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ABOUT JULIA

HEAR FROM OTHERS ABOUT JULIA  

"Authentic"

“Genuine, honest, and rooted in her own practice”

“She listens”

“The kind of teacher everyone wishes they had”

“Walking the walk and talking the talk”

“A master facilitator”

“A lighthouse”

“Gentle, intuitive, compassionate, and quietly fierce”

 

 

I am a Bowie-eyed lover of nature, philosophy, music, silence, animals, art, and the mysteries of the cosmos.
 
I am also a guide helping people navigate the complexities of the inner world.
 
I didn't come to this work because I planned it as a career. I came to it looking for my own way out of pain, and wanting to understand this strange,  beautiful world. Everything I teach is rooted in that quest. 

Life didn't begin gently. I spent my earliest years enduring aggressive cancer treatment while growing up in a home that was unsafe. 

This made finding belonging in the human world challenging. But I found it easily in nature and the world of imagination. I devoured books at night with a flashlight under the bedcovers. I curled into the ground roots of oak trees. And I rescued every injured thing I could.

As a young adult, when I finally had the freedom to build a life of my own design, I studied philosophy, spent time in Buddhist circles, taught myself to write music, and lived an artist’s life.

Like most lives, mine took many unexpected twists and turns.

Then there came a time when life brought me to a fire I couldn't walk around.

And just as everything was coming together, it all turned to ash. 

(The details matter less than what came next.)

 

But as is often the case, this ending was also a beginning.

I sat with my emptiness in the desert. I studied psychology. I immersed myself in the language of dreams. 

And while this process started with the rather desperate hope of getting back to the life I had before, in time I realized that not only was there no going back, but something even more beautiful was beginning to bloom, and that was the ability to actually inhabit my own life.

Looking back, I can see that while I had built a beautiful life, I wasn't able to inhabit it.

And perhaps this is one of the greatest struggles for the modern human: learning not only how to build a life, but how to truly live inside of it.

Like a sparrow, I was always taking flight, never landing long enough to connect or to rest.

But through that long season, I learned to fly without fleeing. I could disappear into silence without hiding there. 

I learned how to land.

And in landing, I discovered a deep open-heartedness and an ability to be fully where I was, exactly as I was.

Now I guide people through the long, beautiful work of healing, maturing, and becoming fully themselves.

I spend my days helping people come home to themselves, deepen their relationships, meet life with courage, and design a life that feels meaningful and heart-centered.

At the heart of my work is the conviction that every human being contains a wellspring of wisdom and love. The task is to remove the obstacles in the way. 

But my deepest hope is not only to help people heal.  

To me, healing is only the beginning.

My deepest hope is to help more of us become the kind of person whose very way of being makes the world a better place. To rewild our culture with a new generation of elders whose lives are organized around service to the whole.

That is what my school is ultimately about. 

I hope you'll join us.

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"Working with Julia has been the best thing I've ever done for myself. Learning to see myself and the world through her looking glass has improved my life in every way, from how I feel inside, to how I make decisions, how I carry myself at work, and how I communicate with my partner. Julia is articulate, intuitive, loving, perceptive, and genuine. She is a true teacher, and healer. I am so grateful for all that she has shared with me."
__ D. Brooks


“Julia has this calming presence almost like a spirit guide.”
__ Christina H.

 

"Julia's work seems made of a fierce yet gentle love that continues to steer me through my own inner-workings.”
__ Katie W.


“Julia has a way of synthesizing the most complex ideas into something practical and relatable. Into ideas and practices that I can apply to my daily life. Never have I met someone with such an obvious wealth of knowledge, and the warmest of hearts as Julia. My way of moving through life is so much more gracious and easeful since I began working with her. If you are thinking about working with Julia, please don’t hesitate to give yourself this life-changing gift.”
__ K. Farrell

"Not only has she guided me through some of the deepest excavations of my soul and my biggest life events, she's also taught me how to be a better healer purely by the way she shows up and listens. My life is better for having been bold enough to make the investment in myself and discerning enough to wait until I found just the right energetic support."
__ Dana B.
 


“Julia has an immense breadth of knowledge and wisdom - every word, reading, meditation and message of advice or support she offers cuts right to the heart.”
__ Jessica F.

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