Last post for May. I need to put closure to something I began on March 26, 2023 with the post wait. The post wait. includes an introduction to what I intended would be an eight-week series of blogs that would ultimately be a compilation for the highly anticipated 😉 publication: Quiet Time. 8 steps to…
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How do you define wellbeing? For me, the word balance is the simplest response. somewhat-random-rewind ⏪ When I taught Behavioral Health to ninth grade students at Hemet High School in the early 00’s, I was essentially teaching myself first as I made my way through the textbook. Once I could grasp an idea conceptually, I…
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This post includes resources from multiple content shares and formats.
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An example of how to use MBK in day could start with the cues: shoulders over hips. look up. Now we have Alignment – mind can download into body for present moment awareness. Now we have energy flow: mind space/heart space/belly space/muscles/skin (nervous system). Next, insert the movement: side to side, top bottom, forward back. There are endless combinations (especially with young kids). Kindness to self includes a variety of options as well such as an encouraging mantra: ‘I am capable.’ or ‘I contribute in meaningful ways.’ When we are so focused on a physical world, life and its meaning can unintentionally become focused on external conditions – that often includes kindness to others being the most important. Kindness to others is great, and I think it varies in how it shows up – but, I believe it’s organic flow from one’s state of alignment and self love allows the way we treat one another to be an authentic expression, rather than a calculated behavior.
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I really like this card deck. As mentioned, I originally bought it to have available for students who were living in extreme life circumstances outside of their control. In the time spent with the kids living the situations, there was no ‘skill’ to teach and reinforce – their intelligent nervous systems were protecting them. This presented differently for each of them and who was I to say how they were experiencing their inside world, but I knew they were human and able to navigate the ‘shipwreck’ as Dr Bruce Perry (author of What Happened to You) described trauma. He observed in his lifetime experience working with children living horrific life experiences that the pieces of the wreck are put back one at a time.
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The content in this blog post includes skills, tools, and strategies from the checkIN tool as well as Something More. Connecting to the pulse of a Shared Humanity. Both by me: Sally Seiffer.
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