Changing the Face of Our Wellness with Rachel Harper

Rachel Harper
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Black women often face unique barriers to wellness, from systemic inequalities to cultural pressures. This podcast was created to challenge those obstacles and celebrate the strength, resilience, and potential of Black women. Your health is not a luxury—it’s essential. Join a community of women committed to breaking generational patterns, thriving in their well-being, and changing the face of wellness for generations to come. Subscribe to Changing the Face of Our Wellness and take the first step toward a healthier, happier, and more empowered you. Let’s heal, grow, and reset—together.

  1. Sep 2

    Why You Keep Starting Over With Your Health (And What to Do Instead)

    Join the next cohort of 'The Healthy School Year' Why do you start the school year determined to better care for yourself only find yourself too exhausted, stressed, and starting over again and again. Your health plan may simply not be built for the realities of working in education. In this episode, I'm breaking down why healthy habits often disappear when the school year gets stressful and what you can do differently. Be sure to subscribe and share this episode with someone in your network who you believe it can help. #educatorwellness

  2. Aug 19

    How to Protect Your Health This School Year | Proverbs 4:23

    You can be doing an amazing job in education while quietly realizing that the way you're working isn't working for you. In this episode, we're talking about Proverbs 4:23 and what “guard your heart” can look like in the real life of an educator. We'll explore the tension between being dependable, successful, and committed at work while trying to protect your health, energy, peace, and life outside of education. Because maybe the question isn't only, “Did I get everything done?” Maybe we also need to ask: What did getting everything done cost me? Listen in, then grab your journal and reflect with me.

  3. Aug 13

    What Emotion Have You Ignored? | Journaling | Bible Study | Day 3

    Grab the JournalIf you’re an educator who has been pushing through the school day without stopping to process how you actually feel, this guided journaling session is for you.In Day 3 of Journal With Me for Educators, we’re slowing down with one reflective journal prompt:“What emotion are you ignoring, and what is it trying to teach you?”When you spend your day teaching, leading, solving problems, answering questions, managing responsibilities, and responding to everyone else’s needs, it can become easy to push your own emotions aside just to keep going.Today, we’re not trying to fix everything.We’re creating a few minutes to notice what’s there.Grab your journal and join me as we reflect, write, and create a little space between the demands of the school day and the rest of our lives.This guided journaling session can be used as an after-school reset for teachers, school leaders, administrators, counselors, and other education professionals who need a moment to slow down and check in with themselves.Come back whenever you need a quiet place to journal after a difficult or emotionally demanding school day.Journal Prompt:What emotion are you ignoring, and what is it trying to teach you?#GuidedJournaling #JournalWithMe #TeacherStress #JournalingForStressRelief #EducatorWellness #TeacherWellness #EmotionalWellness

  4. Aug 13

    Journaling for Stress Relief: What Needs to Be Soothed Right Now? | For Educators | Episode 39

    Purchase Your Journallinktr.ee/rachel_harper_Whether you’re a teacher, school leader, administrator, counselor, or other education professional, take a few minutes to journal with me after a stressful school day.You don’t need to fix everything tonight. This is simply an opportunity to check in with yourself, create space for recovery, and recognize what you need before moving into the rest of your evening.Grab your journal, find a quiet place, and journal with me.In this guided journaling session:Journal with me after a stressful school dayUse a reflective journal prompt for stress reliefCheck in with what you’re feeling and carryingCreate a moment of after-school recoveryPractice slowing down before moving into the rest of your dayIf the school day has left you mentally drained, emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, or struggling to switch off after work, come back to this video whenever you need a few minutes to reset.Journal Prompt:What part of me is asking to be seen and soothed right now?#JournalingForStressRelief #JournalWithMe #TeacherStress #EducatorWellness #GuidedJournaling #StressReliefForTeachers #TeacherWellness

  5. Aug 7

    How to Guard Your Body from Stress and High Blood Pressure | Educators | Episode 38

