just everything you taught and if you were teaching it in the order that you generally teach it to your clients. I can’t remember the exact words you used. I feel like I should have pulled up that Google doc.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:05 – 00:14:16

Okay. Now it’s time to refresh. But basically I did this huge thought download of a bunch of questions. And I I think the big one was really just, like, the order. Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:14:16 – 00:14:20

I really just had you get out of your head and into your heart. I know that sounds

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:20 – 00:14:22

sad, but they’re too That’s true.

Lizzie Langston 00:14:22 – 00:14:37

This is too right. And you were here and you were consternated and you were a little bit met us. Instead of being present with the thing you were writing, you were, like, thinking about how it was all coming together and you were up here above it. So I’m pretty sure we did some breathing.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:37 – 00:14:40

If you know me We did. We did. We get into

Lizzie Langston 00:14:40 – 00:15:01

the body. I’m all about the body knows all the truth. The body holds all the messages. We just need to get that soul back down into that body. So we did that. And then, yeah, and then I think I just asked you questions that really helped you think about your person, like, the person you were writing to. And I think what that did is it got this creativity. Is that a creativity flow?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:15:01 – 00:15:10

Creativity. Yes. Creativity. I’m like, let me talk Words are challenging at 8 o’clock at night. Yeah. Funny things happen

Lizzie Langston 00:15:10 – 00:15:39

when you’re away from your kids at this hour of the day. Anyway, so slurring your words. But, yeah, I think we just got into service mode, and it wasn’t that you know, it’s hard to write a book. It’s hard because you’re thinking about the project, but you’re also thinking about your person, but you’re also thinking like an editor a little bit. And so I think I just helped you get back into that seat of the you’re con you were connected with your heart, your mission, and your person, and that’s when and I think I just asked questions to do that, and then we got in your body.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:15:39 – 00:15:46

A ton of questions. Yeah. And then I did I actually had my Kindle scribe, which if you know me, you know I I love my Kindle scribe.

Lizzie Langston 00:15:46 – 00:15:48

Right. I have seen her on

Kelsey Sorenson 00:15:49 – 00:15:53

that thing. I’ve seen her on that thing in a hotel room. We went to

Lizzie Langston 00:15:53 – 00:15:58

a conference together for funsies. It’s frenzies. And I was just actually, I don’t

Kelsey Sorenson 00:15:58 – 00:16:00

know what Gabby Bernstein, which was amazing.

Lizzie Langston 00:16:00 – 00:16:19

We saw Gabby Bernstein. We got to meet her. We manifested seeing Gabby Bernstein live. If you don’t know who she is, she’s a spiritual mentor lady. Anyway, we actually bought my son a Kindle after I watched you with it. Even, like, getting she gets she finds the sales, and she’s she’s so good at it. You, like, manifest cheap, cheap, cheap books, dude.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:16:20 – 00:16:58

I mean, what I do her karma. What I what I do is I just have them on Amazon list, and part of my morning routine is to go through and see which books dropped in price. I mean, it’s yeah. It’s just part of the routine. Whatever you do, keep it up. But the reason I was mentioning it is because I write on it too. Right? And it was, like, 12 pages of me, like, what is it I would teach and in what order? And then it was, like, oh, it became super clear because what it was doing is trying to figure out like, oh, there’s all these individual tools, but it’s kind of like, okay, when is it you use each one? And that’s when I came up with the whole observing yourself because that applies to your thoughts, your feelings, and your nervous system. And I think we had talked about the word observe too.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:16:58 – 00:17:01

It’s a very popular word in the coaching spirit in general.

Lizzie Langston 00:17:01 – 00:17:06

To give yourself credit because you were not like, what do coaches say? You were like

Kelsey Sorenson 00:17:06 – 00:17:06

Right. Right.

Lizzie Langston 00:17:07 – 00:17:52

What would my person understand? Yeah. How can I say like, you constantly were I mean, you guys, this book is so tailored to you? It’s a silver platter of the best of the life coaching industry and the most intimate lived experience of a teacher and a homeschool parent, both, and someone who had a mental breakdown in her personal life. And it’s only the best stories from that, only the best learning from that. And it’s so teacher friendly and I I’m so impressed by it. And honestly, Kelsey brought in some things I didn’t know, and I’ve been a life coach for 6 years now. And it was so fun to just look at how hard she did research. She really held herself to a high standard, I felt like.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:17:53 – 00:18:22

I I mean and part of it was even I turned in my first submission. And this is the great thing about how I worked with teacher goals too because I turned in my first submission and so I’d write something as like, you know, oh, yeah. And this works this way. And it was something we learned in our certification with Brooke that you and I did, or just that I knew from coaching and whatnot. But they’d be like, cite your source. And I was like, oh, what’s my source for that? And so I actually dig in and do further research, and I learned so much in new research that I did for the book as well.

