Episode 4: A Special Thank You for 200 Episodes

Description: We’ve made it to 200 episodes! In this special celebration, Tina shares her gratitude for the Self-Care for Educators community, reflects on the podcast’s journey, and offers an exclusive listener discount.

Resources: Use the code Wellness20 to get 20% off Tina's book 180 Day of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators.

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Transcription:  Hi, and welcome to episode four of season six of Self-Care for Educators. I am your host, Tina Boogren. I hope you can hear a little smile as I'm speaking because this is a very special episode. Two reasons why- number one, this is the 200th episode, which is mind-boggling to me. I am just so grateful that you are here listening so that I can keep doing this 200 times.

This started, the whole podcast started during COVID. It had been a dream of mine for a long time, and you know when the world kind of shut down, I had a little bit more time to devote to this and we kicked it off. And some of you have listened to every single episode, and I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you. And many of you have joined us along the way. So grateful no matter when you found us. I'm just grateful that you found us and that we have built this amazing community together. Oh, that just means so much to me that it makes me emotional every time I think of it. 

You know, we got through COVID together and I think we all kind of thought, “Whew, okay, that's behind us.” And now we're in a world that in a lot of ways still feels so hard, if not maybe even harder, ugh, especially public educators, as what we were facing during COVID. And so the need hasn't gone away. We need community, we need each other, and we need to focus on this wellness piece. 

Whew. So this episode is just a huge celebration of this community and the fact that, gosh, this is the 200th episode. I'm just so grateful. To turn that into a tangible strategy, well, I've got something kind of fun this week. So in honor of the 200th episode and to thank you for being a listener of this podcast, I've got a special treat! So I am able to give you an exclusive discount on my book, 180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators.

This is so exciting. So you are going to get 20% off the book when you use the code. Wellness20 (W-E-L-L-N-E-S-S 2 O) at checkout at solutiontree.com. This is just for you listeners of this podcast. So it's an exclusive, super special treat that I'm offering up in celebration of you and in celebration of the 200th episode.

Ah, so exciting. So, okay, it's 20% off, specifically the book 180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators. So this is my most recent title and I love this book. So let me tell you a little bit about it if you don't know. So the book follows the same format as the book, 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators, in that it is designed to be tackled one week at a time.

So it's not a traditional book that you sit down and read cover to cover. Instead, it is divided up into one week at a time. So for this particular book, the 180 Days of Physical Wellness, every single one of the strategies is centered around the dimension of physical wellness that Tim Kanold and I talk about in the framework we created in the book Educator Wellness. So physical wellness is the first dimension of the framework, and it includes food, hydration, movement, sleep, and rest. What I want to be really clear about is this is not, ugh, a diet and exercise book. So at no point do I say anything crazy like limiting your calories to 1200 calories or using exercise as a way to combat something you ate. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Instead, this is the most gentle, loving form of self-care at our most basic-level needs. Our physical wellness. You can think of this as our physiological needs that Maslow talks about in the first level of the hierarchy. 

So when you get this book, as I said, you tackle it week by week, and each of those strategies then are in relation to something related to our physical wellness. So in the book on page seven, I provide a chart, and you can actually find this on the free reproducibles associated with this book at solutiontree.com. So when you go to solutiontree.com and you're looking for the book, 180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators, you can see the reproducibles.

And so this is table 1.1 that has the strategies by category. So let's say you want to just focus on your food and hydration. So this tells you exactly which strategies to focus on. You can go through the book week by week, one week we focus on take a five minute action. Then the next week we'll focus on taking a meal time intermission and then the next week would be scheduling physical movement into your calendar. And then the next week would be tracking your sleep. So we just kind of rotate through each of the categories or you can like take a lane and stick with that lane.

So what I thought I would do, like I just kind of did here, was give you an idea of what some of the strategies are. So let me list a few more. So one of the weeks I ask you to create a physical wellness vision board. One of the weeks I ask you to try eating without distractions. Woo! One of the weeks we aim to get 50,000 steps over five days. Make sure that you heard that. All of that. One of the weeks we challenge ourselves to take electronics completely out of the bedroom. One of the weeks the invitation is to stay hydrated. Yeah, drink that dumb water. We talk about it. One of the weeks, the invitation is to experiment with sensory rest. Another one is to schedule doctor's visits. Oh, that can be a hard one. Another is to rest after work. Another is to find inspiration on social media. Another is to create and use a movement playlist. So you get the idea. 

So the book, I love the book. I'm just really proud of the book. I did a lot of certifications and specializations to really learn about the research and gain the credibility to offer up these strategies. So I provide a little bit of the research always, and then an invitation and then I give you a way to take that week's invitation and turn the dial up. Maybe it's a strategy you're already doing, so you wanna kind of increase what you're doing related to that strategy. And a way to turn the dial down. Maybe it's a crazy week for you and the thought of doing, ugh, 50,000 steps in a week is too much. So I tell you how to turn the dial down, not off, but down to really embrace that all or something mentality rather than the all or nothing mentality. 

So I love this book. I hope you love the book too. I hope that this nudge of getting 20% off is your sign that says, you know what? I've been thinking about my physical wellness, and now's the time I wanna tackle this. You can write in the book. At the end of each week, you get to reflect, did the strategy work for me? Did it not? You can do it with an accountability partner. You can do it on your own. You could do it as a staff, you can do it as a team. Just all sorts of ways that you can take this book and put it to good use. So I hope, I hope you take advantage of this really special offer. You deserve it. Treat yourself. 

So this is a thank you for 200 episodes together. Thank you for the humans and the educators and the nurses and everyone else that joins us. We love all of you that you are. And again, to say thanks, please, please go to solutiontree.com. Get the book, 180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators at 20% off by using the code Wellness20, lock it in Wellness20. We'll also clearly have it in the show notes, but Wellness20. This is an exclusive offer for you, my podcast listeners. Make it a great week. 

As always, we're so grateful to you, Adrienne. We're grateful to Marzano Resources. We're really grateful to Solution Tree this week for helping to offer up that incredible discount for all of us, we're so grateful. And to you, my bad ass self-care squad. Thanks for being on this journey with me. Thanks for keeping hands on each other's backs, and we're gonna get through this together. So grateful for you.