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Podcast: Exercise is medicine!

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Julie Cross

Exercise is the best, cheapest, most accessible medicine available. www.exerciseismedicine.org.au And yet with all of this research we will still make excuses and not do the exercise. Well no more excuses. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here or Spotify

Simply great sushi service!

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Julie Cross

Hey friends, Julie Cross here. Gotta tell you about this service experience. I did a post this morning regarding great service and connecting, et cetera, and I just had this fabulous experience and I had to tell you about it. And, it’s just, it’s the simple stuff, it really is. There’s a new sushi bar […]

Loving with Autism Update: Restaurants

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Julie Cross

Loving with Autism Update: You may remember the times when Thomas didn’t really DO restaurants… and then when we finally got him to one they had to have hot chips… and then there was the times he would just eat and leave and I would be left on my own… Well tonight HE asked ME […]

Service, service, service!! What happened to service??

Posted on August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 by Julie Cross

Hi there, Julie Cross here, just want to talk about the power of connection when it comes to inspiring people to do business with you. And that is the one on one connection, from obviously the people at the front which is your team members, the people on the front line. You know, we keep […]

Podcast: Reflections on my journey in a relationship at 18!

Posted on August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 by Julie Cross

Sometimes it would be easier to stay but the price would have been to never find myself… reflections on my journey in a relationship at 18 and the courage it took to walk away. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here or Spotify

Praise and Promote! Customer Service at Lovisa

Posted on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 by Julie Cross

Recently I was walking through Strathpine Shopping Centre and noticed this young lady walk past me… you couldn’t help but notice her…she just had that energy of ‘owning her space’… later on after some wandering I wandered into a shop needing some accessories for an event… the shops was Lovisa and as I started looking […]

Parenting into Adulthood

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Julie Cross

When Thomas recently turned 18 I was asked a lot if I am ‘worried’ about him drinking… and worried about the drug thing… and then there is girls… eek… And of course I am aware of parenting him through all of this. When Jack got his licence I got asked by people wether I ‘worry’ […]

Courage

Posted on August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 by Julie Cross

When people talk about courage and when they say to me that I am courageous, well I have always felt that it was not deserving, because I guess when I had thought of being ‘courageous’ that would be running into a burning building to save somebody or something like that… but I think I get […]

Loving with Kids and Autism Update: Giving them Space!

Posted on August 7, 2019August 9, 2019 by Julie Cross

As I talk to parents and children around Resilience, risk taking and confidence building inevitably the conversation comes to the balance between giving our children room to grow and keeping them safe… and I have no definitive answers or right or wrong that is for sure… but I do know I recognised this gift when […]

Loving with Autism Update: Mum, look at me…

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Julie Cross

You may have noticed that children and adults on the spectrum really don’t enjoy eye contact so much. So early on it was a big focus. School was focusing on it, we were focusing on teaching him to do the ‘socially acceptable’ thing and look at people when he spoke to the. Our place started […]