What To Do When You Feel Stuck [episode 109]

October 31, 2023

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Key points on what to do when you feel stuck:

Why you should have lots of grace with yourself
How to get clarity around what you’re stuck about and why you’re feeling this way
How to process emotions and how to tame them
Why you should check in with yourself if you are regulated or activated
What a “thought download” is and how it can help you get unstuck
And more!

What to Do When You Feel Stuck: 5 Steps to Get Back on Track

Feeling stuck can happen to the best of us—whether it’s mid-school year burnout, unmet goals, or schedules that just aren’t working out. If you’ve ever set ambitious plans only to find yourself in a rut, this episode of Wife Teacher Mommy: The Podcast is here to help! Let’s dive into practical strategies to reset, recalibrate, and rediscover your momentum.

Why Feeling Stuck Happens

As teachers, homeschool parents, and busy professionals, we often experience slumps—especially as the school year progresses. Despite our best intentions, life happens, plans go awry, and goals may feel out of reach. But the good news? Feeling stuck is temporary, and there are actionable steps to get back on track.

Step 1: Give Yourself Grace

When you’re feeling stuck, the first thing to do is stop being so hard on yourself. Negative self-talk like “I’m a failure” or “I’ll never catch up” only makes things worse. Instead, practice self-compassion. Acknowledge that you’re human and that setbacks are part of growth. Imagine speaking to your younger self—would you be as critical? Of course not. Treat yourself with that same kindness.

Step 2: Check In With Your Nervous System

Next, assess whether you’re regulated or activated. This means asking yourself: “Am I safe?” While you might be physically safe, your body may not feel that way. If your nervous system is on high alert, take a moment to ground yourself. Techniques like deep breathing or body relaxation can calm your system. Remember, a relaxed body cannot house stress, as expert Leah Davidson explains in an upcoming podcast episode you won’t want to miss.

Step 3: Process Your Emotions

Once you’ve regulated your body, it’s time to identify your emotions. What are you feeling, and where do you feel it in your body? Whether it’s tightness in your chest or racing thoughts, naming and processing your emotions can help you understand what’s going on. Need a refresher? Check out our earlier episode on navigating back-to-school emotions for more guidance.

Step 4: Gain Clarity With the Self-Coaching Model

Feeling stuck often stems from unexamined thoughts. The Self-Coaching Model is a powerful tool to break this cycle. Here’s how it works:

Circumstance: The neutral facts (e.g., “I weigh X pounds” or “My goal was Y”).
Thought: The story or meaning you attach to the circumstance (e.g., “I just can’t do this”).
Feeling: How that thought makes you feel (e.g., “defeated” or “anxious”).
Action: What you do—or don’t do—when feeling that way (e.g., skipping workouts or eating chocolate).
Result: The outcome of those actions (e.g., progress stalls).

By separating facts from thoughts, you can identify and reframe the beliefs holding you back.

Step 5: Recalibrate and Rebuild Your Schedule or Goals

Sometimes what worked before doesn’t work now—and that’s okay! Adjust your schedule and goals to align with your current needs. Start with an ideal week, blocking out non-negotiables (work, teaching, appointments) and intentionally penciling in self-care and downtime. This creates a flexible framework you can tweak as needed.

For goals, take a moment to reset. Visualize your growth as an expansion of who you already are—whole and capable. Tools like vision boards can help you focus on your “why” and stay motivated.

Final Thoughts: You’ve Got This!

When life feels overwhelming, remember that progress isn’t linear. With grace, clarity, and intentional adjustments, you’ll be back on track before you know it. And don’t forget to tune in next week for an incredible interview with Leah Davidson, where we’ll explore how befriending your nervous system can transform your mindset.

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Read the transcript for episode 109, What To Do When You Feel Stuck:

You are listening to episode number 109 of Wife Teacher Mommy the podcast. What to do when you feel stuck. Today, we’re talking about what to do when you had goals or you created a schedule for yourself, but you’re just finding yourself in a rut or feeling stuck without progress. So let’s talk about.