Lizzie Langston 00:18:22 – 00:18:27

Oh my gosh. And you had to manage your time like a pro with your family. You know? It’s not

Kelsey Sorenson 00:18:27 – 00:18:32

like you’re writing anything on top of your learning a business that might be You had like stuff

Lizzie Langston 00:18:32 – 00:18:47

come up and you just, like, stuck with it, you guys. I honestly you really could do, a behind the scenes, teach your people how to stick with writing a book. There’s so many people here that are trying or they have the idea. I think it’d be

Kelsey Sorenson 00:18:48 – 00:19:07

fun. That would be fun. Yeah. Oh, Linda says the review of the coaching call steps, c t f a r. Yes. The self coaching model, and c t f a r stands for circumstance, thought, feeling, action, result. Lizzie was the one who actually taught me the model, and now I’m teaching the model. Model, mommy.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:19:08 – 00:19:28

You are. No. I I remember I don’t know if you I don’t I can’t remember how long you’d been coaching when like, 2 and a half years probably. Okay. So it was a little bit, but you were, like, I just had my designer make this pretty thing of the model. I don’t know if you remember. Yeah. I think it was Felicia who made it, and you sent it to me.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:19:28 – 00:19:45

And so I then printed it out and hung it up, and I was like, this is just magic. And then I remember sharing it with one of my friends who’s a therapist, and she’s like, oh, yeah. That’s cognitive behavioral therapy. And I was like, oh, I thought I discovered this amazing but I mean, it is an amazing new thing. Then you and that’s what I love about

Lizzie Langston 00:19:45 – 00:20:25

this book. If you guys are gonna read it is you need to have your own experience. There’s a difference between intellectually being like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. You have a circumstance and then a thought, but in the book, she gives you so many examples that take you on the inside of it, and you’re gonna have your own moment where I call it higher consciousness. Like, basically, I feel like what’s the things that you put in this book, some of them are proprietary to you. Others of them are maybe a little bit more gathered very especially from the life coaching industry, but it’s like, ding. Like, all of a sudden, you can see a thought differently. All of a sudden, you can have a new vantage point, and you can solve a problem that’s been something for months or even years.

Lizzie Langston 00:20:25 – 00:20:43

I remember the very first time I ever used this particular tool, although you have some other really good tools in your book that I love also, but it was during my episode of postpartum depression. So I just can’t emphasize enough, like, the potency of what’s in the book. I’m really proud of you. It’s really awesome.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:20:43 – 00:20:51

Aw, Lizzie, you’re so sweet. I I love how the book turned out. I’m actually so proud of it. It turned out even better than I could have imagined.

Lizzie Langston 00:20:51 – 00:21:07

Oh, one of my passions and something that I feel like I really helped bring to you in your life was the nervous system getting into the body stuff, and that definitely made it into the book for sure in your own flavor. Did. In your own favor. You wanna talk about that for a second?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:21:07 – 00:21:16

I do. And I feel like that is something I’ve even this year been, like, getting so much better at too. And I feel like writing about it helped me to

Lizzie Langston 00:21:16 – 00:21:20

do it better. Let’s tell people what it even is. They’re like, what?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:21:21 – 00:21:23

So They’re like, what about the nervous system?

Lizzie Langston 00:21:23 – 00:21:26

Nervous system. Can I be teacher for a minute? Can I play teacher?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:21:26 – 00:21:29

Yes. You can. I can get another gen while you do that.

Lizzie Langston 00:21:29 – 00:21:51

Yeah. Because the frog is gonna crawl out of your throat here in a minute. No. I’m just kidding. But side note, my favorite first of all, my mom was a teacher, a public school teacher. 1st, she did mostly 1st grade, I think, maybe 2nd grade too. And then she had all of her babies and decided to be the mom teacher at home. But my favorite game to play when I was little was classroom and teacher, and I would be the teacher.

Lizzie Langston 00:21:51 – 00:22:21

And I had all these students, and they were either my stuffed animals or they were just invisible, and I would go to great lengths. I mean, I would make a worksheet with my on the paper and then make copies and then put 30 copies or, I don’t know, maybe 10 or 12 copies around the room. And then I would grade them all. And I loved the feeling of all the work of a teacher when I was little. So funny. Now I homeschool 2 kids, so that’s fun. And then one of them is in a Montessori classroom, and she loves it. So, anyway, let’s talk about the nervous system.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:22:21 – 00:22:24

You’re like me. We go down rabbit holes. Like

Lizzie Langston 00:22:24 – 00:22:25

Well, I fish live AT

Kelsey Sorenson 00:22:25 – 00:22:28

and T guys. We were just talking about that today too.

Lizzie Langston 00:22:28 – 00:22:55

Whole other conversation. Whole other conversation. Whole other one. But if you don’t know, basically, this is very oversim that’s not oversimplified, but it is simple, but that’s good. So we have 2 settings as humans. We can be in fight or flight, like, survival amped up mode, which isn’t necessarily bad, but it does draw on our hormonal reserves. And so we only wanna be there for a little bit, and then we want to recover. And that’s the other mode is sort of rest and rejuvenate.

Lizzie Langston 00:22:56 – 00:23:26

What a fun way to use that word. So we’re gonna restore I love that word. Yeah. So we have 2 modes. Are we amped up? Are we chilling? And the most problems happen when we are not aware that we’re actually still in that fight mode even if we’re doing supposedly relaxed things. Or another thing I hear from moms a lot is they know intellectually that they need to rest. And so they go try to rest. They go try to take the bath, try to go to bed early, and they can’t sleep, and they’re wired, and their brain’s going 10 places.

