About Teach Like a Human: Practical tools for self-compassion and trauma-informed teaching
The Connected Teacher is a podcast for educators who want to feel grounded, resilient, and human again. Each episode blends wit, self-compassion, and trauma-informed insights to help you navigate stress, build stronger connections, and teach with more clarity and confidence. If you’re ready to trade overwhelm for balance and breathe a little deeper in your work, this podcast is for you.
46. What if You're Not Lazy? What if You're Depleted?
Have you ever reached the end of the day and felt like you have absolutely nothing left to give? Not just tired—but depleted. In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between being tired, stressed, burned out, and truly depleted. As teachers, we spend our days giving our attention, patience, energy, creativity, emotional presence, and so much more. And sometimes we respond to having nothing left by telling ourselves we need more discipline, better habits, or more motivation. But what if the problem isn’t that you need to try harder?
What if your body is telling you that your resources have been stretched too thin? We’ll explore what depletes us, why rest isn’t always enough to restore us, how self-criticism can make depletion even worse, and what it might look like to respond to yourself with curiosity and compassion instead.
Because you don’t have to become better at tolerating an unsustainable situation—you’re allowed to notice when your tank is empty and ask what you actually need.
my website: connectedteacher.org
email: camillescow17@gmail.com
30 Sept 2026
45. When Your Body Responds Differently Than What Your Mind Wants It To
Have you ever had a moment when your mind knew you were okay, but your body seemed to have a completely different plan? In this episode, I’m talking about why our bodies sometimes move slower than our minds—and why that isn’t a sign that we’re failing at healing. I share a personal story from my softball days, when I struck out four times in a row and could feel the urge to self-sabotage creeping in. But something was different: my nervous system didn’t let me go down the same old path. Through years of practicing self-compassion, my body had learned a new response. We’ll explore how self-compassion gives our nervous systems repeated experiences of safety, how healing becomes embodied over time, and why we can’t always think our way into a different response. If you’ve ever thought, “I know better, so why am I still reacting this way?”—this episode is for you.
My Website: connectedteacher.org
My email: camillescow17@gmail.com
24 Sept 2026
44. Creating a Filter of Happiness: The Power of Being in the Moment with Monique Rhodes
Sometimes we worry so much about missing out on stuff that we make ourselves super busy. This is great and all, until we realize being busy is actually taking us away from what is most important.
You'll leave this episode feeling calm and inspired to slow down to live more often in the timeline of our lives that is the most important; the present.
Also, I'm happy to release my new website! Check it out!
https://www.connectedteacher.org/
Wanna connect with Monique? Here's her website.
Monique's Website
https://moniquerhodes.com/home/
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