LELA House

Tag: self care

  • New Year, New LELA House

    New Year, New LELA House

    Greetings!

    I promised you some new LELA House offerings for the new year, and I have a bunch to share with you.

    If you’re an educator feeling burned out or looking for a way to accomplish your goals or just in need of some long overdue self-care, then LELA House is for you. Imagine who you can become by investing in yourself.

    Read on to access all the information you need. To be sure to stay up-to-date with LELA House, please subscribe to receive emails from me. When you subscribe, you will receive a link to a downloadable PDF of 140 journaling prompts to jumpstart your self-care journey.

    Short Version

    You can learn about all of my offerings on my website. You can subscribe to my email list and receive a free PDF of journal prompts. You can even purchase services. Check it out at the link below. Feel free to stop reading here.

    lela-house.com 

    Long Version

    I offer services to individuals and institutions. I believe each educator owes self-care to themselves, and I also believe the institutions where we serve must invest in the well-being of their educators. I’m here to help with both.

    • Individual Experiences
      • Breakthrough Session – This is a free 30-minute coaching session to see if LELA House is for you.
      • Email Coaching – This is 30 consecutive days of email coaching. You can email me as much as you like, and I will reply up to 3x per week. We can discuss any areas of your life where you desire transformation.
      • IDEA (Innovate, Dream, Energize, Activate) Coaching – This is a one-time coaching session where we meet to help you break through in one particular area where you are feeling stuck.
      • Confident & Courageous Coaching – This is 3 months of biweekly coaching sessions where you discover the confidence and courage to explore limiting beliefs that hold you back from being who God created you to be and develop the mindsets and habits to make and sustain powerful change in your life. 
      • Self-Care Sundays – On the third Sunday of each month, educators meet to devote time to reading, writing, creating, or Christian meditation.
    • Learn more about 1:1  individual experiences by clicking here.
    • Learn more about Self-Care Sundays by clicking here.
    • Experiences for Institutions
      • Community Writing Workshops – Participants explore topics salient to your institution through writing and reflection (75 minutes).
      • Values Workshops – Participants determine their values and how to activate them in daily decision-making. This workshop uses writing, reflection, and connection and can be useful to determine individual values or collective values (ie: of a department) (75 minutes).
      • Powerful Question Workshops – Participants break down and respond to a question about your institution’s impact and future. Then participants support each other in plotting a course forward. This workshop uses writing, reflection, and small and large group work (90 minutes).
      • Common Reading Sessions – Help your educators learn together by offering common book studies (60 minute sessions).
      • Executive Coaching – Provide ongoing executive coaching to your educators (45-60 minutes per session).
    • To learn more about the experiences for institutions, click to fill out the contact form.

    Lastly, since I’m a writing person at my core, I’m also available to work with you on grant proposals, ongoing grant write-ups, reviewing articles for submission, and other sorts of writing contract work. If you’re interested in that, please email me, and we will set up a conversation to discuss collaboration possibilities.

    Thank you for your interest in LELA House and for supporting me. It means the world to me. 

    Please share this post with anyone you believe would be interested in and benefit from LELA House services.

    Oh! Also, if you’re interested, I’m challenging myself to write more and to publish what I write. Please check out my Patreon page at the link below. When you land there, you’ll be able to read the first chapter of a novel I’m working on that tells the story of the fall of Jericho from the perspective of Rahab. If you like what you read, please consider becoming a patron.

    patreon.com/RoshaundaCade

    And for making it all the way to the end of this post, you get a bonus!

    I’ve curated some of my favorite blog posts, which you can find at the link below. I hope you enjoy them!

    Curated Blog Posts

    Ok, I’m done now. 😀

    Have an amazing day!

  • Release Control

    Release Control

    Here’s the good news: God has a plan for your life.

    Here’s the bad news: God’s plan for you life will most likely not operate on your schedule.

    You can control many things in your life – how much water you drink, how much exercise you get, how often you pray, etc.

    You cannot control many other things in your life – how someone will respond to you, how the person in the next lane drives, how much bread costs, etc.

    Today, I invite you to write about how you can release control of the things you can’t control. The sooner you learn to do that, the easier it will be to enjoy your lifelong ride with God.

  • What Do You Need?

    What Do You Need?

    What do you need to live your best, fullest, most authentic life? What are your non-negotiables? Family time? Daily naps? Books? Exercise? Morning coffee?

    Whatever it is you need to be your best, write those things down. That’s the first step of today’s writing prompt.

    The second step is to write what’s keeping you from having those things (in abundance) in your life.

    The third step is to write down one small tweak you can make to your day to ensure you have more opportunity for those things. This may mean getting rid of things that are good to make room for things that are great. And that’s just fine. You deserve it.

  • Breathing + Fan

    Breathing + Fan

    Well, I was feeling disgusted and busted. It had been a hard few days, and I wanted to curl into a ball and cry. My life is good, mind you, but I was feeling the weight of several things and felt ill-equipped for the tasks ahead of me. Including writing.

