{"podcast":{"title":"Counselor Chat Podcast","slug":"counselor-chat-podcast-6074475","podcast_index_feed_id":6074475,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/counselor-chat-podcast/","website_url":"https://counselingessentials.org/podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/cf8ace90-84b0-4a9b-98d5-aebf5348b58a/Ub9k1otzeXEc_lbzAJsDepVJ.jpg","author":"Carol Miller, School Counselor","episode_count":164,"summary":"Counselor Chat is a podcast for School Counselors. If you're looking for inspiration, collaboration, easy to implement strategies and a bit of joy, you'll want to listen along with your host, Carol Miller from Counseling Essentials. Share in some real talk and get tips, tricks and learn about tools of the trade with Carol and listen in as she interviews other school counselors who are experts in the field as they share their advice and enjoy a few laughs.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/counselor-chat-podcast-6074475"},"episode":{"title":"140.  Finding Calm in the Counselor Chaos","slug":"140-finding-calm-in-the-counselor-chaos","published_at":"2025-12-10T09:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/counselor-chat-podcast-6074475/140-finding-calm-in-the-counselor-chaos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/counselor-chat-podcast-6074475","url":"https://counselingessentials.org/captivate-podcast/140-finding-calm-in-the-counselor-chaos","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/19dc040c-fbbe-47e6-b95c-0ec186ccea21.mp3","summary":"Episode 140: Finding Calm in the Counselor Chaos December brings a special kind of school chaos. Schedules shift. Energy skyrockets. Teachers and students feel stretched. And counselors often find themselves trying to hold it all together. In this episode, I am sharing simple ways to stay grounded, centered, and calm during one of the busiest months of the school year. In This Episode You’ll Learn: • Common early signs of counselor burnout  • Why noticing burnout is an act of wisdom, not weakness  • Easy micro practices that take 30 seconds to 2 minutes  • A guided one-minute breathing reset you can use anytime  • How to let go of perfection and choose simplicity  • Ways to weave calm moments into your day without adding tasks Quote From the Episode \"You are doing enough. You are enough, and you are allowed to rest.\" Encouragement for the Week December may be busy, but you do not have to absorb all the chaos around you. Take a pause, take a breath, and give yourself&nbs…","meta_description":"Episode 140: Finding Calm in the Counselor Chaos December brings a special kind of school…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":599,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/counselor-chat-podcast-6074475/episodes/140-finding-calm-in-the-counselor-chaos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/counselor-chat-podcast-6074475/140-finding-calm-in-the-counselor-chaos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}