Lizzie Langston 00:23:26 – 00:24:05

So what can happen is you can get stuck in the fight or flight mode without meaning to, without even wanting to be. And there’s a such thing as cortisol addiction. Cortisol is your stress hormone that you use a lot of when you’re in that fight flight mode. You can actually get addicted to being in a state of cortisol response. It’s so messed up because it it’s hard. You gotta know how to go in there and manually flip gears. So just like a stick shift car, right, you gotta know how to crank that baby in reverse and be like, back it up. You also gotta know how to go from the one gear to the other, and especially as women get older and they’re and they have babies in their hormones and not just women.

Lizzie Langston 00:24:05 – 00:24:32

I happen to work with women a lot, so that’s don’t mind if I mentioned women a lot, but even men hormones change as we get older. And, also, if you’ve just been dealing with a lot of stress, I’m just telling you your life as an adult human being will be so much better if you are not doing this already. If you learn even just a little bit about the basics of the nervous system, which this book if you’re a teacher or an educator or a parent that educates, honestly, this is this book just puts it in such a great way. And I Yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:24:32 – 00:24:33

There’s a whole chapter dedicated to that.

Lizzie Langston 00:24:33 – 00:24:49

And I remember being like, wait. Wait. Wait. We gotta make sure we get all this in here because this is so good. And she nailed it nailed it so beautifully because she lives it. And so, anyway, it was really cool. And I hope that you guys, when you read this, you don’t just have an intellectual experience. I hope you actually have a body shift.

Lizzie Langston 00:24:49 – 00:24:52

I hope you have a gear shift. That’s my hope. That would be great.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:24:53 – 00:25:12

Yeah. And that is the goal because and that’s why actually and, Lizzie, I think I’m gonna be showing you this for the first time. And some of you, if you’ve been on other lives, you might have seen it, but not only do you get ready. I I have to grab the physical book to show everybody to. That’s why I went off screen again for a sec. But so you get the book. Right? Oh my gosh. But there’s also so many bonuses.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:25:12 – 00:25:25

This is the PDF workbook. I printed it out and found it because I’m a total teacher, and I have my own laminator. I have my own binding machine. You know? Of course. Anybody else have their own laminator and binding machine? I mean or if you don’t, like, you would do it at school.

Lizzie Langston 00:25:25 – 00:25:26

Come on. That’s not people.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:25:26 – 00:25:42

Come on. Come on. But look look how thick this is. Okay? I just kept going. Like, every exercise in the book or, like, idea basically, man, like, here’s 24 hour observation. Look how many questions. So much journaling. You guys are gonna love this.

Lizzie Langston 00:25:42 – 00:25:45

You’re gonna get all teacher giddy about what you’re talking.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:25:45 – 00:26:18

Got it. I mean, so you can actually do and apply it. And, again, don’t feel like, oh, that’s overwhelming. I don’t think I can do it. You are the boss of yourself. You gotta choose if or how much of this you do, but, also, you could do, like, 5 minutes a day and just work your way through it. And that way, you’re not only just passively consuming information, but you are able to actually apply this work and do it and really get in touch with it because what I found and, Lizzie, you’ve mentioned this to me, and I feel like I really caught on to the model first when we were coaching. The embodied stuff came with time and then journaling.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:26:19 – 00:26:25

I feel like once I started writing, it’s crazy what comes out when you write versus just when you talk or when you think. Right?

Lizzie Langston 00:26:25 – 00:26:26

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:26:26 – 00:26:33

There’s really something magical about writing, and that’s why there’s so much journaling, so many questions. Even research

Lizzie Langston 00:26:33 – 00:27:19

on the nervous system says that when you put it out in front of you like, when you use your hand and you put it out in front of you, you get space between you and the emotion or you and the memory. And that space is where healing can happen because then instead of being in it, you’re looking at it, and now you can make more of a response versus a reaction because it’s, like, taking over your body. So that space is everything. Like, in coaching, we call it holding the space because I’m holding a space for you to take it out and put it here so you can see it, or maybe I’m verbally reflecting it back to my client, and then your body literally feels different. And my cup is that front especially if you get the workbook combined with the book that you’re going to have it.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:27:19 – 00:27:22

Well, the workbook comes with the book, by the way. You know,

Lizzie Langston 00:27:22 – 00:27:26

the workbook comes with the book because you are looking at a teacher to meet

Kelsey Sorenson 00:27:26 – 00:27:43

a book. It’s a package deal. Yeah. It’s one of your bonuses that you get. That mobile app the mobile app that has 3 guided meditations and videos that go with the workbook that explain the exercises the book club, like, so much that you’re getting just by buying a book. You’re basically getting some coaching with the book. Speaking, I do want,

Lizzie Langston 00:27:48 – 00:28:01

can you just briefly walk us through the framework? Because it’s been a minute since I’ve gotten to hear it. I got to be in it when you were really, really creating it. Yeah. Yeah. What is you know, when you say, if you get into this work, it’s gonna help you. What is the work for teachers?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:01 – 00:28:01

What

Lizzie Langston 00:28:01 – 00:28:02

have you created?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:03 – 00:28:14

Can I literally show you? Because Of course. Hold it up for the class, Kelsey. I know. I’m gonna just be a real teacher here for a moment. I mean, I am a real teacher, but you know what I mean. If that’s anything less. Okay. So the framework.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:14 – 00:28:23

So here’s the book, and the framework is so 3 okay, I gotta get it in the right spot. Here we go. So 3 step frameworks. So first is to observe yourself.

