Neff Inspiration

408 Brittany Cano: How To Use Radical Self Compassion and Mindfulness on Your Healing Journey

At a very young age, having lost her father tragically and having experienced the immense struggles of her mentally ill mother, Brittany grew up with unhealthy coping mechanisms. This environment taught her so much about resiliency & the power of wellbeing practices. Her mission to promote health and well-being runs very deep.
Brittany Cano is a passionate advocate for holistic health and wellness. She is renowned for her diverse expertise, including 15+ years as a critical care nurse and her dedication to empowering others to connect with their self-agency to lead healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Brittany has become a sought-after public speaker, personal trainer, holistic health coach, mindfulness and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner, Reiki healer, and yin yoga instructor. Her medical knowledge allows her to bridge the gap between conventional medicine and holistic wellness, offering a well-rounded perspective on health and healing.

3 Top Tips 
1. the power of following the breadcrumbs, trusting the process, and owning your story
2. How mindfulness and radical self-compassion create a healing environment
3. The importance of creating one's own inner safety through nervous system regulation

Social Media
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 https://www.facebook.com/briteni.shaw/
 https://www.instagram.com/holistic_nurse_coaches/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-cano-bsn-rn-3410b8119/
https://www.youtube.com/@HolisticNurseCoaches/videos
https://speakerhub.com/speaker/brittany-cano-bsn-rn?b=s

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407 Dana S Diaz: How To Heal and Love After Narcisstic Abuse

Dana S Diaz studied journalism and psychology at DePaul University. While there’s no better teacher than life experience and Dana has had life-long experiences with narcissistic abuse, her education did give her the ability to accurately verbalize and express how narcissistic abuse creates confusion and conflict within victims.
Today, Dana is a proud voice for fellow victims who are unable, afraid, or ashamed to share their experiences. She strives to create awareness and understanding to ensure victims are given the support they need to first understand their situation and then begin the healing process. Her first book, chronicling her own abusive marriage that lasted nearly three decades, started as a journal that she hid under the couch cushion in the basement.

3 Top Tips 
-It's possible to heal from abuse and trauma.
-What the healing process looks like.
-It's possible to love again after abuse and trauma.

Social Media

danasdiaz.com
FACEBOOK: @DanaSDiazAuthor
INSTAGRAM: @danas.diaz

406 Mukesh Kapila: How One Man Became The Whistleblower For The First Genocide of the 21st Century

Dr Kapila has extensive experience in global and public health,  international development, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security issues, human rights, diplomacy, and social entrepreneurship, with substantive leadership roles in government, United Nations system and multilateral agencies, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society, and academia.
His work has taken him to some 120 countries in all continents. Originally schooled in India and England, Dr Kapila graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received postgraduate qualifications in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  
Since 2012, Dr Kapila has been the Professor (now Emeritus) of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK, where he also founded and chaired the Manchester Global Foundation.  Since 2020, he is also Senior Adviser to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean, the principal forum for 29 national parliaments of the Euro-Mediterranean region, deliberating on the creation of the best political, social, economic and cultural environment for fellow citizens of member states. He also serves as an adviser on several international bodies, including on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance for the World Health Organization.
After an initial clinical career (1980-1984) in hospitals and general practice in Cambridge,  and then in public health (1984-1990), including initiating and leading the first National UK HIV/AIDS Programme, Dr Kapila joined what is now called the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 1990 where he oversaw British aid health programmes in Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by a spell based in Central and Southern Africa.  
Dr Kapila was seconded by the UK Government to the United Nations in 2002-03, initially as Special Adviser to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and then to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.  He then became the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sudan (2003-04), leading what was, at the time, the UN’s biggest operation in the world. In 2004, he arrived at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva as Director of Emergency Response, handling major operations such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
 
In 2006, he joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,  the world’s largest humanitarian and development network serving in different roles such as Special Representative of the Secretary General, Director of Policy and Planning, and finally as Undersecretary General where he oversaw several transformations and strategic interventions to scale-up programming.
 
Dr Kapila has also served in many policy advisory roles, conducted strategic reviews and formulated new programmes with several other international agencies such as the World Bank, UNAIDS, International Labour Organization, UN OCHA and ISDR, as well as served on the Boards of the UN Institute for Training and Research, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and the International Peace Academy. He was an early member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination System. 
 
