Find Life Coach | Meet Marilyn Simmons Bowe: How to Use Your Emotions to Live Your Best Life?

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June 30, 2022

Marilyn Simmons Bowe is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her adventurous life, her persistence, faith and innovative mind.

Starting from a a clapboard house, with no running water, she climbed the social ladder through education and through understanding something about the nature of humans that not a lot of people know.

She calls this SEL coaching, Social Emotional Learning. She invented her own approach and assessment method where she tests her clients’ 96 emotional dispositions.

Through this method she discovers the real socio emotional profile of her client. She reveals to them WHO they are and HOW they are at the moment. All with an intention to give them a recipe for their best life. Here is what she said.

Meet Life Coach Marilyn Simmons Bowe:

Name: Marilyn Simmons Bowe, PhD
Pillar: The Heart, The Spirit
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to learn more about themselves and their emotions, and live their best life, happy and empowered.
How they can help: Through an assessment tool that she developed and a plan of action based on the results.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?

My extended family and I fared well during the pandemic.

I live alone and spend 100% of my free time alone, pre pandemic, so the pandemic did not impact my social life.

I am a long distance runner, who runs alone everyday, so during the mask mandated time of the pandemic, I wore a mask while running.

How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

The coronavirus pandemic affected my clients in much the same way that it affected most individuals: It reduced their social interactions outside of their dwelling places.. it forced them to take a deeper dive with self reflection.. and it tested the strength of the relationships, for those who were coupled.

As stated previously, it did not affect me at all.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

The world was a very small place because everyone was experiencing the same thing. As such, I learned to have even more belief in the human ability to support each other in trying times.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

My story, as a child, was one of impoverished conditions with food insecurity, at times. I was not supposed to amount to much by society’s standards! I was born a child of poverty in Nassau, Bahamas, in an urban low socioeconomic area.

I was the sixth of eight children to live in my first home, a clapboard house, with no running water or electricity.

It was located on a street called “Burial Ground Corner”, because there was once a graveyard on the site. This was in the part of Nassau called “over the hill”, which is away from the glitzy tourist mecca of the city of Nassau.

I spent my childhood between the city and a rural “outer island” of The Bahamas, called Harbour Island. My Mother was born there, and my maternal grandparents still lived there.

Whether in the city of Nassau or on Harbour Island, my childhood, in the Sixties, was spent like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

I enjoyed rambling around with the boys rather than sitting around with the girls! We dove for coins that tourists threw off of their boats in Nassau Harbour.

While in Briland, as we affectionately referred to Harbour Island, we roamed the rural areas of that tiny island for seasonal fruit and berries, went fishing, and built boxcars!

I was always a curious person. As such, my curiosity led to a stellar academic life.

I graduated from high school at the age of fifteen and earned an Associate of Science degree (A.S.) in Biochemistry, at the age of seventeen.

After an initial career as an industrial lab chemist, I earned a Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) in premedical Biology with minors in Chemistry and Education, magna cum laude and a Master of Science degree (M.S.) in Biomedical Sciences with a special focus on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.

Additionally, I completed a self designed, quantitative Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) in Education and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

My career has spanned from Biotechnology to Public Education. Currently, I combine all of my career and academic expertise as an SEL Coach and Achievement Specialist.

When I am not in pursuit of social empowerment for all, I enjoy traveling, reading, active researching and long distance running.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

My biggest obstacle was my impoverished childhood.

I was told that education would be my way out of poverty. As such, I embraced every opportunity that I had to gain both academic and worldly education.

This approach has helped to make me the person that I am today.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

Living a wellness focused life requires that we have an intrinsic desire to achieve something that will sustain us along our quest.

This is how the work that I am doing is helping to make a bigger impact in the world.

As a part of my offerings to my clients, I start with an assessment that I developed which measures 96 emotional dispositions.

The instrument, while having the ability to give clients great insight into who and how they are, is simplistic on the surface. Each item is a statement that is algorithmic and measures the following:

8 discrete achievement emotions:

Five negative emotions: anger, anxiety, hopelessness, boredom and shame.
Three positive emotions: joy, hope, and pride.

4 neurological domains:

Cognitive: thinking
Affective: feelings
Motivation: drive
Physiology or physical: response

3 achievement timeframes that tells what the client’s disposition might be:

Before an event.
During an event.
After an event.

Once the results are calculated, I create a results profile and plan of action that is presented to the client.

During the post assessment session, the results are explained or interpreted, and clients get a plan of action that is used as a scaffold on which to build their wellness focused journey.

I have many success stories of clients who were able to use the results of their SEL profile to live a wellness focused life.

One story that stands out is a young lady, let’s call her Sally. Sally sought my assistance for life coaching because she felt trapped in a status quo of family and friends who refused to accept her for who she was: a freethinker who operated outside of the proverbial box.

Sally was on the verge of “giving in” and “giving up her dream” to get married because her status quo felt that she was “getting too old to be chasing her dreams”, at the ripe old age of 28!

After taking the assessment and getting her results, Sally felt “vindicated” that she should follow her dreams. She said the results were as if I had “read her palm”.

The results indicated that Sally’s dominant positive emotion was hope; her negative emotion was anxiety; her dominant neurological domain was cognitive; and her achievement timeframe was “before an event”.

My analysis of Sally’s results stated that Sally believed in future possibilities and positive outcomes (hope). That she was very particular of planning, cross checking and following up (anxiety). She tended to think these through from every angle before making a move (cognitive). And that she was willing to give it her all from the very beginning (before an event).

