A Memoir · A Healing Journey · A Braver You
Sacred
Defiance
"You are not broken. You are remembering."
After a lifetime of holding it all together, one woman's world unravels. What follows is not a story of destruction, but of rebirth — a memoir and practical healing framework for every woman who has ever felt she had to choose between love and herself.
The Book
Part memoir. Part medicine book.
Married at eighteen. A mother who never told her the truth about her own dying. A daughter given a ten percent chance of survival, and a doctor's admission, years later, that what should have been impossible had somehow happened anyway. A second marriage that ended after decades of lies. And, finally, a love that arrived when she least expected it — imperfect, hard-won, and entirely real.
Sacred Defiance moves between raw, specific scenes of a life actually lived and a practical framework for reclamation, built from four decades of work in kinesiology, counselling, and shamanic practice.
Identify and release the beliefs that have quietly shaped a life from the inside.
Calm an overwhelmed nervous system and come home to a body that has been trying to speak.
Reclaim the parts of yourself that trauma and conditioning taught you to leave behind.
Find the courage to love again, fully, after everything.
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Journal
The Sacred Feminine Womb Wisdom Journal
The Journey Inwards Begins
So many of us carry our pain in the womb. This is a gentle, guided companion for returning to her. Through reflection, meditation and journalling, you will learn to listen to your womb’s quiet wisdom, release the stories you no longer need to carry, and trust your intuition as your guiding compass.
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Reference Guide
Mapping the Body’s Energy Systems
A Reference Guide to Self-Healing
Using the chakra system as its foundation, this guide explores how the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of us are deeply interconnected, and how imbalance in one ripples through the whole. Open any page and find the guidance you need for where you are today.
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About Julia
A life spent learning to come home to herself.
Julia Longin is a kinesiologist, counsellor, and shamanic practitioner whose work in the healing arts spans four decades. She came to that work by an unlikely road — when her youngest daughter was given a ten per cent chance of survival and the hospital had nothing further to offer, Julia went looking for everything it hadn't.
She is the mother of three and a grandmother. She co-facilitates Vision Quests and works with women in retreats and circles. Sacred Defiance is her account of the unravelling of a thirty-one-year marriage, and the map she built on the way back.
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