Speaker B 00:00:21 – 00:00:31

Hey, teacher. We thought you’d wanna do. Someone’s gotta take care of you. Whether it’s the time

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:01 – 00:01:41

Welcome to Wife, Teacher, Mommy, the podcast. I’m Kelsey Sorensen, a former elementary teacher and current homeschool mom. And even though I’ve been a resource creator since 2014, I’ve realized that printables alone aren’t all you need in order to thrive as a teacher or homeschool parent. That’s why I also created this show and got certified as a life coach to help you finally kick burnout to the curb and feel confident with whatever challenges come your way. With the right mindset strategies and new teaching inspiration, you’re going to be well on your way to your best teacher life. Now let’s go. Okay. My friend, you are in for a real treat.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:01:42 – 00:02:02

This is not a trick. You are invited to my birthday party. Super excited. I’m so excited. Now this birthday party is kind of a combination of sorts. So first off, it’s gonna be a time when we all get together virtually. We’re going to give away tons of prizes. We’re gonna give away here at the club.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:02:02 – 00:02:46

We’re going to give away, these really cool collapsible bins, a rolling cart, some really fun stuff. We are also going to have a workshop together. So, like, just the reason same as the reason I’ve titled this episode, we’re into the fall now, and it’s kind of that time in the school year where you may start feeling a little bit in a rut. Maybe things aren’t going quite according to plan. You had some goals that you had at the beginning of the school year, and maybe they’re kind of halted. And maybe your schedule isn’t quite what you’d like. We’re kinda getting into what even when it went you know, when you go to your teacher’s school, when you’re getting licensed as a teacher, you may have seen that whole thing where you kind of start having that slump of the school year and it comes back up like it’s a real thing. You might be feeling that right now.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:02:46 – 00:03:17

So at this workshop, we are going to look both at your goals and your overall schedule in your life. I’m going to share my science backed goal setting process, going to walk it through together, and I’m going to help you create your ideal week. And yes, this is a birthday party for me because I love teaching about this stuff. And it’s actually launching on my birthday when you can sign up for it. It it’ll be happening a week later. So really excited about it. We’re going to go give away those really fun prizes to some of you who attend live. There’ll be more surprises and fun.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:03:17 – 00:03:48

It is my birthday party after all. We might be sharing like a maybe like a Starbucks gift card or something like that. You know? I mean, what? I didn’t say that. Anyways, it’s gonna be really fun. You already have an invitation if you have purchased one of our planners. So whether you purchased it or got it as a club member, club members also have access to printable and digital, so any club member. But if neither of those applies to you, we have a special invitation where you’re able to join us. You can get 3 full weeks of wife teacher mommy club plus our teacher planner.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:03:49 – 00:04:21

All you have to do is pay the shipping, printing, and handling costs for the planner. Like, we don’t make any money off of it when you sign up for this offer. We sold the planner for $49 during the planner season, and they are worth that much. But we want this to be an easy yes for you. We know you might already have a planner for this school year, but we want you to have this one. Because our planner is the only teacher planner out there that I know of that helps you through my science backed goal setting process. And it helps you to create positive thinking patterns. It helps you to build habits.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:04:21 – 00:04:57

It helps you to do so many things, like create your ideal week. And most planners like, the reason I made this planner is that most teacher planners skip these pages. Like, you’ll find them in, like, life planners or business planners. But what I found, and I think it’s even because when I was talking to my supplier and about ordering the planners in the first place, he’s like, are you sure you want this many pages? Like, they’re usually not quite this long and especially not in full color. It’ll cost you a lot more. And I was like, well, yeah, because that’s why I created this planner. I didn’t wanna skip on the teaching planning part, but also wanted to have all this other stuff too. And it’s just such an incredible planner.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:04:57 – 00:05:24

I love it. I love using mine. We’ve had great feedback from those who have received it. We want you to try out this planner. We want you to come to the workshop to learn how to use the planner and how it can help you. And you would get 3 weeks to join us on coaching calls, in the club. You can download up to 10 resources during the trial period. So even that trial alone, you get to watch, like, any of the past coaching calls, any of the past educate and rejuvenate sessions.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:05:25 – 00:06:03

You’ll be able to attend some of the calls happening in October, including learning about cognitive distortions, like I’ve been talking about on the podcast, Or open coaching with me where you can come and be coached on anything. Also about winter blues. And I also have a special call happening at the end of the month, which isn’t coaching, but it’s going over some of our top holiday resources and how you can use them in the classroom. The club is just such a fun time. You’ll get 3 weeks to join us in there, watch any replay, download resources, and it’s easy to cancel if you decide it’s not for you. We make it easy to join, easy to leave if you need to. Like, there’s no calling somebody and jumping through a 1000000 hoops. It’s just you go to your account and it walks you through the process.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:06:03 – 00:06:30