Today, Sally is still unmarried but happily living her dream as an exotic location realtor where she connects her clients with their dream properties around the Caribbean.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

It has a unique foundation in my self designed quantitative PhD on the effects of emotions on achievements.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

They learn how to put themselves first because they get to know their dominant positive and negative emotions, as well as their dominant achievement domain, as described above.

As a result, they are able to, more effectively:

1. Really believe in themself.

2. Learn to say “No”… and mean it.

3. Always keep their word to themself and others.

4. Smile from their soul.

5. Embrace every experience as a lesson.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

Yes, my SELf Assessment tool and a unique communicative approach based on my PHD work.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

If I could give a message to the whole world, it would be immersing the concept of social emotional learning, SEL, into every facet of society.

SEL is how we interact with each other; how we communicate, and how we respond to each other. Unfortunately, SEL is being marketed as a compilation of restorative practices and is being implemented only in grade schools, predominantly.

I believe in SEL for adults and this is the basis of my coaching approach.

I believe that an SEL movement is needed because we are so busy living that we have forgotten how to feel towards each other.

We have created a society where “being emotional” is considered a bad thing. Yet we are surprised when employees get violent on the job. Simply put it is because of pent up emotions that have not been addressed.

We implement rules and regulations all over our society. These are based on law and order, rightly so, but there is no or very minimal consideration given to the human aspect.

My SEL movement would help to bring about a chance to balance what is necessary, i.e., rules and regulations, with consideration of the human element of emotions.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

The greatest lesson that I learned was a very hard one!

I learned that you cannot start a business by depending on family, friends and acquaintances! The people closest to me did not support my business venture in social emotional learning.

My business is designed to help others understand “who” and “how” they are, so that they can live their best lives. The people closest to me told me that I was “very smart” and my services were “very necessary” but they did not want to use my services to help themselves.

Some said that they did not want to know “who and how” they were. Others simply said that they “did not need it because nothing was wrong with them”.

Your final thoughts?

Life can be tough! Nonetheless, we need to embrace every experience as something that is happening for us, rather than something that is happening to us.

Every experience has a lesson. I believe that if we do not embrace the lesson, when it is first presented, then The Universe will continually present the experience until we do.

For example, when I was in the midst of a self pity party back in 2014, thanks to my lackluster business, I kept blaming others.

After a few more trying experiences, I realized what the lesson was: I needed to swallow my pride so that I could reboot and fulfill my desire to provide service to the world that was greatly needed.

Hence, I had to stop thinking that “I could not get clients” and use the lesson of regrouping and retrying. I had to dig deep, believe in myself, and let my passion carry me forth.

After all, my entire life has been based on the concept of social emotional learning, SEL, long before I knew it and long before it even had a description!

This speaks to my intertwined trio of persistence, perseverance and passion, I am now able to rebrand and deliver SEL coaching services to all facets of society.

Where Can You Find Dr. Marilyn?

If you liked this interview and you would love to find out WHO and HOW you are, go to https://www.drmarilynsimmons.com/ and see how Dr. Marilyn can help you.

If you like to catch a glimpse of her coaching make sure to follow her Instagram account, Twitter, and Facebook page. You can find lots of value nuggets there.

If you like to connect directly with Dr. Marilyn, you can do that via her LinkedIn profile. It was a honor having this interview with her.

Find Life Coach | Meet Derrick Snow: How to Find Your Inner Beauty and Remove Your Sabotaging Assumptions?

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June 30, 2022

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Derrick Snow is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his unshakeable faith in the human potential.

Ever since he was a kid, he discovered the power the narratives we keep telling ourselves have over our lives.

He saw amazing people with huge potential live mediocre lives just because of what they chose to believe.

Derrick is able to see the inner beauty in each person. But most importantly, he is able to guide you and help you see it for yourself so you can transform. Here is what he said.

Meet Life Coach Derrick Snow:

Name: Derrick Snow
Pillar: The Mind
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to eliminate their sabotaging assumptions.
How they can help: Through various techniques like wheel of Life, imaging exercises, breathing exercises, role playing, just to name a few. The approach is customized to each individual.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?

We’re doing well. Our 7 year old son is healthy and happy, so I cannot ask for more!

How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

Every client I’ve had during the pandemic stated it affected their lives in one way or another, whether it was the simple act of seeing loved ones or questioning their entire purpose in life, it touched all of them.

It prompted thoughts and reflections that otherwise may not have happened, which often centered on making the most out of their lives.

As a coach, that’s an exciting part: the self awareness and the feeling that more is out there. My clients took something terrible, like the pandemic, and used it to spark positive change in their lives.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

There’s no better time to start than now because you never know what tomorrow will bring. I learned it early in life at 8 ½ years old when my father passed away, and the pandemic cemented this lesson.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

I was a curious and empathetic child, who loved hearing stories from everyone around me.

I found it fascinating to learn what inspired them, how they interpreted life circumstances, how everything came together to form a whole, and how they narrated their stories.

I realized that the “narrated their stories” part was instrumental in one’s ability to live a happy, purposeful life.

My mom, who battled life long depression, narrated her story as one of failure, saying on a near daily basis that I was the only good thing to come out of her life.

This had a profound impact on me because I knew it wasn’t true, she was one of the most loving and emotionally gifted people I ever met, whose talents extended to animals as well (seriously, wild animals would come to her).