He returned to the United Nations in 2015-2016 to serve as Special Adviser for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, and then in 2018-2019 to found and direct the innovative Defeat-NCD Partnership at the UN.  
 
Additionally, he has been active in several civil society groups including chairing the Council of Minority Rights Group International, and chairing the Board of Nonviolent Peaceforce that was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. He has initiated new initiatives on sexual and gender based violence and, as Special Representative of the Aegis Trust,  on the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.  These came out of his personal experiences in witnessing, at first hand, the genocidal atrocities in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur.
Dr Kapila has been a public motivational  and keynote speaker at numerous events including at TedX, and delivered in Nairobi in 2013, the memorial lecture in honour of Nobel Prize winning environmental activist Wangari Maathai. 
He has written extensively and served on editorial boards of several publications such as Global Governance and the International Journal of Humanitarian Studies. His memoir “Against a Tide of Evil” was nominated for the 2013 Best Non-Fiction Book award by the Crime Writers Association. His latest book (2019) is entitled “No Stranger to Kindness”.  Some of his other writings can be accessed on his website.
 
www.mukeshkapila.org
Twitter @mukeshkapila

405 Leslie Peters: How To Turn Trauma Into Unconditional Love & Acceptance for Others And Yourself

In Leslie's words: 
Like you, perhaps, my story is my Gift. The abuse & neglect I experienced throughout childhood left me feeling so disconnected that, at the age of 16, I went into the world seeking connection & acceptance.

This led to a lifelong practice of giving others what I needed when I was 16 - to be seen, heard, and accepted for who I was. 

For years now, I have had difficulty labelling what I do, resulting in others making transformational changes after having a deep conversation with me. The reason I couldn't label what I "do" is because the value I offer others is in "being", not doing". 

Why this is so life-changing is twofold. The first is that Listening is a lost art in our society. The second reason is the "Illusion of the Armor" we wear. When someone like myself is vulnerable to being seen, it gives unwritten permission to others to be unapologetically seen. Many are seeing their authentic selves for the first time. This new and brighter view of themselves changes their view of others and the world. They now see possibility and choice where they previously saw hopelessness. 

This isn't simply teaching people a skillset. The reason is the skillset has a prerequisite that the teacher of the skill MUST be able to remove the armour. My curriculum, the S.E.L.F.- Literacy Project, will transform systems and families because it teaches leaders, those who serve and those who are served the same information together. 

Together, WE learn to feel safe with ourselves so we can gift others with the same. 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/revlesliepetersrntheheartnurturer/

 

 

404 Amanda Cassar: Tackling Financial Abuse and Scams & How To Become Financially Literate

Amanda Cassar is a financial adviser based on Australia's Gold Coast.  She holds a Master of Financial Planning, with specialist accreditations in Aged Care advice and Self Managed Superannuation Funds (retirement/pension savings.)  
She has a special interest in financial abuse and is the course writer of the Financial Abuse Specialist accreditation, globally distributed by Standards International UK.
Amanda is part of a family business with her 2 adult children employed in the business.
She is currently building her 4th home and loves resting up in her hinterland hideaway with the chickens, koalas and kangaroos.

Amanda is experienced with all things financial including budgeting, building wealth for retirement, insurance protection strategies and financial abuse.
She can speak about family business, ethical investing, women and money, including philanthropy in our lives and portfolios and holds a Master of Financial Planning.
She has a keen interest in Leadership and has invested in 3 trips with The Hunger Project to Uganda, Malawi and India to see their Vision, Commitment and Action in progress.
Amanda is an author, podcast host, qualified financial adviser and global traveler.  
Amanda has trekked the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda to see the endangered silverback mountain gorillas, dived from Lake Malawi to Fiji and spent time with female leaders in the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India.
She has a passion for raising awareness of Financial Abuse and wants to shine a light on the subject, helping advisers become more savvy in recognizing the signs, and moving clients from victims to survivors.
Amanda is also a speaker, having presented on stage from Sydney Australia, to Orlando, Florida in her travels.

3 Top Tips 
Identifying the red flags of financial abuse
Understanding those who may suffer from abuse
How we can help those going through abuse

Social media 
Insta and Twitter @financechicks
http://www.amandacassar.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandacassar/

10in10 Clint Callahan: How To Improve Your Life In 15 Minutes A Day

Clint Callahan is a seasoned social worker and therapist. In their 23-year career, they have effectively aided thousands of professionals in enhancing their lives and relationships. They have observed the profound positive changes in their personal life and the lives of their clients by utilizing the Small Changes, Big Impact: 1% Per Day Transformational System. It's about teaching people practical psychological tools to beat stress and burnout in just 15 minutes a day.

