La Teacher Holística

You know how some people are "the crazy cat lady"? Well, I'm the crazy podcast lady. These are my podcasts. All available on Spotify.

"Witchy Teacher" used to be called "Dear Anna, Business and Teaching Oracle," but I rebranded it because it didn't seem to live up to my authenticity and my vibe anymore.

Cuando mis estudiantes me pregunten por qué no pueden citar Wikipedia como reliable source, les voy a mostrar esto 😅 Recuerden que Wikipedia es una plataforma de contenido colaborativo, lo que significa que cualquier persona puede editar sus artículos, y su información puede no ser completamente precisa o verificable. Aunque es útil para obtener una visión general sobre un tema, su falta de control editorial riguroso y la posibilidad de sesgos o errores lo hacen menos adecuado para la investigación académica, donde se requieren fuentes primarias y revisadas por expertos.

Otras cosas que no cuentan como reliable sources for academic papers are websites ending in ".com" or ".net". Websites que sí son reliable sources: los terminados en ".gov", ".edu".

Sometimes when I relisten to my own podcasts, I kick my own butt and I get blown away. That reminds me I do my podcasts to help at least one person (and sometimes that person is myself)🦄

Y por eso todo mundo debería tener un podcast alguna vez en la vida, especially HD Manifestors. There is so much power in our voice 💜 We initiate people, and that includes ourselves.

Así que si te quieres poner un podcast y no sabes cómo, escribime. Tu podcast no tiene que ser perfecto, sólo tiene que hacerte feliz ✨️

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D9sqMPoGMFS6cUMPpQqHB?si=l0RR8JqlS3uq-4dNr1J9uw&t=118

Five things have set me free and unshamed me during the last couple of years:

1. Finding out I'm a Human Design Manifestor. (I swear I will not shut up about Human Design. I'm probably gonna launch a course about it soon).
2. Finding out I'm AuDHD
3. Working on religious trauma (I have healed a lot the leftover trauma from the Evangelical Church, and I left a "5D" Cult).
4. Understanding I'm not a bad person, a bad woman, or less spiritual for setting boundaries about pricing and attendance (both for English classes and holistic therapy)
5. Understanding narcissistic dynamics and manipulation, which has helped me deal with gaslighting and set boundaries, even with family members (this is both a work in progress and a masterpiece)

All this has helped me own my weird, understand my superpowers and my kryptonite, own my witchiness, and basically realize that there was nothing wrong with me after all, and that it's OK to be mad. Being mad just tells me something is unfair or senseless.

So if you want spiritual and intuitive coaching, and you want to claim your power back, dig your inner child out of the system, and uncrush your soul, but you're tired tired of the New Age BS and spiritual bypassing, D M me or share my contact info with someone that wants to become witchier and weirder. I'm not a regular coach, just an Unhinged Sensei, and I will not apologize for it.

What do marketing cat products and English learning have in common? I swear some people that create stuff for cats, and you can tell they have never had cats or tested the stuff with real cats (last 2 pics are from one of my IG posts in August 2023).

Same thing happens with people who make ESL / EFL books. Some of them have a lot of degrees but have never set foot in a real high school or institute classroom. They tell you how to teach, but they live in the bubble of Academia. So after a while, you keep following their books to the letter (thinking of no other activities), and it becomes formulaic, and you don't know why your students' language use is still lacking something for the real world.

This is why I don't wanna use only the cookie cutter recipe anymore (I do take the scope and sequence as scaffolding and suggestions, and I do still use some of the exercises in the books, but a lot of the contents are so artificial and formulaic that I want to barf).

That formula is partially why students fail to understand people on the phone, for instance), and that is why I love authentic materials (series, books, movies, commentaries...) as the main source of learning and textbooks just to polish some details.

I crave weird conversation topics and real connection with my students/coachees. I want to talk about whether you believe in aliens and reincarnation and why, making all of your resourcefulness show up in an actual conversation, and welcoming your mistakes because they make great feedback. I want you to use your brain and your particular talents and personality in order not to freeze on a job interview. I want to hear about what keeps you up at night, and perhaps do some life coaching about it as well.

So my beautiful "cat" students out there, who are tired of studying the Verb to Be for 12 years and still not be able to speak, D M me if your soul craves something different. I promise your English will be better than before, but if anything, at least your life will be more interesting.

I got triggered AF today due to reading a post about idolatry and a celebrity I admire. My inner adult knows there's nothing to fear, but my inner child froze and got terrified for like an hour. Like: oh, not this again! Why does everything I like turn bad?

Context: burning my toys as a kid when someone said something was s4tanic or when I liked memorabilia too much was a common thing and kind of a big deal to manipulate me when I was a kid because there was this subculture that the dev1l was always out to get you and everything nor labeled as Christian was inherently bad and would cause God to love you less and send you to h€ll.

So I wrote these affirmations for myself to use in cases like that, and I feel better already. I thought I'd post them here in case someone is going through the same thing so hopefully you can breathe too.

I updated this podcast because having one for Teaching and a different one for Careers/Business just didn't feel aligned anymore, so I merged both. Some episodes are in English, some in Spanish. My purpose is to reach anyone who could be inspired or relieved by it, and hopefully take some weight off your shoulders so you can breathe, even if you are in the corporate world or in the blue-pill educational system...For example (but not limited to) 👇🏻

-English learners who speak Spanish (as a first language or otherwise)
-English learners who are afraid of being ridiculed because of "having an accent" or having "imperfect grammar"
-English teachers or language coaches who don't want their practice to take a toll on their mental health
-People who are tired of putting on a mask and trying to be perfect just out of fear of appearing "unprofessional".
-People who don't know what the fudge is going on in the job market or how to fix their CV, and they want to develop their personal brand and be authentic, but they're are terrified of looking like losers on LinkedIn/Indeed, etc.
-People who are disruptive and want to swear every once in a while because it's a beautiful and necessary linguistic phenomenon (plus it heals your throat chakra 😉)
-All my amazing Neurodivergent and Weirdo fellows who want to find their voice and feel like they need "a permission slip" to be themselves (spoiler alert, you never needed it in the first place LOL)
-People who have secretly wished someone would just mix English Coaching with a little magick (yes, with a K, if you know, you know 😜)
-Anyone who is tired of the same BS and is not afraid of trying something new or getting their paradigm shifted.

So if this helps you or anyone you know, feel free to share and subscribe. Love you all!

https://open.spotify.com/show/36BQI0foEXR2QinTnXhVrW?si=Ubet-aHcSl6p1Y49mLoLPQ

It used to happen to me a lot when I started working at a corporate environment several years ago. Then, due to learning from feedback and experience, I got good at Email Etiquette and started setting boundaries diplomatically.

Wow and Ouch 🤯