She just couldn’t see her own inner beauty and worth, but I always saw it. Because of her, I see a light in people that they sometimes do not see themselves.

Once I entered the corporate world, I found myself drawn to different roles that allowed me to coach and mentor… even though, I didn’t know that was what I was doing!

Whether it was as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Scrum Master, and now as an Agile Coach, the people I serve and their growth inspires me on a daily basis. It was through this journey that I learned of the coaching profession, allowing me to follow my heart into Holistic Life and Career Coaching.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

Myself!

Life has thrown many things my way, as it does all of us, but the things holding me back were largely manifested by me. Liberating myself from sabotaging ideas like “perfect” or “error proof” has been a lifelong journey.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

That’s the amazing part about coaching, because the innovation, that creative process feeding the client through exploration, awareness, and action, changes based upon the individual client.

For me, coaching is like dancing. One client comes in and says, “Today, let’s tango!” Okay, let’s tango. Another client comes in and says, “I want to waltz today.” Absolutely! Let’s waltz.

The key is attention, which you need to move together as a singular unit during the session, so the client can breakthrough and design actions, that’s the innovation.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

I focus on the whole person. What I’ve found personally and professionally is that we are interconnected in all facets of our lives.

When clients come to me for more corporate style coaching, it’s not unusual for personal circumstances to come into play and vice versa.

If a potential client asks for my niche, I say my niche is you.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

My clients constantly tell me that our partnership empowers them to overturn sabotaging assumptions to produce positive, actionable results in multiple areas of their lives.

Seeing it happen is the most rewarding part about what I do.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

I like to explore based upon the client’s needs, so I’ve used a variety over the years: the Wheel of Life, imaging exercises, breathing exercises, role playing, and brainstorming with IdeaBoardz, Mural, Miro, and Jamboards to name a few.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

Inside you, right now, there’s something you are ready to unlock.

You know it, you feel it. Each day is a precious gift, so why not start today?

Stop thinking about the person you want to be and start being it!

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

It doesn’t matter the road you take, just as long as you are getting there.

The beauty of life is this short, wonderful little journey we’ve each embarked upon. Birth and death are the only two certainties in this form, the rest of it is up to us!

Your final thoughts?

Transformation happens one step at a time, so be kind and love yourself.

You have ideas and dreams, and you want to bring these things to fruition. I understand. As someone who rose out of my childhood low income environment, taught myself how to play music, went from a failing high school student to graduating from a top 10 public U.S. university, and losing 100 pounds, I’ve had my fair share of ideas and dreams.

I can tell you it’s a journey, and nurturing yourself is key! Feed your mind, body, heart, soul, and your environment. Tend to your inner garden, making sure your roots are strong, and you will reap a lifetime of bountiful harvests.

Where Can You Find Derrick Snow?

If you liked this interview and you would love to discover and eliminate your sabotaging assumptions, connect with Derrick via LinkedIn and see how he can help you.

It’s not that often that we find someone who has such faith in the human potential as Derrick. It was an honor having this interview with him.

Find Life Coach | Meet Cecian Boyce: How to Overcome Your Challenges and Live Your Best Life?

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June 27, 2022

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Cecian Boyce is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her strength of character and courage.

After a serious accident, she became physically disabled when she was at the age of 18 but that didn’t stop her to be the person she is today.

And of course, it wasn’t easy. She battled with self confidence for a long time but that helped her get stronger and become one of the most inspiring people in the world today.

She always had a strong passion for coaching so she decided to start focusing on being a life coach earlier this year. Ever since, she has been changing the lives of her clients. Here is what she said.

Meet Life Coach Cecian Boyce:

Name: Cecian Boyce
Pillar: The Spirit
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to become a conscious creator of their life, overcome their challenges, and get more control over their life experiences.
How they can help: By using techniques and practices like shadow work, self love meditations, positive affirmations, journaling, gratitude practice, just to name a few.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?

We doing very well. We were not really affected much with the pandemic.

How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

I believe that it did affect them indirectly or directly however they have recovered from the negative affects of the pandemic.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

That the law of realism and that every thing is expressed and felt differently by different people.

That a specific concept can be understood differently and expressed differently by people.

That having a strong sense of self can help you survive or cope in the most difficult times.

That hope and fearlessness are needed to survive life’s painful challenges.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

Life coaching to me is a passion as I am full time employed in the ICT field and life coaching. Wanting to assist people to create their ideal life is like a calling or passion to me.

I started focusing on my coaching passion earlier this year as I have always been the go to person for advice and encouragement in my inner circle.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

I became physically disabled at the age of 18 and I become a physically challenged person who uses a wheelchair for mobility after a traumatic head injury.

This traumatic event did change how my life is now as I had to battle with self acceptance and self confidence to become the successful person I am today.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

I use a technique which is used by most coaches. I get the client to express their challenges and concerns and then I question them to let them see or realize certain insights by using the normal coaching process.

I then allow them to find their own answers to their challenges.

My coaching is based on accountability and inner work. I am a manifestation coach so my clients get to understand that the current situations they don’t really like was and is being created by them and that they can create better situations or circumstances simply by changing or tweaking their current perceptions and practices.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

I am a unique individual and my past experience is painful and it can be used to inspire and encourage others to overcome all their life challenges. See it is not about what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you.

My coaching style is all about positive change by using the basic manifesting techniques. My clients are encouraged to become creators of their own realities and not be victims of their own circumstances.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

My clients take away a feeling of empowerment and control over their own life experience. They feel in control of their life.

