Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another Apple's NTRs vlog. Today is July 14th and it is day four, four of classroom setup. I didn't vlog yesterday because yesterday was the first day back for teachers and honestly I was in meetings all day and I literally had no energy when I got back upstairs to work on my room. And really all I did was hang a couple of bulletin board things, like things that I had made and laminated and cut out the other day. So I'll just quickly show you guys a few of the things that I added and then I'll update you on what we're gonna do today. I have the rats back today. They're here and I need to set up their cage so I think what I might do is set up their cage really quick so that they can get out of that carrier. And I brought my guitar to school. Many of you probably don't know this about me and those of you that are new subscribers welcome but I am a very musical person. So throughout my like background I actually minored in musical theater in college. I did a performance or I ran a performance-based character entertainment company for a long time about 10 years where I would do like child's birthday parties and dress up like princesses and things like that. So and then I also in college sang in a country music band that performed at the country bars around Phoenix area. So I have a musical background and absolutely love music. I think that it is such an important thing. So I have these plans to potentially use my guitar as like a way to deescalate students at the beginning of each class or maybe like after lunch or recess. I want to like either write or learn a tune that I could have the kids write like a welcome song too. I think that would be something really fun. We could do like the first week of school have each class kind of collaborate to help me write like a welcome song a song that gets them in the mood for learning a song that helps them clear their mind and just kind of calm them down. And then I also used to do mindful minute where I would just strum or pluck the guitar for a whole minute. Let the kids just kind of either lay on the floor put their heads down whatever they needed to do to like get themselves ready and prepared for class. So I think I might do that this year. I know that I have a group of students coming up that are going to have some behavior things and I really just would rather put some things in place ahead of time to kind of help deescalate them before they escalate if that makes any sense. All right. Again I'm filming on a thing so just ignore that. Okay. So what you missed was actually hung up this student center thing. I want you guys's opinion. Should I color the inside of the D in the R black with like a Sharpie or should I cut it out. I don't really know. I'm thinking I should but I didn't want to do that at the time. So I just skipped right over it. I also hung up this.  That is one of my big, big, big, big rules is standing in line correctly. I also added a zoning tool just for you know some high emotions that are coming in this year. I just kind of like I said before I want to nip it like early get it you know dialed in. So I do have this little zone reminder that I can put I can put an emotional child you know right here on the end and then that way they can like peek over here and kind of check that out throughout the day. I also put in some tech tools. So just all of the things that my students will probably need the most often copy, paste, select all and undo. I notice that these are the four that they use a lot. I do have more if necessary but those are the four that I selected for right now and then I obviously put Taylor Swift up and then I have my inboxes right here labeled and ready to go and then Taylor's little hey kid reminders right here. I have to hang that put your name on your paper. It looks like somebody like scratched it so I might have to redraw that but and then I also hung up my because so it's just right up there at the top of the board ready to go for kids who need it and then I also put up these little labels. So this is where on my focus while I'm going to place the supplies that's going to be needed for the class. So every day depending on the lesson I'll just put up there like supplies that are going to be needed or necessary and then the kids are not like you know overwhelmed they can kind of have that stuff like ready to go. I also put my notice and wonder labels I decided I'm going to go ahead and use this board as a notice and wonder wall because I do have the kids using sticky notes and I feel like this is plenty of room for them to put their sticky notes especially because when I do a notice and wonder I actually come up and read them and if they're nonsense or if they're not scientific questions I actually pull them off so you know I don't think it's gonna get too crowded. I do print I did print a new date that I'm gonna use instead of that one that one's a little small and the one I have is a little bit more colorful and large and then over here I need to print another one of these and just put like concept map or something right there because this is where I plan on like drawing or like labeling things if I need to for the students to use and then over here it says look I'm gonna put key terms over here because I feel like this wall is the most visible to every single person in the room and and that's where I'm gonna put key terms I do not like define them here I just use these as a way for kids to refer to it as they're speaking and answering questions and discussing things as a class and then I also put a little frizz up at the top because I just love her I hung up this plant too I don't think I showed you guys