Guest Danielle De La Mar shares her journey from academic burnout to a self-compassionate approach, discussing overcoming imposter feelings, shame, fear, and overwork. She offers guidance to academics facing similar challenges and hosts the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast.
Danielle De La Mare shares how to foster self compassion as a professor on episode 519 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn’t work hard, people would see that I wasn’t worthy of being their teacher.
-Danielle De La Mare
Let’s just take a second and really feel all the pain that you’ve been feeling. And put your hands over your heart.
-Danielle De La Mare
Don’t say yes if it’s not something that really speaks to you, if it’s not really a deeper sort of desire of yours.
-Danielle De La Mare
What is it like to be me? Do I even know right now?
-Danielle De La Mare