What does it look like when the people caring for students are running out of capacity themselves? In the first episode of Real Talk About Educator Burnout, Mary Abbott and Lori Herman share the experiences that led them to start Willow Tree Wellness and this podcast. Both have spent years supporting students and colleagues in schools, and both reached a point where they wondered how much longer they could keep going.

Mary and Lori talk candidly about the pressure to stay late, take on more, and treat burnout as a personal problem to solve with better self-care. They explain why educator well-being also depends on school systems: manageable demands, support during classroom crises, and time to recover afterward. This conversation introduces their Educator Capacity System and the question they hope more schools will ask: How are our educators doing?

In this episode you'll hear...

• Why Mary and Lori began looking for a better way to support educators.
• How expectations to always do more can make it hard to set boundaries.
• Why self-care alone cannot fix unsustainable working conditions.
• What repeated classroom crises can mean for educators and students.
• How the Educator Capacity System looks at both the demands educators face and the support available to them.

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