We’re playing this popular episode as teachers are relearning how to support themselves during this challenging school year. (Originally aired March 29, 2021).

Educators are natural nurturers, but taking care of themselves often falls to the bottom of the list...if it even makes the list at all. In this conversation with self-care advocate Julie Gentile, we learn how educators can actually have more of themselves to give to their students when they stop to take care of themselves.

Julie Gentile is an award-winning author, yoga instructor, and self-care advocate. Her books include 108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas and How to Stay Calm in the Chaos: An Everyday Self-Care Guide, which was written and published during the pandemic. She received the 2019 bronze medal in Exercise/Fitness/Yoga from IPPY Living Now Book Awards, which recognizes “books for better living” and authors “changing lives and changing the world,” and she is a 2019 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in Mind, Body, Spirit for her book 108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas. 

Her content has appeared on numerous websites and in multiple publications, including Yoga Chicago, Chicago Parent  and Mantra Wellness. She has been a guest on multiple, including The Relentless Pursuit Podcast and the Chicago Parent Masters in Parenting podcast. Subscribe to her newsletter Nourish Note to get a monthly self-care boost and 25% off her books (https://juliegtheyogi.ck.page/82df536c1f). She teaches yoga in the evenings when busy parents, teachers and caregivers can actually attend class. Learn more about her work on her blog www.JulieGtheYogi.com, her YouTube channel “Stand Up for Your Self-Care” and on on Instagram and Facebook @juliegtheyogi, which she maintains in addition to being a wife and full-time working mom of two young children.