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Spoons For Life
by Teresa Spence
Welcome to Spoons for Life. Whether you’re managing a classroom, a household, a career, or just trying to make it through the day, this is your space for practical energy management. We're stepping outside the classroom to talk about how we make a rigid world fit our daily chronic illness reality—because navigating life takes a lot of spoons, and we're here to help you protect yours.” #podcast #spoontheory #potssyndrome #virtualeducation #homeschooling #education #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpain #spoonsintheclassroom
Episodes
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Episode 15 Beyond the Burnout Protecting Your Capacity Season After Season
It’s officially our Season 1 Finale! 🎙️✨ In this grounding and transformative final episode of the season, we are taking everything we’ve learned over the last 14 weeks—workflow triage, digital boundaries, social energy, and physical self-compassion—and building a permanent, sustainable…
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Episode 14 Making Peace With a Body That Needs Extra Care
When health challenges feel relentless, it’s so easy to view our own bodies as adversaries or broken machines. In Episode 14 of Spoons For Life, we are shifting our focus inward—turning that gentle compassion onto our relationship with our physical selves. We’re stripping away the performative...
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Meet Your Host of Spoons For Life
Meet Teresa, your host for Spoons for Life. A single mom of three, teacher, creator, abuse survivor, and chronic illness warrior.
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Episode 13: Loving Through Low Energy (Season 1, Part 1)
Episode 13: Loving Through Low Energy (Season 1, Part 1) Love is usually portrayed as loud, bright, and high-output—spontaneous trips, elaborate date nights, and a constant 50/50 split of physical labor. But what happens when your daily energy budget is unpredictable or chronically depleted? How…
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Episode 12: Reclaiming Joy: The Low-Spoon Guide to Sustainable Hobbies
Ever feel like even your "rest" has turned into a chore? When you are living with chronic illness, chronic pain, fatigue, neurodivergence, or deep burnout, your daily energy battery rarely hits 100%. In a culture obsessed with hustle and optimization, we often trap ourselves into thinking that…
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Episode 11: Relational Guilt and Sustaining Relationships
Episode 11: Sustainable Connection – Maintaining Relationships with Chronic Illness The most painful tax of chronic illness isn't always the physical pain, the joint stiffness, or the brain fog—it’s the invisible, compounding weight of relational guilt. In this episode of Spoons for Life, we are...
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Episode 10: The Invisible Weight (trigger warning...sensitive topic)
Title: Episode 10 | The Invisible Weight: Chronic Illness, Loneliness, and Your Mental Health Host: Teresa When you live with a chronic illness, your body is fighting a baseline battle every single second of the day—but your mind is right there in the trenches with it. Managing a long-term...
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Spoons for Life
Same podcast.....New name
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Episode 9: The Sensory Off-Ramp
Have you ever shut your laptop, closed your physical classroom door, or wrapped up your homeschool block and realized you aren’t just sleepy-tired? You feel vibrating. Your brain feels like static electricity, your shoulders are up to your ears, and your raw nervous system is screaming for quiet....
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Episode 8: The Low Energy No
Teresa reflects on how the most expensive "spoon" is often the one we spend trying to be all things to all people. She introduces the concept of the "Guilt-Spoon"—the extra energy we spend after saying "yes" to a request we didn't have the capacity for, feeling guilty, and then over-preparing to...
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Episode 7: The "Ping" Trap
Are you tired of the constant "ping" of notifications dictating your day? In this episode, we’re dismantling the "Available All Day" fallacy. I’m sharing why instant responsiveness is actually the fastest route to burnout, and how to shift toward an "Asynchronous First" workflow. We’ll cover how…
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Episode 6: Digital Overtime
Do you end your school day buried under twenty-seven open tabs and a desktop you can't even see? You’re not just tired; you’re suffering from "Digital Overtime." In this episode, we’re moving away from the "junk drawer" mentality of file storage and into a streamlined, intentional workflow mode....
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Episode 5: Mid Season Check In
In this mid-season check-in, Teresa re-introduces listeners to the framework of Spoon Theory to diagnose and combat deep professional burnout. Moving away from standard productivity hacks, the episode focuses on running a personal "Spoon Audit" to identify the invisible, daily energy leaks caused...
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Episode 4: The Emergency Sub Plan for Your Life
Creating the emergency sub plan for your life. We have those days when we wake up and we just know that today is not a good day. Make sure that you have a backup plan ready to go for the days when your spoon count is at zero before you even get out of bed.
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Episode 3: Voice-to-Text survival
Writing isn’t just a mental task; it’s an extraction of physical and cognitive energy. For grad students, teachers, and anyone managing chronic fatigue or burnout, the blinking cursor on a blank screen can feel like a demand you simply can’t afford. In this episode, Teresa breaks down how to…
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Episode 2: The Virtual Uniform
"Your worth as a student isn't measured by your ability to sit in a hard chair for six hours." 🛋️✨ In this episode, we’re debunking the "Hard Chair = Hard Worker" myth. If you’re a student navigating virtual school while managing chronic pain, neurodivergence, or a major case of "low spoons,"…
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Episode 2 Teaser
Join us on Saturday, May 9th, for episode 2: The Virtual Uniform and Why it's PJs.
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Episode 1: The 10-Minute Triage – Survival Strategies for the Low-Spoon Professional
Are you staring at a 50-item to-do list while your body is screaming for a dark room and a heating pad? In the series premiere of The Low-Spoon Professional, host Teresa gets real about the "Spoonie Scaries"—that paralyzing dread when chronic illness meets a high-pressure career. Drawing from her...
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Spoons in the Classroom: A podcast for teachers and parents who are trying to get through their days with less than everyone else. #podcast #spoontheory #potssyndrome #virtualeducation #homeschooling #education #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpain #spoonsintheclassroom
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Spoons for Life. Whether you’re managing a classroom, a household, a career, or just trying to make it through the day, this is your space for practical energy management. We're stepping outside the classroom to talk about how we make a rigid world fit our daily chronic illness reality—because navigating life takes a lot of spoons, and we're here to help you protect yours.” #podcast #spoontheory #potssyndrome #virtualeducation #homeschooling #education #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpain #spoonsintheclassroom
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Teresa Spence
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Spoons For Life currently has 19 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Spoons For Life about?
Welcome to Spoons for Life. Whether you’re managing a classroom, a household, a career, or just trying to make it through the day, this is your space for practical energy management. We're stepping outside the classroom to talk about how we make a rigid world fit our daily chronic illness...
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Spoons For Life is created and hosted by Teresa Spence.
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