Re-Remembering
It’s been a while for me since I’ve been able to travel. I’ve had long covid for several years, which has often forced me into an indoor life and made me cautious about going outside. So going on a short flight for a holiday was quite a revelation.
Here I am, walking out of the airport in Faro, Portugal, post-flight, feeling free.
I still can’t quite believe it happened, but here I am.
We hired a car and stopped en route near a beautiful field with olive trees. We decided to take a break from driving and just walk around. I realised how good it was to be in the sun and in nature. I’d been spending many weeks building a new project, which I’ll share a bit more about at the end and in next emails to come.
As we walked up the field to the top of a little hill, one tree in particular called.
An old, gnarled olive tree. I felt so drawn and held her close.
It was the most beautiful thing, feeling that connection.
I realised how exhausted I felt, and how much I had longed for this feeling of being in nature. Just being.
Exhausted from our early flight, we lay down in the shade. As my bare feet touched the earth, I watched the leaves dancing gently in the wind, feeling so grateful.
The olive tree was beautiful. Her leaves swayed gently in the breeze. There was birdsong in the distance and swaying grass. I noticed again the drain I felt from pushing through, even though I’d wanted to ‘get it ready’, and how patterns of conditioning still have a grip on me, silencing my voice when I don’t take care. And I’d just been through a loop of that again in the process of creating my latest project. It made me feel a little weary and sad.
And I know I’m not the only one. This is something I see again and again in those of us bringing something meaningful into the world — how easily we move away from ourselves when we don’t feel held, and how quickly our voice quietens when old patterns take over.
She shared with me about her everlasting nature. I felt comforted and soothed, taking in the perspective of the smallness of what I was going through in relation. And then she said to me quite loudly:
Let it go and let yourself be carried.
You will be carried anyway.
It is time to put your bare feet on the floor and feel held.
And I let go, feeling the slight pull of gravity in my flesh and in my bones. I felt the earth supporting me, always there, ever present, and dropped in further.
Then she said:
If you feel your soul calling and don’t know the way, call in support through the spirit of nature. And so I did.
I’m not sure how long I lay there dozing away, my body feeling relaxed and heavy, occasionally roused by my partners gentle snoring weaving into the wind — and when I opened my eyes, I saw tree folk.
She was not alone, the ancient one, others had gathered.
Wisely nodding their heads in the wind.
And I was given these words to receive and to share.
Oh ancient one,
you are here to become one.
Find your roots.
Find your roots.
We are one.
Let the bare earth under your feet
be testimony to your heart’s beat.
One with the earth,
one with the wind,
the galaxies, and beyond.
So I thought I’d share these words with you before I dive more into just being, along with an update for you:
I’ve just been laying the ground for Soulpreneur Corner.
And in creating Soulpreneur Corner, I realised how easy it is for me to push through and not listen, even though I am a deep listener by nature. It’s how I’ve been conditioned. Even though I have done so much inner work, my system moves away from my authentic voice if I don’t take care.
So it has become clearer than ever that Soulpreneur Corner is about rewilding ourselves — remembering who we truly are and what has always held us — and letting that inspire and support our work, so we can be free to bring our soul-led work and ideas, be they large or small, out into the world.
It’s for healers, coaches, therapists, and anyone bringing a soul-led way of living and being into the world.
I’ll be sharing more here about my rewilding journey, guided by the greater web, and woven with the embodied understandings I gained through my trainings.
Those trees reminded me that I am here to listen deeply, weave from all I have learnt, and share from that being. That’s my work, in this corner and in my main hub, is all about.
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Hi, I’m Julia
A medical doctor turned intuitive guide.
I support deep-feeling, soulful humans on their journey of Inner Homecoming.
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Author’s note:
Julia’s reflections arise from her own Soulpreneur journey, woven together with professional training in somatic and trauma-informed approaches, mindfulness, and decades of lived experience exploring embodiment, intuition, and inner transformation.