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

Making A Case For Discernment And Attention To Details

Making A Case For Discernment And Attention To Details

We hosted a wedding reception for friends at our home.  It was an amazing experience in unexpected ways. I told my girlfriend, I have not been in a situation where the attention to details was so exacting, going beyond my own tendencies. Her comment, about the importance of being true to yourself hit a chord […]

Why Clear Communication is Your Most Important Skill Set

Clear communication has been essential lately as I’ve helped coordinate a big community event. After getting several notes thanking me for my clear and concise information, I concluded that this must be a skill set that needs more use. Here’s why. Through our non-profit, Lee and I were asked to set up music for “On […]

What Lifts You Up? Do It More?

I’m just coming down from a week of doing what lifts me up. I’ll definitely be doing it more!  It’s made me realize that sometimes our work and our fun can dove-tail and be the same, sometimes they take you in different directions. But when the underlying principles of both are grounded in the same […]

What Makes A Shared Experience So Powerful – Even 50 Years Later

What experience is synonymous with a love fest, extraordinary music and a powerful shared event, 50 years later?  Woodstock, of course! It galvanized a generation of people, launched a wave of similar events that attempt to replicate the experience even today and has influenced many generations since then. What makes this so important to us? […]

Why Saying Thank You Is Not Enough

After all the help we received hosting our big fundraiser, I realized saying thank you is not enough. It took months and months of work to pull it off with friends, neighbors, workers of many kinds and our Board of Directors stepping up to assist. We couldn’t have done it without them. So why isn’t […]