Many of us work hard at not 'splaining others and recognizing that we don't get a vote in other people's lives. ... Except when it comes to matters of the body! What people eat/don't eat, how they exercise/don't exercise, how people look and feel about how they look. Internalized Bodyism is poisoning us all. It's time to UNBOX BODYISM!

BLOG TALK Unboxing Bodyism Part ONE

Today, we unbox the "BS"MI, weight bias in medical care, and the lies we have been told about the intersection of health and weight!

BLOG TALK Unboxing Bodyism Part TWO

Are you ready to dump shame? Are you ready to gather ALL of your wisdom so that you can make whole-person choices instead of being pushed around inside by internalized Bodyism? Listen here!

BLOG TALK Unboxing Bodyism Part 3

Do you get depleted by the fiercely competitive and self absorbed world around you? Are you longing for something kinder? More thoughtful? Healthier? Me too. Here are some ideas about how we get there:

BLOG TALK Balancing Worlds

Want to know how to be resilient and even content, regardless of what’s going on in the world? You might want to find Henry.

Finding Henry

I want better for us than hotdogs and a dangerously unbalanced foundation. Don't you?

BLOG TALK An Honest 4th Of July

(Part 2 of 3)
In today's installment of this 3 part series., let's a closer look at the risks associated with therapy, along with some ways to use your concerns to help you make a solid decision about therapy, and about what therapist you choose if you decide to move forward.

BLOG TALK: This Blog is NOT For You! (Part 2

(Part 3 of 3)
In this third installment, we look at the horrific history of how many people have been treated by professionals in the field of Psychology.  Then let's take a look at the very concrete, positive and hopeful strides and changes that just might make you look twice at therapy.

BLOG TALK: This Blog Is NOT For You, Part 3

As a culture, the United States seems to specialize in trying to find ways to get around consequences. It's almost a national sport! But what if we used consequences, positive and negative, to shape intentional decisions instead?

BLOG TALK: Truth AND Consequences

What can chocolate chip cookies teach us about resilience? Listen here to find out.

BLOG TALK Chocolate Chip Cookies & Resilience

Tell Me a Story, PART ONE: THE EMPATH IN US ALL

Did you know that the neurons in our brains light up more for story than just about anything else? There’s a reason for that. In this 3-part series, we will look together about what’s happening in there and how we can use it to help heal ourselves and others.

BLOG TALK: Story Part 1

The stories we hear about ourselves and the stories we tell ourselves have profound effects on us all the way down to the cellular level. This week, let’s look at what we can do with those stories.

BLOG TALK: Tell Me A Story Part 2

Shout out to Psychiatrist, Neurologist and Lakota-Cherokee descendent, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, who defines “healing” (as opposed to “cure,”) as being reconciled to community and to self. Let’s look together at how this truth can play out in our lives.

BLOG TALK Tell Me A Story Part 3

In this season of politicians and pundits talking AT us, I would like to offer you a story. This one is “A Tale of Two Squirrels.” I respectfully leave the interpretation up to you. See you in the spaces in between the words! 
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STORY TIME: A Tale of Two Squirrels

Here’s the second story in the Story Time series, “The Anglerfish and the Squid.” I’ll meet you in the ocean!

STORY TIME: The Anglerfish And The Squid

Have you ever thought you had one kind of relationship with someone only to feel burned as you discover they had a totally different understanding of what you were to each other? Let's get up under some of those disconnects and offer a different way forward.

BLOG TALK: Givers Takers And Transactionalists

YOU ARE NOT A SAUCE! (Do not be reduced.) 


BLOG TALK You Are Not Sauce

If you want to make a surface change that will ultimately leave you starting over again and again wondering what you did wrong, try to change a habit without healing the unhelpful stories that have been driving the behavior you don’t want. If you’re ready to get off of the hope-no hope-hope-no hope treadmill, listen here!

Written version: https://tiffanysankofa.com/happy-quitters-day
Video version: https://youtu.be/5d-Fd6X1M5E

National Quitters Day: https://nationaltoday.com/quitters-day/

Making Sense Out of Change videos: https://youtu.be/Xo2e5CXCgcg?si=7N8ubx8K060PZogS

Making Sense Out of Change  FREE .PDF: https://tiffanysankofa.com/making-sense-out-of-change

Three Brains: https://www.mbraining.com/

Braining video: https://youtu.be/EKyHVTMVnb0

BLOG TALK: National Quitters Day

This Monday is the day we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. The irony of it also being a day when we inaugurate a President who stands against pretty much everything Dr. King stood for is just… I don’t even have a word for it.

Remaining true to my preferred IndigenousThink ways, I will flood the space with what’s good and endeavor to make the rest irrelevant...

Links:
https://tiffanysankofa.com/have-an-ironic-mlk-day

“Truth Telling Trouble Makers” tiffanysankofa.brightervisionpreview.com/empa…kers

hierarchy of humans: tiffanysankofa.com/our-national-narcissism/

ColonizerThink values: tiffanysankofa.com/our-national-narcissism/

Equal access to public amenities: kinginstitute.stanford.edu/montgomery-bus-boycott

Jim Crow laws: jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/what.htm

right to vote: kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers…age-freedom

voting rights were being unjustly denied: civilrightstrail.com/destination/selma/

equal pay in the labor force: aflcio.org/2018/4/2/martin-lut…l-rights-and-unions

Correction of the Justice system: csgjusticecenter.org/2022/01/14/hon…20respectively.

unbiased legal recourse www.freedomunited.org/martin-luther-…hment%20Clause.

grossly over-prosecutes some people more than others and applies sentencing that is dramatically more harsh for some than others: www.ussc.gov/research/research-…federal-sentencing
even down to our biochemistry: youtube.com/shorts/huEq01bFrF4?feature=share

wolves and trees in Yellowstone Park: education.nationalgeographic.org/resource…owstone/

contact Tiffany today: tiffanysankofa.com/contact

BLOG TALK: Have an Ironic MLK Day

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland with more than a quarter century of experience helping people unbox their lives from trauma, anxiety, relationship tangles, and coping with the neurobland, overboxed world.

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