Welcome to the blog of Julie Lowe: Socially Aligned!
There's always something new to learn and explore in the world of entrepreneurship! My goal for this blog is to help make learning about mindset, marketing, goal-setting, high performance (and more!) as fun for others as it is for me by sharing my experiences and knowledge from growing my own multi-million dollar business as well as helping to grow businesses of all sizes over the past decade.
Comments are welcome, so please let me know what you'd like to read about next!
-Julie
How to Beat Time Change Fatigue this DST
Hate Daylight Savings Time? 😫 Try these 4 Tips to Beat “Time Change Fatigue” and share with a sleep-deprived friend! 😴 1. Go to Bed Earlier Sounds obvious, I know, but the thing to know is you don’t have to go to bed a whole hour earlier. Even just moving your bedtime up by 10-15…
4 Quick Tips to Stop the Stress Cycle
Our bodies are built to be on alert for threats and to take us into fight/flight mode if needed to survive. That's awesome if there’s a threat of a lion attack, not so awesome if your body thinks everything from money worries to crappy bosses to self-criticism is as threatening as a lion. Daily life…
6 Ways to Use Nutrition for Stress Management
There's no denying that what we eat has a big impact on how we feel. While healing my mind and body from chronic stress, I have personally found somatic practices and coaching to be absolute game-changers for me. In exploring additional ways to heal my nervous system, I've found a wealth of research showing how…
5 Quick Tips to Help You Relax Before Bed Tonight
1. Tap it Out If you're feeling anxious or can't stop thinking about something troubling you, EFT Tapping can be very supportive. Check out my Free EFT Guide to learn how. 2. Read a Book Take a break from screens and try reading a book or magazine to help relax your mind. 3. Take a…
3 Tools to Write Better Emails
I don’t know about you, but writing emails tends to feel like a chore, so I am always looking for ways to make writing easier and faster. Luckily there are ways around this problem – and it doesn't involve giving up quality content at all. Here are 3 tools that have made life MUCH easier…
6 Keys to Thriving in Business as a Highly Sensitive Introvert
If you’re an introvert and/or highly sensitive person running a business, you will face unique challenges. Two of the biggest issues I see are overworking and absolutely loathing self-promotion. The entrepreneurial space is full of ‘gurus’ telling us we have to hustle 24/7 to succeed. It’s easy to buy into the lie that if you’re…
5 Ways to Recover from the Facebook Ad Fallout of 2021
There’s no doubt about it – between the pandemic and the iOS 14 updates, 2020 and 2021 have turned the Facebook ad industry on its head. I’ve been teaching and running Facebook ads for about a decade now and nothing compares to the past 2 years. Do I think it’s time to abandon the Facebook…
Spoon Theory and Highly Sensitive People
When you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP) one of the biggest things you will notice is that you can get over-stimulated more easily than the average person. This is for two reasons… You notice more and process information more deeply than other people. Your nervous system is more sensitive than average. (What’s moderately stimulating for…
5 Ways To Get And Keep Your Audience's Attention
It’s a noisy world out there, so your opening line needs to be a belter to get and keep your audience’s attention. Wow – that’s a lot of pressure. Thankfully there are some tried and tested formulas for headlines that work anywhere you need to use text to connect. Subject lines, social posts, blog posts…
How to Use EFT Tapping for Stress and Anxiety Relief
I must admit, I've had issues with anxiety on and off for what seems like most of my life. But at the end of 2020, my anxiety got really out of hand. Something about virtual schooling two kids for a year, while running a business from home with our family of four (plus four dogs)…