Start your week with self care and journal to the following prompt.
Tag: transformation
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24 Hours
Start your week off with self care by journaling to the following prompt.
How will I move closer to the best version of myself in the next 24 hours?
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Journaling for Transformation: 31 Days to Discover Your Next Step is now open!
Stop struggling to discover your next step, and start journaling instead! Journaling for Transformation will help you cultivate a journaling habit and discover the next step of your transformation.
You can access Journaling for Transformation by clicking HERE!
In addition to all of the bonuses the course already offers you, if you purchase the course before Thursday, 9/17/20, you will get a FREE one-hour coaching session with me! I can’t wait to meet you and talk about your next step.
As a reminder, this is what you get with the course.
- daily encouraging emails
- reasons to incorporate a daily journaling habit into your life
- tips on cultivating a daily journaling habit
- practice journaling to daily prompts
- strategies to fit journaling into your busy schedule in just 10-15 minutes per day
- 31 brief video lessons (approximately 5 minutes each – yes, you have time to squeeze this into your day!)
- 31 daily journaling prompts
- Workbook for your 31 daily journaling prompts (the workbook is a fillable pdf you can download and print or use right on your computer)
THAT’S OVER A $100 VALUE!
But since it takes an average of 66 days to form a habit, you get 35 more days of journal prompts!
After course completion, you also gain access to the following….- 14 additional journaling prompts delivered daily after course completion
- 14 bonus prompts in your workbook (31 daily journaling prompts + your 14 bonus prompts = 45 days of journaling)
- 14 additional daily encouraging emails
- My pdf/flip book Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery
- Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery Workbook that has 21 journal prompts (the workbook is a fillable pdf you can download and print or use right on your computer)
- 21 additional daily encouraging emails
- Link to LELA House journaling prompts archive, so you can have ongoing access to journaling prompts
- And the BIG BONUS – a free 1-hour one-on-one coaching session with me, if you purchase this course before September 17, 2020!
THAT’S A TOTAL OF AN ADDITIONAL $150 OF BONUSES!
This means you’ll get a personalized, 1-on-1 coaching session PLUS 66 days of encouragement, journaling instruction, and journaling prompts delivered to your inbox each day (a $250 value) for only $47!
Purchase Journaling for Transformation now and reserve your free coaching session.
I’m so excited for your transformation!
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Jesus and Journaling
Check out the next episode of Real & Raw with Roshaunda where I discuss how Jesus and journaling have helped me discover my next steps in life.
NOTE – During this episode, I mention that one of my goals is to revolutionize education. It’s weird for me to say that, because I recognize how preposterous that sounds and what a gargantuan endeavor that is. Then while I was praying today, God revealed to me that I am already revolutionizing education, and so are all of the other educators out there.
I’ve certainly revolutionized education for some of my students. Some of them now believe they can, so they will. Helping people move into their possibility and potential is revolutionary. And educators of all sorts do that. All day every day.
Now, that wasn’t what I had in mind, when I said I want to revolutionize education, and I don’t think that’s everything God has in mind, either. He can do more than I can ask or think, and I’m pretty good at asking and thinking, so what He has in store is way beyond what I can even comprehend. So I’m glad God let me see that even while I’m on the path, I’m accomplishing the goal step by step. It’s such a blessing to help people become who God created them to be!
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Journaling for Transformation Course Opens Thursday 9/10/20
I’m launching a new course: Journaling for Transformation – 31 Days to Discover Your Next Step!
I know 31 days sounds like a long time to discover your next step in life. You could very well discover your next step tomorrow. Discovery, however, is a journey, and this course will teach you the skills to incorporate journaling as a daily habit to propel you toward discovery. This course will help you not only discover your next step, but the next one, and the next one, and the next one – all through creating a journaling habit. We’re in this for the long game, not a quick fix.
Did you know it takes on average 66 days to form a habit? I recently learned that, and honestly, I felt sort of bamboozled that it’s not 21 days, like I had heard before. Sixty-six days feels like such a long time!
Even though the course itself is a 31-day journey to self discovery and transformation, I’ve got you covered for the remaining 35 days it takes to form a habit.
Course bonuses include 14 additional journal prompts, Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery (a pdf/flipbook), and the Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery Workbook. These bonus items will get you journaling for the 66 days most of us need to form a habit. Plus you’ll get access to the LELA House journaling prompt archives!
And if you purchase the course before 9/17/20, you get one free hour of coaching with me! I’m excited to partner with you to kickstart your next step and the transformation that will inevitably follow.
