“I'm pretty tapped into community, which helps (….) I'm part of a really great queer bike group. And that group is very important, I think, just in terms of getting me out. You can easily get trapped in a rhythm of going home, cooking, doing dishes, and then sleeping—and start to feel like teaching is your whole life, and you're not doing anything else.”
“I don't have a family with kids, but I have a lot of friends and a lot of different community groups that I'm involved in. Spending time with those friends really helps remind me that there's another world outside of my job, that I'm a complex person who has more parts then whatever's happening at work.”
“I'm also part of a group of teachers—we've been meeting up monthly (…) and that's kind of nice, too. And having to take the dogs for a walk outside. I just got a roommate. My roommate has a dog (…) and I'm already happier just walking my roommate's dog.
“Our teacher-community is very self-care oriented. The other teachers are also very much like, ‘What are you doing to care for yourself?’ So (…) the people I'm involved with—like the bike group—are pretty athletically motivated and personally motivated. They are into a lot of things and value doing yoga, or seeing movies—they value doing things outside of work.”