Mail Chimp Dreaming

Senior Researcher, Customer Insights

• Develop deep understanding of personas and their daily life, attitudes, and perceptions, challenges, and successes.
• Perceive, lend an ear, synthesize large amounts of information into actionable insights.
• Independent worker, leading small teams of 1-2 people.
• Understand who you are designing for, what motivates them, and where we fit into their lives. 
• Contribute to research that plays a vital role in prioritizing product decisions (leadership) and designing customer experience (UX).
• Interdepartmental collaboration, design, marketing, product management.
• Highly skilled communicator, interviewer, writer, and diplomatic colleague. 
• Advocate on behalf of the people. 
• Design studies, analyzing data, and extrapolating results. 
• Coding and tracking of data. 
• Humble & ambitious.
• Support sustainable urban renewal in home town of Atlanta.
• Live best life through wellness and education programs.
• Inform market insights team and asses market fit 
• Reports, presentations, casual conversations, newsletters, emails of high quality.
• Manage 3rd party vendors. 
• Travel 4-6 times per year. 
• BONUS:
• International Business Relations
• E-Commerce
• Software Research
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Solar Eclipse Baby

Star Child of the Great American Eclipse
Life shrouded 
Life reborn
Life enlightened

Grew as a human in the darkness of the moon
Transformed into a spiritual being at 25
The final hour of labor was the total eclipse window
The hour of my birth occurred after the shadow passed, born during the new light

Drawing as Spiritual Expression

When I paint, draw, or have an idea, I can see it on paper.
My 3rd eye projects a high contrast shadow onto the page.
I can see where my pen needs to go.

KP Problems

Why is the doctor that is most difficult to work with, to be seen by, and to make an appointment with... why is the doctor that is most difficult the doctor that holds all the power? Why is my general practitioner such a pain in my ass? Why is my health care provider incapable of providing for my health!?

All of my holistic health practitioners agree, MDs are the worst!

They string you along, make you call back tomorrow to try again to make an appointment... No thank you ma'am, why don't we settle this right now while I am actually speaking with you NOW!?

Kaiser Permanente has this RIDICULOUS policy where normal appointments are only available one month out, but if you have an urgent problem, you can call in the morning to see if there are any same day or next day appointments available, its like a goddamn lottery! Their system is broken and it is because they don't have enough doctors.

I ask to talk to a supervisor with actual power, and get put on hold for 10 minutes, like are trying to see if I will hang up first? The people on the phones lines know nothing and OMG the actual doctors have no concern for your health. They are so over worked.

Why does no one at the appointment center, have permissions to make the appointment I need? You guys are the appointment center, that is all you do, is make appointments. All I need is an appointment, COME ON! Why does making a doctor appointment make me want to cry? I am a strong resilient woman who has been through much worse.

Maybe the fact that my life depends on this and I have NO control over it.

Rant over.

Copyright Brainblast

There are many dreams to be had, many to be had by one, many to be shared by all. The collective consciousness calls certain ideas to be born, if the idea is wasted at one set of hands, the idea will transfer to another person.

I was given an idea last night. I was in the middle of a mindful body rolling practice, my first time ever rolling, and it was AMAZING yall. So far I have only seen body rolling as physical therapy or pre-work out. But this roller about changed my life. I spent an entire hour on the floor following my body. Like a little floor yoga routine.

Long story short, as I've got to call my doctor right now for unrelated reasons... I had an idea - new family of yoga, accessory based yoga.

• Stretching table, like an entertainment console, where the top rung is Barre height, then there are descending shelves. The table is strong and heavy to you can put your whole body weight on it. The edges are curved to prevent injury. And even though the table is strong and heavy, the finish is soft and smooth. I will coin this accessory the "Stretching Table" (C).
• Having something to put pressure against, something to keep my knee cocked at the extreme angle I wanted, I was able to bring my practice into a deeper place than ever before. In my own home I felt I could loosen up more than in class. But class had the benefits of assists, now the table is my assistant. 
• Room for lawsuits here though, as a result of misuse, will have to work out the terms and conditions section extensively before retail. 
• Tables should be affordably priced, require no install, and be the new holistic health tool for everyone's home gym! (to not look like a Pilates table)
• Round yoga mat, I know these exist, but still are not mainstream, 99.9% of yogis still use rectangular mats. I am talking about home practice still! Maybe one day my style of yoga will be brought to studio work, but for this short plan of action, things are staying "home yoga" "expanded yoga" "solo assisted yoga" ?? Name TBD
• Floor sliders
• Body roller
• Aromatherapy mat cleaner?
• Meditation & Crystals & Chakras component TBD

You heard it here first people!

(C) - Stephanie Renaud

Healing Bath Tea - A Poem

Healing Bath Tea

Allow the sachet to swirl under the fresh running water
Allow the tea to drip down from your crown, over your heart, and into the water, your root
Allow the waters to change from crisp clear to herbal gray
Mix in your sorrows
Mix in your pain
Release it to the water, release it through your root
Allow the water to cleanse you
Feel the warmth surrounding
See the steam rising
Smell the fresh earth bathing
Hear the stillness
Mix in your presence
Mix in your hope
Release it with the steam, release it through your crown
Allow the steam to cleanse you
Swirl it all around
Mix the water and the air and the body and splash, make a splash, loosen up!
Hold the sachet and squeeze it
Let the water drain
See the red tea drip
It drips and disapates
The red tea turns into gray water
Find the metaphor
Hold it close
Allow the water to cool
Stand up and be thankful
Stretch long and tall
Remove the sachet and hang to dry
Wring out the old water
And move forward, cleansed, into life

The 6th Sense - Empath Analysis

The 6th Sense 

Ability to Read People's Energy

• Empath - "a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual."
• Empathy & Empathetic - "the common mental and emotional ability to understand and share the feelings of another."

Highly Sensitive to Energy

• Empaths - What, How, Why

• Being empathetic means that your mind and body are connected and that by nature makes you more sensitive to all energies in general, even electromagnetic energy and sensory information
• When you break down reality, everything is made up of one thing: vibrational energy, high and low frequencies, good and bad vibes
• Feelings inside us do not always originate from us... Ask, "are these feelings mine?"
• Some of our thought, emotions, and feelings are from the people in the same room as us or from  people who are metaphorically closest to us, even if they are physically distant. 

• Personality Characteristics of Empaths

• High social intelligence & good at helping others solve their problems
• Feel overwhelmed in crowded places, despite being an extrovert
• Sensitive to light, sounds, smells, and touches (especially during childhood)
• Tend to have wild mood swings, feeling very high and very low 
• Experience things on a deeper more passionate and personal level than most
• Strong intuition, good at predicting outcomes 
• Seek alone time in order to stabilize, often feel drained after prolonged social time
• Proclivity towards addictions, to help numb the intense feelings
• Ability to interpret Body Language well, have a built in "bullshit detector"
• Instinctively avoid "Energy Vampires" and is an excellent judge of character
• Have sympathy pain and are first responders, always offering a hug or lending an ear
• Receive signs from the universe - symbology, numerology, lucid dreams

• Recommendations for Empaths

• Raise the vibration of your environment, restore positive ions often
• Train your brain with meditation and yoga
• Be mindful and remove yourself from toxic situations
• Save on suffering, realize that sometimes the bad feelings are not your own
• Take responsibility for your gift, evoke positive change in the world, you have the capacity to be one of the world's greatest leaders, healers, and teachers 

References

• https://raiseyourvibrationtoday.com/2015/10/20/are-you-energy-sensitive-signs/
• http://energyfanatics.com/2016/09/22/8-signs-you-are-highly-sensitive-to-energy/