Author: Julie Martella

  • How Do You Navigate a Transition?

    How Do You Navigate a Transition?

    In our grieving process, there is a before, and after, and the mess in the middle. There is a period of darkness, and eventually there is light.

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  • Embracing Your Superpower

    Embracing Your Superpower

    When you can accept your circumstances with a mindset of calm and determination, knowing that you’ve got your back, you are living into your superpowers.

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  • Who Is Running Your Life?

    Who Is Running Your Life?

    In your life after loss, you may often find yourself wondering who is running your life? Is it the crazy part that tells me to hide in the cave, or the brave side that whispers to you to take the chance on your future?

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  • Spending Time In Nature

    Spending Time In Nature

    Do you struggle with managing our mental health in your life after loss? The research is solid: spending time in nature is an excellent way to boost your mood!

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  • You Weren’t Meant To Stay Stuck

    You and I are meant to be like a dynamic body of water; moving, alive, full of potential.

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  • Learning To Practice Radical Acceptance

    Learning To Practice Radical Acceptance

    I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about acceptance as part of the grief process; it’s one of the stages of grief. Did you know that there is something beyond acceptance? It’s called radical acceptance, and learning to practice radical acceptance will transform your grief experience for the better. Promise! Acceptance is the act of acknowledging

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  • The Secret Sauce to Surviving the Holidays

    The Secret Sauce to Surviving the Holidays

    Practicing good self care is the secret sauce to surviving the holidays. It’s the secret sauce to creating an intentional, amazing life after loss!

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  • Inspired Spaces: A Client Story

    Inspired Spaces: A Client Story

    This is the essence of what I do. I help people organize and design and intentional life. In Annie’s case, it started in the bedroom.

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  • Surviving the Holidays

    Surviving the Holidays

    It’s that time of year again.  It’s time for surviving the holidays.  In our life after loss, they can be filled with triggers!  I’ve compiled some of my favorite strategies for not just managing the trigger times, but life in general!  Get your notebook out, you’ll want to write these down. Harness the Power of

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  • Learning To Breathe Again

    Learning To Breathe Again

    Give yourself the gift of grace and time.  You have suffered a life changing loss.  You’ve had the wind knocked out of you.  Stop berating yourself because you are not immediately running the race again. 

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