They feel more in charge over their life as they learn techniques and approaches to address their life stresses positively.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

I use manifesting and spiritual methods and practices. Shadow work practice Like self love meditations, positive affirmations, journaling, gratitude practice.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

You are a creator of your own life experience, you are the god or savior you been looking for outside of you. Take your power back and begin creating and living your best life yet!

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

Never to underestimate my strength and resilience but to know that I can overcome all life’s challenges that nothing last forever.

I learnt to embrace all my life challenges and stay positive and optimistic. I learnt that I have the ability to inspire and encourage others to live their best life.

Your final thoughts?

Nothing to add.

Where Can You Find Cecian Boyce?

If you liked this interview and you would like to find out how Cecian can help you overcome your challenges and live your best life, go to https://consultingcecian.com/about-consulting-cecian/ to learn more.

If you like to get a glimpse of her coaching, follow her Instagram and Facebook group or go and check her YouTube channel where she regularly posts videos. You can check her testimonials here. It was an honor having this interview with her.

Do You Know About The Rabbit Painting That Will Improve Your Mood Instantly?

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June 24, 2022

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Do You Know About The Rabbit Painting That Will Improve Your Mood Instantly?

Rabbits have been used in the visual arts for centuries. They have been used for different motifs with various mythological and artistic meanings.

Generally speaking, the rabbit signifies rebirth or resurrection. Artists also use rabbits to symbolize fertility and sensuality.

But over the centuries, other symbolic values have also been allocated to rabbits. For example, they are depicted by some painters in their paintings only as wild creatures of hunting, without any symbolic value whatsoever.

But rabbit painting can also be cute and funny. One well known famous cute rabbit painting is Andre Gill’s “Lapin Agile Cabaret” in Paris. It is a painting that will improve your mood instantly when you look at it.

In this article, we’ll briefly examine how rabbits have been used in art over the centuries, and then we’ll discuss Andre Gill’s famous painting.

The Depiction of Rabbits in Judaism and Classical Antiquity:

The rabbit is considered an unclean animal In Judaism because it does not have a divided hoof. This was one of the reasons for the critical and often disrespectful attitude towards rabbits by Christian artists of the Middle Ages. Rabbits were often seen as “evil.”

But although rabbits were a non kosher animal for the Old Testament Jews, there were also positive symbolic connotations in paintings and sketches during the earlier centuries.

For example, the 16th century German scholar Rabbi Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi saw rabbits as a symbol of the Diaspora.

In Classical Antiquity, rabbits were seen to survive only by prolific breeding. Aristoteles, for instance, described rabbits as the most fertile of all animals.

The rabbit became the symbol of fertility and desire. In later antiquity, rabbits were also used in art to symbolize good luck.

The Depiction of Rabbits in Early Christian and Medieval Art:

In early Christian art, rabbits appeared on articles like icons and oil lamps, but it is not clear what the symbolic connotations were.

Some art scholars believe rabbits in the early Christian artworks are symbolic of the Christian belief that salvation must be found in Christ as the Rock and not in worldly “down on the ground” things.

They base this theory on the teachings of that time where rabbits were seen as to be “escaping” onto rocks instead of falling to the ground to be hunted.

In Medieval art, the rabbit was sometimes used in paintings to symbolize the negative connotation of lust. But art scholars believe that a rabbit symbolizes something positive for many other artists in medieval times, a symbol of the steep path to salvation.

Rabbits in Non Religious Art:

In non religious art, the rabbit is sometimes just depicted as prey for the hunter. But it can also symbolize spring or autumn and is often used as a symbol of physical love.

In Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, rabbits can be found in many famous paintings. For example, Pinturicchio’s depiction of “Susanna in the Bath” shows two old men accompanied by a pair of rabbits, indicating wanton lust.

Another reason artists sometimes include rabbits in their paintings is that small animals with fur, including rabbits, are excellent vehicles to showcase the artist’s ability to paint in fine detail.

Two Wonderful Rabbit Paintings in European Art:

One of the most beautiful rabbit paintings in European art’s earlier history is probably Albrecht Dürer’s 1502 painting “Young Hare.”

This rabbit does not have any symbolic meaning but is one of the most reproduced images of a rabbit in European art history.

It has been printed in many art textbooks, published in hundreds of reproductions, and copied and used in many other ways, even up to today.

The other trendy and famous rabbit painting, “Lapin Agile Cabaret,” was created in the second half of the 1800s.

It depicts a rabbit jumping from a saucepan and has become the “model” of many modern caricature artists.

Let’s find out who this artwork’s creator was and the story behind the painting.

Andre Gill – the Creator of “Lapin Agile Cabaret”

The 19th century French caricaturist André Gill drew celebrities of his time with giant heads on tiny bodies.

This practice influenced virtually all cartoonists of the late 1800s and even today.

André Gill was born in 1840 in Paris. His family was of high social standing, his father was a count. By using “Gill’ as part of his pseudonym, he honored James Gillray as the person who had influenced him the most.

Although he had a traditional art education, he is known for his cartoon like pictures created in a graphic style.

He drew famous and well known people as a caricature with large heads and small bodies.

His first drawings appeared in 1859 in “Le Journal Amusant,” “Le Hanneton,” and the socialist journal “La Rue.”

He portrayed several famous politicians like Napoléon III, novelists like Charles Dickens, and composers like Georges Bizet.