that I plan on having my my custodian is gonna hang something for me to hang it up in the window so I can do that I actually might put it in this window because it's nice and long and tall and then I also threw another frizzle here on this wall sciences like magic but real she's so cute right there and then I hung up my you matter and my mirror hello in there and I also put this little Instagram thing I've had it for a long time if you guys have been with me forever this picture is like eight years old but what I thought I would do is like as I take pictures throughout the year I just pick my favorite ones print them out I have the little like zip printer and just put them here I thought that would be really really cute to like add you know class pictures what else to do I think that is it from the last time you saw me there are some stools missing they're out for repair or replacement so that's why it looks so blank in here what I'm currently working on is laminating these these are my new calendar and then I do need to stuff all of these labels inside of these little pockets a long time ago I bought like 15 of these adhesive square label pockets and so I have like tons of them so I'll never have to buy them again but I was gonna use these to label my table bins my supply boxes so that each table group has an assigned table box and then on the tables there is a little strip of vinyl that says the name of the table and I might plot a picture label next to it so that they can recognize the shape of the continent so I'm gonna do that I'm gonna my table groups are gonna be called continents so I have you know North and South America I have Europe and Africa and then I have Asia and Australia and then this little isolation desk is Antarctica so I kind of I tried to like map it out like they are in the actual like on actual globe as best I could so I am looking forward to that I used it at the end of last year it was really cool because then the kids like never forgot the continents it was great so let's see I have a ton of stuff on my to-do list today as you can see a lot of it is like administration stuff like put rosters and emergency folder schedule team emergency practice time that I have to do with my team make a plan for reach or slideshow motivation surveys for week one email blah blah blah about blah blah blah like it's all a little bit like busy stuff like that I have to do on the computer because my classroom is pretty much done I do have a couple of decor items just still on the front up there that I need to either put up or put away and then after those are done and put away I'm finished with my classroom I just need to finalize a couple of projects there might be some student council kids popping in today and tomorrow to help teachers with projects so I'm kind of sort of saving those projects until the last minute just in case a student council kid comes and if not I can work on it Monday because I'll be ready I'll be done and it'll be you know I'll have plenty of time if you guys are new to my channel I do have pet rats this is temple Tina hi beat girl they're so sweet I love them they're the best pets teeny is getting a tumor on her belly though which is really scary but I hear it's very common with rats and she's about two years old two and a half and there's peach hi beauty babe how are you pinkie how are you I love them they're the best I brought them because I wanted them to have their big house they've been stuck in the little cage at home which is only like this big it's like a quarter of the size and I could just tell that they were ready to have their big house back so they're back at school they'll stay the weekend here I might take them home like the night before school starts to give them a bath because they aren't kind of stinky but they're happy to be back another thing on my to-do list today is to make a promo video for my schools Instagram and Facebook I am the social media director here at our school I team up with our like administrative assistant and assistant principals my job is to like post certain things that they send me and then also post things that the teachers send me on our social media accounts so today and they know that I'm like super video savvy so they um have asked me to make like a promo video about meet the teacher supply lists start times end times where to park where to drop off where to pick up so that parents have like a video an audio and visual of what's to be expected for the school year so I'm going to be doing that today as well because I am one of the only teachers that's not sitting in a training right now because I'm fourth grade science social studies um there's only like three of us who are not sitting in meetings right now so i'm going to be productive i'm going to try to make that video and get all of these to-do list items off of my to-do list hey you guys so I have not filmed a single thing like all day um did a couple of things around the classroom I will just show you the updated items so i'm trying to look around and see like what I did because I actually don't remember I actually set up a lot of like projects that I still have to complete but aren't part of like classroom set up but more of like getting ready for meet the teacher night or for like the first week of school I did put up this wall which are all of my um engineering practices um like developing use models ask questions if I need problems you guys can see them and then underneath them are I can statements for each one so like engaging in an argument I can defend my explanation I can formulate evidence based solid data I can see the evidence and understand it I can collaborate with my peers to figure out an