    What if your body isn't overreacting...what if it's responding exactly the way it's been trained to?Every school day brings decisions, interruptions, deadlines, and constant responsibility. Over time, your body may begin to interpret that environment as one continuous emergency—even when you're simply doing your job.In this episode, I explore a question that completely changed the way I think about educator health:What if your body believes every school day is an emergency?We'll talk about how the culture of education can shape your body's stress response, why this matters for your heart health, and what it means if your blood pressure, energy, or recovery haven't been the same since entering education.This isn't about blaming education.It's about understanding what your body may be trying to tell you. Watch on the Youtube Channel

  6. Jul 22

    The First Thing Healthy Educators Do Before the School Year Begins

    Before you prepare your classroom, prepare your heart. As educators, we spend weeks getting ready for a new school year. We organize classrooms, write lesson plans, and think about our students—but many of us never stop to ask one simple question: What is my blood pressure? In this episode, I'm sharing why checking your blood pressure is one of the most important first steps you can take before the school year begins. High blood pressure often develops without obvious symptoms, which is why it's known as the "silent killer." If you're waiting until you don't feel well, you may already be behind. This isn't about becoming obsessed with health. It's about taking one small step that could help you protect your heart and stop losing your health to the education system. This school year, don't just prepare your classroom. Prepare yourself. In this episode you'll learn: Why blood pressure should be every educator's starting pointWhy feeling healthy isn't the same as being healthyHow the demands of education can quietly impact your heartThe first simple step to begin resetting your health this school year If you're ready to take the guesswork out of your health journey, take the Wellness Gap Quiz.

  7. Jul 18

    Episode 35: How I Stopped Losing My Health to the Education System | Saturday Reset

    Educator Health Gap Quiz You've probably downloaded the meal plan, started the workout program, or followed advice from someone whose results you wanted. But if you've ever wondered why it worked for them and not for you, this episode is for you. I'm sharing why the best plan for improving your blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and even your response to stress isn't the most popular plan—it's the one that's personalized to your life, your health history, your schedule, and your current habits. As educators, we're often handed generic health advice that ignores the realities of the school day. A personalized plan considers where you are now, what's driving your current health numbers, and what changes will actually be sustainable. In this episode, you'll learn: Why generic health plans often fail.What makes a personalized health plan different.How individualized strategies can improve blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and stress regulation.The first step to creating a plan that works with your life instead of against it.If you're tired of starting over every Monday, this episode will help you think differently about what it really takes to improve your health for the long term. ________________ Keep In Touch Subscribe to the YouTube Channel

  8. Jul 15

    Episode 34: Why Your Health Plan Isn't Working

    Take the Educator Health Gap Quiz Here Why Your Health Plan Isn't Working Every summer it happens. You tell yourself this will be the year you finally get healthy. You meal prep. You walk every morning. You drink more water. Your blood pressure starts coming down. You have more energy. Maybe you even lose a few pounds. Then August arrives. The alarm goes off before sunrise. Meetings fill your calendar. Lunch becomes whatever you can grab in five minutes. By October, you're wondering how you ended up right back where you started. It isn't because you lack discipline. In this episode, we're talking about why so many health plans fall apart once the school year begins—and why that isn't a personal failure. We'll unpack the difference between the freedom of summer and the reality of the school year, the impact each season has on your blood pressure, cholesterol, energy, and long-term health, and the common plans educators keep relying on that simply don't work: The "I'll Start Monday" Plan The Reactive Healthcare Plan The Generic Wellness Plan The Vacation Reset Plan If you've ever felt like you're constantly starting over every school break, this conversation is for you. Because educators find a way to fit lesson planning, grading, meetings, parent conferences, and everyone else's needs into their lives. The question isn't whether it's possible to make room for your health. The question is whether you have a health plan that's actually built for the life you live. It's time to stop restarting and start building a personalized approach you can sustain—not just during summer break, but all year long.

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Black women often face unique barriers to wellness, from systemic inequalities to cultural pressures. This podcast was created to challenge those obstacles and celebrate the strength, resilience, and potential of Black women. Your health is not a luxury—it’s essential. Join a community of women committed to breaking generational patterns, thriving in their well-being, and changing the face of wellness for generations to come. Subscribe to Changing the Face of Our Wellness and take the first step toward a healthier, happier, and more empowered you. Let’s heal, grow, and reset—together.

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