When we practice noticing the indicator that is stress, we can work with the new information rather than avoid or push against it. When we learn to manage day-to-day and how we respond to information and conditions, we grow a sense of control that allows better understanding and trust in managing the BIG (and even the extreme) situations, circumstances, and events.
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I am a public academic who has worked 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 you tell; and choosing skills, tools, and strategies to shift limiting scripts. I have 25 years of experience with all grade levels across three states: Illinois, California, and Colorado. Over the last nine 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 my #2020yearinablog: Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity. In addition, you can follow weekly content on Instagram @sallysifer, as well as visual content that complements blog posts on the Sally & Sifer YouTube channel.
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so satisfying and life giving. Healthy emotional control contributes to healthy environments in schools, homes, and communities. Healthy emotional control is something one can give to others by modeling its use and effectiveness in day-to-day circumstances, situations, and events. Healthy emotional control is a virus we want to share and pass on to others.
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When I consider the essence and experience of wellbeing related to daily living, the things that come to my mind that support this state were not needed to save a life, but necessary to have a life.
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As a social-emotional skill set, emotional control (often referred to as emotional regulation) is obviously a cornerstone of emotional freedom. Any desirable personal growth outcome is unable to sustain itself in the absence of emotional control. Emotional control is unavailable without awareness.
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Living day in creative mode allows for continuous growth, as well as what feels like an abundance of choice and opportunity for new, more desirable outcomes. In this mode, one is tapped into inner resources. Inner resources are naturally abundant as they exist in the nonphysical state of energy flow – wellbeing.
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A life story can become a continuous drama, living in the extremes, when one is disconnected from their sense of awareness. Awareness allows for one’s participation as a choicemaker.
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Would our relationships be more meaningful if it was the contents of a human that attracted us to one another (generally speaking), rather than a momentary impression of the surface? I’m using the word attraction as what gets one’s attention, what one is drawn to.
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My typical approach with the thinking kids is to validate their curiosity and bravery. I tend to agree that rules can feel suffocating. When one feels suffocated, one desires to break free. Survival instincts kick in.
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Memories, feelings, story themes can ‘run the show’ when one loses focus of one’s power to be the noticer. When one is the noticer, one is practicing the skill of awareness. When one is aware of one’s thoughts and the story they tell, one is demonstrating the power to choose the story being told. Broad story themes tend to fall in one of two categories: fear or possibility.
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Everything available. All at once.The intelligence of a human system to organize input (data) and respond intelligently, effortlessly, meaningfully.To organize sensory input through one’s physical senses is to make meaning and choose next steps in an instant of perceived time – an instantaneous flow. A rhythm.Without inner resources or abilities (ie. skillsets) to regulate one’s thinking, feeling, and urge/impulse to act or behave, it seems there would be no meaningful physical experience.
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