explanation these are going to be really helpful for me to use um not only for like planning like learning targets but um for the kids to be able to see they probably will never use it but I will use it and I'm right here so I put it up because it's it's pretty and it's actually helpful to me um and I'll probably use it as part of my learning targets for each of my units um what else do I do I think that's it um I hung up a couple of other things like I hung up those posters and oh I labeled all of the tables and the matching table boxes so I'm gonna use these for putting student supplies in and when we do labs if the supplies for the lab will fit in the bin then I will put the supplies for the lab in the bin and then just put that on their table otherwise I'm gonna keep scissors in here glue sponges highlighters colored pencils colored pencils sharpeners and big pink erasers and so it's gonna kind of be like a community bin however this year as a team we've decided to have our students keep all of their own supplies this like includes crayons markers pens pencils um notebooks we will collect um spiral notebooks we will collect they'll keep their binders um but we want them to keep everything because honestly I'm so tired of kids damaging my stuff and then I'm having to replace it so often so we did put a note on our meet the teacher stuff that all children will be keeping their own supplies in their backpack so to organize it accordingly um and then if they want to donate any extra supplies like boxes of crayons markers colored pencils that kind of stuff they're more than welcome to donate those to classroom use but every student will need to have their own supplies um and I do have extras like stored in these black bins for a student who comes and doesn't have anything and I'll also have those supplies in these bins just in case a student doesn't have something so if they don't have their own stuff they will have access to supplies that they need um I also took my teaching cart and cleared it off what I really did was just move it I put a pile here and there's a pile back there that I need to go through and then I will reload it I also thought about putting this crate behind my desk for various things don't know what will go in there yet but like you know stuff like this mini fan that I'm probably gonna never use and my glow timer and a broken microphone and like this thing that takes up so much space um and my brain break cubes that way everything on my cart is really just like what I can grab that I need to use I can put like my coffee on the top a thing of pens pencils and then like my teacher notebook and teacher copies so yeah um I think that is it as far as right now I did get all of my stools repaired and returned so you guys can see those in the background as of right now we have just under 30 students in each class but I did just confirm with my third grade science teacher that a few of them per class are not coming back and those are confirmed not coming back so we're looking at under 30 um for each homeroom which is it's fine it's great last year we had about 24 25 in each class so five more kids is really not that big of a deal um but anyways I think I am going to end this vlog here um this will be sort of the final classroom setup video um I will do a final classroom tour it will be just like a walkthrough I'll show you all of the different areas um and the details that way um if you guys want to see things a little bit more close up you can and I'll kind of just like talk through things also don't forget that I do have a discount code for this standing desk from flexi spot it's 30 dollars off and I will have that linked down in the description right underneath the video so you guys can use that but if you guys are loving these classroom setup videos make sure you give this one a thumbs up don't forget to follow me on instagram and I will see you in the next one


Hello, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Today we have some beautiful background noise. I don't even know if you'll be able to hear it on the microphone, but I'm going to mention it for those of you who aren't listening. It is slightly raining and I'm sitting on the covered deck in the back and so the gutters are allowing that rain to trickle off the roof through the metal tubing, that aluminum tubing of the gutters and out onto the low patio below. And so you might hear some of that. I hope that you can hear some of the birds who are enjoying the rain this morning. It's a little bit humid, which I love, love, love so much. So there you are. That is our setting for Sunday Morning Coffee. I have my warm mug of coffee. I'm going to have a sip of that. My husband made these really cute mugs in his online store and it's called the mug that he made. He made it for me, thinking of me. And it says emotional support human on it. It's so cute. I'll have to take a picture and post it on Instagram. Emotional support human. And you can buy one too if you want one. I'll have to showcase it. He was using that term for the last year or two because of our dog Toby. And if you watch me on Bridget inspired on Instagram, you know who Toby is. Toby Jeff, our dog who loves to go on walks and I'm very clearly his emotional support human. But it has many different connotations that it could apply in many situations. A teacher needs this, right? Emotional support human. Mmm. Nice coffee this morning. Let's get into our topic today. We're going to talk about being in your body. Yes, for those of you who are on a spiritual journey, who are opening up to your intuition, who love all things spirituality, want to learn about energy and like to have psychic readings and just are super interested in open and curious. And for those of you who've been on the path for quite some time, you and I both know this is a problem. Oh, yes.  