Unfortunately, Gill’s final years ended in tragedy. In 1883 he was admitted to an asylum because of a mental illness and lost all his former friends except his loyal student, Émile Cohl.

Cohl paid Gill’s medical expenses until he passed away in 1885.

Lapin Agile Cabaret

André Gill was also well known in the cabaret milieu in Paris.

He frequently visited the “Cabaret des Assassins” at the Montmartre. But he was not only a visitor to the club, but he also performed as a singer in this club.

His association with this club was why he created one of his most famous paintings.

The “Cabaret de Assassins” asked him to design a sign for the club. The sign he created depicts a rabbit jumping out of a saucepan.

The local people in Paris loved this sign, and they referred to it as “Lapin à Gill” (“Gill’s rabbit”). As a result, the “Cabaret de Assassins” has become known as” Lapin Agile Cabaret” and is still in operation and is a well known tourist attraction in Paris.

It is said that when you look at this painting your mood instantly improves.

What you should remember?

Rabbit paintings have been part of the art scene for centuries already, and there are many reasons why painters up to today include rabbits in their artworks.

But not many rabbit paintings make you feel good when you look at the image.

However, Andre Gill’s” Lapin Agile Cabaret” depicting a rabbit jumping out of a saucepan will increase your mood every time you look at it.

Are Physical Health And Mental Health Closely Related?

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June 20, 2022

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The notion of staying healthy is different for every individual.

Everyone understands that you need to exercise and eat right to maintain a healthy body, but people are only just starting to understand that your mental health is equally important.

While research into mental illness is still in its early stages, there is evidence to suggest that both health concepts are more interlinked than you may think.

As such, let’s explore this notion to discover just how your physical health and mental health work alongside each other.

You may find that you discover something new that can help you to cope with either one of these complicated issues. Read on to find out more.

How Are Physical Health And Mental Health Related?

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What Is The Mind?

Before looking at how these two entities are related, we need to understand each one as a separate entity.

It is easy to mistake the brain for the mind, but these are two very different things.

The brain is the organ that works to coordinate your body and emotions, whereas the mind represents your consciousness and thought processes.

Therefore, the brain represents the physical, while the mind represents the mental.

With that in mind, it should be easier to understand what is meant by mental health.

What Is Physical Health?

Physical health refers to how well your bodily functions are operating.

Everything inside you needs to work at a certain level of efficiency for you to remain healthy, which is why it is important to maintain good physical health and eat a balanced diet.

These actions can help your body, but you will soon find out that they can also affect your mind.

What are The Physical Health’s Effect On Your Mind?

The reason behind your regular exercise routine is to strengthen your body. The more you work your muscles, the better they become at functioning.

However, it isn’t just your muscles that get a workout. Your organs also receive the benefits of regular exercise.

For example, cardiovascular fitness will increase your lung capacity, which in turn speeds up the rate at which oxygen is delivered throughout your body.

This oxygen is needed to help turn your food into energy, therefore, you should have more energy if you work out more often. But what has this got to do with your mental health?

A common symptom of depression is lethargy. Your body must work harder to combat the serotonin deficiency that is causing this illness, which can greatly reduce your energy levels.

Therefore, by keeping your body physically fit, you should have more energy than you otherwise would to help fight off this symptom of depression.

Of course, this is a massive oversimplification of events, but you should now start to see how the two concepts of health are linked.

What are The Mental Health’s Effect On Your Body?

Your mind is responsible for maintaining the functions of everything needed to help you feel and experience the world around you.

This means that you are also using your mind when you exercise. However, poor mental health is going to influence your overall fitness levels.

Lethargy is not the only symptom linked with a mental illness like depression. Those who live with this mental illness also suffer from bodily aches, reduced sleep, irritability, and a loss of appetite.

As you can guess, working up the motivation to exercise while experiencing these symptoms is extremely difficult, which is why many people lose fitness levels when they experience mental health issues.

Now that you can see how each facet of health is affected by the other, what can you do to balance them?

How to Use Exercise To Ease Symptoms Of Mental Health Disorders?

Once you understand the science behind mental health issues, such as anxiety or depression, it is easier to see how exercise can be used as part of a healing solution.

Since there is no direct cure for these mental illnesses, you will need to focus on tackling each symptom as they arise. The key is reducing the effects instead of abolishing them.

However, the simple act of exercise is not enough to help you in these efforts, as you will discover when you read through Talkiatry’s grounding techniques for anxiety.

Using up the excess energy in your body is necessary for relaxing, but you will find the most important step in grounding techniques for anxiety is to focus on your breathing.

Slow deep breaths will help to reduce your heart rate and reduce the likelihood that your anxiety experience develops into a panic attack.

The best way to practice these breathing techniques, of course, is by engaging in regular fitness workouts.

These regimes will accustom your body to taking long recovery breaths so that you are more prepared to ground yourself next time you find yourself in an anxious situation.

When it comes to depression, these quiet periods of meditation can reduce the harmful spiral of thoughts in your mind.

By giving you an additional focus, you can use exercise as a distraction and as a way to relieve stress. This process should give you some clarity moving forward.

How to Use Mental Health Practices To Improve Fitness?

Once again, just as your fitness regime can help you to ease symptoms of mental illness, mindful mental health practices can help improve your fitness.

The grounding techniques discussed above are designed to relax and comfort you in times of stress.

When you are experiencing stress, your body is not working at full capacity, and there is nothing more stressful for your body than an improper cool down routine.

