Teachers in Transition Episode 182 - When Life Hands you Lemons

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Today on the podcast, in our segment on stress and health, we talk about overcoming adversity during the winter months when many people deal with seasonal affective disorder, the absolute BEST place to put that family calendar, and we’ll refine our quest to figure out our transferrable skills as we continue our mini-series in the What Color is Your Parachute book.  Vanessa shares one of the stories she uses to pull out her skills 

What Color is Your Parachute 2024 and the Workbook 

PDF of Parachute Skills Grid 

Prioritizing Grid

Some prompts for your stories (taken from the book): 

·       A situation that made you feel part of something larger than yourself

·       An experience that stood out because you were proud of what you accomplish

·       Helping someone, or making someone else's life better

·       Something you did despite others saying that you could not do it

·       Something you did that you would like to do again

·       A strong skill or interest of yours and how you used it 

·       Something that was exciting or inspiring to you

·       An experience you look back on fondly

·       An experience that taught you something even if it wasn't fun at the time

·       An experience that required you to take a risk

Gretchen Rubin’s Quizzes

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