Present Notes:
On this episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, Hallie is tackling one thing we’ve ALL felt—the Sunday Scaries. that pit in your abdomen when the weekend winds down and all of a sudden you’re spiraling about remedy plans, knowledge assortment, that one inconceivable group, and your inbox? Hallie shares the story of Jay, an SLP Elevate member who has each materials she might ever want at her fingertips however nonetheless messaged saying, “I’ve every little thing, why do I nonetheless get the Sunday scaries?” In case you’ve ever felt this fashion (and let’s be trustworthy, who hasn’t?), this episode is your reminder that feeling anxious doesn’t imply you’re failing—it means you care. Hallie’s breaking down why the scaries present up, the best way to give your self permission to maintain it easy, and why your college students don’t want you to be excellent on Monday morning—they simply want you to point out up with a smile and be current.
This is what we discovered:
- The Sunday Scaries are regular—even with all the very best assets.
- Simply choose one thing and let that be sufficient—as a result of it IS sufficient.
- Your college students really feel it too, so use that shared Monday battle to construct connection.
- You don’t need to be 100% to do a superb job—presence beats perfection each time.
- Depart Sundays for YOU and defend your weekends like your sanity is dependent upon it.
RESOURCES
📘✨ Seize your copy of The Secondary SLP Roadmap right here! https://www.speechtimefunpd.com/stf-book
Be taught extra about Hallie Sherman and SLP Elevate:
JOKE OF THE WEEK:
Q: Why did the pc go to remedy?
A: As a result of it had too many tabs open.
The place We Can Join:
Subscribe & Overview on Apple Podcasts
Are you subscribed to the podcast? In case you’re not, I wish to encourage you to subscribe right now so that you don’t miss any future episodes! I have already got so many superb friends and matters lined up, I might hate so that you can miss a single one! Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts.
May I ask a giant favor? If you’re loving the podcast, I might LOVE it for those who would depart me a assessment on Apple Podcasts. I learn each assessment. Plus, you get to pay it ahead as a result of it would enable different lecturers such as you to seek out the podcast! Questioning the best way to go away a assessment? Click here to review, then choose “Rankings and Evaluations” and “Write a Overview”. Really easy and so appreciated!
Do you will have a query you desire to me to reply on the podcast?
GREAT! CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT THE FORM!
TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP associates. It’s Hallie right here, popping in with the very best information ever. My new e-book, Secondary SLP Roadmap, is formally accessible. In case you’ve ever wished for a transparent, sensible information for working with center and highschool college students, that is it. It’s filled with actual tales, ready-to-use methods, and instruments you need to use instantly. Seize your copy now, examine the hyperlink within the present notes, or search Secondary SLP Roadmap on Amazon, after which in fact, please do me a favor. When you find yourself studying it, snap an image and tag me on Instagram, @speechtimefun. I like seeing the place you are diving in, the speech room, the sofa, ready in a health care provider’s ready room, all of the locations. All proper, prepared? Go seize your copy, and let’s make secondary speech really feel doable and enjoyable.
00:00:57 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast designed solely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by means of 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate Membership. And I am thrilled to convey you conversations, methods, and insights that offers you the jolt of inspiration that you simply want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between periods, and even throughout a well-deserved rest time, I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that, SLPs.
00:01:36 Hallie: Hey, hey, and welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast that’s right here to make your life as a center college or highschool SLP a bit bit simpler. And naturally, for those who work with the youthful ones, we nonetheless love you and you’ll nonetheless profit from this dialog we’re gonna be having right here right now. I am right here that will help you get extra motivated, extra impressed, and possibly a bit bit extra caffeinated too for those who’re ingesting espresso whereas listening to this episode.
00:02:03 Hallie: Okay, right now we’re gonna be speaking about one thing we have all skilled, the Sunday scaries. And also you’re most likely saying, effectively, Hallie, this episode comes out on a Monday, why are we speaking about it? Properly, you may’ve felt this fashion final evening. And even for those who’re listening to this on a Friday, Sunday is coming quickly and also you may already be fearing Sunday so what are the Sunday scaries? what I imply. It is that second on Sunday afternoon when the weekend vibe begins to fade and all of a sudden your mind jumps into work mode.
00:02:36 Hallie: You are excited about remedy plans, the info assortment, that one group that you simply can’t get motivated by any means, that one scholar who you can’t come up with the dad or mum and oh, yeah, your inbox that is most likely multiplying like rabbits, like what number of requests for an analysis have you ever acquired over the weekend? It is not an emergency, folks.
