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Have other teachers felt like this but dare not say it?

Is there a safe enough space to say how I have weighed up the options to get out? How sometimes I want it all to stop, this relentless...

I haven’t posted on my blog for quite some time and it’s because I started to feel better. Why did I stop writing? I should’ve been...

How many times do ‘non-school people’ say to you 'you must be on the wind down now before the summer holidays' ERRRR they couldn’t be...

How do I explain this feeling inside? It is like you can physically feel the weight of it, weighing down on your shoulders. Your body...

I am quite a deep sleeper and most of the time I do dream but it is hit and miss how much I remember. Sometimes it can just be the odd...

I am a self confessed perfectionist, a soon to be recovering perfectionist. I have always said to myself that being a perfectionist is...

Why oh why do I do this?! Because it makes me feel better... but only while I am eating it then minutes after the guilt and shame take...

I have suffered with depression on and off for many years but over the past couple of years more anxiety has crept in. This is a very...

So I said I would write about the ups and downs of depression and today feels like today is a good day and I somehow I feel lifted. I was...

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