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So I am feeling pretty happy with my commitment to #well-being even if I haven't been as committed to writing about it as I should have. Here is a short blog about my story so far... #Connect I am really happy with this one. I have been in regular contact with lots of the people I love since up and leaving my old life. I am also pleased that I have spent much of this month in my new role having a sit down chat with every teacher at my new school in terms of their PD requirements. This has been invaluable in getting to know people. I also make time to lunch with staff and students in the dinner hall every day. #Notice This is an important one. I try to reflect on each day and find the best bit in it. I enjoy the short drive to work, taking in the beauty of my new surroundings. I notice when my boyfriend is home and try to avoid working so we can eat together. I am also noticing the little details at my new school and trying to learn the tricks of the trade in the little detail...

I have been thinking about writing a post on this for a while but find it a harder post to write than most and there are two reasons for this.  The first is that last year I watched one of the most promising teachers I had seen in a long time experience burnout and decide to leave the profession (a decision that not everyone understood and that some people were disappointingly unsympathetic about).  The second is that I got myself into a bit of a workload pickle last year where I very genuinely could not get my head straight.  Stress is not something that is always tolerated in schools and I felt pretty weak at the thought of having to say out loud that I wasn't coping, but I really wasn't coping.  And it wasn't particularly about the job or the workload or the management or any of it, I was just exhausted and a bit poorly and I was just working and working and working and I lost sight of the other stuff. I have always been a bit of a workaholic since I started te...