00:03:00 Hallie: However right now’s not only a pep speak, it is also a narrative as a result of a fellow SLP, we’re gonna name her Jay, mentioned one thing to me lately and it hit arduous and I’ve a sense it is gonna hit you too and you’ll relate to this. So she even mentioned, I’ve SLP Elevate, why do I nonetheless even really feel this fashion? Jay is an SLP Elevate member. She’s obtained the dashboard, she has all of the supplies at her fingertips, she will be able to simply print and go, the themed models, the growth playing cards, all of the issues. And he or she nonetheless messaged me as a result of I put one thing on social media speaking about Sunday Scaries saying, you probably have the Sunday Scaries, SLP may also help you. And he or she mentioned, I’ve every little thing, why do I nonetheless get it?
00:03:42 Hallie: And hear, I get it. I advised her that I have been there as effectively and I am gonna let you know what I advised her. You’re feeling that approach since you care. You wanna do a superb job. You need your college students to make progress. You wanna really feel assured strolling in to Monday and also you wanna really feel such as you’re having an affect each day. You are leaving your infants and kids at dwelling. You might be spending your valuable time on the weekends and after college doing the issues to prepare for work. You wanna do a superb job. That Sunday pit in your abdomen is not an indication that you simply’re failing. It is a signal that you simply give a rattling, okay? And possibly an indication that possibly you had an excessive amount of chilly brew, however that is one other episode for an entire nother day, okay?
00:04:30 Hallie: So let’s normalize the Sunday Scaries. Even with the very best instruments like SLP Elevate, your mind can nonetheless slip into overthinking mode. Why? As a result of let’s be actual, it is issues out of our management. Your caseload is massive. Your time is proscribed and your college students are older and let’s be trustworthy, they are not thrilled to be there. It has nothing to do with us. And perfectionism, effectively, she is loud on Sundays, proper? She will creep her head in and may trigger us to spiral uncontrolled.
00:05:04 Hallie: However this is the factor, assets cannot essentially cease the scaries. They simply provide you with that mushy place to land once they present up. So this is what I advised Jay and what I am gonna let you know. Simply breathe. Log in, choose one thing, print it and sign off. Shut the laptop computer, shut it down. Actually, that’s it. Simply choose one thing and go together with it. Whether or not it is an ed puzzle that you need to use throughout a number of targets, whether or not it is a low prep recreation you could simply have a recreation day and your college students have not used shortly, like Stare Junior or I do not know, Pop the Pig, no matter it’s, or a present occasion article that sparks dialog or only a useful resource from SLP Elevate that you simply bookmarked final week and also you forgot about. Let’s be actual, there’s so many issues in there that may’ve occurred. Simply choose one factor and let that be sufficient as a result of it’s sufficient.
00:06:03 Hallie: And one other factor I would like you to recollect, your college students really feel the scaries too. This one was a giant one for Jay and possibly it’s for you too. Your college students do not essentially wish to be there on Monday morning both. They’re drained, they’re overwhelmed, they’re strolling into every week with their very own model of Sunday scaries. What for those who use that shared feeling as a bridge? You possibly can say one thing to them like, I get it, mornings are tough. Let’s begin straightforward right now or let’s do one thing enjoyable and get up our brains.
00:06:38 Hallie: Having your college students know that there is nothing mistaken with them and that you simply’re on this collectively, now you have all of a sudden constructed a connection. You have opened a door and from that place of compassion, motivation will develop. Once more, we wish our college students to know that we’re not being so arduous on them, that we get it, that for 2 days straight, they had been enjoying on tablets and sleeping late and staying up late and never having to consider college, not to mention that SLP that pulls me out of sophistication, proper?
00:07:13 Hallie: Okay, so as a result of exhibiting them that you simply get it’s half the battle, use it to your profit, okay? As a result of compassion is without doubt one of the key components to a profitable lesson, okay? Compassion for them, understanding how they really feel about coming to speech, how they really feel about Monday mornings, how they really feel about college typically. So exhibiting them that you simply get it and that you simply hear them goes a good distance.
00:07:40 Hallie: And for those who’re curious, the opposite key components are understanding what they actually need, having creativity to include their pursuits and adaptableness utilizing one useful resource like that one factor I advised Jay to tug and use it with as many teams and targets as potential. It is not lazy, it’s sensible, it’s saving your sanity, okay? And for those who’re inside SLP Elevate, that recipe is baked in proper there for you. No guesswork, no guilt, simply choose one thing and go. And bear in mind you will have the caseload [inaudible] you could fill out for those who want some assist understanding how to do this. And for those who’re undecided the place to start out, now we have that help there for you, you aren’t alone.
00:08:16 Hallie: Okay, now bear in mind, do not forget to smile. This is the half we neglect. We do not have to be 100% to do a superb job. Even for those who’re strolling in with underneath eye luggage and low in hand, for those who present up with a smile, even with a small one, a small drained one, that shift can shift the entire vitality within the room. Your college students do not want you to be excellent. They want you current. They want you. So even if you’re exhausted, even for those who’re excited about the million issues that it’s a must to get performed that week or that day or that minute, simply be centered and current and smile, okay?