Oh, it is a problem being in your body.  And for many that first initial maybe even five years on the intuitive path or the spiritual awakening path. Oh, it's timeline doesn't really matter. It's different for everyone. But earlier on it feels like so great when you're doing meditations or guided image imagery visualizations that help you to leave your body and go to a beautiful place or leave your body and experience the universe that kind of a thing. Some people would call this maybe even like remote viewing or astral traveling or astral projection kind of things. It's called a lot of stuff. Okay. All resulting in the same thing, you're leaving your body, you're literally walking out the house and leaving the body. Now, the important thing to note is that you can do these things and have these experiences very safely while still connected to your body. And I know you're probably some of you are probably like, what is Bridget talking about? Because somebody you're like, I don't get this at all. I am so not that person. I don't meditate. I don't even get into I don't understand this intuition stuff. I'm just here because it's interesting. So people who are unconscious too and not aware of spirit leave their bodies also. This happens in times of trauma or tragedy where the body and the spirit are very separate separated. This happens when you have anxiety. This happens when you're experiencing high stress. This happens when you're depressed. It's hard to live in your human body because it feels like very heavy. Energetically, it feels confined. It feels like it's an anchor and it's stuck. And when you're feeling stuck, we can sometimes blame our bodies. We use our bodies as a scapegoat. Like, I don't like the way it looks. I don't like how fast it ages. I don't like this, that and the other thing. And we are mean to each other's bodies too, like bullying each other based on physical appearances or lack of what this is or that is or all that. I mean, just look at social media. Hello, look at all the filtering and all this stuff that's going on because we're just not good enough. Our bodies are just not good enough. Because of this, there has been a constant re-awareness of separation between the body and the spirit.  You know what I'm talking about. The spirit, are you a spiritual being having a human experience or are you a human being having a spiritual experience? The truth is, you had best to be both, right? Yes, this is not about divisiveness or separation. This is not a competition between the spirit and the human. But clearly it becomes that way. The mind will step in even, even the mind. The mind and the body connected to the human expression most often. And the heart and the soul most often aligned with the spiritual more so, okay, when you're thinking of basics and whose team are young kind of thing. The mind even, the mind even tries to control things and manage things in ways that are not so nice to the body. The mind is even mean to the body for goodness sakes. And it certainly discounts the spiritual stuff, stuff, energy.  This is not about separation, although the mind does encourage the separation because the mind is all about survival and the essence of the mind wants you to just be safe. The less the body is active, the more it's safe to the mind.  Oh my gosh, better yet, the mind is freaking out because you're on a road trip and there's so many unknowns and what could happen?  Like see what I'm saying? The mind is like dun dun dun, worst case scenario, but it works, doesn't it? Doesn't it work? It works to try to keep control over your body and your physical environment and to shut down the spirit. But this isn't intended as an ego or mind is bad, not at all, not at all. But let's be aware that that's part of why you're not in your body because your mind is kind of a jerkle. It's a jerkle Rama sometimes. The brain is not very nice. It just isn't. But here's the thing, being in your body is essential. So how it is essential, and you're like, why bridge it? Why?  Who's tending to the house? Who's caring for the energy in your house? If you're worried about being all spiritual and entities and energy attachments and bad energy and negative energy, if you're leaving the house, it's empty. Burglars are going to come by. The kids are going to have a party. It's going to be messy. I mean, seriously think about it. Come on, people. Use your brain in a good way, right? Oh, I don't want to scare you. I don't mean because you asked to travel. All of a sudden you're going to get some big dark entity attachment. You guys, let me just tell you this. Let me just give you spiritual information here.  Seriously. Now I know there are legitimate attachments and legitimate reasons why you feel so down and heavy and actual paranormal stuff that can happen to people. Yes, but you guys, that's like not even 5% of the cases that I see where people feel like they have this big energy attachment or they're being drugged down by other people's energies. I'm like, wake up. Wake up, everybody. Wake up. Coffee time. Take a drink of coffee. Wake up, people. That's empath.  And so that's why you feel like you have a backpack of an oogie boogie, and you might have a backpack of an attachment. But guess why it's there?  