Lizzie Langston 00:28:24 – 00:28:24

So so

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:24 – 00:28:25

we’re paying attention Can

Lizzie Langston 00:28:25 – 00:28:28

I give an example? So you say the framework, I’ll give an example.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:29 – 00:28:29

Yes. Let’s do that.

Lizzie Langston 00:28:29 – 00:28:32

You say if I’m right or wrong because you’re the teacher.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:28:32 – 00:28:34

Okay. So observe yourself, Lizzie.

Lizzie Langston 00:28:34 – 00:28:54

An example. Okay. Listen. Observing yourself sounds simple, but we all know that we get caught up in a reaction. Right? And so let’s say you are let’s say you’re in the classroom and you have a teacher or sorry. Not a teacher. You have, I don’t know, a supervisor that’s there watching you teach, and then there’s Your admin. Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:28:54 – 00:29:07

Your admin. Thanks for the language of the teachers. And then there’s, like, a 5 minute break. The kids are doing a worksheet, and the admin maybe comes over to you and shares their notes with you. And there’s something that’s just a little bit of constructive criticism, and it kinda bothers you. And so Yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:29:07 – 00:29:08

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:29:08 – 00:29:47

Yeah. So now you’re in front of the class again, and they’re still there observing you, and you’re kinda peeved. Right? And so that is the moment where you would use this step. You would observe yourself. Okay? So you’re you’re stepping out of being in the storm, and you’re looking at the storm. You’re like, what’s going on? So we’re taking inventory of the moment, maybe my heart, and and specifically, what really helps is get into your sensation. So what’s happening in your body? So my heartbeat’s pounding. Obviously, you’re gonna be having a lot of thoughts, but sometimes, trying to get into the thoughts when they’re going fast and you’re angry or there’s a lot of emotion actually kind of ensnares you deeper.

Lizzie Langston 00:29:47 – 00:30:05

They’re sticky. So just go to the body, stop, drop, and get in the body. And it’s like, oh, my jaw is clenched, and Mhmm. My heart rate is up, and I have an a tickling, niggling thing in my stomach. Like okay. So that would be the first one. Observe yourself.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:30:05 – 00:30:24

But, yeah, you’re noticing it. And then we talk a lot about having a lot of compassion as you do it and not trying to fix it. It literally is just observing it. You’re not doing anything else Yeah. About it at that time. And then after that oh, and it doesn’t say here because, right, we haven’t gotten there yet. So then when you get to when you get to section 2, I will show you. Let’s see.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:30:24 – 00:30:38

It’s after chapter 5. I know that much. So section 1, this is the other thing. The observe yourself is 5 chapters. The other 2 are 3 chapters each, and there’s a reason for that. It’s because observe yourself is really the foundation. Right? Well, it’s it’s it’s the moment

Lizzie Langston 00:30:38 – 00:30:50

you become it’s the moment you become conscious. It’s like, how many of us are living and teaching from an unconscious almost like the way you get when you’re brushing your teeth. You’ve done it so many times. You’re unconscious.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:30:50 – 00:30:54

Like rope, like just going through the motions. That is that is Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:30:54 – 00:31:13

Unconscious. Flipping through the channels. Unconscious. But the observing yourself actually turns on your consciousness. And from a place of consciousness, you get to make change. You get to become in the driver’s seat. And so it’s actually harder than it sounds, but it’s the change maker. So that’s why there’s 5 chapters on it.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:31:14 – 00:31:37

And like I mentioned, that’s the reason why there’s a staircase, but it’s not like, oh, you moved on from this. I wanna make sure it’s kind of layered. This is still the foundation of this step. We’re just adding on more like riding a bike with training wheels when you’re learning the steering, the pedaling. And then when you take those training wheels off, you’re still steering and pedaling. You just now have a habit of that. Right? So we’re adding on. So next, we choose our direction.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:31:37 – 00:31:54

Right? So that’s when we start to get more intentional. We start to look at what is it that I really want and not just going through the motions. We talk a lot about the different people pleasing we do, the manuals we have, which is a concept you learn about coaching the book. Kind of. I know. I know. This is what you learn when you read the book.

Lizzie Langston 00:31:55 – 00:32:23

It’s all of the programming that we haven’t looked at. Yeah. So when you observe yourself and you calm your body down like we just talked about and you start to chill a little bit more, then you’re like, oh my gosh. I’m just projecting this onto this person or I am why why do I even need to be mad about this? Do I even really wanna be mad about this? Do I really need to be ruining my day over this? It’s just that moment where your inner adult is like, okay. I’m gonna make an executive decision for team Kelsey or team Lizzie.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:32:25 – 00:32:34

Yeah. And one of the things that you even talk about when I introduced the what do you want is actually that scene in the notebook when, like, Ryan Gosling is, like do you remember?

Lizzie Langston 00:32:34 – 00:32:36

No. I just think he’s hot. Sorry. What?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:32:38 – 00:32:49

I mean talented. And talented. Yeah. He’s cunuff. What is cunuff? From from the Barbie movie. Right?

