escape.

Summer road trips prior to 2022 were an escape. An escape from the story I told about the demands of the role I played in a school environment. When I took my own advice, and changed the story I told about the demands, the intensity lessened – it became manageable.

Road trips are now an experience.

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processing.

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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cue.

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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storyitell-week eight

This blog post includes the collection of posts from Sally & Sifer Facebook Page last week. The posts are from week eight of an eight week series aligned with the book, The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you. You can click on the title to purchase the book in paperback. …

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march.

Because I didn’t blog last weekend, I neglected to share the animal spirit theme for the month: crocodile. For me, the main takeaway, or ‘power’ in this card can be whittled to one word: wait. If you are interested in more context regarding the ‘animal spirit card’ you can read the post deck. I suppose…

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storyitell – week seven

This blog post includes the collection of posts from Sally & Sifer Facebook Page last week. The posts are from week seven of an eight week series aligned with the book, The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you.

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storyitell – week six

This blog post includes the collection of posts from Sally & Sifer Facebook Page last week. The posts are from week six of an eight week series aligned with the book, The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you.

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buffet.

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in one drop. rumi When I co-taught a class (it was named School Success and included social-emotional skill building) to high school students @ 2014 – 2016, I showed the movie Soul Surfer. The school year was broken into trimesters, so I…

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storyitell – week five

This blog post includes the collection of posts from Sally & Sifer Facebook Page last week. The posts are from week five of an eight week series aligned with the book, The Story I Tell. How to make the Age of Disruption work for you. You can click on the title to purchase the book in paperback.…

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