Born in the sun-soaked state of California, Julie embarked on a life-changing journey over 40 years ago, relocating to the landscapes of Texas with her husband. Together, they nurtured and homeschooled their six children, fostering a vibrant and self-sufficient family life on their sprawling homestead. With most of her birds out of the nest now, life has shifted. “A new onion layer”, as she puts it.

A few years ago, Julie had a dream about her sister-in-law who is deceased who came to visit her. She’d already come once before in a dream, to show her how wonderful she was doing from the other side of the veil. This time though, she came to Julie in a dream telling her that she was literally dying.

“You are dying Julie. You are dying if you don’t find your joy.”

When Julie went back in time, thinking about when she had the most joy in her life and the most creativity, it was when she was learning and creating art.

Stepping back into her art and finding her joy was not as easy as she expected, however.

“In the beginning, when I started back into my art that I had had from so many years ago, I really struggled with being okay with it. I was not happy with myself, and the art reflected that. I hated who I had become, actually. I started taking classes on learning how to be more intuitive, and learning how to heal myself and overcome my own handicaps and stigmas that I have of myself. Learning how to push through and accept myself for who I am, and who my soul came into this world to be, it wasn’t until then that I have blossomed into the soul element of my doodles.”  

Learning to heal her self-judgement was a critical step in her journey.

“Creating a soul doodle initially was very difficult because I had to lose my self-judgment. Because self-judgment just prevents you from becoming who you want to become and who you came into this world to be. And I couldn't be that person with my self-judgment. As I've created more and more for the few past few years, (I can't say I don’t have any self-judgment, because I still do occasionally… or a lot, I should say) but I am learning every day to come out of that, and the more I create for other people the more I see that I'm not as critical about myself because I know other people need help just as badly as I needed help. It’s been a huge blessing for me to be able to help others come to healing and also a massive tool in my own self-healing.If I treat myself the same way I would for anyone else, I must have grace and mercy. Soul doodles really helped me see glimpses into my life on things I needed to work on.”