Grounding yourself with meditation and breathing techniques can teach you to relax your body properly, helping it recover quicker from your workout.

What’s more, meditation techniques can lower your blood pressure, one of the biggest issues facing people with mental illness.

A core part of engaging in sport is keeping concentration. Practicing mindfulness is a great way to clear your mind, giving your body the tools needed to focus on the physical task at hand.

What is The Connection Between Mental Health And Diet?

This article has already explained how exercise can help improve your mental health, but there is another facet that contributes to your physical health, and that is your diet.

Various foods can have a positive or negative effect on your body, but it is important to achieve a balance in the types of nutrients you consume.

In fact, studies have shown that too much of certain food products can actually cause you to experience low moods and stress, two things you should avoid if you struggle with mental illness.

Processed foods that are high in flour or sugar, such as bread, cheese, and biscuits, cause inflammation in your body over time.

While your body is fighting to reduce this inflammation, it has less energy to focus on serotonin production or keeping your oxygen flowing.

Therefore, participating in a poor diet for too long can have a negative effect on your mental health. You don’t have to give up your favorite foods altogether, just consume them in moderation, and you should start to notice a difference.

What you should remember?

The world is only just beginning to understand how the mind and body work together.

But, there can be no denying that there is a positive connection there.

So, to answer the initial question: yes, there is a relation between your physical and mental health.

Is there a difference in mental health between men and women? You can find out here!

What are The Functions of The LL 37 Peptide in The Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Illness and Inflammation?

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June 18, 2022

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Various defensive mechanisms are used by the innate immune system, including complement mediated lysis, phagocytosis, NET formation, and the release of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs).

Immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), long assumed to be caused by adaptive immunity, are now linked to innate immune system abnormalities.

The role of AMPs in developing autoimmune illnesses has emerged as a common topic in this research. In atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, the defensins and the solitary human cathelicidin, LL 37 peptide may have a role in developing these diseases.

Furthermore, in recent years, LL 37 has emerged as a possible contributor to the pathogenesis of SLE, RA, atherosclerosis, and probably other disorders.

This peptide can be purchased from multiple sources, and researcher can find LL 37 peptide for sale from reputable and licensed sourcesif you ask around.

When it comes to modulating immunological responses, the function of the human version of LL 37, as well as its murine counterpart, MCRAMP, is examined in this paper.

What are The Functions of The LL 37 Peptide in The Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Illness?

Antimicrobial defense and inflammatory response initiation are critical functions of the innate immune system.

One of the most effective evolutionary conserved defensive mechanisms against bacterial and fungal invasions is antimicrobial peptides (AMP).

Epithelial cells and lymphocytes produce a large number of AMPS in the hundreds. LL 37 is the only member of the human cathelicidin family of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs).

Peptides that have antibacterial capabilities and immune system modifying properties have caught the scientific community’s attention.

These features may contribute to the development of autoimmune diseases.

How it functions?

KERATINOCYTES and NEUTROPHILS both have serine proteases called kallikreins, which break down the C terminus of the 18 kDa human hCAP18 protein to produce the cationic peptide LL 37, which has 37 amino acids. LL 37, unlike other antimicrobial peptides, may form aggregates in solution and lipid bilayers, making it resistant to proteolytic destruction.

It prefers to connect with negatively charged phospholipid membranes because of its positive charge.

Furthermore, during membrane contacts, it takes a mainly helical structure, segregating its hydrophobic residues.

Transmembrane holes develop, membrane penetration occurs, and bacterial lysis takes place. LL 37 protects cholesterol rich cell membranes against the peptide’s pore forming activities.

Secondary neutrophilic granules were first identified as the source of LL 37’s constitutive expression.

Macrophages, natural killer cells (NK), and epithelium from the skin, airways, ocular surface, and gut generate LL 37.

Inflammatory pathways, vitamin D, and endoplasmic reticulum stress all have a role in regulating its expression.

Researchers have shown that mCRAMP, the murine equivalent of LL 37, has primary antibacterial functions. Preventing bacterial infections in the skin requires LL 37 over mCRAMP.

Similarly, mice lacking mCRAMP are more vulnerable to urinary tract infections and colonization by pathogenic microorganisms.

The protective effects of mCRAMP and human LL 37 on the generation of inflammatory cytokines in response to Clostridium difficile toxin induced colon and ileal damage are further shown.

A surprising finding is that mCRAMP has been demonstrated to protect against influenza infection, showing that it also plays a part in the body’s antiviral defenses.

LL 37 regulates the recruitment of inflammatory cells and the phenotype of macrophages. LL 37 contains antibacterial and immunomodulatory properties.

Indeed, LL 37 has been shown to have pro and anti inflammatory properties, which the microenvironment and the underlying illness may influence.

Find Life Coach | Meet Genevieve Manderville: How to Get Out of The “8 to 5” Rat Race and Create Your Audacious Life by Design?

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June 16, 2022

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Genevieve Manderville is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her holistic approach.

She went from 30+ years in the corporate world into the coaching world and she wouldn’t trade that for anything.

She educates and coaches prospective franchise investors showing them how business ownership is within their reach.

As a Transformation Coach and energy practitioner she helps women gain clarity and drop the chains of corporate life to discover their passion and purpose. Here is what she said.

