Julie's Book Review: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

When we let go of our shame and are able to be real and vulnerable, magic transformations occur within us. Read More

Help Your Brain Bloom!

Springtime is the perfect time to spring clean your brain and fertilize it with seeds of positivity! Read More

Julie's Winter Survival Tips for Happy Brains and Bodies

It's that time of year when we need to remind our brains and bodies that winter can be a good thing! Read More

Watch Your Brain's Mouth!

Our inner negative talk can go from being blunt to downright mean. Our inner dialogue can affect us pretty drastically in negative ways if we let our thoughts go unchecked or if we have developed a habit of allowing and fostering negative dialogue with ourselves. Most of us are way more hard and negative on ourselves than we would ever consider being with those around us. Improving this aspect of our lives can pay off in dividends! Read More

Tips for People Pleasers

Do you find yourself giving way more of your time, energy, and resources to people than they give back in return? You are not alone! Many of the people I work with have tendencies to be people pleasers. They often have adopted people pleasing tendencies to make themselves feel more secure or worthy with those around them.  Read More

Why We Dissociate & What To Do About It

Unwinding trauma can be uncomfortable, but much like healing a physical wound, the discomfort can lead to healing and restoration. Have you found that you are dissociating in certain moments or situations? Read More

Journaling & Your Mental Health

Journaling can help you to release tension, stress, anxiety, anger, and to feel more settled. The side benefit is that the more settled you are the better your physical health will be as well. When we do not process emotions or past events the emotions from those events can get stuck in our tissues and cause us issues. Journaling is a great way to start to clear some of that rubbish out. Read More

Breathing Techniques for Lowering Stress, Anxiety, & Anger

Our breathing can have big impacts on our overall sense of wellbeing, levels of stress, anxiety, and anger. In short, our breathing signals our whole physiology on how we should be feeling. Our breathing can tell our body that it is time to panic as well as when it is time to relax.  Read More

Monkey-Mind vs. Monk-Mind

Who is running the show in your head, the monkey mind or the monk mind? We are kidding ourselves if we do not accept that our emotions, thoughts, and internal dialogues with ourselves are not impacting our mental and physical well-being. Our whole universe is basically manifested in how we think and the energy we put toward the thoughts running around our heads. Why not guide those thoughts into healthier patterns? Read More

Negative Spirals Downward

We have all been there, we woke up grumpy or something small did not go our way and suddenly it seems like the Universe has conspired against us. We feel like we have suddenly become a negativity magnet. If anything could go wrong, it does! What started out as a neutral day has become a horrible, “can I please skip today” kind of day. This is a real phenomenon! I’m sure you are hoping that I will say, “Don’t worry it wasn’t your fault” but alas, worry! It was your fault! How is it your fault? Well, let’s dive in, not to wallow in self-pity or guilt, but in order to raise our self-awareness so that negative spirals happen less frequently.  Read More

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