When it comes to coaching, there are many different kinds.  They include work, life, family, health, and more. IdentifyU is a platform with many of today’s top coaches available for sessions when you need them the most.  To guarantee the company has the top coaches, it maintains a thorough interview process, puts coaches through rigorous interviews, and only hires a small percentage of those that pass.   

Members are matched with coaches based on the company’s user-friendly, proprietary digital assessment.  Coaches and members are matched based on numerous criteria, including everything from goals to values.  Coaching is about changing things in our lives.  It is also about self-care for the mind.  Each person will have different goals for their coaching sessions, whether it be about work, home life, health, stress management, relationships, or something else.

“The core strength of our business is helping our members get the best results possible,” said Parker Terlaak, CEO and Founder, IdentifyU.  “Members are motivated and excited to take on life’s challenges.  Coaches find strength in our matching, connectivity, and scheduling process.  Both sides love our flexibility, as well as their ability to connect consistently with each other on a secure, protective platform,” noted Terlaak.

Coaching and therapy are not the same. Coaches cover all different types of growth-minded areas and can include happiness coaches, relationship coaches, parenting coaches, business coaches, nutrition and health coaches, and more.  Because our needs change over time and at different periods in our lives, IdentifyU has made it easy to shift between coaches as well.

Every medical professional and almost every medical journal has made note of the importance of reducing stress and tension.  During the holiday season, this is even more important.    The coaches on the IdentifyU platform understand this better than most.  The system was not only created for the coaching experience, but also so that members could maximize what they need to get out of the coaching process in the most efficient way possible.

“Everything we built was by the user for the user,” noted Terlaak.  “Everyone who helped design the IdentifyU experience has been a consumer of self-care for the mind services.  We literally designed our experience for ourselves…and for you.  Our sweet spot for members is currently women who, because of their families, or jobs, put themselves last.  In other words, they want to have time for self-care, but don’t know how to make it a priority.”

You can learn more about IdentifyU by visiting www.identifyU.com.   “We’re so confident that you’ll love our platform and our coaches that we’ve made your first visit with a coach absolutely free,” said Terlaak.  “We’ve removed all of the financial risks associated with finding the perfect coach.  This allows you to have an experience where you feel comfortable with the coach you’ve chosen.”

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CBD products come from oils found in the hemp plant.  What most of us don’t realize is that the final products also contain several ingredients we don’t expect to find.  This can include preservatives, additives, other supplements, flavoring, and more.  That’s just what you see when you look at the label.  It’s what you don’t see on the label that matters the most.  

The one standout is that testing is not the same across all brands, strains, or the production of CBD products.  In fact, without proper, unified testing, there is no way to compare products honestly. Did you know that many products deemed to be so healthy have been exposed to toxins long before they reach the bottle you purchase?  That’s a very scary thought.  It means that the product you think is healthy for you may be exactly the opposite.

In a report released this past August, Statistica suggested that “as of 2022, 28 percent of cannabidiol (CBD) brands in the United States did not test their products for pesticide contamination. Only seven percent of brands tested all their products for contamination from pesticides, heavy metals, and microbes.”   Not only are the overwhelming majority of products found in this category inorganic, but they can have the potential to be harmful to your health. In other words, they are doing exactly the opposite of what they are promising.  For those that are labelled organic, in many cases, the hemp plant that the oil originated from may be organic, but the finished product may not be.  With no regulation on this, there is no real way to know what is truly safe and healthy and what is not.

The hemp plant, and the oil used to make CBD that comes from it go through many processes to create the product you see on the shelf or online.  This includes growing, extraction, and production. A product that starts out organic as a plant can become inorganic during any one of these processes.  Companies that add additional additives to their products impact both the safety and efficacy of what was originally a pure hemp oil or CBD oil.  The question then becomes one for the consumer.  Do I purchase a product that is 100% organic but may taste a bit different or do I purchase a product with additives that tastes better but isn’t what I believe I am taking?