00:08:58 Hallie: So simply to recap, for those who’re listening to this on a Monday morning, that is excellent for you. And possibly bookmark this so that you remind your self and take heed to this one in your method to work each Monday morning or on a Sunday evening. Depart Sundays for you. Don’t be concerned about work. Whether or not it’s on Monday morning, you click on print and have every little thing you wanted able to go or on a Friday afternoon, that like, you recognize, the final half hour you keep, if you want to, that is the time you print every little thing so you may present up on Monday morning. Know what works finest for you.
00:09:32 Hallie: For me, Monday morning, I would reasonably print issues. Friday, I would like to wash up every little thing from the week. That was similar to what works finest for me. Simply discover what routine works finest, however know that go away the weekends for you. In case you have all of the supplies you want, there is no want for you to consider issues over the weekend and have that point for you. You possibly can’t pour from an empty cup. So use that weekend to recalibrate your self, do issues for you, have that passion or, you recognize, time with household and associates to only get that vitality again.
00:10:03 Hallie: Bear in mind, work is simply part of your life. It is not your entire life. So bear in mind to smile, to choose, seize one factor and go and are available from that place of compassion and understanding your college students are feeling the identical approach as you. It does not should be excellent. It does not should be elaborate. Simply seize something and go together with it. You possibly can all the time adapt and alter because the week goes on as you get extra awake through the week or as you will have extra recent concepts and time to suppose and course of. However seize something.
00:10:36 Hallie: You possibly can take something and make it enjoyable and make it related so long as you recognize why you might be doing it and the way you might be gonna train it to your college students and assist them achieve success at it. Okay, and that’s, once more, one thing we additionally assist within SLP Elevate. We’ve got large quantities of tutorials. And once more, you may all the time ask questions on the voice, which is our type you could fill out to ask for assistance on high of the [inaudible]. So both approach, now we have tons of the way you could ask for assist and help. It’s also possible to ask within the Fb group. Tons and tons of the way.
00:11:05 Hallie: You aren’t alone. Not solely do you get entry to one million supplies and new supplies each month, however you are not alone. There’s a lot methods to get help from me, my crew, and your entire neighborhood of SLPs utilizing the supplies with their college students too. So actually you may simply publish within the group, hey, who’s utilizing what right now? I am engaged on this. Who’s engaged on this too? Let’s do it collectively. Let’s report again. Like that’s what you are able to do with a neighborhood of individuals utilizing the identical supplies, working with the identical inhabitants, and have the identical ardour for what they do.
00:11:40 Hallie: So that you is perhaps regarding the story of Jay that I shared. And if you do not have entry to SLP Elevate, all it’s a must to do is go to slpelevate.com to study extra about it, or simply ship me a message on Instagram that simply says Elevate, and we will speak by means of it and focus on how one can get entry to it and decide whether or not it’s best for you. You possibly can ask any query that you really want. I am comfortable to help you and allow you to know whether or not it really works in your caseload. Persons are utilizing it by way of teletherapy and in particular person, higher elementary by means of highschool. We’ve got assets, all completely different studying ranges, all these completely different widespread targets, social abilities, articulation, combined teams, all that enjoyable stuff, okay?
00:12:18 Hallie: So once more, as a reminder, your college students do not want you to be excellent. They want you current. They want you. And also you by no means know who has been ready all weekend lengthy to see you that Monday, even when they do not present it or let you know about it. All proper, so I all the time have a joke of the week right here for you. So this is one to lighten your temper, then in fact you need to use it to construct that rapport together with your college students, and that may be one thing you are able to do while you’re ready in your college students to all enter into the speech room as a bit routine.
00:12:50 Hallie: Why did the pc go to remedy? As a result of it had too many tabs open. All proper, I needed to provide you with one thing that was sort of like no matter mindset one. Wasn’t my finest one, however it’s right here for you. So does that sound like your Sunday mind? Me too. All proper, so hear, if the Sunday scaries hit, bear in mind Jay. Do not forget that caring does not imply that it’s a must to carry every little thing. Simply choose a plan, hit print, or open it up for those who’re working by way of teletherapy, after which go binge your favourite present, go take that stroll, go have that tumbler of wine, not within the morning, do this at evening, or do completely nothing. You might be prepared for Monday. You have obtained this.
00:13:34 Hallie: And thanks once more for hanging with me on an episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. If right now’s episode introduced you with consolation or readability, ship it to a different SLP who may want this. Ship it to your division. We’re all on this collectively. And as all the time, keep out of bother.
00:13:56 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. It means the world to me that you simply’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. You’ll find all the hyperlinks and data talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Do not forget to comply with the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And whilst you’re there, it will imply the world to me for those who would take a number of seconds and go away me an trustworthy assessment. See you subsequent week with one other episode stuffed with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable, guys.
Trending Merchandise