Lizzie Langston 00:32:49 – 00:32:50

Enough. Sorry.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:32:50 – 00:32:52

Enough? Yep.

Lizzie Langston 00:32:52 – 00:32:54

Just had to remember that he was also in the Barbie movie.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:32:56 – 00:33:00

And jumping movies too quick. Jumping decades too quick. Right? You’re like, wait. We’re back in

Lizzie Langston 00:33:00 – 00:33:03

the I just think I’m a little bull.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:33:05 – 00:33:07

Anyway. Anyway. So Ryan

Lizzie Langston 00:33:08 – 00:33:08

Wayne Gosling.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:33:09 – 00:33:38

Ryan Gosling and Rachel Moral of the story of this book. Just kidding. No. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Right? And he’s she’s like, you know, I can’t it’s been a while since I’ve watched the movie. I just remember this scene where he’s like, what do you want? What do you want? And then she’s like, what do you want? It’s not that simple. It’s not that simple. What do you want? Stop thinking about what he wants, what your parents want, what I want.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:33:38 – 00:33:39

What do you want? That’s what he says.

Lizzie Langston 00:33:39 – 00:33:40

I love that.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:33:40 – 00:34:02

Along the lines of that. And, really, it’s because we are we want to make our students happy. We wanna make our admin happy. We wanna make our spouse or partner happy. We want to we want everyone else around us to be happy. And we think it’s because we won’t have that love and belonging that is so essential to our needs if we don’t make everybody else happy. It’s honestly, in a way, kind of like a safety thing. Right?

Lizzie Langston 00:34:02 – 00:34:22

It’s a freaking trauma response, and some of us have been in it since we were little kids, and we have not yet introduced our inner child to our inner adult and let the inner adult take over. So many of us, including myself at one point. And even still, sometimes I flip back and forth, and so this is all part of it.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:34:22 – 00:34:46

All part of it. So then we talk about thinking more intentionally. Right? Because a lot of what we talk about is how our thoughts like, that self coaching model that, again, we’re not gonna get into all of this tonight. That’s like Read the snorted copy of the book, teacher goals.com/educate dash bonuses. You will get all the bonuses. Unpop your opinion, but the movie of the notebook was not that good. Read the book. So much better.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:34:46 – 00:34:47

The book is always better. So

Lizzie Langston 00:34:48 – 00:34:55

See you guys tonight’s all about reading the book. Read the book. Read the book. Read educate and rejuvenate. Read the book. The moral of the story, read the book.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:34:55 – 00:35:15

Read the book. Okay. And then let’s move on to the 3rd part of the framework. The final step is to align yourself. Right? You observe, and then it’s almost like you’re creating the map. Right? You’re choosing your direction. Then align yourself is when you’re almost like, okay. This is what I’ve chosen, and now I’m aligning myself with it and making sure that what I’m doing alignment with the direction I wanna go.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:35:15 – 00:35:23

And I’m also reassessing and being like, is this still the direction I wanna go? Because it’s a constant, like, cycle of doing all the things. Right?

Lizzie Langston 00:35:23 – 00:35:48

Yeah. Let’s go back to the example in the classroom. Right? So you get that your administrator said something that was PV, whatever. And then you observe step 1, observe yourself. You notice all the fireworks going off inside your body, and even just the act of observing will help you be more calm. So if you turn the lights on, you become conscious. Right? Observe yourself. Number 2, what was number 2 again? It was pick choose your direction.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:35:48 – 00:35:49

Choose your direction. Yeah.

Lizzie Langston 00:35:49 – 00:36:21

Yeah. So then you’re gonna make your executive decision. You’re gonna tap into your inner adult. You’re gonna be like, what do I actually want here? Is this worth my time and energy to be mad about this? And if it is, that’s fine. Let’s go have a productive conversation. So your administrator comes in, says a thing, observe. Right? And then you make your executive decision, and she’s gonna coach you a lot on that in the book, so you’ll get more guidance for that. And then number 3 is align the rest of your stuff and the rest of your choices and the rest of your life with this decision you’ve made.

Lizzie Langston 00:36:21 – 00:36:40

And this is where the maintenance mode comes in, but let’s say maybe 2 hours later that admin pops back into your classroom and has one other little thing to say and, you know, you wanna say a little snidey, passive aggressive comment, but you’re going to align yourself. So you’re continuing to stay in consciousness conscious mode. Alright?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:36:40 – 00:36:44

You did perfect. So what Lizzie said, she did a great job.

Lizzie Langston 00:36:44 – 00:36:47

Okay. Can I read this one from Hannah? Can I start?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:36:47 – 00:36:51

Yes. But yeah. Let’s keep it on the screen. Do you want me to raise my hand? Okay.

