Connie Milligan, LCSW

If there is anything I’ve expressed that speaks to you, I’d love to hear from you. You can reach me at my email, connie [at] conniemilligan [dot] com

How Your Network Can Enhance Your Quality of Life

How Your Network Can Enhance Your Quality of Life

I had a revelation recognizing how our network of friends is enhancing our quality of life. Over the last month, numerous opportunities have developed that will be expansive and enriching. Let me share how this has happened and why it is a significant and easy way to improve your life. We’ve had five interesting things […]

A New Year’s Message On Impermanence

How interesting that impermanence is what’s facing me as we move into the new year. There is a somber and an exhilarating message to this concept that I’d like to share. It seems fitting as we consider 2020, a new and likely auspicious decade. The somber part of impermanence has to do with death and […]

HOW MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION CAN IMPROVE YOUR HOLIDAYS

HOW MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION CAN IMPROVE YOUR HOLIDAYS

Do you have a mindfulness and compassion practice? It’s interesting to note that these two things have become linked in exercises and are being used to increase our ability to cope. Now is a great time to bring these skills into play. Mindfulness and compassion are practices that can be easily learned. While mindfulness is […]

The People Who Make A Difference

During a trip to Chicago, I was particularly aware of the people who make a difference. I went to hear Dr. Ron Siegel speak on Mindfulness and Compassion, and while he is one making a difference, it was also the everyday people I encountered in travel that impressed me. It’s not just those in the […]

Thank Heavens For Friends Who Are Like Family

Thank Heavens For Friends Who Are Like Family

Do you have friends who are like family? Framily is what we call them. They have played an important role in seeing me though many junctures of my life. Having just taken a little out-of-town trip with a group of friends and while there, rendezvoused with a childhood girlfriend I haven’t seen in 22 years, […]