Cracked Open: a teacher's battle with perfection

Cracked Open is my story. It’s my story of how I was always destined to be a teacher, but when I was faced with the reality of teaching and was in the thick of it, I struggled. I struggled with overwhelm and perfectionism, and I was stuck in a vicious cycle of emotional and physical burnout.

Come along with me on my personal journey through my teaching career, navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, negative self-talk, miscarriages, teaching while becoming a new mum and the curveball that was COVID-19.

I never meant to write a book or become an author, but writing was therapeutic for me, an emotional outlet that allowed me an insight into my own mind. Full of self-doubt, I wrote for over three years. As I read the pages now, I can literally see myself grow and change through the chapters as I have allowed myself to face some hard truths and deeply reflect on myself and my career as a teacher.

While I wrote this book with teachers in my heart to inspire them to take control over their lives, both inside and outside the classroom, this is really a book for anyone who might be struggling in life.

I hope you enjoy my book as much as I enjoyed writing it, but mostly I hope that it helps you in some way. Maybe you’ll be able to relate with my story and my struggles, maybe you’ll find strategies to create the changes you need in your life, and maybe you’ll be inspired to reconnect with yourself, find balance and fall in love with your life again. Because you really do deserve that and my story will show you that it’s possible.

All my love,