The Summer Recovery Guide for Teachers

90 Days of Reflection and Restoration

Rachel Meixner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040888827
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Personal Success

Summer break can be a beautiful gift to educators. The Summer Recovery Guide for Teachers offers an insightful, research-informed companion for educators seeking to optimize this gift for their well-being and wholeness. This guide offers a structured, soul-nourishing journey through the summer season, inviting teachers to pause, reflect, and restore in ways that are both practical and profound. Each of the 90 days includes a short, affirming truth about the renewal process, a mindfulness or self-care practice grounded in self-compassion, and a reflection question to encourage deeper insight and healing. The summer begins with reflections to help teachers leave the school year behind and come into the present moment. Next, the guide invites teachers to establish boundaries in order to find balance, to cultivate connections, and to explore their sense of personal identity. Teachers are then invited to focus on gratitude, release the things which do not serve them, and trust the process. As the summer progresses, the guide encourages teachers to deepen reflection, live in a space of renewal, nourish their creativity, and approach their time with a sense of intention. Finally, teachers spend time anchoring and looking ahead to the transition back into the school year. This book is an invaluable resource to be used as a solo daily companion, with a summer book club, or as the foundation for a personal retreat. However teachers choose to move through the reflections, the invitation is the same: come back to peace and well-being, and return to students healed and whole. May the summer months serve teachers, just as teachers serve others throughout the school year.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Part One: Starting with Presence, Days 1–10
• 2 Part Two: Holding Boundaries and Balance, Days 11–20
• 3 Part Three: Cultivating Connection, Days 21–30
• 4 Part Four: Identity and Growth, Days 31–40
• 5 Part Five: Gratitude and Release, Days 41–50
• 6 Part Six: Trusting the Process, Days 51–60
• 7 Part Seven: Reflect and Renew, Days 61–70
• 8 Part Eight: Creativity and Intention, Days 71–80
• 9 Part Nine: Anchoring and Looking Ahead, Days 81–90