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Scholarly Self-Care

28 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings

Scholarly Self-Care, hosted by social emotional learning researcher and consultant Dr. Tia Barnes, is a podcast for educators, parents, and caregivers who want to increase their social-emotional learning and well-being. By supporting adult well-being, Tia hopes to empower adults to support the well-being of the children and youth in their lives. Scholarly Self-Care features weekly content with tips, and strategies on incorporating social and emotional well-being into your daily life and will help you as you pursue your own self-care journey. Some episodes will also include interviews with experts, parents, and educators on their experiences with social-emotional well-being.


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Episodes

EP. 27 Season 2 Wrap Up

July 04, 2021 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MB

In this episode, I give a brief wrap-up of season 2 and a teaser of what's coming in Season 3. If you are a parent, teacher, or school practitioner and you are interested in being a guest on this show in Season 3 to discuss your self-care journey, please contact me using the form on my website, www.drtiabarnes.com.   Thank you so much for your continued support.  Please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people — just like you — to establish and maintain esse...

EP. 26 Organizing with Systems w/ Collet McKenzie

June 27, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

When you think about self-care, being organized may not be the first thing that comes to mind. I know it might sound a little odd but for our guest today, being organized is an important part of her self-care. Self-care is all about taking action to protect and promote your mental and physical health and well-being. When you practice self-care you do the things that make you feel good and are good for you. Being organized is one of those good things. As our guest today will share, it’s not j...

EP. 25 Social Justice and Equity w/ Dr. Shannon Wanless

June 20, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

Hey Scholars! I am super excited about this episode because this is one of my favorite topics. Today I am joined by Dr. Shannon Beth Wanless. Dr. Wanless is an associate professor and the director of The Office of Child Development in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.  Her current work is on social justice and equity (SJ&E). She explores ways that children, preservice teachers, and organizational leaders develop SJ&E skills and how to create classroom, school, and organizatio...

EP. 24 SEL for School Leaders w/ Julia Mahfouz

June 13, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB

Julia Mahfouz is an assistant professor in the Leadership for Educational Organizations program, School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado-Denver. She has a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in Educational Leadership with minors in Comparative International Education and Curriculum & Instruction. Her research agenda has been shaped by her educational work as an international educator in the capacity of a high school teacher, department chair, prin...

EP. 23 The Power in Stories w/ Kamilah Drummond-Forrester

June 06, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB

I'm so excited to have an amazing guest join me for this episode. Her name is Kamilah Drummond-Forrester. Kamilah is currently a Social and Emotional Learning Consultant and a Racial and Social Justice Facilitator at The National SEED Project. She is the former director of Open Circle, a program with the Wellesley centers for women at Wellesley College.  Kamilah's passion for social justice and the social and emotional well-being of children has fueled her vision for advocating for and educ...

EP. 22 Purposeful Parenting w/ Brandee El-Attar

May 30, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

Our guest today is Brandee El-Attar. Brandee is a family success coach as well as a behavioral consultant, parent-educator, volunteer extraordinaire, blogger, and budding author. She loves making connections, reflecting upon life, and sharing it with others. Helping people navigate the complexities of parenting, managing a kiddo with special needs, or stepping into their own greatness, is where she SHINES. And she always seeks the lessons from each and every experience and is one who strongl...

EP. 21 Teaching with the HEART in Mind w/ Lorea Martinez

February 21, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

Our guest today is Dr. Lorea Martínez. Dr. Martínez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Her second book for educators, Teachi...

EP. 20 Do You REALLY Know Yourself?

February 14, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

Today, I want us to talk about self-awareness. Self-awareness by definition is the conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires. Knowing ourselves can help with some of the confusion and conflict in life as well as develop our confidence and creativity. If we can understand how we react to life, we can gain more control over our actions and make better choices. I strongly believe that in order to fully understand our values, our character, and our feelings and h...

EP. 19 The Importance of Relationships in SEL w/ Christina Cipriano

February 07, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MB

Our guest today is Christina Cipriano, Ph.D. Dr. Cipriano holds a dual appointment at the Yale School of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI). Dr. Cipriano’s research focuses on the systematic examination of social and emotional learning (SEL) in the promotion of pathways to optimal developmental outcomes for traditionally marginalized st...

