My Mindset Journey
My mindset journey began the summer of my 11th year, when my mother suffered her first psychotic break. I became a caregiver during that summer and continued on as a caregiver for my mom, until her death in 2011.
My mother battled depression and bi-polar symptoms during most of her adult life. She eventually got help for her mental health issues, but then experienced grave health issues, at one point she was hospitalized for 18 consecutive months.
During 2011, I also took care of an aunt who experienced major health issues, I had to obtain a healthcare power of attorney, due to the lack of care from her own family. Eventually I took care of her again in 2015, and with the help of my husband, we assisted with her care while she battled lung cancer from February of 2015, until her death in November of 2015.
In 2015, my dad's health began to decline. He was battling COPD and the beginning of congestive heart failure. After my aunt died at the end of 2015, I began assisting my brother with my dad's care. 2016 was a difficult year. I was working in the financial industry, and the environment was a toxic one. I began to have severe headaches, which I thought were blood pressure related. Eventually, the headaches got so bad, I ended up in the ER and my blood pressure was elevated due to the pain. The ER doctor told me I needed to see a cardio specialist just in case the blood pressure elevation had affected my heart. I began seeing a cardio specialist and found out I did not have heart damage due to the elevated blood pressure, but I was found with a leaking heart valve.
Through the course of 2016 I had been reading and studying personal development. I was absorbing a huge amount of insight and motivation, so much so, I knew that this was leading me in a new direction. I began studying mindset techniques and was AMAZED to know, most of my adult life had been lived using the techniques I was now studying. This was my AHA MOMENT!!!
I researched more and more, and knew I wanted to coach women in using mindset to enhance their lives and "create their world beautiful". After the ER incident, I made the decision to quit the 9-5 and to coach and mentor full time. The timing of this decision enabled me to spend more time with my dad and to help with his care. I am so thankful for my decision, as my dad passed away in December 2016 and I was able to be with him during the last weeks of his life.
My journey was not easy, I worked full time while being a caregiver. It was harder to accomplish some things, due to time constraints. I obtained my college degree when I was 31. I want other women to know that I am aware of how consuming and tiring life's demands can be for all of us.
I am not one to flippantly say "I know what you are going through", as everyone has different experiences, but what I can say is, " I understand stress, at life pulling you in a dozen different directions, of feeling like your life is on hold due to circumstances."
We are all unique, but stress and negative mindset are threaded into all of our lives. I will work with you to "flip the switch" on negative thoughts. We will work together to transform your mindset into one of inspiration and motivation. And when your thoughts are enhanced with each of these, then stress will be easier to manage, BEAUTIFUL!
Let's begin working on your BEAUTIFUL journey of inspiring and motivating mindset and unique success.
Let's create your world beautiful, TODAY!
I am here for you, reach out to lisa@lisamccrawnewell.com
You are BEAUTIFUL! Never forget it!
Lisa M. Newell
My Life Canvas
Certified - Life, Success and Motivation Coach-Completed over 400 hours of study, lectures and fieldwork
Alumni of I Heart Coaching by Emily Williams
Bachelor of Science in Finance - Belhaven University
Published Poet
Membership in NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Health
Lisa is an advocate for Mental Health Awareness and Women's Cardio Health
Lisa Newell’s writing resume includes:
My World Within Words, a collection of poems, published in 2013 by Inner Child Press.
http://www.innerchildpress.com/lisa-d-mccraw.php
Lisa is currently working on her second and third collection of poems: In the Midst of Polar, a collection of poems written about depression and bi-polar disorder, and the effects on families and friends. Emmett Till HIStory UNTIL, a collection of poems written about Emmett Till.
Membership in the Mississippi Poetry Society. As of May 21, 2016, Lisa was appointed as the secretary for the central branch, which includes Hinds County.
Membership in the Mississippi Writer’s Guild
Lisa’s work has appeared in several poetry anthologies and as collaborations with other poets, within their published works.
Lisa participated in the 2012 Poetry Care Bears in Motion Spoken Word event, held in New Orleans, LA. Lisa performed Little Boy Lost and I Am My Brother’s Keeper. The theme of the presentation was the effects of racism in a historical and present day voice.
In 2016, Lisa presented the poem Symphony’s Compassion to world renowned violinist, Stefan Milenkovich. “I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the poem you’ve written inspired by our performance in Mississippi few weeks ago. It is truly gorgeous, inspiring, and it’s a sort of thing that makes me go forward.” Stefan Milenkovich
Lisa’s two tribute poems, If Only You Could Come Back and One Week Gone, written about the artist Prince, were accepted into the Prince Tribute Anthology published by Yellow Chair Review in May 2016.
Lisa’s enjoys writing about Mississippi history, as well as world history and historical figures of our modern times.
Lisa also specializes in writing custom poems for life events: engagements, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, birth announcements and many other special occasions.
To date, Lisa has written over 3,000 poems.
Poetry review: I have read many poets on the internet on a multitude of sites and I have never read better ones. Your work is powerful, unique, extremely well-written, and majestic. I love reading classical poetry, modern day poetry, from the heart poetry~~you belong in all those categories and more. - Susan
Excerpt from the foreword
My World Within Words
I first met Lisa D McCraw Newell through the online poetry community, which, in recent years, has grown into a thriving and multi-cultural universe, powered by social media, mobile applications, and cloud storage. The new culture of sharing and connecting has created a niche for up-and-coming poets who learn with one another and push one another up in their craft, both creative-wise and business-wise, and build a name for themselves, slowly but surely, in the process.
Lisa’s poems have that spark, that heart. She is able to connect to her readers because she writes sincerely—she writes for herself, in her own voice, about people and things that matter to her. And in that sincerity are snapshots of her, her character, her past, her dreams.
I am fortunate enough to witness her evolution as a poet, in selecting more and more complicated and multi-faceted subjects and stories as well as in being more and more daring with her structure and lyricism. You can practically see Lisa’s heart growing braver and more beautiful, by following her work.
And just like a career with a solid foundation, Lisa’s artistry took rime. Along the way, she read the works of her contemporaries, appreciated, shared, commented, and learned from them. (I am proud to say I am one of those contemporaries.) Through this, she helped many poets and allowed herself to be helped as well. Lisa’s opening herself to the “heart-works” of others became a way for the same people to be open to what she has to offer.
In a world that has become quick to criticize and dismiss, where so many upcoming artists are crying for attention using the same tools of technology, I find it refreshing to make more organic connections such as the one I have with Lisa. It is friendship, cemented through the years by our mutual devotion to reading and writing poetry. I genuinely want Lisa to succeed and honestly can’t wait to watch for the next chapters of her heart—and her poetry. That’s why when I heard that she recently got the chance to have her pieces printed in a book, I felt so happy and proud of her. Of all people, she is one of the most deserving to have her artistry available to a larger audience, because her heart is in it. And with an attitude to poetry like hers, the relevance and the mastery of execution of each poem just naturally follow.
Iris Orpi
Poet, Fiction Writer