You could do it yourself. You could do it, like, an hour before the charge, and you won’t get charged. Like, super simple. So we’d love you to come get the planner, come to this workshop, give the club a try, and come to my birthday party where we’re gonna have lots of fun. So would love to see you there. Okay. So on today’s show, though, I’m gonna give you kind of a little preview of what we’re going to go over in this workshop. So during the workshop, we’re really going to be going over the how, the, like, how you create your schedule, how you set up your ideal week.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:06:30 – 00:07:07

I mean, I’m gonna talk a little bit about it on the podcast, but I really need to show you and have some more time to do it. But today, we’re gonna talk about what to do first when you’re feeling stuck. So this is really part 1. Like, I’m not gonna get to all of this in the workshop because I’m really gonna be focusing on the how. So this is the, like, kind of more getting in there, figuring out what it is you need. So in this episode, I have 5 things I want you to do when you are feeling stuck. So the first thing we want to do is to give lots of grace to yourself. We tend to beat ourselves up when we feel stuck or when we maybe didn’t finish things on our to do list or when or maybe not as far as we want to be on our goals.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:07:07 – 00:07:48

We tend to be like, oh, why did I do that? I should’ve done this or I shouldn’t have done that or, you know, I am such a loser or whatever you might be thinking about yourself. Now I want to remind you that this isn’t helpful. When we think like this, it’s not helping us to become better. Sometimes we think that if we say things like this to ourself, like, oh, I need to tell myself this because I need to make sure I don’t keep being like this. But what happens is it just makes us feel worse. What we need to do is have compassion with ourselves and recognize our humanness, have some compassion. Maybe even get curious about maybe why why was it going on like this? Oh, I this happened, I’m going through this and just kind of having some understanding for yourself. Remember your self talk.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:07:48 – 00:08:26

We tend to be a lot harder with our self talk than we will be for other people. Like for example, like Christina, during our keynote, educate and rejuvenate, she shared about that video where she showed people the pictures of themselves when they were younger and said, would you say all those things to them? And no, we wouldn’t. Right? So remember, you’re still that little girl or little boy or child. And you’re just the grown up version of you. So just remember that, and remember to be kind and have a lot of grace with yourself when you’re feeling stuck or when things aren’t going exactly how you wanted. That’s okay. You are still just as whole and human as you have ever been. Okay.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:08:26 – 00:09:06

So number 2 is check-in with yourself. See if you are regulated or activated. And we are going to be talking a lot more about this on the podcast next week. I really, really, really want you to listen to next week’s episode with Leah Davidson. She is an expert in the nervous system, but I’m going to give you a little preview today. So what I want you to do is, first, again, all the grace, stop the negative self talk. But next, we really wanna check-in with our nervous system and see what is going on. And the way you do this is you ask yourself, am I safe? Chances are you are physically safe.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:09:06 – 00:09:28

Like, you’re in a place, like, where nothing bad is happening to you physically. Nobody’s, like, hurting you or anything like that. But the next thing you do is check-in with your body. Okay. I am safe, but body, do I feel safe? And you kinda go in and be like, okay. Maybe I don’t feel safe. I am safe, but I don’t feel safe. And even just recognizing those things, like, reminding yourself, oh, I am safe.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:09:28 – 00:10:02

Even though my body doesn’t feel safe, I am safe. Kinda help you notice that. And then you may, okay, I don’t feel safe. So then what you do is you kind of go into your body and calm yourself down. Because as Leah says in the podcast episode, the interview that you’ll hear next week, a relaxed body cannot house stress. So when we focus on relaxing our body, the stress will melt away. And that’s what I’ve talked a lot about when we are like processing emotions, it can help the emotions simmer down. But when we’re dysregulated, we can kind of do that same process to help regulate ourselves first.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:03 – 00:10:39

Okay. The next thing we want to do when we’re feeling regulated about it is kind of once you feel like, okay, I’m regulated, now let’s see what are my emotions. Kind of name the emotion that you’re feeling and identify it, submit, okay, this is what I’m feeling. So when we are dysregulated, we’re really trying to focus on making sure that we feel safe in our bodies. And once we do, that is when we can process our emotions or do thought work, which is what we do with the self coaching model, which I’m going to talk about in just a minute. So once we were like, okay, I’m safe. I feel safe. Now let’s see what else I’m feeling in my body.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:10:39 – 00:11:16