    Prior to my writing menu, I probably would’ve nurtured my funk, skipped writing, and then felt guilty for not writing. But that’s not what God wants for me, so He turned my attention to my writing menu, and I opted for my breathing app and a desk fan.

    My breathing app has background nature sounds, so that, combined with my desk fan, had me feeling like I was in a cool grotto, instead of the scorcher that was actually outside. I felt better through the sounds and sensation of a cool breeze, and my breathing exercise calmed me down.

    I approached my writing with a better mindset. And like I did previously, I wrote my disgusted and bustedness into my WIP. I did stop almost as soon as I reached my desired word count, but I reached my desired word count, which is a far cry from where I was before I turned on my app and fan.

    So I give Breathing + Fan 12/10.

  • Playing Small

    Playing Small

    Today’s journaling prompt is a series of questions for you.

    • What’s your passion?
    • How are you playing small?
    • What would your passion tell you to do differently?
  • Literacy Educators, Apply for Complimentary Coaching Today!

    Literacy Educators, Apply for Complimentary Coaching Today!

    Educators also deserve coaching in their lives. I don’t just mean coaching on how they interact with students and colleagues or how they interact with and present their content, but rather coaching that supports them as they navigate their complex lives. I wrote about this in a previous post you can access by clicking HERE.

    I believe this so profoundly that I am offering 3 months of complimentary virtual executive life coaching to up to two educators.

    Because I love words, highly regard their power to transform individuals and societies, and because I understand the emotional load that accompanies helping learners wrestle with self-expression, I’m offering the complimentary coaching to educators who daily help learners access, navigate, and use the written word. People I have in mind are writing center faculty and staff, writing instructors, literature instructors, English teachers, reading specialists, librarians, etc. (K-12 and higher ed). But you know who you are and how you show up in the world. If I didn’t name your particular role, but you still help learners access, navigate, and use the written word, please feel free to apply.

    The 3 months of executive life coaching includes 6 one-on-one 45 minute sessions of coaching via Zoom and access to all materials (ie: worksheets, videos, data tracking, etc.) offered through my online coaching platform. Coaching will run September 2021 through November 2021.

    This is a $1000 value.

    The application opens 7/1/21 and closes 7/31/21.

    Please apply and pass along the opportunity to anyone you think may be interested. If you have questions, post them in the comments, so everyone can benefit.

    Click to apply today!

  • Literacy Educators, Apply for Complimentary Coaching Today!

    Literacy Educators, Apply for Complimentary Coaching Today!

    Educators deserve time for themselves and strategies to make the most of that time. One way to do that is through using reading and journaling as self care. I wrote a whole series on reading and journaling as educator self care that you can access by clicking HERE. (You’ll need to scroll to the bottom of the page if you want to read the posts in the order they were published.) Educators also deserve coaching in their lives. I don’t just mean coaching on how they interact with students and colleagues or how they interact with and present their content, but rather coaching that supports them as they navigate their complex lives. I wrote about this in a previous post you can access by clicking HERE.

    I believe this so profoundly that I am offering 3 months of complimentary virtual executive life coaching to up to two educators.

    Because I love words, highly regard their power to transform individuals and societies, and because I understand the emotional load that accompanies helping learners wrestle with self-expression, I’m offering the complimentary coaching to educators who daily help learners access, navigate, and use the written word. People I have in mind are writing center faculty and staff, writing instructors, literature instructors, English teachers, reading specialists, librarians, etc. (K-12 and higher ed). But you know who you are and how you show up in the world. If I didn’t name your particular role, but you still help learners access, navigate, and use the written word, please feel free to apply.

    The 3 months of executive life coaching includes 6 one-on-one 45 minute sessions of coaching via Zoom and access to all materials (ie: worksheets, videos, data tracking, etc.) offered through my online coaching platform. Coaching will run September 2021 through November 2021.

    This is a $1000 value.

    The application opens 7/1/21 and closes 7/31/21.

    Please apply and pass along the opportunity to anyone you think may be interested. If you have questions, post them in the comments, so everyone can benefit.

    Click to apply today!

  • Fear: Friend or Foe?

    Fear: Friend or Foe?

    Fear keeps us stuck.

    What are you afraid of that’s keeping you from moving forward? Will whatever it is you fear still be problematic in 1 year? Is it actually problematic now?

    I’m not poo-pooing fear. Fear is real and serves a purpose. Fear can keep you from doing dangerous things, but fear is also deceptive. Fear will have you believing something is dangerous when it’s merely unknown or uncomfortable.

    So, I’ll ask again: What are you afraid of that’s keeping you from moving forward? Is that fear founded in something real and dangerous or destructive? Or is that fear founded in something that’s unknown or uncomfortable?

    One year from now will you feel confident in having listened to your fear, or will you feel regret in having succumbed to it?

    Take 5 minutes, right now, if you can, to journal about what fears you’re carrying with you today.  Evaluate those fears to determine if they will result in confidence or regret one year from now. Then act accordingly.

    Comment below with what you learned about yourself.