For more than 37 years, I’ve devoted my professional life to exploring human consciousness, healing, and the extraordinary possibilities of personal and collective transformation. My journey began much earlier, with profound spiritual experiences in childhood that inspired a lifelong quest to understand, explore, and substantiate what I had been shown.

With a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, my work has spanned psychotherapy, spiritual guidance, writing, speaking, media, mentoring visionary leaders, and creating communities devoted to a more conscious, coherent, and connected world.

Psychotherapist & Healing Professional — Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, with more than 37 years of experience in psychotherapy, personal transformation, and spiritual development.

Award-Winning Author — A World of Love: Awakening to the Intelligence of Life, the first in a trilogy exploring love as the organizing intelligence of life. And, Fractured Grace: How to Create Beauty, Peace and Healing for Yourself and the World.

Speaker & Evolutionary Guide — Bringing together consciousness, unitive worldviews, harmonic leadership, coherence, and personal and collective evolution.

Media Host & Conversationalist — Creator and longtime host of The Dr. Julie Show: All Things Connected, bringing diverse voices into meaningful conversations about science, spirituality, and human transformation.

Founder & Community Builder — Founder and field guide of Imaginal Souls, with longstanding contributions to Good of the Whole and the Connection Field.

Mentor & Harmonic Leadership Guide — Supporting visionary leaders and changemakers in cultivating coherence, navigating evolutionary transitions, and bringing their gifts into meaningful service.

But the story behind these credentials began long before I earned a doctorate, wrote a book, or imagined any of this work. It began with a little girl on the Nebraska prairie. See Below…

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The story behind my life and work

When I was a little girl growing up on the Nebraska prairie, I often felt as though I had arrived in a world I didn’t quite understand. I sensed and experienced something extraordinary about life, an aliveness and intelligence that seemed to move through everything, yet the people and circumstances around me appeared to operate according to a very different understanding of reality. I felt deeply connected to something vast and mysterious, while often feeling strangely disconnected from the ordinary world of human relationships.

At four years old, I had a near-death experience that profoundly shaped my awareness of existence. What stayed with me was an unmistakable knowing that my life extended far beyond the boundaries of this particular lifetime. I experienced myself as having always existed, with no beginning I could remember and no sense that existence could simply end. It was an extraordinary awareness for a little girl to carry, especially in a world that had very little language for what I was experiencing.

Then, at eleven, something happened that would shape the entire course of my life. I was shown what I understood to be humanity’s evolutionary journey, a sweeping vision of consciousness unfolding and my own participation in that larger becoming. I experienced an extraordinary sense of the intelligence, interconnection, and living wholeness of existence. The experience left me with a knowing that was difficult to explain and impossible for me to forget.

I was a child mystic living in a world that seemed to have forgotten something essential about itself.

And I wanted to understand why.

My childhood was filled with experiences and perceptions that didn’t fit neatly into the world around me. I was precocious, deeply sensitive, and often more comfortable contemplating the mysteries of existence than participating in the ordinary play of childhood. I felt older than my years, carrying an awareness I didn’t know how to share. I also knew the ache of feeling different, of not always feeling welcomed, cherished, or understood. I longed for the simple belonging that seemed to come so naturally to other children.

Looking back, I can see how those two experiences lived side by side. I felt an intimate connection with the vastness of life, yet often struggled to find my place among the humans with whom I shared it. I sensed an underlying wholeness while living in a world organized around separation. The contrast was bewildering, sometimes lonely, and ultimately became one of the great invitations of my life.

The understanding that arrived in childhood became the beginning of a lifelong inquiry. I wanted to know how what I had experienced related to the world we could observe, study, and understand. I wanted to find language for the extraordinary experiences that had shaped me, to explore their implications, and to discover whether the wisdom I had encountered could help illuminate the human condition.

I followed those questions into psychology, science, spirituality, philosophy, healing, and the study of consciousness. I earned my doctorate in counseling psychology and spent more than thirty-seven years accompanying people through the intimate terrain of being human. My professional training gave me valuable ways to understand the mind, behavior, relationships, trauma, and transformation. My work as a psychotherapist gave me an extraordinary opportunity to witness the human experience in all its complexity, tenderness, suffering, and beauty.

