Higher Education

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Things you might be dealing with:

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• Stress, burnout, and radical self-care

  • Bubble baths are never, ever enough, even if you like them

  • End of semester increase in stress

• Relationships with department heads, roommates, colleagues, the administration

• Neurodivergence and how that impacts everything

• Performance anxiety, perfectionism

• "Gifted"

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• Faculty

  • Are you able to take care of your needs or do you take care of others first

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• Students

  • Adulting

  • Separation from family of origin

  • Life change/adjustment

  • Creating new relationships

  • Have you lived in the same room as another person before in a dorm

  • Balancing academics with many other new opportunities

  • Trying new things and being "safer"

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• Work / life balance if you work in academia

  • Are you paying a "passion tax"?

  • Cyclical stress

  • Difficulty in taking time off during the school year 

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• Systemic issues in higher education

  • What values do you hold dear and does your institution align with your values? Have you seen changes in what values the institution appears to align with or how it presents its values?

  • Has Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, Justice, and Equity been renamed, or removed?

  • If you are a person of color, do you have the support you need from the institution? I have never had a person of color tell me that they have the support they need, whether administration, faculty/teacher, or student. 

  • Are you facing deep budget cuts in your department such as research funding, departments being cut

  • Are you wondering about the future of your institution or the future of higher education

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• 2025

  • Are you in an environment that has changed significantly in the last calendar year

  • Have there been reductions in staff and you have lost beloved teachers, colleagues, friends?​