Conversations with the Inspiring Rashell Jarvis

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rashell Jarvis.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Rashell. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I am an AZ native born and raised. Throughout my youth, since I was about two years old, I have been performing. My mother came from a performing background and started a non-profit group that has performed throughout the valley. The group specializes in Transpersonal psychology with the foundation of Native American methodologies to help people find their way back to self-love.

As a youth, I didn’t understand the profound effect the art’s had on these individuals we were serving through this alternative form of psychology. I fell in love with dance and the performing arts. In my teenage years, I drifted off the path of self-love dealing with my own struggles and became pregnant at 17 years old. My direction in life took a huge 180 turn. I now had another person to think of to support and I needed to put my dreams on hold to embrace the life of motherhood. Thankfully, I had an amazing support system at home and my faith that pulled me through. My son was my light back to love. Love for me, him and my life.

Being a single mom wasn’t easy but I had a new motivation that I just loved and adored my son Antonio. I graduated high school early and started college. In college, I started to realize how much I loved to write, so I wrote in many many journals throughout the years. It was a form of therapy for me and something I looked forward to every day. The next ten plus years, I worked in finance/sales but was never excited to go into work. I was thankful I had a job but felt I wanted to contribute more and to feel fulfilled within my career. During these years, a few important experiences happened such as four more beautiful kids, a second marriage finding my life long partner Daniel and recuperating from a stroke where I had to relearn how to speak.

Experiences that brought me down very low and also brought me to the very highs. I felt the need to share my story to help others who have had experiences of trials, loss or debilitating sicknesses. I truly wanted to hold people’s hand bring them in, love them and tell them it will all be ok. It won’t be easy but I promise there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Currently, I share my experiences so hopefully, they won’t make as many mistakes as I did haha, plus this desire I know came from not just me but a divine desire to serve. I found thankfulness for my trials because I can now use the knowledge to help others.

R&D Insights is a blanket name for two businesses. A consulting group with 25 years of credentials serving corporate America and youth groups. Two of my passions the youth in this world and changing the paradigm of professional training to focus on the person who is the employee. In a professional arena, we help CEO’s manage employee wellness by teaching Native based four directions emotional, spiritual, mental and physical. The myth that employees can leave their personal life at the door of their job is not realistic. Teaching them how to raise awareness to “self-care” will create an environment where employees will thrive and also affect the bottom line of the CEO. The return on investing in your employee’s as people first equals higher levels of success for the business. Second, the youth are our future. They are struggling with depression, addiction, anxiety, suicide. With technology taking over they are losing experiences with a direct connection with others. Connecting to themselves at a higher level of integrity and standards of self-love and care. Helping them to find relief and connection through transpersonal psychology and strategies to embrace and reconnect with their worth and love for themselves again.

I feel alive because my personality feels inline with my calling and I feel reassured by the peace I have within. There were no failures in my life just experiences that redirect my path. I am very blessed to have a career that involves my passion and the parents I have that helped me realize what the call was. I would like to share the first poem I wrote in English 101 in college that began my journey back to the arts and my calling.

“I was seeing the ‘unknown’ in my life and realized that I had given unkind or toxic people a space in my brain and I needed the fresh air to clear my mind. It was while I was planting some flowers and touching the Earth, that I began to feel the intense freedom of letting go. I was so tired of passing by life and I just wanted my heart to open. I knew I had walked with my fears and pain, but I wanted to end exclusion. The surprise came when I realized that even if people had step over, upon, and away from me, I must NOT do that to myself. It was as if those Flowers were talking to me! I closed my eyes, and I could see myself blowing out from my breath these beautiful notes that turned into flower petals, and the aroma was so enticing. Was this inside me? I loved the sweetness I could feel. My mind shifted at that moment. I trusted those Flowers. My approach to my life changed. I absorbed the Flowers into my heart and enrichened my own soul with intentional love. Just as I was taking care of the Flowers, I knew I had to take care of me too. I awoke to a desire to live inside my purpose and to guide myself, with the Creator’s hope upon my paths. I opened my arms into the Sky and realized I had neglected to ‘hug me’. Yes, I had neglected my own self with fears that what others thought was true. Lies! They were lies. I was always someone. I was always somebody is how I got started. I intentionally gave myself hugs and permission to live inside the beauty of my own soul and with my purposes, whatever God would grant to me. No one needed to see me, but I needed to see me. I no longer had to wait for a hug. I was there for me. I was this Flower and I was smelling like hope.”

It would be great to hear about any apps, books, podcasts or other resources that you’ve used and would recommend to others.
Yes!!!!
Brene Brown all her books please go read them. My favorite is “Daring to Lead” & ” Rising Strong”
Karol K. Truman ” Feelings Buried Alive Never Die…”
Eckhart Tolle” A New Earth Awakening to your life’s purpose”
Rachel Hollis podcast “Rise”
Super soul podcast
Freakonomics podcast
Headspace app for meditation
Elevate app game

 

Contact Info:

• Website: https://rashelljarvis.wixsite.com/website
• Phone: 480.246.2722
• Email: rashelljarvis@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shellswindow_pane/

Image Credit:
Mateo S. Perez

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