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.

With over a decade of teaching primary school children, I have seen and experienced it all. This book is my own personal journey from a fresh-faced newbie teacher to a seasoned educator who is now guiding others to navigate some of the potholes that can come along the way.

Hard hitting topics of burnout, compassion fatigue, and negative self-talk are threaded through my heart-breaking miscarriages, the challenges of being a new mum and the unprecedented circumstances of Covid-19.

It is raw, vulnerable and a must read for those 'trying to do it all' while constantly feeling like they are coming up short.

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.

Love, Aimee xx