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Clincal Counsellor, Speaker, Researcher & Author | Teaching people how to think better, feel better, show up better & like themselves and their lives a little more everyday.

11/21/2025

Your power isn’t in trying to change what they did — it’s in what you choose for yourself now.

The boundary you set.
The story you stop believing.
The self-respect you decide to stand in.

Every day, every hour, every moment you get the chance to move your life in a new direction - in the direction that is in alignment with what YOU want for yourself.

And if you need an anchor when your mind tries to revert back into old hurts, I’ve got something that will help.

25 Power Thoughts gives you clear, grounded phrases that steady your mind, interrupt the self-defeating thoughts, and bring you back to yourself — especially when you get knocked off your centre.

It’s free right now — Comment POWER and I’ll send it to you.

What’s your next right choice that is going to help you move your life in the direction YOU want?

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/20/2025

Read this twice:
How they treat you is not a reflection of you — it’s a projection of them.

It’s easy to forget this —
especially when someone’s reaction, tone, distance, or inconsistency hits something vulnerable inside us.

But people don’t show you your worth —
they show you their mood, their triggers, their unmanaged mind, or the wounds they haven’t healed yet.

Your job is to not absorb it.

It doesn’t mean it doesn’t still hurt…

It just means you don’t have to turn their behavior into a story about your worth.

Because self-worth isn’t built by trying to convince someone to treat you “better.”

It’s built by knowing what’s yours to carry and what isn’t.

Where your boundaries are — and then holding them.

What you are available for, and what you are not…

And standing solid in that.

If you’re done questioning yourself and ready to build deeper, more grounded self-worth from the inside out, I have something for you.

Comment ✨ TRUST ✨
+ I’ll send you access to the Simple Steps to Self-Trust

— the steps that will show you how to stop doubting yourself and start standing steady in your worth, no matter who is going on around you.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/18/2025

Their avoidance is not a reflection of your worth.
It’s a reflection of their discomfort with emotional intimacy.

Your job isn’t to chase, fix, or decode their distance.
Your job is to stay rooted in who you are and what you need.

If you want to stay centred instead of anxious when someone pulls away —
comment RESET and I’ll send you the free plan.

11/15/2025

Avoidant people aren’t “bad at caring.”
They’re uncomfortable with emotion — and with conflict.

But here’s the truth no one tells you:

You can’t make someone open up…
but you can influence how they respond based on how you show up and the words you use.

And you can stay grounded, clear, and self-respecting while you do it.

That will change the process and the outcome a lot — your clarity, your confidence, your connection.

If you want a simple plan to stay calm and centred in any hard conversation, right now it’s available for free -
comment ✨RESET✨and I’ll DM it to you.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

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11/14/2025

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11/13/2025

Part of healing is recognizing the power we have in the process.

We may not have caused our pain.
But we are responsible for what happens next.

That might mean we:

- Stop waiting for the closure that isn’t coming

- Accept that the answers we’re looking for aren’t coming

- Notice the self-defeating stories we keep repeating.

- Choose boundaries instead of resentment

- Catch the urge to over-explain, people-please, or shut down — and pause to self-soothe instead

Taking responsibility for our healing isn’t about blame.
It’s about freedom.

It’s saying, “I can’t control everything that hurt me… but I can choose how I move forward now.”

If you need support when your emotions get big—and want to get grounded, clear, and steady again—I have a simple 3-step reset plan that helps.

It’s free right now — comment ✨RESET✨ and I’ll DM it to you.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/11/2025

You can’t control how someone handles conflict…
They might blame, guilt-trip, or twist the story —
but you don’t have to lose your center when they do.

The big shift is learning to stay anchored in your own clarity,

to trust what you see and feel and experience,
and to stop abandoning yourself and your feelings just to keep the peace.

If you want some support with that, comment
TRUST ⬇️
and I’ll send you my simple steps to help you build that inner steadiness.

On your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/08/2025

We can have understanding for someone’s story, but it’s not an excuse for them to manipulate, blame-flip, avoid responsibility, hurt someone, or cause harm.

We all carry wounds.

Emotional maturity doesn’t mean never getting triggered — it means not using those wounds as a free pass for poor behaviour.

And although healing doesn’t mean never snapping, shutting down, or feeling defensive.

It does mean taking responsibility for how one shows up, repairing when one messes up, and not using one’s pain as a weapon.

But even though you can’t make someone change how they treat you, you can become more secure and steady in yourself regardless.

If you want some help with that — how to stay grounded and calm even when someone else is reactive, deflecting or defensive — I’ve got an audio download that will help.

It’s free right now — comment MINDFULNESS and I’ll send it to you.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/07/2025

There’s a lie so many of us picked up somewhere along the way:

That expressing our needs or feelings is “too much.”
That asking for care or understanding is demanding.
That communicating discomfort makes us difficult.

But here’s the truth: open communication isn’t drama.
It’s healthy relationship responsibility.
It’s how trust, repair, and real intimacy are built.

When it comes to open, honest, clean, clear, classy communication, it’s not “less is more” — it’s “more is more.”

Healthy relationships aren’t built on silence or scooting things under the rug — they’re built on mature, honest dialogue.

And you’re allowed to ask for that.

If you want some help getting calm and clear before your next hard conversation, I have a simple 3-step emotional reset plan that will help.

Right now, you can have it for free. Comment RESET and I’ll DM it right to you.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/06/2025

So many people blame themselves for someone else’s emotional distance.

But avoidant behavior isn’t a reflection of your worth — it’s a reflection of their current wiring.

You can’t make someone feel safe enough to stay close,

but you can build the kind of self-trust that makes you feel secure no matter what.

Comment TRUST and I’ll send you something to help you start building it.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

11/02/2025

One of the most important inner shifts we can make is learning to stop evaluating our emotions.

We’re so quick to minimize what we feel:
“Other people have it worse.”
“I should be over this.”
“I’m being too dramatic.”
“What a stupid thing to feel hurt about.”

But emotional healing doesn’t start with shaming yourself out of how you feel.

It starts with acknowledgment.

If it matters to you, it matters.

Your feelings are important information— they point to what you care about, what’s been hurt, or what needs attention.

That’s not self-indulgence.
That’s self-respect.

You don’t have to justify your experience to anyone to make it real.

If this landed for you: inside Healing & Reigniting Your Inner Teen, we’re working on exactly this —

understanding where those “I’m fine, it’s not a big deal” habits started, and relearning how to actually listen to yourself with your inner wisdom that you were taught to ignore somewhere along the way.

Comment DATA and I’ll send you the info you need.

In your corner,
🫶🏼Julia

10/30/2025

Same self-care, different (nicer?) setting!

What’s one of your favourite ways to care big for yourself? Tell me in the comment🫶🏼❤️🙌🏻

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