Ages 25-30 are crucial. You’re accepting that your friend group is getting smaller, your parents are getting older, you’re cleaning up the financial mess from your early 20s, managing your career and health. And somehow, you still need to find time to heal your mind.
We have no idea what our students are juggling. Best to offer grace and not be a hardliner, especially when you're teaching in communities with histories of marginalization and frankly colonial conditions.