By: Sally Seiffer March 26, 2023

checkIN, Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Well-Beingauthenticalgorithm, betterway, goodnessgrows, somethingmore, storyitell

wait.

“wait.” said the crocodile.

For those of you following along with my blog posts, I pulled cards from an Animal Spirit deck to lead the monthly focus for my 2023 blog year. If you would like more background, you can read the January post deck. I pulled water element cards for March – July: healthy stream = flow. An outpouring of creativity.

I like the water vibe. Paddleboarding is an anchoring thought for me. Speaking of anchoring thought, I have not used the term ‘anchor’ in my experience facilitating mindfulness with myself or with others. I watched a Cosmic Kids yoga breathing video last weekend and one of Jamie’s breathing strategies (not included in the video, but included in a pdf that comes with a subscription to the app) was ‘anchor’. I didn’t think much of it, but I used it on a personal level all week using a mental image of myself paddleboarding on Bear Creek Lake in Lakewood, CO.

I happened to notice that the last post of 2022 includes a picture of Smoosh with the caption ‘waiting for things to come’. I’ll share it at the bottom because the size is a bit awkward. Smoosh happens to be here right now and was assuming the same position – waiting. (However, I think it’s the bored kind of waiting…)

Today’s blog post will include sallysifer FB page posts from week one of the checkIN eight-week series, as well as the final two weeks (march 2020) of somethingmore. Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity is a compilation of 2020 blog posts, available on Amazon Books.

checkIN

March 20, 2023

March 21, 2023

March 23, 2023

March 24, 2023

Something More.

March 21, 2020 pp 37-39

March 28, 2020 pp 40-43

And lastly, here’s Smoosh waiting for what is to come…

Posted by:Sally Seiffer

I am a public academic working in schools since 1995. In 2007, I received my MSW from the University of Denver and began working as a school social worker in the greater Denver area. I became passionate about mindfulness and teacher self-care as essential interventions in response to school violence and student death by suicide. I define self-care as caring about yourself enough to notice your thoughts and the story they tell; then choosing skills, tools, and strategies to shift limiting scripts. I have over 25 years of experience with all grade levels across three states: Illinois, California, and Colorado. Over the last ten years, I have created several curriculum concepts that include the checkIN and Movement.Breath.Kindness. In June 2020, I published an ebook titled: The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you. In addition to the ebook, there is a companion eworkbook that makes it simple to transfer the skills, tools, and strategies to a classroom or coaching session. In January 2021 I published a second ebook: Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity. January 2022 I published a third ebook: abetterway. Using Inner Resources to Create Your Own Algorithm. All books are now available in paperback at Amazon books. I publish a weekly blog at sallyseifferco.blog that is posted on Sally & Sifer Facebook Page. I publish weekly content on Instagram @sallysifer, as well as visual content that complements blog posts on the Sally & Sifer YouTube channel, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. Summer 2022 began an 8-week teaching series that began June 4 on @sallysifer Facebook Page. Additionally, 2022 8-week teaching series can be found on the FB page beginning on January 24 and April 4. A recent 8-week series focused on The Story I Tell began on January 17, 2023 and ended March 13, 2023. Check out the storyitell blogs 1-8 for the content.