There is an unwritten privacy clause to those of you who engage in my content. The privacy clause is that it is your own private journey. No one needs to know anything about your curiosity to be more kind and gentle toward your own self. It’s interesting that this idea may be considered selfish. Keep the practice as a quiet inquiry until the momentum of it grows its own ‘legs’.
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I originally introduced myself as a 'lifetime educator' working in schools since 1995. This past summer I learned the term 'public academic', and I think it fits me best. 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 eight 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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In 1999, the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado disrupted my sense of ‘school’ reality to a level of obsession. I was in Illinois. I wrote an article for the school paper, Everyone Matters. I knew there was more to the story of Dylan and Eric. There had to be a way to prevent the end result.In August 2017, I sat in the Columbine high school library to attend the Welcome Back message from the Special Education area director in Jeffco. At this time, I was a full-time mental health provider in a Jeffco elementary school. Always something more.
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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. the tao of pooh Above is the dedication written for the digital book, Something More. Connecting…
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It’s time to ‘wrap this up’ with a final 2020 blog: gift. Originally, I anticipated this final blog to be named: wish. The meaning behind wish. had to do with a wish I hold in my heart. Wishes are interesting. A true wish, an authentic wish, has to come from a place centered in wholeness.…
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Something More. A mist. An essence. Magic. Belief. Possibility. It exists. The culmination of a calendar year. Remembering. Are you joyful? Do you want to be joyful? Enjoyment exists. It has to. If it didn’t exist you wouldn’t know what it felt like to be lacking it. What if joy was baseline. What if to…
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Tapping into an inspired state feels good. Being inspired feels SO GOOD. Inspired people inspire others. It’s often not a particular topic of interest that is inspiring, it’s the energy. The energetic vibration of living from an inspired state.
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By the end of the school year following the Breckenridge summer, I declared my own devotion to learning and teaching all things mindfulness. Looking back at the last (almost) decade, it wasn’t the consumption of new knowledge and information ABOUT mindfulness. It was the practice. The practice of slowing down and noticing what it was…
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Curious people ask questions. A question is different from a statement. A question is different from an accusation. A question is different from a complaint. A question is not ammunition used in social play to dominate someone by shutting them up. A true question is asked in a curious way, curious about an answer.
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People wake up to being the hero of their own life when they’re tired of being the victim of their own life. Finding Joe. A 2011 documentary on the studies of Joseph Campbell. follow your bliss… Have you ever had a profound influence on your life and totally forgotten about it? I literally just had…
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When something appreciates it grows. Appreciate is just a word. To appreciate is an action I suppose. I can state that which I appreciate. The feeling state of appreciation is a gush. It grows. I have somewhat of a morning routine. During a work week I get up extra early. This early morning routine of…
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