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The Soul-Creative Journey
Awaken Your Inner Freedom
When we engage with ourselves creatively, when we cultivate a soulful relationship with our true inner energies, we awaken in ways that are unexplainable unless you’ve experienced it. Deep inside, we live freely — able to receive, to let spirit flow without strategy or self-consciousness. This natural freedom, innate to all of us, is something many have lost touch with.
The Cost of Over-Doing
In everyday life, it’s easy to fall into over-thinking, over-trying, over-giving. These may not just be occasional tendencies — they may be the ways you’ve learned to move through the world. They’ve helped you succeed, be needed, be good. And they’ve likely cost you something.
When we are always anticipating, adjusting, trying to get it right, it becomes harder to hear the quieter voice inside — the one that isn’t interested in proving anything, the one that simply wants to be expressed and known.
A Gentle, Compassionate Question
At a certain point, a question begins to surface:
What would it mean to value and nourish my creative self?
What would it look like to say yes — now — to the inner self that has been waiting while I’ve been managing everything else?
This is the doorway into a soul-creative life.
Creativity Is for Everyone
For Artists
Whether you identify as an artist — or once did — you may be ready for a partnership with me to:
- Experience more freedom and personal connection to your work
- Returning to the impulse that made you want to create in the first place
- Look at your artwork together for a sense of harvesting and “seeing” what is coming through you in new, meaningful ways.
Or perhaps you want to explore intuitive painting with me and begin a new path of creative expression. This is about reconnecting with the joy and purpose that first inspired you to create.
For Those Who Aren’t Artists
If you don’t consider yourself an artist, the invitation is no less real. Creativity lives in the way you shape your days, speak your truth, and choose what to give your life energy to. Living life as a blank page, with even small, intentional acts of expression — writing, cooking, gardening, movement, or simply the way you engage with the world — can reconnect you to your essential self.
The Transformative Power of Reconnection
Reigniting your connection to your essential self changes everything. It surfaces as soul purpose, vision, and joy. It brings an invigorating inbreath, a sense of fullness in the wholeness of life.
Creativity is primal; as humans, we are so deeply creative that without it, we experience a quiet despair or loneliness. And yet, it manifests uniquely in each of us, offering a path back to our own authentic freedom and vitality.
Your Soul-Creative Life
My offer here is to help you create your own soul-creative life:
- Where truth can be spoken kindly
- Where questions can be playful and gently provocative
- Where you don’t have to over-try
- Where new boundaries can be explored
- Where you can listen for what is uniquely yours
This is about inhabiting life more fully.
If something in this feels like a steady nudge — not pressure, but recognition — we can begin there.
Contact me to set up a free chat
“When I started with Julie I was feeling lost and confused as to how and why I didn’t feel a creative force in my life anymore, bogged down by a ton of unnecessary pressure that I was placing on myself.
It has made all the difference to maintain a creative practice and to listen to my gut more. Being able to identify when I need to say no and yes has been a life changer.
Lauren Lubell, designer, artist (California)
Transformations
She shifted her identity from a massage teacher to a spiritual retreat leader, holding space for others in a whole new way. She now feels current and in deep alignment with her inner calling.
SHE came out of hiding as an artist and got real about doing her artwork as a stabilizing force in her daily life—she went from wanting to get into the studio but not getting there to having shows, selling her artwork, creating a large San Francisco public mural and being the subject of an award winning art film. She is living her dream.
HE transformed his very core beliefs about who he is and how he shows up in the world. A high achieving chief medical officer, he changed his employment and began working for a new hospital more in alignment with his values; he developed a steady creative practice of painting and writing poetry which gave him a whole new in-road to his voice and his inner experience and how he expresses himself.
SHE went from feeling cut off from her creative voice, feeling stuck in what used to be a glamorous creative job and having debilitating pain in her back to starting a production company, establishing a daily spiritual healing practice for her mental and physical health, and getting married.
HE went from feeling oppressed at work and feeling unsatisfied with the track his life was on to being deeply immersed in a daily spiritual practice, finding great adventure in weekend road trips and experiencing his life as a blank page rather than a box.
Each coaching partnership is as unique as you are. Contact Julie to explore what working together might look like.
Contact Julie for a complementary coaching session or for more information.
Specifically, I love the way you keep the mood informal but have a deep focus and ask such interesting probing, thought-provoking, motivating questions. For my temperament you allow me to speak and give healthy pauses in our conversations.
Over the years I have created my own definition of a professional or expert. Someone who can relatively effortlessly come along side another and meet them “wherever” they ARE. beginner; intermediate; advanced. You do that.”
Eric Cornwell