Lizzie Langston 00:36:51 – 00:37:15

Hannah said in response to your question, Lizzie, which I asked everybody to share something they’ve learned from the book. She said, the reason the book has been so meaningful is because it solidifies in my mind every single thing I have learned in the club with Kelsey. And as I have gotten to know Kelsey, it is it’s so full of her vibrant personality, and that is also something I love about the book. So excited to meet you, Lizzie, because you are to Kelsey what she is to all of us.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:37:16 – 00:37:27

She’s like, she’s the sweetest. I love him. More, guys. I swear the people the people who come to our educate and rejuvenate community are just, like, amazing. Like

Lizzie Langston 00:37:27 – 00:37:28

Yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:37:28 – 00:37:28

Maybe I should

Lizzie Langston 00:37:28 – 00:37:33

hang out with them. Such great people. Maybe I should, like, fish fish for friends in your community.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:37:36 – 00:37:37

Yeah. Okay. I’ll do

Lizzie Langston 00:37:37 – 00:37:37

it anytime.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:37:38 – 00:38:02

Who designed the great cover for your book? So Tricia Fuglestad, she designed the cover. And it’s your publisher again? Teacher Goals. Yeah. They were in charge of the cover, and Tricia Fuglestad is the who they had designed it, and she did great. She’s also one of their authors. She wrote a book called a children’s book called Peter O’Meter that is adorable, but not just adorable. I mean, the art is just so great, but it has, like, STEM. It has social emotional learning.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:38:02 – 00:38:19

It has augmented reality and all this stuff. Lizzie, you should definitely check it out. Your kids would love it. Okay. Where where where can I get the book? So the link at the bottom of the screen, tshirtgoals.com/educate dash bonuses. Really, you can look it up on Amazon and get it. There’s Kindle. There’s paperbacks there on this.

Lizzie Langston 00:38:19 – 00:38:31

Educate and rejuvenate Kelsey Sorensen. You can order it wherever it pops up. But right here, teacher goals.comforward/educate dash bonuses, and then you’ll get the workbook with it. Right?

Kelsey Sorenson 00:38:32 – 00:38:37

And and there’s actually a link in the book to get the workbook and everything too. Jennifer said said if our brains

Lizzie Langston 00:38:37 – 00:38:47

are not in the executive state, then learning doesn’t happen. When in an emotional or survival state, then one cannot focus on learning because something is missing. Yeah.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:38:47 – 00:38:57

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And this applies to us. It applies to our students and our children too. So, yes, regulation is so so important.

Lizzie Langston 00:38:57 – 00:39:37

You know what? I get to act real quick with that. I get excited about the impact that a regulated teacher through reading your book. Yeah. And, obviously, if you need more help, Kelsey does coaching in her program. But through getting this work in your bones, the impact it could have on the entire vibe of your classroom, not to mention the influence on your children in the classroom because there’s this thing called nervous system syncing. Right? Because humans have mirror mirror neurons, the energy of your classroom you guys probably already have experienced this, or maybe it’s not your classroom. Maybe it’s just your kids at home. Maybe you run a home with a full co op.

Lizzie Langston 00:39:37 – 00:39:59

But the energy as human beings, even though we can’t see it with our eyes, we totally feed the energy of the room. And so if you’re not loving and obviously, children need to take accountability for their actions, and it’s not all you, but it isn’t it’s it’s a factor. And so it’s just one way to help the actual the whole classroom potentially is through you reading the book, getting the you know, starting to make change in you.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:40:00 – 00:40:26

Yeah. And I’ve just loved seeing like, I’ve even noticed on these lives or especially with those who have joined us in the educate and rejuvenate club, and we’ll be talking about a concept. And then naturally, without me even saying, like, how do you do this with your students too? They’ll pop in the chat. Oh, yeah. I do this with my students because when you make such a habit of something, it comes naturally that you then teach it to the kids too or Yeah. To those around you. There’s a ripple effect Yes. That happens when you do this work, and it’s so powerful.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:40:26 – 00:40:43

And it’s just kind of like Hannah was even mentioning. So I learned all this stuff from Lizzie, and then what did I do? I’m now teaching it to all of you and writing a book and teaching it to my kids. And so when you learn it, who are you going to teach it to? And it’s just gonna be this business that ripples around the education world, the world in general, and it’s beautiful. I love it.

Lizzie Langston 00:40:43 – 00:41:35

And one more last little thing with that, which is that because this is my passion is the spiritual awakening. I have to tell you that so many people, once this Kelsey’s would be like the first step. It’s the nervous system tempering, getting into those habits, the self regulation, that is often when whether you wanna call it a spiritual awakening or a shift in your consciousness, whether it is like, oh my gosh. I wanna be a digital nomad. Or it’s like people there’s this rejuvenation, this energy, this rejuvenation that comes through your body when you get all of the things working properly. So her book’s gonna help you get everything working okay. And then there’s just a whole side of life that people don’t typically experience until they do this foundational inner work. Our mission, my husband and I, is to show the world what the new world can look like, how new life can be lived.

Lizzie Langston 00:41:35 – 00:41:51

And your company is doing that too in your framework because you’re helping people get regulated and you’re a lot of times you can even help people make more money because they’re that’s another side effect is people are getting more regulated and then they come up with new ways to create revenue or or income. Well and

Kelsey Sorenson 00:41:51 – 00:42:06

that and that’s why we’ve, like, started having side hustle calls in the educate and rejuvenate club because we’ve noticed a lot of the people who, like, once they start doing the coaching, they’re like, oh, yeah. I wanna do something. And then they’ll ask questions. Like, would you want side hustle calls? And people like that. So it’s fun. But the the only possibility

Lizzie Langston 00:42:07 – 00:42:09

this is just the beginning. Possibilities are limited.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:42:09 – 00:42:24

Do you type or write longhand? So for actually writing the book, I type it out, but, like, when I was doing a lot of brainstorming, I would write. But what I would love is I would write on my Kindle scribe, which then will convert that into text, but I can write on it. So that’s what I would do.

