🌿 TEACHER WELLNESS TOOLKIT
Evidence-based micro-supports to help you feel calmer, steadier, and more in control — even on the hardest days.
Teaching today is emotional labour.
You’re supporting overwhelmed students, navigating complex behaviours, and absorbing more than anyone outside education can understand.
This page gives you quick, gentle tools to help your nervous system reset — so you can breathe, think clearly, and get through the day with more steadiness and less exhaustion.
Choose the Tool You Need Right Now
“I need a nervous system reset right now.”
“I’m overwhelmed after a bad class or bad interaction.”
“My classroom is dysregulated and I can’t get them calm.”
A Short Welcome from Darren
⭐ Tool #1. The 4-Minute Teacher Burnout Reset
When you feel overloaded, scattered, or “done”
A short guided reset for your nervous system, perfect for:
between classes
after an incident
before a meeting
on your commute.
Download the Worksheet
Download the Extended Version Worksheet
⭐ Tool #2. Teacher Emotional First Aid Kit
A practical guide that helps you recover after tough interactions, reduce emotional overload, and bring your nervous system back toward calm.
Helps with:
compassion fatigue
classroom chaos
unexpected conflict
overstimulation
the “after-school crash”
⭐ Tool #3. Teacher Micro-Tools (Fast Reset Skills)
These are 5–20 second tools you can use:
in the hallway
between bells
during conflict
with dysregulated classes
when you feel yourself shutting down
They require no privacy and no time — just breath, small movements, and grounding techniques.
⭐ Tool #4. Classroom Co-Regulation Guide
A simple, trauma-informed tool that helps your entire class settle together.
Perfect for transitions, post-recess dysregulation, and chaotic energy.
Includes:
teacher-led calming prompts
group breathing
nervous-system reset language
classroom-ready scripts
movement-based settling strategies
⭐ Tool #5. Classroom Emotional Climate Checklist
Track and understand your classroom’s emotional patterns: overstimulation, relational tensions, shutdown, conflict, and more.
This helps:
identify root issues
prevent escalation
guide healthier class routines
support emotional maturity
build community
⭐ Tool #6. Boundary Phrases for Teachers
A list of firm, kind, emotionally mature phrases teachers can use to reduce conflict, hold structure, and stay grounded in tough moments.
Includes scripts for:
dysregulated students
boundary-pushing behaviour
overwhelmed parents
emotional escalation
maintaining dignity under stress
⭐ Tool #7. Teacher Daily Check-In
A short daily reflection worksheet that helps you reconnect with yourself, track burnout signs early, and build emotional resilience over time.
Helps you notice:
tension patterns
emotional triggers
victories and wins
exhaustion warning signs
what your nervous system needs
📘 Teacher Burnout Reset Workbook (Free)
A gentle 6-week workbook designed to support teacher burnout, emotional overload, and nervous system regulation.
Use it on your own or share it with colleagues to build mutual support and reduce isolation.
⭐ If You Ever Want Someone to Talk To
If you ever need a place to decompress, process the emotional weight, or just feel understood — I’m here.
⭐ Tool #8. QR Therapy Card for Teachers
A printable QR card that brings you directly to quick support tools whenever you need them — right on your phone.
Teachers tell us this makes it easier to remember grounding skills in tense or chaotic moments.
⭐ Tool #9. A Signature Tool
Love Loops™ Classroom Lifesaver Tools
Trauma-informed scripts and supports for the real moments teachers face every day
105 quick-response tools for the moments that feel overwhelming, confusing, or emotionally charged—the moments that drain you, derail learning, and leave you feeling alone.
Each tool gives you:
exact phrases to say in the moment
what the behaviour actually signals
how to meet the need beneath the behaviour
how to protect your own nervous system
how to repair safety and connection quickly
⭐ If You’re Struggling, You’re Not Failing
Teaching asks more of your nervous system than anyone sees.
You are carrying:
student emotion
parent overwhelm
classroom behaviour
curriculum pressure
your own life
the emotional climate of the school
It’s not you.
It’s the load.
You deserve support too.
⭐ COMING SOON
Video Library: Nervous-System Reset Tools for Teachers
Short guided moments you can watch anytime you need support.
Our teacher-friendly video series includes:
60-Second Before-Class Reset
Reset After a Difficult Parent Conversation
End-of-Day Decompression
EFT Tapping for Teachers
EFT for Classrooms
Guided Visualization: Steady After Chaos
“You’re Not Failing” Compassion Message
and more…
You can watch them in the hallway, your car, your planning period, or during transitions.
[COMING SOON)
⭐ Why These Tools Work
The nervous system is the real classroom manager.
Teachers often operate in high-intensity environments where:
emotional load exceeds capacity
students need more regulation than teachers can provide
conflict drains energy
overwhelm becomes “normal”
the brain gets stuck in survival mode
These tools help you step out of:
fight mode
freeze mode
overwhelm mode
shutdown mode
emotional overload
And back into:
clarity
steadiness
grounded authority
emotional presence
compassion for yourself
connection with students
They’re small because small works.
Micro-interventions create macro change over time.
⭐ A Note to Teachers
You deserve support.
You deserve rest.
You deserve moments that make the day feel survivable — and even meaningful.
These tools cannot fix a broken system.
But they can soften the pressure your nervous system is carrying inside that broken system.
They can help you feel more like yourself again.
And when you feel steadier, your students feel safer too.
⭐ Want More Support?
If you’re an Ontario teacher with benefits, you’re already covered for psychotherapy.
If you want deeper support — personal, relational, or emotional — you don’t have to do this alone.
Learn more or book a session: