Nurture your baby. Supercharge your joy. Release your anxiety. Reclaim your creativity. Own your wisdom.
Wild Heart Pregnancy.
Become the Mom you're meant to be.
(to paraphrase Mary Oliver 😉)
You’re staying up till 1am researching the perfect stroller, car seat, and oral snot sucker thingie, but the list just keeps growing and you’re Feeling. So. Overwhelmed.
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You’ve read all the books about pregnancy and birth you can get your hands on (and podcasts, and reels, and TikToks...), but it still feels like something's missing.
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You’re committed to not repeating the patterns from your own childhood, but you’re not sure how to make sure that happens (outside of the oodles of therapy you’ve already done.)
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You’re excited about being a mom, but you’re equal parts scared: of losing yourself, your relationship with your partner, of not being a good enough mom for this incredible little being you're bringing into the world. And you’d love to spend a lot more time on the excited train. 🚄
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You really want to connect with your baby, but there's so much to do and when your head hits the pillow and it feels like you missed your chance. Again.
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You’re doing ALL THE THINGS to take care of yourself, baby, and prepare for birth. But amidst the constant busy-ness you feel like there are other important things juuuust below the surface that you’re not paying attention to. Like, uh, your whole emotional world. 🤦♀️
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The inner stuff is what helps you slow down to actually connect with your baby. Which–bonus!–helps you be present as a mom once your baby is here.
It’s what gets you in touch with your intuition so you can make the right decisions for you and baby. This is important for the millions of choices bombarding you now. But it’s an absolute essential in labor and birth.
It’s what helps you face and move through your fears so you can be resourced and sturdy in your life, instead of reaching for your phone every time some anxiety creeps in.
It’s what makes space for intention and choice around how you show up as a mother, right now, and in the years to come.
It’s what connects you to the best parts of yourself: your creativity, your aliveness, your joy. The things that you want to be front and center as a mom, but are the first to fall to the wayside when you’re in busy action-mode all the time.
9 months will fly by, and you can't get this time back. If you think you don’t have time now, just wait. For real. (Veteran moms, IYKYK.)
This is your chance to not only do this life-transforming work, but also to set yourself up with the tools to stay connected to your wise, creative, alive self in motherhood, when time for you is even more scarce.
And...that's how your "Best Pregnant Self" becomes your "Best Mama Self" (without the constant need to pee, thank you very much.)
Sing and write and commune with your baby like the magical Earth Mama you secretly wanna be. Dance your booty off to Beyoncé in the kitchen and LOVE UP your beautiful pregnant body. (Finally!) face your fears and feel your power. Own your wisdom. Set your inner artist free.
Basically, be your whole ridiculously awesome self.
That’s what your kid will want you to be.
(And bonus? That’s what this crazy world actually
needs you to be.)
The world’s not gonna stop putting bright shiny things in front of you. You have to decide to tune out the stuff that doesn’t matter (like your second cousin’s scary birth story that she word-vomited on your Facebook page.) So you can tune in to what's actually important to you.
You have to choose to direct your attention in a world that is constantly trying to choose for you.
I’m not saying it’s easy. But when you do? Holy Wow.
A whole world opens up.
You suddenly drop in and experience this ridiculously amazing thing that’s happening inside you. You learn to love the heck out of your incredible body and crush the idea that your body's “in the way” of what you want to do in your life right now.
You connect with your baby. Feel your feelings. Celebrate. Grieve. And everything in between.
You LIVE your life, rather than rushing through it.
Yes, pregnancy is scary. There’s so much at stake. It’s new and weird–even if it’s not your first time around. Of course you’re doing everything you can to be well informed to make the best decisions for you and your sweet babe.
But with all the information overload, how the heck do you sort through it all and actually MAKE those good decisions??
You need to be connected to a source of info that is nowhere near the internet. That’s YOU.
Call it your inner wise self, your intuition, your inner Yoda. It’s all the same thing–it’s the knowing that we all have about what's best for us. And it is so freaking important to be able to hear it above the noise.
All of the practices in the course are designed to help you listen for your inner guidance, so you can have that as a foundation for your life. It creates a muscle that you then use throughout your pregnancy. And I'm not going to add any scary stats, but being able to listen to the messages of your body/intuition affect birth outcomes in profound ways.
As you practice leaning into that space of your own knowing, you begin to hear yourself more clearly and easily. You start to trust that unique voice in your own head. And then it becomes a resource you can access in a snap second when you need it. It’s like magic.💥
Truthbomb: preparing for motherhood (or adding a kid to the fam) is not just about perfecting your registry and taking fish oil. It’s about the inside stuff, like processing big messy feelings, or your relationship with your mom (sorry, it’s true.) And you can’t pick that up at Target.
