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...