It’s 1:14am and you are wide awake, replaying a conversation that happened at 2pm yesterday. Not replaying it productively — you’re not problem-solving or planning what you’ll say next. You’re just running it. The parent’s tone. The exact words you chose. Whether you should have said something different. Whether your silence in that one moment…
It’s 3:15pm. A teacher just knocked on your door with a question that, two months ago, you would have answered in thirty seconds. Today you stare at them for a beat too long. The answer is in there somewhere. You just cannot get to it. You feel something between exhausted and irritable, and you don’t…
It starts around 4pm. Or maybe after dinner. A tightness you can’t quite name — a low hum of something that wasn’t there this morning. The weekend isn’t technically over yet, but Monday is already in your chest. If you are a principal, you know exactly what this feels like. You have probably felt it…
It’s 10:47pm. You made every decision that needed to be made today. You held it together in every room. And now you’re lying in bed and your brain is still going. The parent email from this afternoon. The teacher who left your office looking defeated. The budget line that doesn’t add up. The call you…