Part 3💖Self Care💖 Educators – we have leave for a reason. If you are putting off your health for any reason, take the day. Take the leave. Go to the doctor. Over the counter medications do not take the place of a good antibiotic. Carve out time for your PHYSICAL and MENTAL health. Do it. Leave the papers at school. Timely feedback is important, but your mental and physical health is more important. Students will appreciate a teacher who has the stamina to teach versus one that is always fighting sinus issues or allergy issues or heaven forbid… any major issues. Taking care of yourself and putting yourself first will provide inspiration for other educators struggling with this same issue. It will also provide inspiration for your students who may have moms who do not take care of themselves. Stay at Home Moms – every day, put yourself first for a while. I have such respect for you. I stayed home for a year when my girls were 2 and newborn. It was a miserable existence for me because I didn’t take care of myself. I didn’t carve out time for myself daily. Even 10-30 minutes when your spouse gets home would allow you to go for a walk or to do something else for yourself. Any other mom or wife or single lady… it is up to you. Make time to exercise. Take the time off to go to the doctor. Create good habits that will enable you to be your best self. If there is a stigma of high-maintenance because you go to the gym or take time for yourself, who cares? I’d rather be called high-maintenance than not feel good about myself. Maybe if we champion each other. Follow-up with each other. And truly support each other when we say we’re headed to work out, or we’re going to the doctor for a check-up, or taking a break to do something creative or personally meaningful the overall health of women will improve and there will be a culture shift from honoring the exhausted to honoring the woman who cares for herself, but along the way, let's help the exhausted woman with resources to make her life better. We are so much stronger as a community. 💖💖💖 (at Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/wiegertandcodesigns/p/Bu7VHQUgRHX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n8dfs5hf8fhs