By: Sally Seiffer April 12, 2023April 18, 2023

wellbeingbetterway, somethingmore, storyitell

physical.

It’s 4:06am as I type this on a Wednesday morning. I’m not sure if I have ever posted a blog on a Wednesday morning.

I have a lot of content. In my personal reflection this morning I referred to the amount of content I have created as a ‘mountain’. “Just keep chipping away at it Sally”, she says to herself…over and over again.

Often I dream up what it would be like to have a team of people who found value and worth in my content, and had a desire to contribute their own skillsets: website development, design, branding, video editing, editing, publishing, social media, etc.

Wellbeing and authentic expression is a contradicting aspect to market/capitalize. It feels to me (a person who has only been in the school environment) that *business thinking* strips away the intrinsic value and worth of what I am ‘selling’ or ‘branding’. It feels disingenuous to ‘sell’ wellbeing. Wellbeing exists.

Another difficulty in creating is resistance. The discomfort of moving toward the ‘mountain’ can feel overwhelming. There is no other way to make ideas come to life. In my creative experience, there is no resource I am lacking that limits my ability to ‘chip’.

Here is the 2020 blogpost from April 11, 2020. It is long. I include all the things I continue to find relevant in chipping away at sustainable growth outcomes in day. If you choose to read, consider the context of April 11, 2020 – quarantine.

The following are @sallysifer Facebook posts from the third week of an 8-week checkIN series: physical environment.

April 3, 2023

April 4, 2023

April 5, 2023

Click for Link to read Preface in Google Books

April 6, 2023

Instagram Reel – April 8, 2023

The B&W video with my hand on my mouth is the edited reel…if interested.

I uploaded this video to Youtube last week to share on my FB page. I can’t remember what I titled it. It’s a slow grow of symbols and ‘tools’ that help me make sense of the inside world of 💭💚⚡️📈

We’ll see if this video will land…includes OPC (other ppl’s content) and copyright music…🤞and it’s almost five minutes 🤷‍♀️

abetterway: using inner resources to create your own algorithm starring Smoosh available at Amazon Books $14.50 (I think)

I don’t know what to write in this caption and hashtagging a bunch of words gets old…

Edited from 3.29.23 @sallysifer FB post sharing checkIN skills, tools, strategies.

I posted a picture earlier this week and mentioned some accidental footage…

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.