25/08/2026
I thought I’d share a little bit about me and the journey that has shaped the work I do today.
I haven’t arrived at this work through a tidy, straight line. I’ve lived through many of the things I now help women understand.
For years I pushed through pain and illness, rarely allowing myself to stop. I propped myself up with alcohol and drugs. I experienced self-punishment, self-hate, abuse, deep depression and very little sense of confidence or self-worth. I hated my body and how I looked. I was a people pleaser and spent years looking for what I thought was love in all the wrong places, often paying a high price for it.
Eventually an opportunity came my way and that’s when I had my breakdown-breakthrough moment.
It was during a treatment, back in 2010, where I had a serious emotional release and a profound shift in perception. I suddenly realised that all the stress in my life wasn't simply happening to me. I was participating in creating it.
And, if I was the one creating it, then I could bloody well UN-create it! 😮
That changed everything.
I started seeing people differently. I began noticing the patterns underneath what people were experiencing - the way we think, live, respond, suppress, push, please and disconnect from ourselves, and how those patterns can eventually show up in the body and in our lives.
I could see it so clearly, and I wanted to help them see it so they too could release themselves from the pain.
So I began learning.
I trained in holistic therapies and became a reflexologist. I changed the way I ate and lived. I left my job and built a therapy business. I worked with hundreds of people, gave treatments, studied, experimented and kept asking questions.
And then I wanted more.
More for myself, and more for the people I was working with.
That led me into coaching and deeper exploration of the mind-body connection. I continued experimenting on myself, changing things, observing, learning and questioning what we'd been taught to accept as normal.
My own health and relationship with my body changed enormously.
And somewhere along the way all of these experiences began to come together into the work I do now.
I'm interested in what happens when we stop handing our power away. When we learn to listen to the body rather than constantly overriding it. When we become curious about our patterns rather than judging ourselves for them. When we begin to understand that our bodies are communicating with us rather than simply betraying us. And when we start to realise that getting older doesn't have to mean becoming increasingly disconnected from ourselves.
This is particularly important to me when it comes to women and the years around menopause. I don't believe women should simply be told that declining health, loss of vitality and feeling increasingly unwell are inevitable.
Life shouldn’t be something we push through or suffer. And I will continue experimenting, exploring, learning and sharing my my journey as a living mirror - the good the great and the phenomenal. Not because I’m better or one of the lucky ones, but because I choose to subscribe to a different way of being.
I'm not here to tell you I've got it all figured out. I'm here to show you what becomes possible when you start questioning what you've been told, listening to yourself and choosing differently.
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I'm in an experimental phase right now, and I'm slowly building this new space and finding my way with it.
I'll still be sharing things here on Facebook, but it will really only ever be a drip feed of what I'm exploring, thinking about and learning.
If you'd like to connect with me more deeply, hear more of what I'm thinking about, discover new things as they emerge and get a better feel for the work I'm creating, 💌 Julie’s Journal 💌 is the best way to stay connected.
It's where I'll be writing more freely, sharing the things I'm exploring and taking you a little further behind the scenes of my work and my own journey.
And if you're new to Julie's Journal, don't worry, signing up doesn't mean you're signing yourself up to be bombarded with emails forever! You'll receive a small handful of emails to welcome you in and give you a feel for the space. After that, I'll write when I have something worth sharing.
Everything is an invitation.
An invitation to think differently.
An invitation to explore.
An invitation to question.
An invitation to see what might be possible for you.
So if you haven't already, please do come and connect with me over there.
https://bit.ly/Julies-Journal
Much love,
Julie xx ❤️
