Meet Marie Zulmie Lorminey

We recently connected with Marie Zulmie Lorminey and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Marie Zulmie, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
The resilience that resides within me comes from two main sources. My culture is the primary source of my resilience. I am Haitian. I was raised by Haitian immigrant parents. My mother taught her six children the resilient history and character of Haitian people. My mother always reminded us that we have the blood of revolutionaries in our blood so we can conquer anything. That reminder always gave me an internal power source to draw from whenever the thought or feeling of doubt settled in.

My secondary source for my resilience comes from my life experiences. Surviving life changing situations, circumstances, heart breaks, and pain. Once you have made it through one difficult situation your resilience grows and empowers you to go through other life changing situations, circumstances, heart breaks, and pain.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
Divorce is a word that conjures up all types of negative feelings. Unless, you go through one, you’ll never understand that it is the greatest comeback. Initially, when facing or going through a divorces you’ll think that world is over however, it is the just world you know for so long is over. The life you had to sacrifice and die to your dreams in order for it to work. Once you deal with the sadness of a divorce, you can create a new life, which lead me to where I am now.

I sat back and realized there were many dreams that were deferred while being married. I was living a mediocre life in which I was not creating or doing Art. I reconnected with my Poetry and it was the medicine I needed to heal my heart and soul. I knew if my Poetry healed me it could be a source of healing and guidance for other going through what I went through. My Poetry continues to heal, help, and guide me on my journey of Self-Love.

I wrote “Rotten Soup,” my book of Poetry to help others on their journey of healing and Self-love. Many of the readers stated “Rotten Soup” is a book full of healing. Readers have reached out to me telling me how specific poems spoke to their experience. I am glad that my Poetry is in the world helping people heal and learn to love themselves.

“Rotten Soup” has opened the door for me to facilitate workshops, speaking engagements, and small group coaching. I am able to lead and guide others even if they do not possess a copy of “Rotten Soup.”

I am currently working on a workbook to go with “Rotten Soup” to help those that need a guide to start the Self-Love journey. I am excited about the workbook. I have a small group of women going through a section of the workbook and giving me real time feedback. The small group provides me with feedback that I can use to tweak the book to meet a variety of readers. I am excited to see the many doors the workbook will open for me.

I am also in a Coaching Cohort to get certified as a “Lfie Coach” for lack of term that all can understand. I truly desire to see people healed and loving themselves. In addition to all doors my Poetry has opened I look forward to Coaching individuals to the Greatness.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Three qualities, skills, or area of knowledge that were most impactful on my journey was reflection, discipline, and community. Before the Poetry I always wrote. I journaled. I have a journal for every area of my life from fitness to finance. Journaling and Poetry are forms of Reflective therapy. Writing in my journals allows me to reflect on my thoughts and actions and find my pattern or system of doing things.

Practicing discipline was also impactful. I developed the discipline of working out. I wake up 5am to complete a 30min workout before going to work. It was not easy for consistency leads to discipline. It took several months vacillating between consistency and inconsistency to reached the discipline practice of getting up and working out before going to work. Now that the discipline of working out is a routine I can reflect on that discipline and apply it to other areas of my life that require discipline.

Lastly, community was impactful on my journey. My sister and her husband allowed me to move in their home to have a roof over my head, a space to heal, and a place to call home. I learned a lot from them. My brother-in-law sat down and helped me develop a budget, financial goals, and working on my credit. I made friends in the area that became part of my community. These friends pour into me and show up when I need them whether I state it or not.

I would encourage anyone going through a major life shift to use reflection, discipline, and find their community. Start journaling. If you’re not sure where to start, start with writing a gratitude list of five things you are grateful for everyday. Get disciplined in an area of your life. For me it was working out, for you it may be fixing your bed in the morning. Whatever your area or thing is that you want to be disciplined in start. It not going to be easy but stick with it until it because part of your everyday routine. Find and connect with your community. Take inventory of who is around your? Who pours into you? Who shows up for you? Who is there without you asking and who shows up when you do ask? Once you noticed who those individuals are be intentional with staying connected to them. The prosperity of your journey depends on you. You determine your progress. I hope what I shared helps someone.

How would you describe your ideal client?
My ideal client varies. Working with young scholars on their life journey would be one ideal client. The workshops that I have done has been with High Schoolers. The workshop provided with the skill of using Reflective therapy, journaling, writing Poetry, Songs, or Rap. Women 25 and up that are motivated to change their life are my ideal clients. I have mentored and coached ladies in this age range through their journey. My small groups have been a resources and help to that particular ideal client. The main characteristic of someone being an ideal client for me are the individual on their journey of healing and self-love. Those individual that have going through a major life change and shift yet are motivated and optimistic about their future and what is next.

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