Lizzie Langston 00:42:24 – 00:42:28

So moral of the story, get a Kindle scribe and buy the book Kindle.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:42:28 – 00:42:56

Moral of the story, I love my Kindle scribe. Okay. I bought the book on Amazon. How will I get the workbook? You might have heard me, but just in case, there is a link inside the book to get it. Also, I will if you go to that teacher goals.educate bonuses and fill out that form, it’ll send you an email about it. I love what Hannah says. This is kind of about alignment. It is similar to how we monitor and adjust in the classroom, and we must do the same work on ourselves, and that to me is alignment.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:42:56 – 00:43:16

Yes. 100%. What was the children’s book again? Oh, my friend, Tricia Fuglstad. She’s the one who designed the cover of my book. That one is called Peter O’Meter. So that one is a great book. Definitely check it out. Feel like a struggle with my own kid more than my students when it comes to schoolwork.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:43:17 – 00:43:22

I feed into the energy when it comes to homework. Oh, yeah. And our kids, they can feel our energy. Right?

Lizzie Langston 00:43:23 – 00:43:42

Oh my gosh. I have a whole episode on that on my podcast. It’s called nervous system syncing. But I mean, at first and even, like, bedtime, if I’m resisting bedtime and I’m just sort of, like, get away from me, get to bed, they become more needy. Because I’m dysregulated, so they seek my reassurance to calm them down.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:43:42 – 00:43:43

We want to

Lizzie Langston 00:43:43 – 00:44:07

co regulate. Coregulation is when I, as the adult, am regulated. I’m calm. I’ve got my needs met. They our children, if they are dysregulated, maybe they had a hard day at school, they want to be calm. They basically borrow our nervous system calm to help them get calm. Because children, I think it’s up until age 8, they don’t actually have the ability to calm themselves. They have to coregulate.

Lizzie Langston 00:44:08 – 00:44:15

So, anyway Yeah. So if you teach young kids at school, you definitely definitely definitely wanna know this stuff.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:44:16 – 00:44:36

By the way, I would love your reading. If you’ve read the book or if you are just starting to read, you can even just put, like, I love what I’m reading so far. I’m so excited to read. It just really helps Amazon push the book out there when you leave a review, by the way. So for those of you who already have the book, you’re excited about the book, I would love and appreciate if you leave a review. It would make my whole day. We love it. We got amazing people in our community.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:44:36 – 00:44:57

Thank you, guys. It was so fun. Thank you so much for your time here, Lizzie. This has been so much fun. And, again, snag your copy, teachergoals.com/educate bonuses. If you have any questions Yes. Send me an email at helloeducatemerjuvenate.com or DM me on Instagram. We’ll be happy to help you, and we’ll chat later.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:44:58 – 00:45:07

Yay. Thank you, guys. Oh, Lizzie. Hang on. We gotta tell we gotta tell them where to find you. She’s on Instagram. At lizzie.postpartumcoach. Lizzie.postpartumcoachon

Lizzie Langston 00:45:08 – 00:45:56

Instagram. Although, I’m gonna be honest with you, I haven’t been on Instagram as much because I I discovered substack, and it’s like an app for writers. Oh, I am, like, obsessed with substack now, so I’m on substack, just Elizabeth Langston, and then also my podcasts. So I have the postpartum coach podcast has over 350 episodes that are totally free, and it’s a lot of mental health and nervous system and even spiritual stuff too. And then I have restoring the feminine, which is my newer podcast, and it is for deconstructing patriarchy and finding your way spiritually, in an authentic way. And, yeah, and that’s what I write about on Substack too. So it’s amazing, and I love it all. So you can go check they’re on all the major platforms, and I would love to have you for sure.

Lizzie Langston 00:45:56 – 00:46:07

I even have some freebies for postpartum women. I’ve got a wound healing ceremony that’s good for women at any age. And, frankly, I mean, I know men don’t have wounds, but it’s just like your relationship with creativity.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:46:08 – 00:46:29

Thank you, Lizzie. K. Everybody, hopefully, we’ll see you soon on another live. You’re all amazing. We’ll chat later. Bye. I hope you loved that interview with Lizzie. She is such an amazing person, such a big heart.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:46:29 – 00:47:00

Make sure to check out my other interview with her on the podcast if you love this one. It’s episode 43, how to be a better teacher by taking care of yourself. Lizzie has so much wisdom. Make sure to follow her. So good. And honestly, it’s because, like we talked about in there, my initial work with Lizzie that I began this journey, that you’re even listening to this podcast. And that I wrote this book, Educate and Rejuvenate that I’m holding in my hands right now. And the reason why I’m able to host this winter event that we’re about to announce tonight as you’re listening to it and that I help you attend.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:47:00 – 00:47:32