And because of that, you got attachments or you got heavy energy. And so you don't want to be in your body. It's like your house is messy, so you don't want to be there. I'm just going to move out of my house now. I've invested all this time and money 15 years in my house. And instead of selling it and getting our equity back, you know, worth like getting, you know, good money for a new home or whatever, we're just going to leave it. We're just going to walk away from it. Yeah, we're just not going to, we're going to stop taking care of it. We're not going to shut the doors or the windows. We're going to leave everything open, let the animals move in. We're going to sleep in there, but we're not going to take care of it.  It doesn't make sense. I'm a little up in arms a bit about this scenario, about leaving the body because the body is so abused, physically, emotionally, energetically, clearly. And it's not because the body is vulnerable, it's because we abandon it. We abandon it. So I hope that during the first half of this conversation, I have eliminated some of your excuses as to why it's so much better to be a spirit Bridget. I just hate being in a body. I'm like, well then address the human life stuff, work with your spiritual stuff to help you. That's what spirituality is about you guys. It's about resourcing the intangible to support your tangible. The goal is the physical manifestation, not leaving this planet, not hurrying up and getting done with this life so you can get on to the next one. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? You're going to repeat that grade. We're going to bring you back. You're going to start over. Do you really want to start over? No. Do you really want to abandon your house? Your body is your home. It's your home. It is your home. You can be brain dead and your body can still be alive. Oh my God. Really? The body is a freaking amazing. It's not just an amazing miraculous machine and complex systems of functioning. And the only time we notice our body is when things aren't working quite right. Maybe if we would be in our bodies, be home a little more often, and take care of the family of our body and all of the needs that our body has and the gentle, simple asks for a healthy breakfast or a little more water or a little bit of movement, or maybe some quiet time, some good sleep. It's not hard to give our body what it needs. It's not. It's not. So why do we withhold that? Why do we ignore that? Do we really think it's not important? Do you really think your body is not important?  I didn't love to run but I do have a meniscus issue which I'm gently taking care of right now. But we overuse and then we just expect it to just be there, be there, be there, go, go, go, do, do, do, and it just can't do that. We've got to be with our bodies. We've got to be with it. If you can't be in it, be with it. And I know the next questions are going to be, well how do I get in my body?  I'll have to do some meditations to help with this. I talk about this in private session with people that are very clearly not connected to their body and I'm not trying to blame you for not being in your body because believe me, I spent a huge chunk probably, oh my gosh you guys, probably a good 10 maybe even 12 years doing spiritual work, doing psychic work as the psychic and not wanting to be in my body. And I knew it. I knew I didn't want to be in my body. Not because I have trauma related to the body, not because I have abuse related to the body, but simply just quite frankly because just didn't feel as comfortable. Like I just want to get away from the stress. My body is like a pop bottle. I have a lot of internal, my patterns in the past have been to internalize my stress. And so anxiety, anxiety probably is the best way to describe it.  And when I did spiritual and psychic work, like clearing work, and even paranormal stuff early on, I don't do that now. Do not ask me to work with paranormal stuff like ghosts or whatever. I mean, I can give people information and stuff if it's like a super dire situation. I'm not the person that's going to go in and do that anymore. There's no way. It's just not my, I don't enjoy it. Okay, that's why. And it's hard. And ain't nobody going to pay you the money that it's worth to do it. Let me just be clear and honest. It's hard work. I know what this is like to not be in your body. And I'm going to tell you right now it's better to be in it. I feel so much more whole connected when you feel disconnected like something's missing. It's because you are your soul is not in your body fully. And I'm I'm like you just got to practice being in a little bit meditation can do that being out in nature can do that breathing just breathing into your body and feeling your chest filled with air and literally feeling your lungs expand. It can help you know for sure. So for me it was more of an emotional overwhelming energy that caused me to leave my body or to feel like I'm safer out of my body than in my body because inside my body I just felt oh my god shaky inside I just didn't feel it's like how can I trust my body if when I come in after a while I start to feel bad like negative about myself or like I can't handle my emotions what's going on I just feel bad I feel like everything's bad the world is negative I can't do anything about it so what's going on that's really empath and being an empath. I think for empaths it's really hard to be in your body constantly. So I understand that it could be hard and that you might not even really understand this concept of being in your body or being out of your body. But I feel like if you really felt into your heart space you know exactly what I'm talking about. The separation the disconnection that you feel is because you're not you're not you're really not giving yourself that chance to be with yourself I mean you are actually at your core a really great energy you are a great spiritual being and as a person to have that kind of greatness connected