I am a persistent and forever in progress student of life 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 (mostly) weekly blog at sallyseifferco.blog that is posted on Sally & Sifer Facebook Page. I publish content on Instagram @sallysifer, as well as visual content on the Sally & Sifer/@sallysifer YouTube channel and Instagram account. Blog posts are also shared on LinkedIN.

The 2024 blog year has included Thursday Something More Book Club posts; and Sunday A Better Way Book Club posts. The posts included excerpts and reflective questions, and generally corresponded to the same time/week/day of the original posts.

Yoga Teacher Training paused the blog temporarily from August to December 2024.

For 2025, I’m doing a mash-up of a daily blog and weekly newsletter I am familiar with that do well. Tim Ferriss sends a weekly newsletter that shares five things he is listening to, reading, watching, and generally interested in. Seth Godin blogs daily. He said something on a podcast listen that I haven’t forgotten: ‘what do writers do? they write…what do bloggers do? they blog.’ He also names his blog Seth’s blog…and yes, I mimicked. I didn’t think he’d care. I like the simplicity of his blog site.

2025 is no longer ‘day.’ It’s ‘sally’s blog.’ Thanks Seth.