The course will open on Thursday, September 10, 2020, and that’s no accident. If you begin the course as soon as it opens, you will have created your daily journaling habit before the start of the holiday season. The holiday season can stress people out, and a journaling habit is a great way to deal with that stress. You won’t have to worry about creating a strategy to cope with stress as it comes to you, because you will have already established your journaling habit!
Why did I even create a course to help people form a journaling habit? It’s simple, really. My journaling habit has been transformative in my life, but I stumbled and bumbled my way into it. I didn’t really understand why journaling was important, nor did I understand how to do it with any regularity. I want to help other people to position themselves for their own transformations, and I don’t want them to waste years trying to form a habit (like I did), when they could do it in 31-66 days.
Just for signing up to receive advanced information about the Journaling for Transformation course, you get access to all sorts of goodies!
- You’ll get same-day access to LELA Care Journaling Pages. This 2-page spread of journaling pages offers insightful prompts to help you reflect on your day. You can download and print the pdf to make as many physical copies as you like. You can also type directly into the fillable pdf. These journaling pages will help you jumpstart your journaling habit today!
- Plus over the next week, you’ll gain access to 3 journaling jumpstart activities I use with my coaching clients.
I’m super excited to help you start and maintain a journaling habit!
Click to learn more about Journaling for Transformation!
And let me know in the comments what has you most excited about Journaling for Transformation!
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You are Amazing
Start your week off with self care and journal to the following prompt.
How am I amazing?
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Journaling for Transformation Course Coming in 1 Week!
I’m launching a new course: Journaling for Transformation – 31 Days to Discover Your Next Step!
I know 31 days sounds like a long time to discover your next step in life. You could very well discover your next step tomorrow. Discovery, however, is a journey, and this course will teach you the skills to incorporate journaling as a daily habit to propel you toward discovery. This course will help you not only discover your next step, but the next one, and the next one, and the next one – all through creating a journaling habit. We’re in this for the long game, not a quick fix.
Did you know it takes on average 66 days to form a habit? I recently learned that, and honestly, I felt sort of bamboozled that it’s not 21 days, like I had heard before. Sixty-six days feels like such a long time!
Even though the course itself is a 31-day journey to self discovery and transformation, I’ve got you covered for the remaining 35 days it takes to form a habit.
Course bonuses include 14 additional journal prompts, Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery (a pdf/flipbook), and the Journaling for Self Care and Self Discovery Workbook. These bonus items will get you journaling for the 66 days most of us need to form a habit. Plus you’ll get access to the LELA House journaling prompt archives!
The course will open on Thursday, September 10, 2020, and that’s no accident. If you begin the course as soon as it opens, you will have created your daily journaling habit before the start of the holiday season. The holiday season can stress people out, and a journaling habit is a great way to deal with that stress. You won’t have to worry about creating a strategy to cope with stress as it comes to you, because you will have already established your journaling habit!
Why did I even create a course to help people form a journaling habit? It’s simple, really. My journaling habit has been transformative in my life, but I stumbled and bumbled my way into it. I didn’t really understand why journaling was important, nor did I understand how to do it with any regularity. I want to help other people to position themselves for their own transformations, and I don’t want them to waste years trying to form a habit (like I did), when they could do it in 31-66 days.
Just for signing up to receive advanced information about the Journaling for Transformation course, you get access to all sorts of goodies!
- You’ll get same-day access to LELA Care Journaling Pages. This 2-page spread of journaling pages offers insightful prompts to help you reflect on your day. You can download and print the pdf to make as many physical copies as you like. You can also type directly into the fillable pdf. These journaling pages will help you jumpstart your journaling habit today!
- Plus over the next week, you’ll gain access to 3 journaling jumpstart activities I use with my coaching clients.
I’m super excited to help you start and maintain a journaling habit!
Click to learn more about Journaling for Transformation!
And let me know in the comments what has you most excited about Journaling for Transformation!
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Celebrate Self Care
Sixteen days ago I began writing for a BYOB (Blog Your Own Book) challenge. The challenge is to write a blog post each day for the month of August, so that by the end of August, participants will have written the bulk of the material for a book. Today I am celebrating my courage to put my weird ideas about reading and journaling as educator self care into the ether, my consistency, and my small steps (writing one blog post may not seem like much, but when it turns into a book it certainly does).
And I want you to celebrate yourself, too.
Celebrate the courage you’re showing by choosing yourself. Most educators put themselves last, but you are choosing to give yourself time and space to rest, reflect, and grow.