Clint's professional background is diversified and robust. It spans business management, program design, team collaboration, along with crisis and case management. They have worked with diverse populations and have tackled a broad spectrum of issues, such as men's issues, complications related to active/retired military personnel, trauma, HIV/AIDS, relationship problems, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse. Their wealth of experience makes them an expert in addressing these various issues.

10in10
1. Burnout is a systemic collapse that extends its tendrils into all facets of your life
2. Identify the areas of your life where you feel the strain of burnout
3. Small steps will lead to substantial improvements
4. Begin to cultivate a proactive mindset.
5. Isolation is one of the burnouts most insidious manifestations.
6. Commit to do at least one act of self-care every day
7. integrate many breaks into your daily routine
8. Aiming for just 1% approve improvement in any aspect of your life.
9. Consider the power of just 15 minutes a day dedicated to improving yourself. That's just 1%.
10. A continuous record of your journey serves as the concrete evidence that you need by taking photographs, doing journal entries or doing blog posts.
11. When setbacks occur and they will occur, this is when you engage in self-compassion and dialog

Social media 
https://www.smallchangesbigimpact.net/info
https://www.facebook.com/smallchangesbigimpact.4u
https://www.instagram.com/smallchangesbigimpact.4u
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clint-callahan-scbi/

403 Lisa Jara, Menstrual Health Specialist - Embrace Cyclical Living To Live Life To The Fullest

Lisa Jara is a Menstrual Health Agent (of Change), a Womb Whisperer and Soul Midwife, helping women and menstruating folks to holistically address the deeper causes of menstrual health challenges like PMS/PMDD, painful periods, endometriosis, PCOS or perimenopausal challenges, so they no longer dread "that time of the month", but have a happy, healthy period, navigating challenging life transitions with unshakable trust in themselves and their body. She leads a Quiet, yet powerful Revolution for sacred rebels who are ready to radically trust and follow their own body's wisdom, releasing trauma and internalised shame, and eroding patriarchy from the inside out.

In her own words:
I’m Lisa from Germany and my pronouns are she/her. As a person I’m both a straight-forward, energetic powerhouse as much as a sensitive soul who enjoys holding space for people. Yet, I’ve also been conditioned, as a lot of people have, that the expert on me lies somewhere outside, that my perception of the world or situations is wrong and that I have to go looking for validation, approval and happiness “out there”, from someone else. Afraid to do anything wrong, I took on rule after rule, becoming more and more rigid, to the point where my life seemed like an endless chain of tasks, bleak and meaningless. A fight I had to struggle through day after day. Until I decided to get help, started my healing journey and got back in touch with my emotions, which I had suppressed for so many years. After this mental health crisis, I decided I didn’t want any other woman to feel that powerless and empty ever again and dedicated my life to guiding women back home to themselves, body, heart, mind and soul.

Website: https://lisa-jara.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/_lisajara

FB: https://www.facebook.com/its.lisa.jara

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-jara

YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3IUe0ROGTtuw8r3Pmwz9Q

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/womb-whispers/id1650282292

 

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402 Greg Elliott: Understand Heart Rate Variability & Create a Bulletproof Nervous System

Greg is Osteopathic Practitioner, kinesiologist and exercise physiologist who has worked with various hospitals, universities, clinics, fitness facilities and sports teams in Canada and the US. Greg is passionate about teaching and learning about the latest improvements in the field of exercise science, rehabilitation, healthspan and longevity. Greg continuously works with individuals at all physical levels, from people suffering from various chronic conditions and illnesses, to the highest level athletes, including teams in the NHL, NFL and CFL. He also co-founded HealthQb, a health-tech platform that leverages data from smartwatches and wearables to help determine their specific health focus area’s they need to address to improve health and manage stress

3 Top Tips 
- What information can be taken from wearables/smartwtaches to montior stress
- How to look at changing health behaviors to better manage stress
- Practical application of stress management tools

Social Media
gregelliott.ca
yourhealthqb.com
https://www.instagram.com/gregrelliott/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregrelliott/

401 Jay Staples : Addiction & Recovery - Change Your Thoughts & Change happens

Jay Staples is the Owner & CEO of Sober Caddy Creative Agency. He’s a self-proclaimed “Recovered and Creative”, Jay is a passionate Mental Health Advocate, Creative Director, and sought out Presenter. Jay has experience working in both the Advertising and Mental Health/Substance Abuse industries and has carved out a niche wherever he has gone utilizing creativity. What makes Jay unique is that he openly shares his story of addiction and recovery with anyone who will listen. He believes that by being transparent and open about his struggles, it helps to break down the barriers that often prevent people from seeking help. Yet it is through these struggles that Jay came to realize just how powerful creativity can be. Jay has spearheaded campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, as well as, worked individually with athletes, executives, and individuals to become a “better you”.

