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Your Brain Is A Muscle Too

  • Jan 18, 2023
  • 3 min read

Written by: Maxine K. Brown, Executive Contributor

Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.

It’s the beginning of the year, and who has joined the gym to get back in shape for the year ahead? You want to ensure that your body works to its best possible ability. You feel better when your muscles are working correctly, and you feel invigorated and able to tackle whatever happens going forward.

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Then why don't you use a coach for your mind? Because at the end of the day, your brain is a muscle too. You don't think twice about going to the gym and asking a coach to give you support; they tell you how to use the machines that will benefit you and make a difference in how your body feels. They will provide exercises to ensure your muscles are working correctly within your body.


That muscle in your head, which is your brain, which encases your mind needs support too. So, the ideal person for you to find is a life coach. These people will support you in finding the best way to enhance your life and see the future more clearly. The majority of the time, it's YOU who will find the solution. The coach will support you while you chat about what concerns you. They will empathise and listen to you but will not give you the answers you want, which is what friends and family tend to do. But the right coach will keep asking you sometimes tough questions until you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and feel more settled about your life and how you will tackle things in the future. Now and again, we all get a blockage or a life challenge that we need support with. You should never feel that it is weak or wrong to ask for support, as REMEMBER YOU ASK FOR SUPPORT FROM THE COACH AT THE GYM. Doesn't this NOW all make sense?


One of the essential things to do, though, as you would at the gym, is to have a taster session. You want to ensure that you have chemistry with the life coach and feel comfortable chatting with them. If this doesn’t happen, you will most likely not get the results you need.

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Maxine K. Brown, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine

Maxine has for many years been completing different coaching and counselling courses to enable her to help people that are going through challenging times. She specialises in grief and bereavement support. She started MKB Life Coach to give affordable support to others.


She has personally been through loss, a marriage breakup, and complicated times throughout her life, so she can relate to you even though no person’s situation is the same.


She aims to assist people in enabling them to continue with their lives and feel happy and content when they have struggled through life-changing periods of their lives.


Her values are to be supportive, empathetic, and affordable always, and she wants everyone to feel safe when they are either in a one to one or group session with her.


Recently she has published a self-help book, “31 Days Life Changing Journal”, which is aimed at helping people change their mindset and start to become positive after going through a traumatic time.


Maxine believes it is essential that you feel at ease with her when you are working together, so with this in mind, she offers everyone a free hour meeting.

 
 

This article is published in collaboration with Brainz Magazine’s network of global experts, carefully selected to share real, valuable insights.

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