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Holiday Season is in full swing!

We often associate the holiday season with greater levels of kindness and being more generous with our fellow man.

We go out of our way to be nicer to people.

There is nothing wrong with this as long as we continue to hold fast to our boundaries.

But often we ignore our own boundaries and quickly end up in the territory of “people pleasing.”

We want our boss to like us so you don’t voice your holiday downtime needs or we don’t voice when we are exhausted from all of the holiday overtime hours.

We want our family to like us so we subvert our own needs, we let them say things that they think are coming from a place of love but actually ends up hurting.

We want our kids to like us so we overschedule holiday activities or we overspend on holiday gifts thinking we can buy their affection.

Over and over, we compromise ourselves and actively harm ourselves because we think we need to please everyone else…EXCEPT ourselves.

It doesn’t have to be that way though.

It is possible to be kind and loving to others while also respecting our boundaries.

We need awareness, understanding and tools to help us navigate this complex human behavior.

And thankfully, you have a brain ally in your corner to help you unravel this mystery and start making positive changes.

Can’t wait to share all this and more and helping you toward healthier boundaries!

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I cannot believe we are in the month of November my friends!

Once again, I am welcoming an amazing guest on the podcast that I believe will be very timely as we start reflecting on 2023 and preparing for 2024.

My friend, Yolanda Boyarin is an expert manifestation coach and I have brought her on to talk about both the science and beliefs associated with the idea of manifestation.

Many people hear the word “manifestation” and instantly check out.

They think it’s some kind of wishful thinking or “Woo” magic charm.

But here is the truth…

It’s not making a wish to the universe and then waiting around for it to happen.

It’s not some sort of magic spell where we conjure a pile of money or clients or weight loss while sitting around doing a séance.

It’s a process to move yourself towards a goal by harnessing the natural behavior pathways within our brain.

When we learn how to adjust our behaviors, we literally can control the brains’ ability to bring about our thoughts whether positive or negative.

You quite literally “manifest” what you think.

Today we talk about how Yolanda got into this fascinating field, the power of NLP and how we came to be acquainted.

We talk about the actual science behind manifestation.

And yes, we do talk about the energy aspects that some consider more “out there” but that has resonated and found success with many clients yielding 6 and 7 figure results.

So please relax and prepare to take in this extended episode we are excited to bring to you.

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BOO! Happy Halloween to my amazing people!

My favorite part of this holiday time of year is experiencing them through the eyes of my children.

My husband and two of my girls LOVE the scary movies.

Which is fine…I suppose.

My other daughter and I are not fans of the scary movies.

But watching those scary movies with my kids allows me to have some new perspective on the emotion of fear.

You see I realized that your brain almost always looks at things in two ways.

There’s the simpler, more childlike part of our brain that tries to keep things easy and relatable.

And then there’s the adult portion of our brain where we sometimes overanalyze or overthink things and make us feel like we are all over the place.

So today I wanted to bring some of that dual perspective to the topic of fear in honor of Halloween.

You can almost think of the fears associated with Halloween as that smaller, simpler fear.

They are things we can immediately solve, rationalize and figure out.

But then there are the more “Adult” fears…

Problems of the world, worries about our business, anxiety in our relationships- there are tons of legitimate fears.

Today though, I want to focus in on the Fear of Failure and how to leverage this fear to move forward with your goals.

By the end of this episode, you will be equipped with some new thoughts and tools to help you if your find yourself confronting a fear of failure.

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Hi there my lovely people!

Have you ever wondered “Why do I feel stuck?”

I had a client recently that came to me with this feeling.

She had been making amazing progress on a few personal goals but then for one reason or another, sort of “slid backwards” as it were.

I was able to work with her to get to the root of where these feelings of being “stuck” were coming from and now she is back on track with her goals.

In my 20 years in the mental health and coaching field, I find it is a very common concern in my clients.

It got me thinking how many other folks are maybe struggling with similar feelings and don’t even really recognize it?

You don’t necessarily find yourself saying, “Hey I think I am stuck.”

It shows up in our behaviors…

Maybe we are setting a new fitness goal and we go running every day for 2 weeks straight and then we wake up one day feeling terrible and so we don’t go for a day.

And then another…

And another…

Or maybe you are working on a project at work and you have this burst of productivity for a few weeks but then feel like you “hit a wall” and don’t accomplish anything for several days.

Sometimes this just means you are tired and need a recovery day or three.

But sometimes, this is your brain self-sabotaging your progress.

Remember your brain can treat change like danger…we have talked about this before.

I have a process that I take my clients through which allows them to unlock their brain and move forward with their progression.

And in today’s episode, I am going to give you some of the starting part of that process which can help you get unstuck.

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So happy you are here my awesome people.

The days are getting shorter and colder- Fall is finally here for many of us!

Often times in the fall, we start to reflect on the year and plan potential changes.

Have you wondered why when we start to plan changes, sometimes our brain says “NO!?”

It’s because your brain is evolved to keep you safe and to our primal brain, “change” often meant “danger.”

See the brain intrinsically knows that change is unpredictable.

So that little voice in your head, that inner critic, pops out with those little sniping comments designed to keep you stuck.

“You can’t run a business, best not to try…”

“No one is gonna promote you, just stay where you are…”

“You’re not ready to be at that level…best to not rock the boat…”

These thoughts can create a lot of friction to our positive changes.

This friction can easily derail your plans for positive change.

In my 20 years of working with clients, I have seen this as an obstacle in many of my clients.

