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Self-Compassion and Other Musings on a Rainy Sunday

So, I haven't written a blog post in a long time. Maybe I'm going to have to accept the fact that no matter how hard I try I may not able to stick to any kind of regular writing schedule. At least not yet. Not right now. Or maybe I need to accept that I  will  be able to do so for a while, but then something comes up that will force me to go off my schedule. This doesn't mean I'm not a writer or that I don't have anything to say. It just means that life happens and I have to let it get in the way. Today I read an article that I had bookmarked in 2012 about  self-compassion . It was from a podcast interview from  The Greater Good Science Centre at UC Berkeley . It was just what I needed to read today as I often feel bad about myself for not writing regularly, not being the perfect teacher, and for making mistakes. Sort of what we end up doing to our students (and some administrators to teachers) when we make them set goals that are not borne of their own needs an