So that is where we can go in and be like, okay, I feel like I’m feeling anxious. I feel like it’s, you know, run, rushing through my veins. I feel my chest kind of tighten up or whatever it is that you’re currently feeling in that moment. And you can process the emotion around it. You can kind of think about what it is you’re feeling. Is it hard? Is it soft? What color would it be? Just kind of ask those questions that I’ve gone over in some of the other episodes, like the one about, the back to school emotions. If you really want help with walking through your emotions, definitely go back to that episode. That will help you with processing emotions.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:17 – 00:11:49

Okay. Number 4. Is get clarity around what you’re stuck about and why you’re feeling this way. So, I mean, I would also recommend listening to, if you’re really trying to get clear on what you want, what you need. There’s an episode I recently did called how to get clear on what you really want. That is a great one to listen to if you’re needing a little bit more help with this one. But so it kinda getting clear on what we’re stuck with and why you’re feeling this way. And how you can get clear on why you’re feeling a certain way is with the self coaching model.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:11:49 – 00:12:39

Again, this is when we are regulated. We’re gonna really get into this thought work. And the self coaching model, I’ve taught about it on the podcast before, but whenever I mentioned it, I wanna review it a little bit in case you’re new. And also what I found, even with our club members, is reviewing it is really helpful because it’s a concept that while it’s simple, like the 5 parts of the model, you can be studying it like forever and there’s always more you can learn about it. So what the self coaching model is, it kinda it’s backed by cognitive behavioral therapy, but it’s a simple model that was put together by my mentor, Brooke Castillo from The Life Coach School. And it helps us to understand what is going on, how our thoughts create our feelings, drive our actions and results. So with the model, the first step is your C, your circumstance, and that is just what is going on, what is observable in the world. There’s no meaning put behind it yet.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:12:39 – 00:13:25

And then we have a thought about it. And again, those thoughts might be triggered by and again, our thoughts don’t come from nowhere. Our thoughts come from, like, our context, like our backgrounds, what social media, what is our current program thinking patterns, and possibly from our nervous system? Like, we have thoughts that are imprinted in our minds from what is going on. What has happened to us in the past? So we have a thought. Right? And that thought drives our feeling. So then the if we wanna get clear on why we’re feeling this way, what we want to get clear on is what we’re thinking that’s causing us to feel that way. So our thought drives our feelings, our feelings drive our actions. So when we feel anxious, we will do certain things that we wouldn’t do.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:13:25 – 00:14:03

What if we’re feeling a different way about something? We’ll do certain things and then we will not do other things. When we look at our actions, we look at both our actions and our inactions. So like things you are doing and things you aren’t doing that might be something you do if you were feeling a different way in this situation. And then the last part of the model is the R, the results. So it’s the CTFAR model. So circumstance, thought, feeling, action, result. And the result is revealed by your actions. It’s just what are all these actions creating? So let me give a quick example.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:04 – 00:14:22

Let’s just do weight loss. That’s usually really easy example. Let’s say you had a goal to lose £10 by this point in the school year and you haven’t yet. Maybe you haven’t lost any weight. Maybe you gained a couple pounds. Okay. Let’s just say that. And your circumstance is I have not met my goal.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:24 – 00:14:57

Or I mean, that might not even feel like neutral enough. It might even just be like, I weigh this amount. Yeah. My goal was this amount. And your thought would be something maybe something like, I just can’t do this. And that would cause you to feel like maybe sad or upset. Right? And then when we feel that way, what do we do? What do we not do? So when I’m feeling sad or upset because I just can’t do this, and if it’s about weight loss, I might just kind of throw in the towel. I might go to my pantry and get some chocolate to feel better.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:14:58 – 00:15:33

I might not work out as much because I’m telling myself I can’t do it, things like that. And then the result of that, again, this is a lot of times we get a lot more detailed in the model. I was just kind of making this one up as I go. The result of that would be that I’m preventing myself from making progress on my goal. Right? So we can see that our thoughts drive our feelings, create our actions and our results. So what you can do is you can kind of do what I call a thought download. You can write down all your thoughts about the situation, whatever it is you’re feeling stuck about. Just try to write everything down on a piece of paper.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:15:33 – 00:16:12

And then you can look at it and be like, okay, what is going on here? And that piece of paper can give you lots of insight. And then from there, you can pick, what are the thoughts and what are the circumstances? So remember our circumstances are just the facts. There’s no meaning put behind it. It is what anybody could observe. So from what you write down, what are the facts? What are the thoughts about it? What are the things that are subjective that you think that maybe somebody else might not agree with? Or that definitely have meaning put behind it. Separate the circumstances and the thoughts, the facts and the story of the situation. And then you might be able to see, oh, I think it’s this thought that’s causing me a lot of trouble. You could potentially put that in a model.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:16:12 – 00:17:10