Meet Life Coach Genevieve Manderville:

Name: Genevieve Manderville
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Mainly for women who want to get out of the “8 to 5” rat race, drop the chains of corporate life to discover their passion and purpose, and live an audacious life.
How they can help: Through arsenal of techniques and tools 30+ years in the making, visualizations and mindfulness meditation just to name a few.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?

My family and I are doing well. Thankfully none of us became ill including my 82 year old mother.

While we were in quarantine like everyone else, we were diligent in tapping into our spiritual place. And I ensured everyone ate whole healing foods and drank healing beverages.

How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

We were quite fortunate. No one took ill physically. However, people had a strong need for emotional connection especially during times of quarantine.

I remember doing new things via Zoom such as: spa dates, celebrating birthdays, watching plays and concerts together. I even recalled a New Year’s Eve Dance Party on Zoom.

We tried to keep some sense of normalcy.

I have a private group on Facebook where I was able to stay connected and check on people. Sometimes we do not realize how important it is asking someone, how are you doing?

If it comes from the heart it can go a long way.

During the pandemic, I would get out and walk often. I have a dog and she always wanted to go out. This simple act kept me grounded.

Sometimes the streets were deserted and hardly no traffic. It felt like the “Zombie Apocalypse”. Also, I would see more of the animals, deer, foxes, etc.

This time out was my solace.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

The biggest lessons I learned is that things we think cannot happen do.

No one promises us anything in life.

We do not have endless time. Our time is precious. Our time spent with people are precious.

I believe in connecting to my spirituality which is threaded throughout my life. It is how I show up for myself, my loved ones and my clients.

I find that I tend to stay away from situations or even people who cause me angst.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

I am a “corporate escapee”. My intention is to be the director of my destiny.

I spent 30+ years in the corporate setting gaining extensive business and financial experience.

I have managed and coached high performing teams for most of my tenure.

After leaving in December 2018, I founded my own firms. First, I launched a franchise consulting business, GEM Franchise Consulting Inc. which specializes in helping others achieve their dreams of business ownership through franchising.

As a Franchise Consultant, I educate and coach prospective franchise investors as part of the process. I enjoy showing people how business ownership is within their reach.

Then feeling the urge to aid women in pursuing their life dreams and desires. I launched The Pearl Pathway of Wellness LLC.

As a Transformation Coach and energy practitioner, I help women see their life through fresh eyes as well as stretch them to achieve their goals that they so richly deserve.

I specialize in showing women how they may leave their “8 to 5”, drop the chains of corporate life to discover their passion and purpose.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

I would say my biggest obstacle was learning “how to be present” and getting out of my own way.

As mentioned earlier I worked within the corporate space for many years. You get used to running at top speed to get things done. You are consistently multitasking, often juggling multiple priorities. It is very high paced and stressful.

It felt like I thrived on it. It’s part of our programming.

We strive to get the job or position. You work like heck to stay relevant and competitive and to move to the next level. Then, boom, you get promoted. But you can’t rest. The process continues. And guess what it is consistently like that…

During one particular hectic period, we were working extremely long hours including Saturdays. I remember I had just finished a super long 6 day week. That Sunday, I decided that I was going to ride my bike to relax. It had been a very stressful week and I was tired. Well I fell off my bike and hit my head.

I ended up in the trauma center with a concussion and needing 5 staples in my head. I nearly killed myself in the vain of relaxing.

This is where my lesson on learning to be present took hold.

When we are present and mindful, we do not injure ourselves. As my mother used to always tell me when I would rush, be mindful of what you are doing.

We tend to take honor in multitasking and running around. There is no need for it. Nothing gets done any quicker or more efficiently. In fact, I would argue that you get much less done.

Going back to my accident, it could have cost me my life. The cost to me was an overnight stay in the hospital, time away from work and I scared my family senseless.

But the world goes on. And it’ll go on with out you.

You must take care of YOU.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

I bring in all the skills in my toolkit.

I have strong business, financial and professional skills which I use consistently to help my clients.

When my clients are looking to transition from their current jobs, I coach them on what to say and do to ensure that they are protected.

Additionally, I am a Reiki Practitioner. This is extremely valuable as we are all mostly energy.

We vibrate and send “currents’ regularly. If our energy is blocked and not flowing, it manifests in the various areas of our lives.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

My coaching approach is a holistic strategy.

I look at the main areas of your life : career, financial, relationships, spirituality, etc. We explore your desires, thoughts, beliefs, etc.

I utilize a 5 step framework which includes uncovering your passion and purpose, educating you on understanding how your brain works, examine your thoughts, connecting with your feelings, etc.

This process includes learning how to be more present, creating joy and learning to take care of YOU.

As we go through this process you are making strides towards you goals in an empowered and sustainable way.

I have had clients heal long seated trauma which made room for them to feel more joyful. It allowed this client space to start a business.

Or another client who felt empowered to not only explore leaving her job but have more than 1 job offer presented to her. This same client learned how to take a stand for herself in the workplace and with her loved ones.

I show my clients that it is possible to have whatever you desire. And I help them gather the needed parcels to make the journey across the transformation bridge. And it is so much sweeter on the other side.

I guide my clients from the dark tree dense forest to the an open clearing and field where the sun is shining and bright. In this clearing you see all that is available for you.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

My clients feel more joyful in their lives. They learn to do more loving things for themselves. They learn how to take inspired action to get what they desire.

They learn how to challenge current thoughts and beliefs and create new ones.

They learn how to find their unique passion and purpose in life.

They learn how design a pathway to living their life which they control, in their way.

