If I am recalling correctly, early on I began noticing familiar patterns of behavior that showed up over and over again in different settings. The same conversation, the same script, the same escape, the same blame, the same tone of voice, the same anger, the same excuse, the same meeting, the same conclusion, etc. The same. Stuck and spinning in a version of the same outcome.
I noticed the patterns even as an active participant. As if I was watching it all play out like a hovering ghost.
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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 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 a second ebook: Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity. This January 2022 I published a third ebook: abetterway. Using Inner Resources to Create Your Own Algorithm.
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.
winds.
Life is continuous evolution. We split our energy and create tension when we don’t disrupt limiting beliefs about change. Change is discomfort. Discomfort triggers stress response. When we aren’t ‘in’ on how it all plays together, we can get stuck or spin in a life of pushing against what we don’t want, rather than being pulled toward new outcomes that match the desires of our heart.
Read Moreilluminate.
When you know that there are things that happen to illuminate, just as there are those things that happen to darken, (just) knowing that can support your inner state. Just knowing that it exists: just like things happen and can create a dark shadow, so can things that illuminate and add perspective.
Read Moretricky.
If you have been following my content shares on the Sally & Sifer Facebook page, you will know that I love to suggest Quiet Time. You’d think Quiet Time was paying me. It’s my own Quiet Time that salvages a sense of my own human decency and calibrates me to what is possible. Life makes sense in Quiet Time. My Quiet Time is like a childhood ‘ghoul’. In my neighborhood growing up there was a lot of nighttime play. My backyard was in the middle of two houses and was often ‘ghoul’ – the safe zone. When I get too far outside of my regulated state, I know that from 2-4:30am I have ghoul. I’ll return to the safe space. It exists no matter where I am. Quiet Time.
Read Morevalue.
Self-Awareness. To be aware of your thinking, feeling, behavior. Executive Functions are these skillsets that we have inside of us that help us regulate our thinking, our feelings, and our behavior – our urges and impulses. Self-Awareness is another word for mindfulness or meditation. All it really is is taking time to clear your mind.
Read Moremarch 2020
Today is the final day of the 8-week content share on Sally & Sifer FB page. The share was a fusion of checkIN: 8 steps to more creativity, possibility, and inspiration, and The Story I Tell: How to make the Age of Disruption work for you. You can access it beginning on a 1.24.22 post at Sally & Sifer FB page. You can also join the next 8-week share beginning 4.4.22.
Read Moreplaylist.
To grasp the *💡big idea* in this blog post, you as the reader may need to consider your own experience of playlists in your life.Depending on your age, it may be an easy observation as far as how much this concept of a playlist has changed. It may also bring you back to a range of feelings the playlist created.
Read Morewin.
The blog scribe today is from an Instagram video I posted one year ago. The scribe shares a story of intentionally creating win-win energy to lead to desirable outcomes.
Read Moreessence.
I may not know what it’s like to be Tom Brady. But I do know what it’s like to experience the moment when the good thing ends.
Read Morehappiness.
The following blog post is scribed from a 10.25.2020 @sallysifer Instagram Video. I originally intended the 2022 blog year to scribe Instagram Videos aligned with one year prior. Suggesting that today I would scribe the video from the first/second week of February 2021. I have been creating weekly Instagram reels sequentially from the beginning of…
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