by Julie Christiansen | Feb 16, 2020 | 2020 Blog Posts
Recently, a client mentioned, “I often find myself fidgeting and engaging in compulsive behaviours like nail-biting when I feel anxious. I’d like to be able to calm myself and keep myself from getting caught up in these habits. What should I do?”...
by Julie Christiansen | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Is radical, positive, lasting change even possible? When you think about the fact that the typical time for a youth at risk between the ages of 16 and 24 to remain in a job is less than 90 days, 2 years is a long time. When you consider that young offenders have a...
by Julie Christiansen | Mar 30, 2019 | 2019 Blog Posts
As mothers, it is our destiny to face tragedy or crisis of some kind. There is no rule book that says mothers must outlive their children, or that a young mother will not lose a spouse in the early years of a marriage. There is no law that declares that...
by Julie Christiansen | Mar 16, 2019 | 2019 Blog Posts, Life master, Motivational Posts, PROJECTS & MISSIONS
I’ve been in this business a long time. It was in 1997 that I started BODA reLEAF consulting and later rebranded to Leverage U more than 10 years later. In the early days, being received as a motivational speaker and expert on anger and stress was heady stuff....
by Julie Christiansen | Mar 16, 2019 | Motivational Posts
I cannot get enough of Francesca Battistelli’s new song, “The Breakup Song”. I love that part of the chorus that says, “I ain’t got time for you telling me what I’m not, like you know me… well guess what? I know who I am. I...
by Julie Christiansen | Jan 3, 2017 | 2017 Blog Posts
As we have learned in the previous chapters, we all express our anger in some way, either inwardly or outwardly. The most common types of behavioural and verbal expression fall into three categories: aggressive, passive or assertive. Of course, there are those we...
by Julie Christiansen | Mar 20, 2016 | 2016 Blog Posts
Attitude is Where It All BeginsWhen you think about stress management, what do you think of? Do you picture hammocks, white sandy beaches, and azure blue oceans? Do you think of soothing music, candles, and a hot bath in a claw-foot tub overflowing with bubbles? Or...
by Julie Christiansen | Dec 22, 2015 | 2015 Blog Posts
I had an interesting experience last week that really affected me – so much so that I had to wait almost a week to write about it. Every Tuesday, I commute to Toronto to my teaching job at George Brown College. On my first day using public transit, I counted...
by Julie Christiansen | Mar 26, 2015 | 2015 Blog Posts
In honour of our first Anger Solutions for Kids group starting this April at my counselling office in Thorold, I thought it might be fun to share one of the exercises we have a blast with in our group. This exercise is part of the process of RELEASING RESIDUAL ANGER,...
by Julie Christiansen | Sep 27, 2014 | 2014 Blog Posts
Some years ago, I was talking with a client about his particular limiting beliefs. I remember sharing with him the notion that belief is the basis of action, and watching as revelation dawned in his facial expression. He wrote it down in his notebook in large, bold...