They learn how to up level their beliefs and let go of the old patterns that are holding them back and instead feel in control and joyful.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

I use everything in my arsenal that I have learned and experienced over the last 30+ years. I share exercises to stimulate their thinking, get curious about their thoughts and feelings and show them regular sustainable practice that can be done daily.

There is a fair amount of self reflection, visualizations and mindfulness tasks. These tools fit easily into their current lifestyle.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

By igniting our passion, we get to reclaim ourselves, our life and our power.

I can show you how.

No longer do we relegate ourselves to the back burner and putting others needs before ours. We get to choose something different, something more self ful.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

My greatest lesson is learning how my brain works and how my thoughts and feelings can impact my results.

In this process, I learn and accept that I cannot change or impact anyone else.

I know you are thinking duh of course you can’t.

But even though we may know that intellectually, on an emotional level we may continue to try.

Once I realized that I am what I think and believe, that was a game changer for me.

I had successes in the past because I believed and I was tenacious. Sometimes I “muscled” things into happening for me.

Yes, that did work although it might not be sustainable. Or it might not have been the best decision or solution for me.

Your final thoughts?

I truly enjoy and love this work.

I remember how I felt in in corporate environment. I could not wait to get out and thought that there wasn’t a way.

However I found one.

I would like to share that with as many women as possible. I love the look on her face when she realizes that not only is it possible, It is possible for her. And it is already done.

Where Can You Find Genevieve Manderville?

If you liked this interview and you would love to escape the “8 to 5” rat race to live your purpose, make sure to connect with Genevieve via LinkedIn and shoot her a message.

You can also connect with her on Facebook. If you want to get a glimpse of her coaching, you can follow her page on Facebook and her account on Instagram. It was an honor having this interview with her.

Find Life Coach | Meet Heather Poirier: How to Change The World, One Leader at a Time?

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June 10, 2022

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Heather Poirier is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her professionalism and passion for Non Profit Organizations.

She is a coach for leaders in the nonprofit sector and she helps them overcome their stress or even burnout.

She decided to focus on this specific group of people firstly because she understands how hard it is for nonprofits to swim in the unpredictable corporate sea amongst giants.

The second and deeper reason is because she truly believes that nonprofits are way ahead of other organizations when it comes to making the world a better place, so by helping the people involved it’s the best way for her to foster a positive change. Here is what she said.

Meet Life Coach Heather Poirier:

Name: Heather Poirier
Pillar: The Mind
Who is this coach for: Mostly leaders in the nonprofit sector who are facing stress and possible burnout.
How they can help: By helping her clients gain clarity about their life path, understanding of their high value activities, and find healing for their emotional stressors.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?

My husband and I were able to adjust to working from home during the lockdown here in DC, and once things began to reopen, we took every precaution to keep ourselves safe.

We’ve been fortunate despite the circumstances.

How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

It didn’t affect my coaching practice because I have been geared from the beginning to coach online.

My clients have been affected in ways both large and small, from loss of motivation to loss of jobs and family members.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

Be careful but not afraid.

Be wise and listen to your instincts.

Trust people who know what they’re talking about.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

Before I became a business coach, I was a longtime writer and editor whose position, along with 10 colleagues, was outsourced in December 2020.

I’d been wanting to change professions for a few years, so I seized the opportunity and retrained as a coach.

I work with leaders in the nonprofit sector who are facing stress and possible burnout.

Both staff and volunteers struggle with the issues facing nonprofits, ranging from budgets to internal politics, and most leaders don’t have the full set of tools they need to cope.

The work is much harder than it seems. Because most nonprofits don’t pay their volunteers (and some can’t even pay for staff members at first), the volunteers have to dig deep within themselves for motivation. That can last for only so long.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

My fear of client development, believe it or not!

I find everything else about being a coach and an entrepreneur really easy, but reaching out to prospects is something I still have to face head on.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

My coaching is geared toward keeping people engaged, so I use techniques and strategies that engage each of the seven ways people learn best.

Most coaches, and in fact, most programs of any kind, aren’t aware of these methods and don’t use them.

Keeping my clients engaged is the best way I can help them achieve their outcomes.

My coaching is largely virtual, too, so I have structured it in ways that means my clients don’t have to make a special trip somewhere to meet me, unless that’s their preference.

I’m always open to face to face engagement, but being able to hop onto a video call with clients helps everyone stay on track.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

Everyone has a story, a past, a set of problems they’d rather not face.

I have an array of tools to help my clients find healing for their emotional stressors and upset.

These tools go straight to emotions rather than staying caught up in the mind with all its words and objections. They help people find healing very quickly.

It’s not what I advertise as my coaching service, but it’s usually something I do with a client whenever we reach a major sticking point.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

The full understanding of what their highest value, highest dollar activities are, what their life changing activities are, and clarity about the path of transformation ahead of them.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

I track each client’s progress and schedule calls for only 45 minutes. That leaves buffers for extra discussion without going into the next client’s session.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

Nonprofits will change the world!

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

Let go of your fear so that you can have faith in other people.

Your final thoughts?

Nonprofits are way ahead of other organizations when it comes to helping society change and grow.

My work with nonprofit leaders is the best way for me to help foster a better world for us all.

Where Can You Find Heather Poirier?

If you liked this interview and you would love to see how Heather can help you, go to https://rapidnonprofitsuccess.com/ and discover your next step.

If you like to connect with Heather personally, you can do that through her LinkedIn profile. It was an honor having this interview with her.