Through the years, I sought out researchers, teachers, wisdom traditions, and emerging fields of inquiry that could help me explore and substantiate what I had experienced so early in life. I was fascinated by the places where different disciplines converged and by the questions that remained open. My mystical experiences continually invited deeper inquiry, while my academic and professional life helped me develop the discernment, language, and practical understanding to bring those insights into relationship with the world.

As my understanding deepened, I began to recognize how profoundly our shared story of reality shapes the lives we lead. The worldview we inherit influences what we believe about ourselves, how we relate to one another, and the institutions and systems we create. Much of the world I had grown up in was organized around the assumption of separation, even as my earliest experiences had revealed a profoundly interconnected universe.

I came to understand that the story of separation had helped shape the world we inherited, and that a more unitive story of reality could help us participate in creating the world that comes next.

The work of my life gradually became a way of bringing that childhood knowing into language, relationship, and meaningful action. The little girl who had glimpsed a larger evolutionary journey was growing into a woman devoted to helping humanity recognize and participate in its unfolding.

Some of the most profound experiences of my life have arrived in the simplest human moments.

I have always loved being a mother. As a young woman, I made a fierce promise to myself that I would be the best damn mom on the planet. Motherhood became one of my greatest teachers, inviting me into the beautiful, humbling, sometimes messy experience of loving another human being. My children taught me things no university ever could. Through them, I discovered the tenderness, courage, vulnerability, and fierce devotion that come with caring for a life entrusted to your love.

Then, in November 2017, I held my first grandchild in my arms, and something extraordinary happened.

As I looked into her little face, I experienced an expansion of awareness and love that seemed to reach far beyond the moment. I felt connected to generations yet to come, to children who would be born long after my lifetime, to grandchildren and great-grandchildren whose names I would never know. It was as though seven generations were present with us, and I could feel the living continuity of our humanity moving through time.

I had already devoted decades to exploring human consciousness and our evolutionary possibilities. Yet holding that precious little girl brought everything into a different kind of focus. The future was no longer an abstract horizon of possibility. It had a face, a heartbeat, and a tiny hand wrapped around my finger. I could feel the responsibility we share for the world our children and grandchildren will inherit, and the profound implications of the choices we are making today.

Something maternal in me expanded beyond the boundaries of my own family. I felt a deepening call to care for the children of the world, for the Earth that would sustain them, and for the generations whose lives would be shaped by the world we are creating now. I began to understand more intimately what it means to be an ancestor of the future, to recognize that our lives are woven into a continuity far greater than any single lifetime.

That moment became a turning point in my understanding of service. The evolutionary journey I had glimpsed as a child was unfolding through the intimate relationships of everyday life. The great questions of consciousness, human development, and planetary transformation were suddenly inseparable from the simple act of holding a baby and wanting her to inherit a beautiful world.

I wanted her, and every child who would follow, to grow up knowing they belonged to a living world worthy of their love.

Over the years, I had come to recognize how deeply the stories we tell about reality shape the lives we lead. They influence what we believe is possible, how we understand our relationships, and the choices we make in our everyday lives. They become embedded in our institutions, our cultures, our economies, and the ways we relate to the Earth and one another.

For generations, much of the modern world has been organized around a story of separation. We have learned to see ourselves as isolated individuals, competing for limited resources, navigating a world of opposing interests, and struggling to establish our place within it. We have built systems that often reflect those assumptions, even when our deepest human longings call us toward connection, belonging, cooperation, and care.

I had spent much of my life sensing that this story was incomplete. My earliest spiritual experiences had revealed a profoundly interconnected universe, and my years of study and professional practice continued to deepen my understanding of the relational nature of life. Across disciplines, traditions, and lived experiences, I encountered insights that pointed toward a more whole and participatory understanding of reality.

Holding my granddaughter gave that understanding a new urgency and tenderness. I could feel how much was at stake in the stories we would pass to future generations. I wanted the children of tomorrow to inherit a world shaped by an understanding of our essential interdependence, a world in which belonging, compassion, cooperation, and care for the living Earth were woven into the ways we organized our lives together.

I came to see that humanity’s great evolutionary invitation was to recognize and embody a more unitive story of reality, one that could help us participate more consciously in the unfolding of life.

