Season Seven
Episode 147
Self-Care with Beth Duhon
Part I
Resource for Self-Reflection
Self-care is a buzzword we hear everywhere. The way we take care of ourselves and others affects our everyday life and I love the ideas that music educator Beth Duhon shares with us today. There were so many ideas for self-care shared so our talk is broken into two episodes. Today you’ll hear us touch on the acronym MAP and self-care ideas for professional and personal aspects, the difference between self-care and self-soothing, ideas for meal planning and reminders for giving yourself grace along the way.
About Beth Duhon:
Beth Duhon is, to borrow Tracy King’s phrase, the K-5 “ambassador of joy” at Travis Elementary in Rosenberg, TX. This is her fifth year teaching in Lamar Consolidated ISD. She has received over $14,000 in classroom grants for a keyboard lab, iPads, and music manipulatives in addition to regularly receiving travel grants for music education conferences. In 2021, she presented “Self-Care for the Music Educator: Not Just a Buzzword” for TMEA and the LCISD elementary music teacher cohort. Previously, Ms. Duhon was a successful horn private lesson teacher, clinician, and freelance performer in the West Houston area for over a decade. She also taught elementary music in Williamsburg, VA and middle school general music in Falls Church, VA before moving to Texas. She was an honors recitalist, principal horn in the wind ensemble and orchestra, cum laude and an inductee of Pi Kappa Lambda from Illinois Wesleyan University where she received a B.M.E. At the University of Houston, Ms. Duhon was a teaching assistant in the music history department, summa cum laude and a student of Roger Kaza (St. Louis Symphony) and Nancy Goodearl (Houston Symphony). She received an M.M. in horn performance. Ms. Duhon met her husband, Jimmy, when they were both performing as instrumentalists at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. They have a ten-year-old son, Mark.
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