Nesas Hemp is a full spectrum CBDa oil that is fully organic from the soil to the bottle.  The company grows their own plants and puts their products through the highest possible testing and even requires significant additional testing as well.  This gives customers the confidence that they are taking a CBDa product that is “beyond organic.” The company doesn’t just grow and manage the plants themselves.  In fact, they also produce the soil their plants grow in as well.  This gives them the assurance that everything they produce is pure and organic. Their soil is also a proprietary organic product. Their harvest is very precise, says their CEO, Inesa Ponomariovaite.  In fact, “everything, at every step, is precise and we are 100% organic every step of the way, from the soil to the bottle” notes Inesa.  

While going this extra mile (or two) may seem like a lot to some, to CEO and Founder Inesa Ponomariovaite it is the least she can do to give back to her plants and her customers.    Both, in her mind, need to live and breathe.  By keeping the plant alive all the time, Inesa can maximize the medicinal value of each plant.

“Because our plants remain alive and intact through our processes, we are the first company to get the Certification of Safety Seal from the FDA registered ACS Laboratories.  Our products are proven to be safe from heavy metals, mercury, pesticides, mold, and many other harmful toxins that most companies don’t worry about,” said Inesa Ponomariovaite, CEO and Founder.

Nesa’s discloses that their products are “beyond organic”.  Not only are they certified organic, with the openly available lab tests to prove it, but they also take their organic mission many steps further. Nesas’ users know that this product makes a significant difference for them.  By going so many steps further, both the company and the product are setting standards for how the entire industry should be run.

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Founded in January of 2022, the company’s goal is to elevate the overall practice of self-care, wellness, and enhance the well-being of humanity by pairing ancient practices of gratitude with art and technology. The Gratitude Wall is the first of its kind installation and the company expects to install others around the globe.

The Street-Art Installation & Wellness Festival was a community-based two-week event that offered art, music, yoga, meditation, sound healing, and more. The Grateful Labs installed Gratitude Wall had thousands of signatures from those that participated in the festival and programming. 

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have suffered from declining mental health while adjusting to new norms for how they live their lives. The pandemic curtailed our social events, and social interactions were cut to almost nothing.   As a result, people all over the world began feeling the mental health impact to being alone for significant periods of time. Friendships changed…divorce rates grew, and it became harder and harder to maintain our positivity.  Throughout the past two and a half years, it has been easy to forget to be grateful for things we have, and the practice of gratitude almost disappeared completely. 

Max Marine, the Co-Founder and CEO of Grateful Labs, understood intrinsically how important the ancient practice of gratitude is, and decided to launch a company to help others get back to a better place.  He created the Gratitude Wall with his team as a first step to bringing back the daily practice of gratitude and to make being thankful cool again. 

According to Proctor Gallager Institute website, Joel Wong and Joshua Brown conducted a study on gratitude back in 2017. They found that “Gratitude disconnects us from toxic, negative emotions and the ruminating that often accompanies them. Writing a letter “shifts our attention” so that our focus is on positive emotions. The positive effects of gratitude writing compound like interest. You might not notice the benefit of a daily or weekly practice, but after several weeks and months, you will. A gratitude practice trains the brain to be more in tune with experiencing gratitude — a positive plus a positive, equal more positives.” 

Ironically, Max Marine may have never seen this study, but he has always understood how important it is to be grateful.  The Gratitude Wall’s main character is the Grateful Giraffe, due to its ancient symbolism of spirituality, positivity, and more. Since the festival ended, Marine and his team have turned their first Gratitude Wall into NFT which will launch this June 21^st on World Giraffe Day.  Those that participate will also be part of the company’s Virtual House of Gratitude. 

For more information on Grateful Labs or their Grateful Giraffe NFT, please visit https://www.gratefulgiraffes.com/ or on Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/gratefulgiraffes/.

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