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Keep Calm, Andante On

By Tiffany Sankofa

Managing Emotions Grief Families Relationships Anxiety Trauma Recovery Self Care

CommunityHealing #peace #findingcenter #DogIsLove #connection #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: November 18, 2024

The term “Andante” is a musical tempo. An Andante is a moderately slow, gentle pace. If you listen to the beginning of Carl von Weber’s "Andante e Rondo" you can hear what I mean. Notice how it just keeps rolling on, with a lilt here and lilt there? That’s Andante. 14 years ago, a different kind of Andante came into my life in the form of floofy little rescued “accidental” Lhasapoo. Since my daughter and I are both musicians we wanted to give him a musical name. We decided on Andante, and called him Dante for short. He has always just kept rolling on with a little lilt step here and there. That’s our Dante...

Tune Up

By Tiffany Sankofa

Self Care Managing Emotions Trauma Recovery Anxiety

#Resilience #identity CommunityHealing #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: November 13, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all forced into a relationship that took precedence over many of our human relationships, including our relationship with ourselves. This relationship demanded the energy that belonged to other relationships, much like an affair. We all had a kind of forced affair with a pandemic. Just like we do in long term relationships with humans, we made compromises in order to do it well. We let go of things we like to do, the way we dress and spend our leisure time; The things that define and distinguish us. Now that we have broken up with the pandemic, (hopefully for good,) it’s time to reassess the things we’ve given up.

No Matter What (2024)

By Tiffany Sankofa

Anxiety Managing Emotions Self Care

#Resilience #Resiliency CommunityHealing #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: November 4, 2024

Feeling stressed about the outcome of the 2024 election? What if you could be ok NO MATTER WHAT?

Givers, Takers, Transactionalists and Unspoken Rules

By Tiffany Sankofa

Relationships Families Holidays Managing Emotions Parenting Self Care Trauma Recovery

#Takers CommunityHealing #Resilience #relationships #connection #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: November 1, 2024

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.

Story Time: Three Young Eagles

By Tiffany Sankofa

Managing Emotions Anxiety Grief Relationships

#discomfortheals #getuncomfortable #risktaking #flyinglessons #OrganicLiving #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD #StoryAndIdentity #TellingOurStories #allmyrelations #community #connection #HealingThroughStory #ᏣᎳᎩstyle

Posted: October 22, 2024

Here’s our third story in the “Story Time” series, “Three Young Eagles.” Let’s see what some discomfort can do for us!

Story Time: The Anglerfish and the Squid

By Tiffany Sankofa

Managing Emotions Anxiety Self Care

#StoryAndIdentity #TellingOurStories #allmyrelations #ᏣᎳᎩstyle #theᎥᎥ #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: October 8, 2024

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

Story Time, Introduction

By Tiffany Sankofa

Self Care Managing Emotions

#StoryAndIdentity #TellingOurStories #community #connection #HealingThroughStory #Resiliency #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: September 25, 2024

"The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions.” (Michael Margolis) In the recent “Tell Me a Story” blog series , I mentioned that storytelling...

Healing v. Cure

By Tiffany Sankofa

Relationships Families Managing Emotions Self Care Trauma Recovery

#relationships #connection #community #OrganicLiving #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: September 17, 2024

“We are cured when we no longer have disease. We are healed when we are restored to community.” (Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona ) Cured? Most religious faiths have some sort of tradition around asking their understanding of the Divine to heal people of this or that...

Tell Me a Story, Part 2

By Tiffany Sankofa

Self Care Managing Emotions Relationships

#StoryAndIdentity #TellingOurStories #SankofaCounselingMD #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #StoriesWeTellOurselves #ThePowerofStory

Posted: August 27, 2024

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” (From Love in...

Tell Me a Story, Part 1

By Tiffany Sankofa

Self Care Managing Emotions Relationships

#ThePowerofStory #TellingOurStories #StoriesWeTellOurselves #StoryAndIdentity #SankofaUnboxedCoaching #SankofaCounselingMD

Posted: August 22, 2024

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” (Maya Angelou) The Power of Story When we as human beings listen to stories, the neurons in our brains light up in a complicated and unique way . We tend to do what...