About Julie

Resilience as a Way of Becoming

Resilience is not something we build—it’s something we return to, again and again, as life asks us to grow and shed who we’ve outgrown.

For more than 30 years, I’ve supported people in reconnecting with this innate capacity: the ability to find center, access clarity, trust themselves, and meet change with curiosity and creativity rather than collapse.

Resilience isn’t about pushing through. It’s about learning how to return—again and again—to what’s true.

Where This Work Began

My passion for resilience started young—at a time when I felt anything but resilient.

I was a deeply sensitive teen with a highly reactive nervous system. That sensitivity often led to shutdown at school and volatility at home. I didn’t yet have the capacity to regulate what I felt, and emotions quickly became overwhelming. I learned—intelligently—that if I dissociated from my body and disconnected from the grief, insecurity, and pain I felt so viscerally, I could survive.

And I did.

But the cost was high. I went numb—to my body, my voice, and my sense of self-worth. I didn’t lack strength. My nervous system simply didn’t yet know how to regulate.

The Caregiver Paradox

After college, unsure what I wanted to do when I “grew up,” I trained as a massage therapist. One gap year quietly became twelve.

I built a successful career and was skilled at caring for others. Yet, ironically, I remained disconnected from my own body. My capacity to attune outward had never been matched by the ability to attune inward. I was chronically exhausted and burnt out, running on empty while holding space for others with ease.

I knew something needed to change—but without access to an inner sense of clarity, it was hard to know what.

The Turning Point: Embodiment

In my early thirties, I discovered coaching—and met an embodiment teacher whose integration of aikido and mindfulness gently invited me back into my body.

That work changed my life.

I learned how to find my center. I learned that I could stay inside my body and remain present with others—even when emotions ran high. I learned that regulation, not control, was the source of confidence. And I learned that resisting discomfort didn’t eliminate it—it intensified it, quietly eroding clarity, confidence, and self-worth.

Embodiment didn’t fix my life—it changed its direction.

Thresholds, Identity, and Becoming

Studying embodiment didn’t “solve” my life, but it marked the beginning of a long, layered process of becoming more myself.

The years that followed brought profound thresholds: divorce and the loss of an identity I had built around it, career changes that felt like stepping into the unknown, and burnout culminating in an autoimmune diagnosis.

Each transition asked something different—not more effort, but more listening. Not pushing through, but slowing down and meeting what was real. Again and again, I was asked to recover my center, release identities that had become too heavy to carry, and allow something more honest and aligned to emerge.

Over time, resilience revealed itself not as endurance, but as discernment. Not as toughness, but as truthfulness. And not as bouncing back—but as becoming more whole.

An Integrative Foundation

For more than three decades, I’ve drawn from a wide range of modalities that support resilience at the level of body, mind, and relationships, including:

• Integral, Transformative, and Somatic Coaching

• Leadership Embodiment and the Strozzi Institute approach

• Equine-Guided Coaching

• Biodynamic Craniosacral and Polarity Therapies

• Yoga, meditation, conscious movement, breathwork, Reiki, and massage therapy

This foundation allows me to meet people where they are—whether in one-on-one support, group workshops, or leadership and team environments navigating complexity and change. I’ve worked with creatives, caregivers, professionals, and executives who are capable, thoughtful, and often carrying more than they let on.

How I Work Today

Today, I work as a Somatic Resilience and Leadership Coach and guide through life and leadership transitions.

I support individuals, leaders, and couples who are ready to live and lead from deeper alignment—rooted in presence, clarity, and trust in themselves. My work is an invitation to pause, listen, and reconnect with what is already whole, so you can move forward with steadiness, authenticity, and a felt sense of belonging in your own life.