Celebrate your consistency. Forming a habit is difficult, but taking one small step day after day helps you reach your goals.
Celebrate your small steps. You wrote in your journal today? Good for you! You read for five minutes? Way to go! I’m not one to celebrate mediocrity, and please don’t get me started on children getting trophies just for showing up. Nevertheless, stepping into something you’ve not committed to before is daunting.
I applaud your efforts. Transformation is hard work.
Real-life transformation doesn’t happen like Cinderella’s “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo” scene, which yields temporary change in Cinderella’s circumstances. Rather it plays out like Mulan’s “Be a Man” scene, which reveals Mulan’s strength of character.
I celebrate your strength of character. I celebrate you. You should, too.
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I am doing a 31-day series on reading and journaling as self care for educators. Each day of the series has bonus journal prompts. Click to join the LELA House family of educators committed to nourishing their reading, writing, and creative souls. You’ll receive a link to the journal prompts and gain early alerts for upcoming LELA House ideas, courses, and products. You only need to subscribe once. I will add a new worksheet each day to the access link.
Roshaunda D. Cade, Ph.D. is an educator, writer, and creator. She offers life coaching and writing coaching to educators, as well as other opportunities for educators to practice self care through reading and writing. Check out her LELA House website to learn more about her services. Roshaunda lives in St. Louis, MO with her husband and teenage children and enjoys reading, writing, dancing, and pushing her creative boundaries.
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What do Educators Need to Flourish?
Dear Educators,
The anxiety and frustration and uncertainty of our current times are immense. What do you need right now to care for yourself? To thrive and be your best self?
I’m hoping I can help. Educators don’t have enough people worried about them and how they can thrive and learn and explore and create and connect and flourish in life, not just in their education contexts. I want to change that. As people engage more in growing, creating, learning, and developing, they achieve better results and experience more joy in all areas of their lives. I have some ideas of ways I can serve my fellow educators and plan to revamp my offerings accordingly, but I wanted to hear directly from you what it is you need. Please respond in the comments.
I’m looking forward to our transformation journey,
Roshaunda
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Here’s some inspiration for those who inspire – 15 Empowering Maxims for Education Mavericks. Roshaunda D. Cade, Ph.D. is an educator, writer, and creator. She lives in St. Louis, MO with her husband and teenage children and enjoys reading, writing, dancing, and pushing her creative boundaries. You can follow her at roshaundacade.com, lela-house.com, and on Teachable, Medium, Youtube, and Instagram.
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Learning to Lead Your Lizard Brain
Yesterday I attended the first session in a Master Mind Institute webinar series about neuroscience and life coaching. I learned fresh ways to consider and discuss emotions, and I’m excited to align my new learning with the lessons I gleaned from Susan David’s Emotional Agility.
The amygdala is an almond-shaped, almond-sized section of the brain that houses emotional experiences and responses. The word amygdala derives from Latin for almond, which I find fascinating. I imagine scientists of yore plotting various parts of the brain and their functions saying, “Yeah, we know this part of the brain deals with emotions, but instead of naming it for emotions, let’s name it something less intimidating. Almonds are not at all intimidating, and it looks like an almond, so….” So now we have an almond directing our emotions.
This emotional center is also known as the lizard brain (score another point for cool scientists and their nomenclature), which determines the fight-or-flight response. In determining fight or flight, the lizard brain intertwines emotions and learning.
An example given in the webinar depicted a person walking around gathering plants and provisions and stumbling upon a lion. The lizard brain kicked in with the emotions of stress and fear, helping the person to decide whether to fight or flee. The person in the scenario chose to flee (which makes sense to me), but while fleeing, the person had to pay attention to where in the savanna she was, the time of day, directionality, topography, etc. In other words, she needed to learn how to avoid the lion while she fled from it.
Learning and emotions have never been separated, yet we often think of them as discrete. Because they share a neurological link, we can learn how to manage our emotions. First, we must accept that an almond-sized lizard directs synaptic emotional traffic in our brains.
You will have an emotional response when your status quo gets disrupted. You are hard-wired to do so. What you do with that emotional response, however, determines whether you grow and transform or become stagnant and stuck.
Dealing with your emotions doesn’t need to be scary. From now on, I will picture my emotions as a cute almond-sized axolotl (albeit an amphibian) on a mission to help me navigate my world.
What about you? The first step to transformation is acknowledging your emotions influence you. The next is to realize how they influence you.
To partner with someone who can help you figure out how to manage your emotions and transform your life, contact me. I would love to join you on your journey.
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