FAQs

Aka Amelie FAQs

Why do I have a Scope and social media accounts?
I want to share my experience with others because maybe I can help.
I want to change the way we connect as human beings.
I want to connect with other like-minded people looking to have a positive impact in the world.
You can find me on my blog, Periscope, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Soundcloud, and Snapchat.

How did I learn how to meditate?
Tergar
http://tergar.org/
www.soundcloud.com/tergar
www.youtube.com/user/MingyurRinpoche

and there are some apps
Insight Timer
ZenFriend

Brain Health:
Dr Daniel Amen
www.brainmdhealth.com/books-and-media
http://www.amenclinics.com/
Podcast: Brain Warrior’s Way

 Food: organic and non-gmo as much as you can, especially anything with corn or soybeans or anything fed corn or soybeans.
Vitamins: check your levels, especially vitamin d.
Supplements: if your levels are low, look in to high quality organic and non-gmo products
My experience has shown me how critical this is, but it took me over 2 years to improve and stabilize.

Daily Journal:
I developed my own journal prompt.  It is based on Chakras based on my interpretation. I write in these colors.
7 Crown:  Prayers
6 Third Eye: Somethin I Learned
5 Throat: Laughter and Using your Voice in a positive way
4 Heart: Gratitudes and Joy (happens without your direct action)
3 Solar Plexus: Accomplishment
2 Sacral: Exercise, Movement, Good Food
1 Root: Daily Intention

Gremlin: I write my worries, fears, heavy feelings in his tummy.  I draw him in brown and highlight in light green
HOPE: I talk to myself as if I were talking to a friend to try to help myself see it in a more positive way, or options to address my Gremlin.  I write this in pink and highlight with yellow.  I mimic a sun and rays.

Daily monitoring:
Sleep: time/hours I slept.  I have a long history of poor sleep patterns.
Weight: taken first thing in the morning.  I have an ideal weight so I want to monitor where I am.
Mood: “+”/ “-“ (positive or negative)
Energy: “L”, “M”, “H” (Low, Medium, or High).  I want to be Medium.  Low means I’m not feeling healthy.  High means I’m outta wack.
Brain: “C”, “F” (Clear or Foggy).

Dream Journal
Whenever I have a dream that haunts me in the morning or throughout the day, I record it in a dream journal that is actually an art journal.  Crisp, heavy blank white pages.  I use colored pencils, sharpies, crayola markers.  Sometimes I draw, sometimes I write the details out, sometimes both.

Why?  Something in my brain happens during this process.  I usually have a new understanding of the dream in connection with my life.  I really enjoy the process.

Crystal Card Journal
Every once in a while, I pull cards from the Crystal Ally Cards.  I record my layout and experience in a lined paper journal.  It is my effort to slowly study crystals.  I have found that after I have recorded the details of the layout and what each card that I typically have a visual representation of what I’ve learned.  So, then I draw that out as well.  Please note, I’m NOT an “artist” but the PROCESS of learning slowly, recording the information in my way, and then drawing it out has become very powerful for my brain and how I process new everyday, normal experiences.  It deepens the learning and helps rewire my brain to react more positively and not go down the fear-doom rabbit hole.


Who motivates me when I’m in the dumps or outta wack?
Facebook:
Gary Vee

A wide variety of motivational speakers from CD’s:
Paule Scheele: Happy for No Reason, Abundant Money Mindset Paraliminal, Anxiety-Free Paraliminal, Automatic Pilot, Belief, Break the Habit, Creating Sparks, Deep Relaxation, Get Around To It, Intuition Amplifier Paraliminal
Dr. Joe Vitale: The Abundance Paradigm, Ultimate Law of Attraction
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Hardwiring Happiness

Insight Timer:
John Siddique recording of “She Let Go”

Podcasts:
Brendon Burchard: The Charged Life
Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen: Brain Warrior’s Way

Things I’m curious about but am still learning about:
EFT
Epi-Genetics

Books or Short Stories that I’ve read over the years and that have either remained on my bookshelf or in my mind:
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
A Magnificent Mind at Any Age by Dr. Daniel Amen
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and Peter Coyote
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Little Book on Meaning by Laura Berman Fortgang
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be by Lama Surya Das
Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love to Read by Bernice E. Cullinan
Magic Trees of the Mind by Janet Jopson and Marian Diamond
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW
Crystal Ally Cards by Naisha Ahsian

Your Daily Rock by Patti Digh
A Year without Fear by Tama Kieves

Grayson by Lynne Cox
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynn Cox
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Black Boy by Richard Right
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
L’enfant du Sable by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Le petit Nicola by Sempé-Goscinny
Les lettres chinoises by Ying Chen
Le scaphandre et the papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby

A History of Ecomonic Theory and Method by Robert Ekelund, Jr. and Robert F. Hébert
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Go -Giver by Bob Burg
Go for No by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Winning the Toughest Customer by Delia Passi
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

Current Reading:
365 Tao by Deng Ming-Dao (daily meditiation)
Altruism by Matthieu Ricard
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
The I Ching or Book of Changes translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes


Vision of My Life
Each year I complete the same exercise to check in with my life, choose my priorities, point myself in a direction, and filter out noise.  Here are the elements:
Who am I? Who do I want to be?
What are the most important (6 is the max) areas of my life, what things to I want to achieve or experience, what are some smaller steps I need to take to make these things come true?
What helps me, what makes it harder?
What are my core values?
1 or 2 personal and professional goals.
And I have an on-going bucket list that I peck away at.


What languages do you speak?
I grew up with English.
I have a BA in French, and am fluent and literate, with a near-native accent.
I have studied first year Latin and Italian, therefore have some comprehension of Spanish, Romanian and Portuguese.
I have lived in the Caribbean and have exposure to French Créole.
I have had exposure to German and Swiss German.
I studied Mandarin Chinese with a private tutor for a short time.
I can recognize some written languages but do not undertsand: Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, and Russian.


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