This is the story I have devoted my life to sharing.

It is the story of a living universe, intimately interconnected and continually becoming. It is the story of human beings awakening to our participation in something far greater than ourselves, discovering that the quality of our relationships matters and that our choices contribute to the world taking shape through us. It is a story that invites us to remember our belonging, honor our interdependence, and bring our gifts into meaningful service of the whole.

At the heart of this story is an understanding that has become the living center of my work:

Love is the organizing intelligence of life.

I have come to understand love as something far more expansive than an emotion or personal experience. Love is the living intelligence of relationship, the movement toward connection, coherence, creativity, and wholeness that I recognize throughout existence. It is the intelligence through which life continually organizes, adapts, evolves, and becomes.

And as we awaken to this understanding, we begin to recognize that our participation matters. We are continually contributing to the world through the quality of our presence, our relationships, our choices, and the ways we organize life together.

The desire to give voice to this understanding eventually became A World of Love: Awakening to the Intelligence of Life, the first book in a trilogy exploring our relationship with the organizing intelligence of life.

Writing these books has become one of the most intimate and meaningful experiences of my life. In many ways, I feel as though I have been preparing for them since childhood, since those early moments when I sensed a living universe and wondered why we lived as though we were separate from something I could feel so deeply.

The trilogy continues with The World That Love Built and The Life that Love Lives, exploring how we awaken to this intelligence, attune our lives and systems to its organizing principles, and embody it through our everyday participation.

My writing has emerged alongside decades of conversations, collaborations, and communities devoted to the evolution of consciousness and the good of the whole. Through The Dr. Julie Show: All Things Connected, Good of the Whole, the Connection Field, and many other initiatives, I have had the privilege of bringing people together across disciplines, traditions, cultures, and ways of knowing. Scientists and spiritual teachers, artists and activists, Indigenous wisdom keepers, innovators, healers, and everyday people have enriched my understanding of what becomes possible when we recognize our interdependence and allow our different gifts to contribute to something larger.

Today, I continue this work through writing, speaking, mentoring visionary leaders, hosting meaningful conversations, and creating spaces for conscious community and collective emergence. Through Imaginal Souls, a living field lab for emergent leaders, and my wider work in harmonic leadership, I love exploring how we can cultivate coherence, deepen our relationships, and participate more consciously in the world we are bringing into being.

I am especially drawn to people who sense that something new is emerging, people who have accomplished much and feel called toward a deeper expression of purpose, and people who are ready to bring their gifts into service of a more compassionate, coherent, and regenerative world.

After all these years, I remain wonderfully curious about the mysteries of existence and the extraordinary experience of being human. I love a great conversation, a surprising idea, an unexpected connection, music that moves me to tears, the beauty of the prairie, the wonder of children, and those delicious moments when life reveals a pattern I hadn’t seen before. I love gathering people around a table, imagining possibilities, laughing until my stomach hurts, and creating places where someone can arrive exactly as they are and feel that they belong.

I am still learning to welcome the fullness of being human, to embrace the tenderness of ordinary relationships, and to enjoy the simple pleasures of a life that doesn’t always need to be understood or explained. The little girl who felt so different from the world around her still lives within me, reminding me to remain curious, to make room for wonder, and to remember the beauty of belonging.

I sometimes marvel at the way life has woven these experiences together. The child who sensed a living universe grew into a woman devoted to exploring and sharing its mysteries. The psychologist who spent decades accompanying people through their personal journeys came to recognize the profound relationship between individual healing and our collective evolution. The grandmother who held seven generations in her arms felt the future become deeply personal. And the author who is writing a new story of reality is still learning, every day, how to live that story more fully.

I feel an enormous tenderness for the world we are becoming and a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity to participate in it.

If you’ve found your way here, I hope something in my story speaks to something in yours. We may have traveled very different roads, yet our lives are part of a much larger unfolding, and every genuine connection offers another opportunity to remember the beauty of our shared existence.

I believe we are living through an extraordinary time of change, with opportunities to recognize more deeply who we are, how we belong to one another, and what becomes possible when love guides our participation in the world.

There is so much still to discover, so much beauty to create, and so much life waiting to be lived.

Welcome to my world. There’s room for you here.

With love,

Julie