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For over 40 years, I have practiced as a therapist and meditation teacher, and for nearly 30 years, I have mentored writers as a Writer's Sherpa. My work centers around supporting individuals in healing from anxiety, trauma, blocked creativity, grief, life transitions, and clarifying life purpose. Through a blend of emotional awareness and deep connection with our wisdom body, healing and transformation become possible.

My training encompasses somatic experiencing, breathwork, trauma-informed yoga, transformational journaling, dialectical cognitive behavior therapy (DCBT), mindfulness meditation, narrative medicine, ethical mentorship, and ceremonial practices. I guide with inquiry—open-ended questions that help you tap into your inner wisdom.

I believe our collective well-being is rooted in personal well-being.
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Explore my offerings—including several free resources—to see if my approach resonates with you. In our work together, I help you align with your inner resources through embodied counseling or spiritual mentoring practices, including embodied writing mentorship. These practices provide ways to transform pain stories into sources of strength, healing, and art.
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Discover your own compassion and courage. Drink from a deeper inner well—a source of wisdom that can guide and support you on your truest path, empowering you to make a positive impact in the world. Contact me for a free 20-minute consultation to discuss the possibilities.

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​FREE RESOURCES

3 Keys to Living Your Truest Life

In this guide you will learn three keys that will guide you and help you cut through the confusion to find your path to psychological, physical and spiritual Wholeness.

Turning Your Life into a Story

This simple formula will give you a way to bring all your ideas, personal experiences and wisdom to the page. My intention with all my writers is to help you make what’s meaningful to you, meaningful to the reader.  

A Welcome Message For You

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"Stop asking for the lamp to be put in your hand.
pick it up, and fill it with your own oil.
it is the stuff of you that’s meant to burn."  –  Rebecca Cecchini, Wisconsin poet
(this and more of Rebecca's poems found in The Clue of The Red Thread)
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Writing Help

Books

"Because our lives are full of forked paths, contradictory twists and turns, and frequent dead ends, and because we can sometimes forget who we are, we often need a guiding thread, a clue to help us successfully navigate our own particular labyrinths. Taking the thread of teachings gives us the confidence to reach our internal center as well as face our Minotaur, and then safely find our way back home to self, purpose, and community once more. This is what the everyday heroine looks like."  –Taken from The Clue of the Red Thread
Counseling & Mentoring
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An endorsement from His Holiness the Dalai Lama (an excerpt from The Thundering Years):
“Because the very purpose of life is to be happy, it is important to discover what will actually give us the greatest satisfaction. Everything we experience, whether it is enjoyable or not, affects either our minds or our bodies. Generally, it is our minds that have the greatest influence over whether we are happy or not. Our minds register everything that happens to us, no matter how small. As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are unable to use our creative potential, we lose one of the basic characteristics of a human being. In order to find mental stability and peace, the mind itself can be trained. We can cultivate positive attitudes like kindness and compassion, tolerance and contentment. Julie describes many ways to create peace and happiness, some on your own and some with your friends." 
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama, July 1995, for "The Thundering Years"

An endorsement from Parker J Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness and Healing the Heart of Democracy : 
“In this beautiful book, Julie Tallard Johnson--a gifted teacher and writer--brings fresh insight to an ancient truth: each of us must live from the inside out. This book--full of resources that range from heart-deep insight to helpful, practical exercises--can help us reclaim the treasure-trove of our own experience and being.” (Parker J. Palmer, author of Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to)

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