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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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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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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We all have a story. Our story is continually unfolding. We choose the narrative. When the narrative resonates with truth, it feels good. Goodness is our reminder that we are on the path of our choosing, the one that feels good. It’s right.
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It makes sense to organize one’s life in a way to control for unwanted conditions that may disrupt one’s sense of safety and security. What’s your why? What lies beneath the desire to control conditions. Let’s examine. 🔎 Self-Care. Caring about yourself. Care. What does it mean to care? Take the action out. What is…
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When one ceases to self examine, or to grow in their own curiosity and understanding of the autonomy of thoughts, opinions, preferences, interests, desires…does one stop or limit their capacity to know themself? And then what happens?
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Empowered humans practice telling stories that resonate with what is possible.Empowered humans initiate change by moving toward a challenging situation, circumstance, or event with a plan for a desired outcome. When the desired outcome resonates with wellbeing, you can’t get it wrong.Disempowered humans react to life. Reacting can cause harm to self and others.Slow down to see clearly.
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More recently, a friend of mine told me that I was like Carrie Bradshow. What she was referring to was that I sit by a large window with my laptop as I write a weekly blog. I can assure you that even though I am single and quite capable of tapping into opportunities that swipe dating apps afford, there are no urban sexcapades to write about. Which is a little bit funny that my dream job would actually be to write romantic comedies.
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