What is professional self-development to you? 🤓 Do you feel like it’s a prerequisite for being a decent teacher? Maybe, deep down, this incessant need to perfect yourself feels like a trap of being stuck in a go-go-go mode forever? 😞Or have you managed to find your own perfect proportion of setting yourself just enough challenge and doing things at your own pace? 😇

In the third episode of our Dream Team podcast we (Toma, Irina and Nina) are putting our own twists on the idea of professional self-development.

Unsurprisingly, all three of us put slightly different meaning into the notion.

Listen to the episode to see whose take strikes a chord with you!

Self-care may have become a buzzword in recent years and confused with luxuries like spa days, but the reality is that self-care is activities and choices that preserve and maintain your physical, emotional and mental health. 😌 

In this episode we tried to identify exactly what constituted self-care, as we individually understood it. 

🔹How to practice self-care on social media? 

🔹Is self-care selfish? 

🔹Where’s the line between self-care and self-indulgence?

These are some of the topics we touched on this time.

What are your best self-care tips? Share in the comments! ✍️

Seems like everyone these days is crazy about becoming the best versions of themselves. Self-helps books are claimed to be a powerful tool to do so. But is changing your life really as easy as picking up a book? 

In this episode we share our thoughts on whether reading self-help books is worth your time, if they can actually help you get your life on track and how language learners can benefit from them language-wise.