Sure, you can skip this one. Lots of people do. They spend hours pinning the perfect nursery, even as that little fear creeps in: “what if I lose myself,” or, "what if my relationship implodes?”
Then they spend hours painting that perfect nursery, even as the fears keep nagging at them (almost as often as "I miss sushi".)
You came into this world as a fully expressed little being. Using your voice, dancing with abandon, getting messy with paint, building castles in the sand. Being YOU, out loud. You were connected to the innate joy of creativity. (Just like your own child will be, before you know it.)
But somewhere along the way, you lost touch with that fully free, joyful, creative self.
Maybe it was in school, where the arts were shoved aside as something "special" to do once a week. Maybe it was later, when you were told you couldn’t make money as an artist or writer. Or maybe you hung onto creativity, but you still ended up with a voice in your head telling you that sure, you can sing, but you can’t draw.
Either way, you’re certainly not that free, curious, unselfconscious version of yourself anymore.
We’re bringing her back.
And then they end up on the other side with their beautiful baby (and amazing nursery), and mixed in with the joy and exhaustion are still lots of feelings they never faced. And the feelings keep tugging and get h-e-a-v-y. Sometimes they can even feel like depression, weighing them down.
They don’t just go away.
I don’t want that for you. I want you to DIG IN. Because when you face the hard stuff, freedom is waiting for you on the other side.
Not the fake freedom of “oh, everything is just fine and always will be,” but the real freedom of “I can face all of the ways that life is outside of my control. I can feel my fears, and also feel my strength and power and my ability to deal with whatever comes.”
Because that’s what you actually need as a mom.
(Yep, those baby photo props are totally optional.)
For you, so that you can reclaim your full self. And for your kids, so you can be a champion for them staying connected to their own creativity, and the joy and authentic self expression that comes along with it.
As you create from this place, you heal your own intergenerational shame around creativity. And by doing that, you make room for your kids, and your whole family, to be fully self expressed. I mean, what is better than that???
Plus, tapping into your creativity is one of the best ways to achieve all these other goals we just talked about: tuning into what really matters, listening to your intuition, and using that inner wisdom to prepare for motherhood in the ways that count.
Also? It's fun. And fun matters.
The wildly creative course that prepares you for motherhood from the Inside-Out.
While most pregnancy stuff tells you what/when/how to do things, our method teaches you how to tune into yourself as the source of wisdom.
This not only kicks so much of your anxiety to the curb and catapults you to a next-level experience of pregnancy, but it’s also the secret sauce for having the best #momlife.
Of course you need info. Your inner wisdom can’t tell you that your baby is currently the size of a kumquat (at least, mine can’t.) But when you’re not tapped into your own compass, it is so freaking easy to look outside for answers whenever any little question or fear pops up, and then end up overwhelmed, anxious and taking advice from aidensmom2378 from Australia at 1:23am on a Tuesday.
Creativity is the very best way to connect with your inner voice during pregnancy. You’re using a tool that’s aligned with the state you are literally experiencing as a human: you’re creating life. If there was ever a time to be aware of creativity as our divine birthright, it’s now. So using your creativity in pregnancy? Magic.
Plus, it’s fun (duh.)
And, the more connected you are to your own creativity, the more you can be a cheerleader for your kids’ self expression.
Win win win. 🎉
amy w.
I've been leaving each module feeling centered and joyous in a way that I've barely felt through my pregnancy experience.
THANK YOU!
The course has been so fun and refreshing, there hasn't been anything else like it in my pregnancy so far. I feel so positive after doing every module and it breaks up my to-do-list attitude the rest of the week about all the prep I want to do before my birth.
tori w.
Julia’s course was a welcome respite from my busy and work-centered life. It was a real treasure to get to tap into my child-self, exploring so many avenues of play and creativity.
Here’s what matters to people like us:
Being a great mom AND being connected to your own life force and creativity. Celebrating the sh*t out of the highs and showing up for the big lows.
Digging-deep-in-the-soil connection with nature. Digging-deep connection with your own soul. Skinny dipping. Painting with your kids on slow Sunday afternoons while chicken soup bubbles on the stove.
Adventuring around the world and seeing more of it because of your kids. Laughing until you cry. Crying until you feel whole again.
Hot baths. Picking blackberries on the side of the road. Singing around a campfire until your voice gets hoarse. Modeling for your kiddos what it means to be a good human. Plus, ice cream on hot summer days.
“Yes, this and more, please?”
Then, Wild Heart Pregnancy is for you.
Because you're determined to be your best self for your baby. And that means being 110% YOU.
The intro to the course, all about what to expect, what you need to thrive in the course, and why creativity and art is such a game changer in living an intentional life, even if you cringe when you think about calling yourself an artist. Setting you up for inspired action from the get-go.