EP. 18 Diving Deeper into Well-Being

January 31, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

Hey Self-Care Scholars! Welcome to season two of The Scholarly Self-Care Podcast! I am so happy that you are here. This season is going to be amazing. I have a lot to discuss with you and would love your feedback on the ideas that I have for the podcast moving forward. So please reach out to me and let me know your thoughts. My hope is that we will spend more time really diving into well-being and expanding on the topics that we discussed in season one. I have several valuable interviews lin...

EP. 17 Self-Care and Gratitude

November 29, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB

2020 has been a heck of a year and it's still not over! For some of us, everything still seems unclear, and the worst seems possible. As we come back from the Thanksgiving Holiday, I want to talk a bit about gratitude and its benefits for self-care and our mental health. Hopefully each of us have had our individual experiences that have made this year more wonderful than horrible. I want to challenge you to focus on those positive moments and reflect on them with gratitude. Individuals who h...

EP. 16 Let’s Talk About SEL w/ David Adams

November 22, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

You are in for a treat with today’s guest Mr. David Adams. David is the Senior Director of Strategy at The Urban Assembly. He previously served as the Director of Social-Emotional Learning at the Urban Assembly, and prior to that was the Social-Emotional Learning Coordinator for District 75 where he shaped the District's approach to social-emotional learning for students with severe cognitive and behavioral challenges. He has worked internationally in schools in England, setting up and evalu...

EP. 15 Listen to Your Body

November 15, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

If you’ve been practicing self-care for a while now, then you’ve probably come across the advice to “listen to your body.” But what exactly does that even mean? Listening to your body includes being attentive to all messages you receive from your body concerning your physical, emotional and mental well-being. Our bodies are one of our best sources of information. These sensations are there for a reason, and are very important to tune in to because our bodies know exactly what they need to be...

EP. 14 Creating Your Self-Care Emergency Kit

November 08, 2020 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

Now more than ever self -care and our mental health is super important. At this present time in the US we are dealing with several changes that cause high levels of anxiety, stress and depression to be a constant in our daily lives. If you’re looking for ways to increase your self-care, one little thing you can do is create an emergency self-care kit. When you’re having a bad moment/day/week, it will serve as a kind of “SOS” kit to help you feel a bit better. Your kit should be super persona...

EP. 13 Setting and Achieving Life Goals

November 01, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

Our guest today is Dory Abelman. Dory is this host of the Learn2Love podcast that brings together curated teachings from a variety of books, podcasts, and articles on how to build a great relationship. The Learn2Love podcast is a passion project that originated from the belief that healthy love is a skill that can be learned, trained, and mastered like a muscle. Dory's vision is a world with more relationship intelligence resulting in healthier and stronger families. To move toward this visi...

EP. 12 Self-Care is Parenting Yourself

October 25, 2020 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Self-care is parenting yourself. Think about it for a minute. As a parent or caregiver to the children in your life, you fill many roles but the number 1 fundamentally important job that you do is to keep the children you care for safe and healthy. I believe that a way to thrive physically and emotionally as adults is by learning to fill that role of parenting for ourselves. Daily self-care in your self-parenting role is being your own parent and enforcing the rules you’ve established for yo...

EP. 11 Wanna Give Mindfulness a Try?

October 18, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MB

Mind·ful·ness by definition is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Mindfulness is an incredible tool to help people understand, tolerate, and deal with their emotions in healthy ways. In practice, mindfulness offers many benefits such as relieving stress, improving sleep, and so much more.  In this episode, I will provide you with 10 simple ways that you can add m...

EP. 10 You Need Boundaries

October 11, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

Boundaries let others know how to treat us. It includes knowing and understanding what your limits are. The purpose of setting a healthy boundary is to protect and take good care of YOU. A lack of boundaries opens the door for others to determine your thoughts, feelings, and needs. Setting and sustaining boundaries is a skill and for many of us it is a relatively new concept and a challenging one. Today we will be discussing both physical boundaries and emotional boundaries and how to build...

EP. 09 Getting Your Life Together w/Practical Self-Care

October 04, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MB

Practical self-care by definition are tasks you complete that fulfill core aspects of your life in order to prevent future stressful situations such as creating a budget, taking professional development classes, organizing your closet, etc.    In today's episode I will share with you 6 practical self-care tips that I am implementing immediately to get my life together. I will also be sharing my process of reflection and evaluation that lead me to the selection of my practical self-care ide...

