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Hi, I’m Julie—a lifelong learner, sometime researcher, and occasional writer. Most days you’ll find me living a quietly happy life here in Australia, always chasing the small sparks…
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- Creativity Is the New Brain Care: Why Tiny Acts Are Reshaping WellbeingWhat if the most powerful thing you could do for your brain today wasn’t a meditation app or a gym membership—but a doodle, a photo, or saying hello with intention?… Read more: Creativity Is the New Brain Care: Why Tiny Acts Are Reshaping Wellbeing
- 🎨 Art Spark: How Tiny Creative Moments Heal Your Brain
There’s a particular kind of comfort that arrives the moment you start making something with your hands. You know that feeling? When you doodle in the corner of a notebook… Read more: 🎨 Art Spark: How Tiny Creative Moments Heal Your Brain - Rewiring in Real Time: The Everyday Science of Brain Plasticity.Your brain is not a sculpture — it’s soft clay, shaped by what you do next. ✨ A Spark to Ponder Every day, your brain quietly edits itself. When you… Read more: Rewiring in Real Time: The Everyday Science of Brain Plasticity.
- We’re Kinder Than We ThinkWhat if the inner map you carry of other people — what you expect, what you assume — just needs a bit of updating? Somewhere between the headlines and the… Read more: We’re Kinder Than We Think
- 🎲 Rediscovering Play: The Spark That Makes Life LighterWhen was the last time you played… really played? Not as a warm-up for productivity or professional learning, not as a break you had to earn, but simply for the… Read more: 🎲 Rediscovering Play: The Spark That Makes Life Lighter
- 🌱 Micro-Shift Momentum: Tiny Habits, Big ResultsYes, micro-shifts are a thing. Ponder this: what if the biggest breakthroughs in your life came not from bold (scary) leaps, but from the tiniest steps? We’re used to being… Read more: 🌱 Micro-Shift Momentum: Tiny Habits, Big Results
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