So you could put the circumstance of whatever your circumstances, your thought, what it is that you are thinking about it, the meaning you’re putting behind that circumstance, how you feel when you think that thought, Your actions, the things you’re doing, the things you’re not doing, and the result, which will reveal itself as you look at the actions. Now this is a concept that I would love to teach you more about in person, like, well, probably not in person, but virtually. I usually teach a mindset masterclass every so often where we really go over this more, so be sure to stay tuned for the next time we are doing that. And we also have a replay version of it you can sign up for as well. If you just go to wife teacher mama.com/masterclass, you’ll be able to watch that replay where I really dive into the model for you. So would love to do that. So again, get some clarity around it. The model can be a great way to to start with that.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:17:10 – 00:18:01

And then number 5 is to recalibrate and rebuild your schedule or goals that will work for you right now. Because sometimes what we was working for us at one point might not be exactly what we need at this point. And maybe you need a little bit more flexibility in your schedule. Maybe you need some more downtime than you had before. For example, I needed to change some own things in my work life balance versus what it was before, and I’ve decided to slow down a little bit very intentionally so I can have more space for the goals and the things I want to achieve. So the way I like to do this is by creating an ideal week. And now this is more for, like, your schedule, and then I’ll talk about goals after that. So for your schedule, and that’s kind of what my example was, you will want to start creating your ideal week.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:18:01 – 00:18:54

Now your ideal week is not, like, something you do every week. Your ideal week is something you do that you create that is kind of like an overview of what you want your weeks to look like in general. So with that, you’ll have like a time blocking thing. It’ll be like, you know, 5 or 6 AM or whatever till 10 or 11 PM. And obviously you can mark off that you’re sleeping some of those times if you are, like me. But what happens is then you’ll just kind of fill in the blocks of time and be, okay, in any given week, where are different things going to be? Like, where am I going to fit in self care? Where what are the times that I’m working? When am I going to like, and let’s say, for example, you’re a school teacher. When am I going to get into the parking lot for school? When am I going to leave the parking lot? If you’re if you’re a homeschool parent, you’d have the times that you’re planning on homeschooling. And then you’ll have, like, for example, let’s say your daughter has gymnastics on Tuesdays.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:18:55 – 00:19:51

You put that on your ideal week because that’s something that’s coming every week. But you wouldn’t put something like a dentist appointment or a one time thing because you’re just building kind of an overarching, bird’s eye view of your schedule that gets to be a starting point for your weekly planning. So you’re not starting from scratch every single week. You get to start with this ideal week. So you put in all the things that are, like, non negotiables, like the times that you’re working, the times that you’re teaching, appointments you have, kids’ activities, worship services, if you have those that you want to regularly attend. Again, that’s that’s your choice. And then the next thing you want to do is put in your self care. When are you going to do that? Whether that is working out, whether that is time to read a book, or time to go out and go out with friends or go out on a date with your sweetie or whatever you have going on, you can pencil that in where that is going to fit each week or each day.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:19:51 – 00:20:26

Like you have, if you have a little bit of self care built in every day where maybe you have some time to read or journal or write or do some self coaching and thought downloads, if you’re really into this work that I’m doing with you, make sure you pencil in some time with that in your ideal week. So then as you’re scheduling your week, you can kind of pull out your ideal week. It’s like then when you’re planning your week, you’re not starting from scratch. You have something to start with every week. So I love having that. Okay. And then the next thing with your goals, now with this, you can kind of decide again, like, what are the goals I want to hit? You can kind of reset your schedule. Like, if you kind of had, like, by this time, I wanted to to do this.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:20:26 – 00:20:48

By this time, I wanna do that. You can just be, okay. Let’s start with a clean slate. This is my goal. This is what I wanna do by this time. And just remember, there’s one thing that I saw recently on Instagram that I loved. It was by a fellow coach named, Kim Jobe, who I met recently at the Life Coach School Mastermind. She hosted a watch party at her house, which was my first time meeting her.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:20:48 – 00:21:27

She’s so cool. And I saw on one of her Instagram reels, she had this, where she was looking at goals and I’m not gonna do as good of a job at explaining it as she did on her reel, but what she had is she had like a, stick figure in the middle, and that is you. And then for each goal, it’s just like another ring around you. Like, you’re like, okay, I wanna, like, reach this part and then you, like, draw a dot and then the circle around yourself. And then to this part, draw the dot and circle around yourself. So what you’ve realized is instead of, like, viewing you as one point trying to get to another point, it’s all about you and your expansion. Like you were whole already, and it’s just you building out from there. And I love that visualization.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:21:27 – 00:22:23