EP. 08 Parenting + Self-Care

September 27, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB

Today is an exciting episode. Not only is this the first interview for The Scholarly Self-Care Podcast but you also get to meet my bestie of 30 years, Marsha Chambers! We all know that it takes discipline and commitment to do the things that are good for you. When you take care of yourself, you will have more energy to take care of others joyfully. However, when we became parents we found that self-care started to feel a lot like self-indulgence. We quickly learned that all of our focus cou...

EP. 07 Let’s Talk About Anxiety

September 20, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB

Hey YOU! Welcome back to the podcast. Today I will share with you how I survived the first week of virtual school and we will also be talking about anxiety. I know...perfect timing, right? LOL Anxiety is your body's natural response to stress, uncertainty, fear, danger, etc. It's a feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come. We all deal with anxiety on some level. Although anxiety usually doesn’t go away, you can learn to manage it and live a happy, healthy life. So today we will...

EP. 06 My Night Time Self-Care Routine

September 13, 2020 13:15 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

Cultivating a night time routine is an amazing practice that better supports our mental health. This is a great way to give yourself the gift of ease with your morning tasks. However, an effective night time routine has to have a proper foundation.    When building your nighttime routine, ask yourself: How do I want to feel in the mornings? Once you’ve answered this question, then you can establish  habits to support your goals. Your ideal nighttime routine will be unique to you, so person...

EP. 05 Giving Yourself Grace

September 06, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB

It’s the beginning of the school year for most of us. Though there are certainly things I love about this time of year, it is challenging-especially during COVID-19. Now more than ever is the time to talk about giving yourself grace. When you feel overwhelmed, exhausted, stressed by a packed schedule or you've been hard on yourself for whatever reason, it's important to pause and give yourself grace. Giving yourself grace is about giving yourself the kindness you need. This is the same kindn...

EP. 04 Self-Care to Support Black Lives

August 30, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

As the nation becomes more aware of systems of oppression, such as police brutality and murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, strong feelings of anger, anxiety, and depression can set in. Experiencing acts of racism is exhausting for Black people. This is why self-care in the age of Black Lives Matter is crucial in protecting your mental health. It focuses on what we do individually to make sure we’re OK.  In order to feel empowered, fueled, and to be in a position to make a differenc...

EP. 03 Self-Care + COVID-19

August 23, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB

COVID-19 has led to sudden changes in life and daily routines for ALL of us. Learning how to cope & create a positive environment in times of crisis is essential for our social and emotional well-being. With so much stress, anxiety, and uncertainty, how can you ensure that you are nurturing your psychological and mental well-being?      Listen in as I share 6 practical tips to help you remain connected while practicing social distancing and adjusting to the “new normal”. If you are experie...

EP. 01 Self-Care Planning

August 16, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB

Welcome back! In today’s episode, we will discuss the concept of self-care planning. A self-care plan can help you enhance your health and well-being by reducing stress and aiding in the maintenance of a healthy balanced lifestyle. There is no “one-size-fits-all” self-care plan, therefore, you have to be intentional about creating an individualized self-care plan that can help you ensure that you are doing enough to look after yourself. Listen in as we further define a self-care plan, why it...

EP. 02 Self-Care…What’s Time Management Got to Do With It?

August 16, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MB

Maintaining a healthy balance between work, pursuing individual interests, caring for and supporting family, and downtime can be a struggle and requires good time management skills. Although effective time management can be described as being able to efficiently manage your time. A key part of time management is also managing YOURSELF.   There are many ways that time management can benefit you in your daily life as a form of self-care. Tune in to learn what those benefits are and how you ca...

EP. 00 Welcome to The Scholarly Self-Care Podcast

August 16, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Scholarly Self-Care Podcast. This podcast is all about supporting YOUR social and emotional well being. This is a space for educators, parents, aunts uncles, play aunties, play uncles, caregivers of all types. In this episode, you will learn more about me, how I define self-care and what to expect in future episodes. Let’s get started on our self-care journey together! LET’S GET SOCIAL — Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tia-navelene-barnes-ab2...

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