So don’t forget if you’re listening to this live, to kind of the reveal party today, if you’re listening right as this episode hit this morning, like, on your way to school, come tonight. It’s gonna be a great time. But if not, make sure to go to educate and rejuvenate.com to learn more about the event. Again, I can’t spoil it here today, but next week I will share more information. But either way, again, today we’re talking about the book since the event hasn’t happened yet. So please take a moment to check out the Educate and Rejuvenate book if you have not yet, if you’re still listening. Because if you’re still listening, that means you were gaining something for this episode. You wouldn’t have kept it running if you weren’t.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:47:32 – 00:48:11

And if you found this episode helpful, the book is going to be like a 1000 times more helpful. There is so much in here, so much goodness. We really go deep into the stories and everything we talked about. There’s the workbook that not only helps you only like just kinda listen leisurely, but like really put all of this into action and have it make a difference in your life. So again, check out the book on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Target online. You can buy any of the places. It’s called Educate and Rejuvenate, a 3 step guide to revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your passion for life. And if you already have a copy, if you’ve been reading it, it would mean the world to me if you leave a review.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:48:11 – 00:48:44

We’ve had lots of reviews start rolling in, but only a small percentage actually do leave a review. And it only takes a moment. And it makes such a big difference in us helping get this work to more teachers, some more educators, homeschool parents, admins, any kind of teacher can learn how to do all these things that we’ve been talking about. It really helps Amazon push it out to more people and my publisher will promote it more as we get more reviews. So again, it it means so much to me when you leave a review. And here’s one that just came in just so I can share. This is from Kim Roden. So thank you so much, Kim, for sharing this review.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:48:44 – 00:49:00

You’ll see it right on Amazon. Currently, it’s the top review but they tend to rotate them. It’s called a great read for every educator, a verified purchase. She says this will be a best seller in the education field. Like, when I read that, that just made my day. I’m just like picturing it. Like, oh, best seller. I mean, and it was.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:49:00 – 00:49:30

Like, when it came out, it was like on the best seller in education. I I guess you could say that already happened. But she says, as a former teacher, Kelsey understands our needs. She knows how easy it is to want to give up, but she rejuvenates and revitalizes our soul. Real life examples and ideas are included. She was writing this for me and about me. I loved her 2023 and 2024 summer conferences and now she will be guiding me into 2025. She provides more opportunities to help educators grow.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:49:30 – 00:49:59

I can’t wait to see what comes next. Congratulations on such a well written and much needed guide. And that’s what this book is, is a guide for you and it is going to help lead you into next year, into 2025 or whenever you’re listening to this. So make sure to snag a copy if you haven’t yet. If you have, please leave a review. It means the absolute world to me to leave a review on Amazon. And even if you didn’t purchase your copy on Amazon, you can still go and leave a review. That’s where it really matters the most because that’s where most people are buying.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:49:59 – 00:50:34

We have a big goal of hitting 50 reviews as soon as we can. And when we hit that, we will be sharing a free resource with our entire email list. And for our members who already have all the resources, we’ll do another Starbucks card for all of our Educate and Rejuvenate club members. So it means the world, the collective effort of all of you leaving a review. Again, you can only do it one time so that collective effort is going to continue to reward everyone as we hit more reviews. So once we hit 50, we’ll do one for 75. And once we hit 75, we’ll do it for a 100 and so forth. So again, this collective effort of leaving reviews on the book is going to help us help more teachers.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:50:34 – 00:50:50

So thank you so much and I will talk to you next week. We’ve got an awesome episode with the keynote of Educate and Rejuvenate coming next week. I can’t tell you who it is because I I can’t tell you yet. So you’ll find out next week and learn more about the event. So we’ll talk then.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:50:54 – 00:51:38

Thank you for joining me on educate and rejuvenate the podcast today. If you love what you heard in this episode, be sure to hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next one. And if you’re hungry for even more, be sure to check out the book that I wrote. It’s called educate and rejuvenate, a 3 step guide to revitalize your teaching, renew your spirit, and reignite your passion for life. It takes everything you learn here on the podcast and that I teach our members inside the educate and rejuvenate club into a guide book you can refer to again and again. One of our early readers said it was like clarity for her brain. Plus, it’s not only a book. With your purchase, you’ll get a full PDF guide with exercises and links to videos and more so that you can not only consume, but apply everything that you learned.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:51:38 – 00:51:40

If you’re ready to make educate and rejuvenate

Kelsey Sorenson 00:51:40 – 00:51:42

not just a podcast you passively listen to,

Kelsey Sorenson 00:51:42 – 00:51:54

0:00 – 51:54

but a lifestyle that you put into action, it’s time to grab your copy on Amazon today, or head to educate and rejuvenate.com/book to read the first chapter and the introduction today.

More about Educate & Rejuvenate: The Podcast

Being an educator is beyond a full-time job. Whether you’re a teacher or a homeschool parent, the everyday to-do list is endless. Between lesson planning, grading, meetings, and actually teaching, it probably feels impossible to show up for your students without dropping the ball in other areas of your life.

Educate & Rejuvenate: The Podcast is the show that will bring you the teacher tips, practical strategies, and inspiration that you need to relieve the stress and overwhelm of your day-to-day. Your host, Kelsey Sorenson, is a former teacher and substitute turned homeschool mom. Tune in weekly to hear Kelsey and her guests cheer you on and help you thrive as a wife, teacher, and mommy. Because with a little support and community, you can do it all. To access every single Educate & Rejuvenate resource, join the club at educateandrejuvenate.com/club.

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