It just kind of realized like, hey, I am whole and great right now, and then this is how I’m going to expand into my best self. And setting goals isn’t just about the results. So just kind of resetting that and figuring out how you’re going to enjoy the process a bit more. And one other thing I’d like to mention if you’re working on goals, I would really recommend circling back to episode number 102, if you haven’t listened to it yet, or even if you have, but you haven’t created a vision board yet. Because for me, especially now that I’ve recently revamped my vision board, I feel like it has been so helpful for me to just spend a few minutes each day to re visualize those goals and my why behind them. And also lots of quotes that just helped me get into that right frame of mindset, helped me to be giving myself so much grace along the way and remember why I want to do the things I want to do, and how I want to show up every day for my family, for my kids, and everything. I love having that. So be sure to check out that episode if you haven’t yet.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:22:23 – 00:23:03

It’s free here on the podcast. And if you’re a club member or if you end up taking that special offer I mentioned at the beginning with the planner and everything for just $19 basically to get the planner in the mail and try out the club for 3 weeks, we in one of the replays, we have the full workshop that I did all about vision boards. It was in back in September, and I taught even more about it. And we also created the team put together this amazing toolkit to help you get started with your vision board, so you’re not starting from scratch. I mean, putting it together way easier for you. Okay. So let’s recap all of those things we want to do when we feel stuck. So first and it was 5 things.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:23:03 – 00:23:41

1st, we want to give ourself lots of grace. It doesn’t help to beat ourselves up. Sometimes we think we’re helping ourselves by beating ourselves up because we’re reminding ourselves not to do the things, but it really has the opposite effect. And when we think positive things about ourselves, it really helps us to go along the journey. Right? It helps us to love ourselves all along the way. Number 2 is to check-in with yourself and if you’re regulated or activated with your nervous system. Basically with this, you’re just recognizing if you feel safe right now in your body or not. And we are going to talk all about this next week in my interview with Leah Davidson.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:23:41 – 00:24:16

You do not want to miss this episode. This episode was incredible, just mind blowing information you do not want to miss. So make sure you’re subscribed. Number 3 is to, once you either identify, yes, I’m regulated, or you get yourself regulated, after that, we want to process our emotions, see what we’re feeling, go through our bodies, and continue connecting. And then number 4, we want to get clarity about why we’re stuck and why we’re feeling this way. And the self coaching model that I teach is a great way to do that. Look at what is your circumstance, what is your thought. Remember, your circumstance is just the neutral facts.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:24:16 – 00:25:17

Your thought is the meaning we’re putting behind it, and it’s our thought that creates our feelings. So that is why we’re feeling stuck, whatever our thought is. And then when we’re feeling that way, what actions are we taking? What results are we taking? And if we wanna make a change, we can then see what thought we could switch it to to feel less stuck. And number 5, we can recalibrate and rebuild our schedule for our plan and goals to make them work right now. So you can do this by creating your ideal week and kind of resetting your goals, timelines, making sure it’s still intentionally what you want to do, and creating a vision board to help you all along the way. So that is a recap of what we talked about on the podcast today. If you even more support in doing this work, be sure to go to the link in the show notes to check out our brand new incredible offer to join us at my birthday party and planner workshop and giveaway. You’ll get the luxury bound planner sent to you in the mail, which will help you apply everything you’ve just learned today, plus more of the how when you come to the workshop or watch the replay.

Kelsey Sorenson 00:25:17 – 00:25:51

Plus, you’ll get 3 weeks to come to the club and join any other live call or check out the replays such as that vision board one I mentioned. Plus, you’ll get 10 downloads of paid resources from our incredible libraries. Even just that resource, 10 resources alone pays for the printing, shipping, and handling of the planner. Like, it’s such a great deal. So I hope to see your face at the party very soon, and you won’t want to miss next week’s interview with Leah Davidsim, where we’re going to be talking all about your nervous system and how befriending your nervous system will help you take everything you’re learning here to the next level. So we’ll talk then.

Speaker C 00:25:59 – 00:26:45

More about Wife Teacher Mommy: 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.

Wife Teacher Mommy: 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. For access to every single Wife Teacher Mommy resource, join the club at educateandrejuvenate.com/club.

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