Let's lay the groundwork for stretch-your-wings creative expression. Explore how you got to this place in your life (aka knocked up), including the highs and lows of this crazy road so far. Step into some woo and create a sacred space to honor yourself and your pregnancy.
Connect with your little one on a whole new level through writing and song. Nurture the precious bond between you and your baby, both inside and outside the womb. Learn creative practices you'll have as an incredible toolkit to call on throughout your child's life so you can be that fun mom.
Turbo-charge your confidence and self-love as you honor your freaking incredible body. Hello--you are creating a whole human being in there!!! Enjoy your miraculous body through mindful movement, connection with nature, and some serious booty shaking.
There are seven modules designed to move you from hamster-wheel-racing through life to finally feeling the "glow" everyone's been talking about–inside AND out.
Dive into your maternal lineage, the beautiful and the rough, and step into motherhood with confidence and strength. Own your life stories and build your storytelling chops. You'll need them for the many bedtimes to come.
Dive deep into the complex and rocky landscape of emotion around pregnancy, birth, and motherhood through guided meditation and the almost magcial power of collage. You’ll come out the other side with a heart that’s clear, resilient, and totally ready to take on whatever motherhood throws your way.
Get crystal clear on your deepest, wisest intentions for your birth, and charge toward them like the unstoppable force you are. Rally a joyful circle of support to cheer you on as you stride toward this life-changing milestone with power and grace.
I developed Wild Heart Pregnancy because I wanted to prepare for motherhood in the ways that matter most. And once I started developing these tools, I just knew had to share them with you.
I live in a beautiful ecovillage in upstate New York, where I get to hike, swim, and occasionally pretend I’m a cross-country skiing pro—right outside my door (don’t worry, not all at once!) My kiddos are growing up in the kind of "village" people dream about, and yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. I’ve tried my hand at more art forms than I can count (theatrical clown, anyone?), but these days, storytelling has my heart. I’ve also been a licensed psychotherapist for fifteen years. I’ve helped hundreds of people transform their lives through deep emotional work, loving connection, and—of course—creativity and play.
Kara S.
I had a nagging feeling that my resistance to creativity was holding me back from the intentional, healing, soul-connected self-care that I was craving. Julia helped me find and nurture the creative part of me that I shut down decades ago.
This was not only incredible for me, but it gave me the courage to model creative self-care for my kids, to be more playful with them, and to encourage them to honor their own creativity! I'm so grateful.
tori w.
Julia’s course was a welcome respite from my busy and work-centered life. It was a real treasure to get to tap into my child-self, exploring so many avenues of play and creativity.
try the course for 14 days. I hope you love it!
But if you're not satisfied for any reason just contact us within 14 days of purchase and you'll receive a full refund, no questions asked.
Forget the "perfect pregnancy diet and sunrise prenatal yoga every day" best self. 🙄 There's actually no such thing as perfect here.
There's just beautifully, gloriously imperfect you, stepping into being the mother you're meant to be. And having the best time doing it.
You're pregnant and want to make the most of your pregnancy, whether it's your first baby or not.
You're curious about tapping into your creative side and using art to explore your emotions, hopes, and fears.
You want to step into motherhood consciously, empowered with a toolkit of self-connection and creativity to support your parenting journey.
You crave a deeper connection with yourself, your baby, and the transformative experience of pregnancy.
You want to set aside some time during your pregnancy for introspection, creative expression, and personal growth--even if it feels like you don"t have any!
You're not currently pregnant
You have no interest in exploring your creativity or engaging in artistic activities.
You're not willing to set aside any time during your pregnancy for self-reflection and creative exploration.
You're seeking a purely medical or technical course about pregnancy and childbirth.
You're not open to the idea of embracing the spiritual and emotional aspects of pregnancy.
As a seasoned expressive arts therapist, I've witnessed the profound transformation this process brings in private sessions. In the Wild Heart Pregnancy Course you're getting the essence of that work, distilled into a self-paced course you can do from the comfort of your couch (salted caramel ice cream at your side.)
The cost of a similar experience in a one-on-one setting could easily surpass $3,000. You currently have access to this powerful work for ONLY $499.
Let's do this!
3X MONTHLY PAYMENTS
$169
ONE TIME PAYMENT
$499
7 Course Modules filled with Insightful & Inspiring Teachings
6 Themed Sections Addressing Essential Aspects of Pregnancy & Motherhood
12 Dynamic Creative Arts Exercises with Step-by-Step Instructions
Guided Meditations & Visualizations
Downloadable PDF Resources
(If Stevie knew about this course, she'd definitely recommend it.)
$499
$169
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