Julie's Blog
7 Days of Legendary Gifts
So, I was getting my nails done yesterday… And my nail tech (shout out to Nails by Aspen) asked me: So, have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Now, I’m not gonna lie – I’m a late Christmas shopper. But I don’t stress about it because I love to give experiences and gifts from friends
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Why Can’t I Remember My Dreams? (and what to do about it)
In my experience, the best place to start inquiring about why you can’t remember your dreams is with a Rest Inventory. Often our routines regarding Rest leave no space for our dreams to breathe in our waking life.
My Top 3 Struggles as a Feminine Entrepreneur
As a Feminine Entrepreneur, I admit I struggle profoundly in balancing my drive to succeed with my overall well-being, my relationships, and relishing joy and pleasure in life. I can feel so alone in my journey. I can easily sink into the paralyzing fear that I’m not doing enough, I don’t want it enough, or
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Turning Should Into Want: How to do only what you want to do
What if you could Live your life in such a way that you only did exactly what you want to do?
Here’s how…
3 Keys to #winning at Parenting…Even When You Feel Like Crap
Truthyfully, the title of this blog post could more accurately be: 3 Keys to #winning at Parenting…Even When [ insert Life Challenge here]. Because these 3 Tips are what enable any Parent dealing with any issue be more present, loving, and ninja-like in their ability to navigate anything parenthood and life has to throw at
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Why You Don’t Need to Fear Failure
The feeling my daughter hates (and me too!) when she doesn’t reach her goals is Shame. And this insidious sensation packs such a wallop of discomfort and pain that we will do just about anything to avoid feeling it. We avoid setting goals. We avoid making changes we know will benefit our health, relationships, or career. We talk ourselves out of plunking down money to get the help we know we need and actually desperately want.
Self-Care Offers the Best ROI
A few moments in life tend to stand out as turning points, a cross roads where we become conscious that we can choose a different way – a better way. For me, I remember the day I caught myself saying (for about the millionth time): I’m sorry. I’ve been so busy. I remember wondering to
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If Chocolat were my Dream…
Have you ever seen the movie, Chocolat with Juliette Binoche, Dame Judy Dench, and Johnny Depp? It’s one of my favorites! And not just because it features some of the most decadent ways to indulge in chocolate! I rewatched the movie this weekend as part of a day long workshop entitled Beyond Patriarchy. Yep, we watched a movie about
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You May Say I’m a Dreamer…
I admit it. I’m a Dreamer. A bleeding heart. I’ve wanted to make the world a better place since I was a kid. I want to serve and be a part of something bigger than myself so that my life has meaning and purpose.
And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
Living with the Questions
About 7 years ago, I began to have a glimmer of my purpose. In truth (and hindsight), I can see that all the experiences I’d had up until that point were preparing and leading me toward this purpose. In 2011, I went to a teacher training for Qigong and Tai Chi – having never taken
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Somatic Dreamwork to Change Your Consciousness
Dream Tending
Dream Tending is a space within the Spirit Sanctorium alchemical community for Magical Misfits and Sacred Rebels. Open to all Spirit Sanctorium members, this space is designed cultivate a Living Relationship with our Dreams and work with the Magic that emerges. With an experimental attitude and deep listening to the body’s sensations, it’s is a romp through the subconscious to influence the collective Waking Dream (what Muggles call “real” life). With several methods for dreamwork available, Dream Tending facilitates an intimate connection to your dreams, the unconscious, and your alchemical works. Click the Circle to get more information about joining Spirit Sanctorium and Dream Tending.
WEAVING: a Dream Mentorship
For Dreamers, Magicians, and Soul Artists… a totally priceless 9 month group program with a completely meaningless certification to facilitate your own community of Dream Explorers. In WEAVING: a dream mentorship, we start our journey with the foundational methods of contemporary dreamwork, geeking out over archetypes, dream structure, the language of symbol and metaphor, and other heady methods for grasping the dream substance. Then we toss out all the rules and what we think we know and focus where curiosity, creativity, and the sensations in the body lead us to experiment and expand how we engage with our dreams and the infinite messages they hold for us.
UNRAVEL: Get Unstuck with Somatic Dream Coaching
Private Dream Coaching for Influencers and Change Makers making a difference in the world. Dreams are potent sources of infinite energy. Working with your dreams nurture the gifts of wisdom, insight, and healing offered as you sleep to creatively influence the Collective Waking Dream. Dreamwork asks you to embrace feminine energies of mystery, stillness, and the slower paced heartbeat of the earth. They reveal bit by bit, layer by layer the awesome breadth of being-ness as you court, tend, and honor the process of discovering and loving every aspect of your messy, feeling, unruly, beautiful human self. Our assignment as characters in this Waking Dream is to continue to explore the vast terrain of our psyche and heal the frayed or broken bridges connecting us with our True Nature. This is our Offering to the World
Julie Balderrama
The Dream Witch