to you can be kind of like what that's not me really what you know it can be a little bit hard to believe but it's just the fact it's just a fact it's just true and if we can go to that part of us and let that just be inside of us like in your physical body just let your body be the home for that for your spirit just let it be the house for your spirit let it be the air bnb for this lifetime a really great one with that awesome view super great amenities and a awesome pool okay yes yes being in your body take a nice deep breath in full exhale out it's a relationship the relationship you have with your human experience is equally as important as the relationship with you have that you have with your spiritual experience these are not two separate things the goal is to allow them to be integrated in relationship sometimes one is leading and the other is not leading then they switch roles sometimes but they are always together there's always opportunity to work together to weave them together to collaborate together there is always opportunity for unity in the body and with the spirit living in safe in the body in order to achieve this of course we have to be aware and recognize our empath energies our clear sentient heart our sensitive heart space and our emotions and work with the ways that our body doesn't always feel so great because we are over processing energy we are internalizing energy but don't make the mistake of believing that the internalization of energy is the same thing as having your spirit be in your body it's not the same thing it's not it's a pattern of processing and working with energy that's all that is I'm like oh that's all that is no big deal we can talk about this for hours and days and weeks and months and years that's all that is today we're focused on being in your body you're not stuck in your body your spirit needs a home needs a home base needs a beautiful place to set up shop and create its studio it's not a one or the other it's a this and this the body and the spirit so when I work with clients you've heard me say this before if you listen to my fairy grasshopper youtube channel I work with a very simple model of four parts of ourselves body and mind heart and soul and I feel like there is alliances here the bffs are the body of the mind and the other two bffs are the heart and the soul interestingly the heart and the soul are at the core of the physical body oh yes we have a lot of energetic power within us for sure we do if we are in in the entire beautiful sacred container of the body the body is the container it's the vessel of vehicle without that um you got nothing you got nothing okay nothing nothing no thing nobody no thing no nothing and I promise you when you're out the body you're gonna miss the body for a bit you're gonna feel oh I'm spirit oh I don't have to be in the body anymore yay and then then two seconds later you're gonna be like dang the body it was so awesome and so sensory and so beautiful and I could experience the world and the nature and and the gravity of the the body and the just the amazing things that are only capable when you are in a body but you're not going to know that until you're not in the body you're gonna have to feel into the beauty of this sacred container it's a house it's not contained it's not a cage the body is not a cage it's container or sacred container or sacred sacred house it's a house but the solid foundation and the body is very intuitive and in tune and it can also work with the brain so the body could be the key to everything to all the disconnection you're feeling because it can work with the mind the body can and it can work with the spirit and energy and it can work with the heart and the feeling and the emotion so much can be achieved and accomplished if we just harness the body as a house a sacred house i'm not talking about your physicality i'm talking about like like what you can do like an olympian or a yoga master i'm not talking about that or how young you look or whatever i'm talking about the body as this beautiful miraculous gift this palace it is a palace so can we just start there with the palace maybe in your journal write a bit about your body and your relationship to your body and even if it's been this this tumultuous not very kind relationship or if it's been a great relationship i mean write it maybe write about that start with where you're at you know get some perspective there and then ask your spirit how it can help to be embodied what it can do for the body and ask the body what the body needs what can the spirit do for the body to be embodied and what does the body need in order to do that i just heard out loud trust for me that's the key factor trust and that's what it took for me to get to that point i can share with you that experience at some point how i knew i was like oh my gosh i'm in my body i'm finally in my body i set it as an intention and i really worked for a couple like three years i'd say until i really felt it two and a half probably three years worked by working i mean through awareness through honoring the relationship of the energies through honoring my physical body and i want i want that for you you deserve that you deserve to be at your full power body mind heart and soul full power unity unified working together it's not perfect it's about alignment and connection working together so this is Bridget thank you so much for listening this sunday morning coffee episode with Bridget lots of lots of gems of wisdom in this one lots of conversation here i'll be curious to read your comments to see what has stood out for you in this particular episode of the 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