Author: Julie Simons

Want V Have

The answer to this question can reveal a lot… Learn how one sneaky shortcut of your brain can become a habit that, if overlooked, chips away at your quality of life. Find out how to spot it and how to turn things around. Have a great week!Julie P.S. It may

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Thought Work: Therapy VS Coaching

Thought Work is the practice of observing and working with our thoughts. The technical term for it is the skill or meta-cognition or the ability to think about our thoughts. My practice relies heavily on helping people build the skill of meta-cognition for 3 reasons: 1.) Our thoughts create what

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Problem Seeking

You can’t act your way to emotional safety. Safety is an emotion, which means it’s driven by our thoughts. You don’t think your way there by trying to solve the unsolvable.   In the early days of COVID, I made every effort to learn everything available about what I could

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10 Reasons to Not be Happy All the Time

10 Reasons to Not be Happy All the Time If we were happy all the time, we would not know contrast. Without times of unhappiness, we would have not reference for happiness.   Contrasting emotions are away of experiencing our own morality and the way we develop our own moral

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How To Feel

Positive emotions are what we want to feel more; it’s the other end of the spectrum we struggle with. Whatever you call them; negative, painful, uncomfortable, no one wants to feel them. Yet, they are an inextricable part of being human, and refusing to feel them makes it impossible to

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Selling You On Negative Emotions

Trying to sell you on negative emotions is a hard sell indeed. No one wants to feel them but we all have them. We actually have a default setting to want to feel positive emotion and not negative ones. The desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain is something we

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