How I Became NATURALLY JULIE

I thought the for the first blog post it might be nice to explain how I got to where I am on my health journey. 

This is me about 4 years ago. If you look closely you can almost see the effort I am making to hold my eyes open. I was exhausted all the time. Not that good, I just did a lot of physical activity, sort of tired. Just that mental, physical, tired I thought was "normal" for a busy mom of two kids.  I was cold all the time. It was hard to get out of bed in the morning. I CRAVED sugar. Anything sugar. If I didn't have sugary food I would walk into the pantry and eat brown sugar straight out of the bag. I was always carrying 15-20 pounds more than I wanted and unhappy about that. Maybe I was just tired from all that time I spent straightening my hair! :)




Some friends of mine came to dinner one night and they had done a detox and looked great! While I will say not everything is for everybody, this detox is just what I needed. I decided instead of being miserable thinking about my weight every day for the next who knows how long, I would be "miserable" for about a month and do the detox. It was strict and it was what I need. I am all or nothing personally.  I admire people who can take one bite of something and walk away. I am not that (yet).  So I did the detox and the weight came off. But even more than I expected happened. I started to feel clear headed. I had more energy. The strictness of the detox helped me identify habits I had with eating. Bored, emotional, because the trash can was in the pantry and every time I walked in I grabbed a handful of something.....It was crazy what I started to discover about myself. I felt so good I didn't want to go backward.


As I felt better I wanted more from life.  My head was clear and I knew that just existing and going through the motions wasn't going to work for me. I searched for some sort of spirituality and came across Kabbalah. The principles I have learned help me to remember that I am the cause of everything in my life. It also echoed something I had learned in massage school, which was, in giving you receive. I have learned the meaning of that working on my wonderful clients. Kabbalah started teaching me that I need to give what I want to get in life. That is when I decided to merge it all, my desire for health, my belief in holistic healing, and my passion of sharing a better life with anyone who is ready.  I signed on to become a holistic health coach.


This picture is me about a year ago.  I have dropped weight since but this is a pretty great picture of what my life is like now versus when I use to fall asleep on the couch every chance I got.  I started living my true authentic self.  I got back outside and started hiking and biking and doing things that made me happy. I found that the universe sent me people and situations that supported who I was now.  And I threw away my flat iron and embraced my naturally curly hair.  For me my hair kind of symbolized my journey from a stressed out people pleaser to being real me...being Naturally Julie. I will succeed greatly. I will mess up royally. But I will do it all being only me, naturally ;)


My future is unknown and exciting! "I am better that I was but not as good as I am going to be" :) I have big dreams to "be the change I want to see in the world" ~Gandhi  I want people to feel OK being exactly who they are at the moment, while working on being the person they are meant and want to be.  I want to be the resource where people can get guidance on living a more natural and healthy life. I want to open people's eyes onto the fact that feeling tired, stressed and struggling doesn't have to be a way of life. I want to  coach people back to the healthy happy lives they are meant to live.


I am exited you are with me on my journey. Whether it is reading, coming to hear me speak, or letting me be your health coach, I am excited we are here together!  I hope Naturally Julie makes a positive impact in your life in some way!


PEACE!