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Shamanic Medicine Women | Based in Scotland
Psychospiritual Retreats for Transformational Healing
Kambô Ceremonies - IAKP Certified
Sound Baths & Women's Circles
Expansive Experiences to Enhance Your Well-Being

30/03/2026

“I should meditate more. I should be over this. I should have known better.”

The word 'should' often carries a hidden weight… urgency, shame, pressure to meet an invisible standard, a critical voice. But when we soften it into I choose, we bring our agency back into the room.

“I choose to slow down.”

“I choose rest over proving myself.”

“I choose compassion, even here.”

Try noticing how it feels when you shift the language. You might discover there’s already a quiet wisdom inside you… not trying to force change, but inviting it.

What’s something you’re choosing today, even gently? Let us know in the comments ⬇️

23/03/2026

Healing doesn’t always arrive as lightness at first. Sometimes it brings a wave of sadness, anger, or longing for what could have been different. Grief can surface when we realise how much we carried, how long we coped, or what we didn’t receive when we needed it most.

This part isn’t a setback. It’s often a sign that something inside finally feels safe enough to be acknowledged. The relief tends to come later, once the body knows it no longer has to hold everything alone.

If healing feels heavy right now, it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. It can mean you’re moving through an important layer.

20/03/2026

A lot of what we call “personality traits” or “just how I am” are actually learned ways of coping. Not because something is wrong with you, but because your system figured out how to survive and stay connected.

Over-functioning, staying busy, keeping everyone happy, never fully relaxing — these were survival patterns that helped you get through something. The problem is, the body doesn’t always realise the danger has passed.

Noticing these patterns isn’t about labelling yourself or digging up the past for no reason. It’s about understanding why rest feels hard, why slowing down feels unsafe, and why your nervous system might still be on high alert.

Which one of these feels most familiar to you right now?

17/03/2026

Slowing down and sitting in ceremony can open doors we didn’t realise we needed. A space to soften the heart, listen inward, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom that often gets lost in the pace of everyday life.

Join us in sacred circle for a heart-opening cacao ceremony infused with the dream-weaving spirit of mugwort. Guided by intention, ritual, and gentle meditation, we’ll sip ceremonial cacao to soften the heart while mugwort supports intuition, inner vision, and connection to the unseen.

📅 18th March

🕰 6:30–8pm

📍 Perthshire

If you feel called, we would love to welcome you. Book via our events page.

Julia & Julia

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16/03/2026

So many of us were given labels that had nothing to do with who we truly were. Words that came from someone else’s discomfort, someone else’s limitations, someone else’s inability to meet us where we were.

Being called “too much” often says more about the container you were in than the truth of your nature. Sensitivity, emotion, volume, expression - these aren’t flaws. They’re signs of a system that feels deeply and responds honestly.

When we begin to see that those old judgments weren’t ours to carry, something inside loosens.

We start returning to the parts of ourselves we learned to hide.

11/03/2026

If you’ve ever thought, “I understand why I feel this way… so why doesn’t it feel better yet?” you’re not alone. A lot of people do years of talking, analysing, and gaining insight, and still sense there’s something unresolved underneath it all.

That’s because healing isn’t just something we think our way through. Our bodies hold experience in ways words can’t always reach, and parts of us need more than understanding to soften and release. Sometimes healing asks us to slow down, feel, move, and reconnect with what we learned to disconnect from. Deep in our subconscious we hold more than our minds can ever imagine.

It doesn’t mean the work you’ve done hasn’t mattered. It has. This is often just the next layer.

Does this resonate with you? Or have you felt this “something’s missing” feeling before?

09/03/2026

Minimising our own story is something many of us learn early on. Not because the experience didn’t matter, but because it didn’t feel possible to name the truth at the time.

“It wasn’t that bad” becomes a way to stay upright, to function, to move through life without collapsing under what we didn’t have the capacity to hold.

But the body remembers, even when the mind tries to soften the edges.

Healing isn’t about confronting everything at once. It’s about giving the system enough safety, warmth, and attunement to finally acknowledge what it has been protecting. And from that place, something begins to shift — gently, naturally, without force.

Julia & Julia

02/03/2026

We speak about sleep as if it should follow a perfect formula, and when it doesn’t, we go straight into worry or frustration. But waking during the night is far more natural than we’ve been taught to believe.

Long before modern schedules and productivity culture shaped our expectations, people rested in a rhythm that matched their bodies. They woke for a little while, moved gently through the quiet, and then drifted back into sleep without fear something was wrong.

What often makes night-time wakefulness uncomfortable today isn’t the waking itself… it’s the pressure we put on ourselves the moment it happens. The belief that rest only counts if it’s uninterrupted.

But your body has its own wisdom. Sometimes waking is simply a pause, a moment of stillness, a chance to breathe without the noise of the day. And when we stop fighting it, rest often finds its way back on its own.

With love,

Julia & Julia

23/02/2026

Even when we think we’ve moved on, our bodies sometimes hold onto experiences in ways we don’t immediately recognise. Healing doesn’t follow a timeline, and it often speaks through subtle cues rather than words.

If you’re wondering whether something from your past is still affecting you, there are signs that can help you understand what your system might be carrying.

Swipe left for the signs ➡️

16/02/2026

Many of us learned early on that saying no came with consequences - conflict, shame, withdrawal, disappointment. So the body adapted. Yes became safer than the risk of being misunderstood or losing connection.

But automatic yeses often come at the cost of ourselves. They pull us away from our own limits, our own needs, and the part of us that’s still waiting to be acknowledged.

This work isn’t about caring less for others.

It’s about caring for yourself with the same tenderness you offer everyone else.

13/02/2026

You might not remember what happened… not fully, not clearly, not in a way that others would understand. But your body does. It remembers through tension, through guardedness, through a nervous system that learned to stay alert… even when you’re safe now. The body always remembers.

This is the thing about trauma: it doesn’t always leave behind a neat story. Sometimes it’s just a feeling you can’t name, a reaction that feels too big, a heaviness you didn’t choose. And for a long time, maybe you blamed yourself for not being able to “get over it.”

But it was never your fault. Your body was doing what it knew best… protecting you.

This is why healing asks for more than insight. It’s not just about understanding the past, it’s about creating new safety in the present. Through the breath. Through slowness. Through spaces that invite your body to feel, release, and soften in its own time.

You don’t need perfect words or perfect recall to deserve healing. You just need to start where you are, and trust that your body, the part of you that carried so much, is also the part that knows how to come home.

Julia & Julia

09/02/2026

Fun is one of the simplest ways to reconnect to ourselves, yet it’s often the first thing we let go of when life feels full.

But joy doesn’t need to be extravagant or earned. Sometimes it’s as small as letting yourself be playful for a moment… without purpose, without pressure, without an agenda.

What has felt fun for you lately?

We’d love to hear.

Julia & Julia

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About JULIA2

JULIA2 has been created out of the desire to combine our wealth of experience with you. Our aim is to help you to love the life you live. On our website, you will find information for all our events: retreats, workshops, ceremonies, yoga classes and master classes.

We first met in 2008 when we were both working as Psychotherapists for a mental health charity. Soon after this we set up our own private therapy practice and continue to expand what we offer together. This includes Wellbeing programmes, Retreats, Workshops, Ceremonies and Kundalini Yoga.

Through our own journeys, we know that it is possible to create changes that energise us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Living our potential, freeing and liberating ourselves from the repetitive patterns that can keep us stuck.