3 Top Tips 
Connect with yourself & thoughts to improve authenticity.
Stop playing characters, authentic change is paramount to a better life.
How choosing attachments seems like authenticity, but isn’t

Social Media 
https://www.facebook.com/jay.staples.71?mibextid=2JQ9oc
https://instagram.com/asobercaddy?igshid=MzMyNGUyNmU2YQ==

411 Mukesh Kapila: Is There Still Hope? Israel, Hamas, Asymmetric Warfare & The Geneva Convention

Today I have got the honor of talking to Dr. Mukesh Kapila about the Israel-Hamas war and the wider situation within the Middle East. 
Dr Kapila has extensive experience in global and public health,  international development, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security issues, human rights, diplomacy, and social entrepreneurship, with substantive leadership roles in government, United Nations system and multilateral agencies, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society, and academia.
His work has taken him to some 120 countries in all continents. Originally schooled in India and England, Dr Kapila graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received postgraduate qualifications  in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  
Since 2012, Dr Kapila has been the Professor (now Emeritus) of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK where he also founded and chaired the Manchester Global Foundation.  Since 2020, he is also Senior Adviser to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean, the principal forum for 29 national parliaments of the Euro-Mediterranean region deliberating on the creation of the best political, social, economic and cultural environment for fellow citizens of member states. He also serves as adviser on several international bodies including on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance for the World Health Organization.
After an initial clinical career (1980-1984) in hospitals and general practice in Cambridge,  and then in public health (1984-1990) including initiating and leading the first National UK HIV/AIDS Programme, Dr Kapila joined what is now called the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 1990 where he oversaw British aid health programmes in Asia and Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, followed by a spell based in Central and Southern Africa.  
Dr Kapila was seconded by the UK Government to the United Nations in 2002-03 initially as Special Adviser to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General in Afghanistan and then to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.  He then became the United Nations’ Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sudan (2003-04) leading what was at the time, the UN’s biggest operation in the world.  in 2004, he arrived at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva as Director for Emergency Response handling major operations such as for the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
 
In 2006, he joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,  the world’s largest humanitarian and development network serving in different roles such as Special Representative of the Secretary General, Director of Policy and Planning, and finally as Undersecretary General where he oversaw several transformations and strategic interventions to scale-up programming.
 
Dr Kapila has also served in many policy advisory roles, conducted strategic reviews and formulated new programmes with several other international agencies such as the World Bank, UNAIDS, International Labour Organization, UN OCHA and ISDR, as well as served on the Boards of the UN Institute for Training and Research, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and  the International Peace Academy. He was an early member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination System. 
 
He returned to the United Nations in 2015-2016 to serve as Special Adviser for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, and then in 2018-2019 to found and direct the innovative Defeat-NCD Partnership at the UN.  
 
Additionally, he has been active in several civil society groups including chairing the Council of Minority Rights Group International, and chairing the Board of Nonviolent Peaceforce that was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. He has initiated new initiatives on sexual and gender based violence and, as Special Representative of the Aegis Trust,  on the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.  These came out of his personal experiences in witnessing, at first hand, the genocidal atrocities in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur.
Dr Kapila has been a public motivational  and keynote speaker at numerous events including at TedX, and delivered in Nairobi in 2013, the memorial lecture in honour of Nobel Prize winning environmental activist Wangari Maathai. 
He has written extensively and served on editorial boards of several publications such as Global Governance and the International Journal of Humanitarian Studies. His memoir “Against a Tide of Evil” was nominated for the 2013 Best Non-Fiction Book award by the Crime Writers Association. His latest book (2019) is entitled “No Stranger to Kindness”.  Some of his other writings can be accessed on his website.
 
www.mukeshkapila.org
Twitter @mukeshkapila