During that time, I have developed a formula that can help you overcome this inner critic and allow you to embrace change.

Can’t wait to share it with you today!

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Here we are for another great week my lovely people!

Have you ever found yourself uncomfortable with a decision you have already made?

I know I have been there…

You see my husband and I decided to be a little crazy once upon a time and try to sell a house, have a baby, buy a house and then move into that new house all in the space of 1 week….

In the midst of that week, some things happened that made us question whether we should close on the new house.

But…we had already sold the old house…

And we had a newborn with a 3-year-old…

And we had movers scheduled to come in 3 days and we had to be out of the house in 5 days…

With absolutely no idea where else we would go if we DIDN’T close on the new house…

So…we decided we sort of HAD to go ahead and close on the new house so that we wouldn’t be homeless in 5 days.

Sounds crazy right?

With the benefit of hindsight, it WAS crazy and we should not have closed on the new house.

In the moment though, we didn’t really feel safe to change our mind.

To many plans had been set in motion to change at that last moment of discomfort.

Or so we thought.

This feeling is known as the sunk cost fallacy and it often affects decisions we make in a negative way.

So, on today’s episode I am going to give you some tools I have developed and arm my clients with in order to get yourself back to emotional neutrality when you might be having those sunk cost emotions.

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October is here!

We are in the last quarter of the year and officially starting into the holiday season.

There are so many holidays coming up in the fall such as Halloween, Diwali, Rosh Hashana, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah or Christmas to name a few.

Many emotions can come up during holidays and at times it can feel overwhelming.

So, I decided that we should talk about how to process our emotions.

And I am not gonna lie…I get vulnerable on this episode.

See I am going to give you something of a case study in my own life of managing emotions.

I share several events, one in my business and one in my personal life where I found myself very hurt and angry.

I take you through the phases of emotions that I had from these events.

I take you through the lows and then the highs once I was able to heal.

I’ll share with you the real world resources informed both from my personal experiences and my 20 years in the mental health profession.

I’ll help you learn how you can take control of those hard emotions with compassion for yourself.

I am also offering some concrete tools you can use to help heal past these big feelings and how to allow yourself to be empathetic with yourself.

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Alright my awesome people, today we are back with a really fun interview with another fantastic coach.

I am welcoming Courtney Koenig, Certified Business Coach and Human Design Reader, to discuss the field known as Human Design.

Human Design is a recent development within the world of self-knowledge and personality testing systems.

You are probably already familiar with some of these systems such as the Myers- Briggs personality test or the Enneagram model of personality types.

Human Design works to help you better understand what might be your natural energy centers.

It can help you have a better grasp of what your natural productive energy cycles are so you can better plan your day/week/life.

Other aspects look at how you interact with those around you whether you naturally draw energy from others’ emotions or whether you project energy with your own emotions.

Now I know what you are thinking, “Julie, I come here for proven brain & psychological science and this feels very new-age woo-woo” and that thought is valid.

I am not here to claim that Human Design is 100% scientifically proven or peer reviewed.

But when it comes to dealing with people, not everything is or can be proven.

And millions of people across the planet have found Human Design as a helpful tool to understand your natural rhythms of emotions and productive energy.

I personally have found that Human Design resonated strongly with my innate energy but it might not for you.

So, I invite you to listen with an open mind and if it’s not for you, no harm no foul- I will be back next week with more amazing understanding of how your brain works.

But if you do find Courtney and I’s discussion to ring true for you, I provide Human Design readings to my clients which have been uniformly well received and we can set up a time to do your reading as well.

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Hello again to another amazing day!

Today we are continuing our discussion through the nervous system and its sub systems.

Have you heard of the Vagal system?

The Vagal system is divided into two parts, the Ventral and Dorsal Vagal systems.

The Ventral Vagal system governs your social engagement.

It is responsible for scanning your environment and your interactions with others in a social situation and determining “Am I safe?”

In a nutshell, this is your Fight or Flight system in your everyday life and your dealings with others.

The Dorsal Vagal system is more centered around your Freeze response.

When you see people on social media talking about “Nervous System Regulation,” they are most frequently talking about this Dorsal Vagal system.

Without proper control and preventative measures, this system can keep us feeling overwhelmed and leads most frequently to those feelings of immobilization.

But as always, I am not just here to teach you WHAT these brain systems are.

I am also going to teach you real world, actionable steps you can take to feel more in control and keep these biological processes working FOR you instead of against you.

Can’t wait to have you on this final episode of Nervous System regulation!

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How in the world are we halfway through September?!

The time is flying by but that won’t stop us from continuing our journey to better understand our brain.

This is week 2 in my deeper dive into how our nervous system reacts to stimuli.

Today we are talking about the “Autonomic Nervous System” and specifically the sympathetic & para-sympathetic response systems.

These two systems work in tandem like a yin and yang of nerve regulation.

The sympathetic system monitors and controls your fight or flight response or “Stress.”

When there is danger, it gets your body ready to react.

The para-sympathetic is the recovery part of the regulatory process.

Once you are safe and relaxed, this allows us to heal and not allow those stress signals to overload in our bodies.

By being more aware of how these systems work together, you can help to regulate ourselves.

If we find ourselves in a state of dysregulation these are the states of burnout, overwhelm or constant anxiety.

Your system stays on high alert and then it erodes your critical thinking and system readiness processes.

But don’t worry, I can help you figure out your stress recovery system and get your nervous system back to balance.

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