Episode 177: Indigenous Wisdom Conversations: The Voice You Already Have with Julie Williams

What does it take to trust a yes before the mind can explain it?

Julie Williams is a scientist, healer, educator, and founder of Consciousness Medicine — and a friend of Julia Carmen's for over two decades. Listeners may remember her from episode 88, Seeing the Divine and the Potential in Everyone. She's back this time to share conversation with Julia and tell us about her new book, Om La La: The Power of Positivity Guidebook, a collaboration with twenty-four authors.

The conversation moves quickly into how Julie actually knows what's true for her — not conceptually, but in the body. She describes a kinesthetic yes that starts low in the belly, the same felt sense she trusted when the invitation to lead this book arrived at, by her own account, the worst possible time. Julia matches it with a story of her own — a student whose left big toe buzzes when she's on the right track. Different bodies, same wisdom, always specific to the person carrying it.

At the center of the episode is Gabe, Julie's dog of eighteen years, to whom the book is dedicated. Her chapter, "My Dog Is My Guru," traces a family constellation session where Gabe's presence — brought in as a resource when the work got too heavy to hold — shifted the entire room. It's the kind of love, Julie says, that taught her how to love something more every single day.

From there, the conversation widens: what women build with each other that's hard to build elsewhere, why "why" keeps you circling a problem while "what if" opens a door, and the four principles Julie has come to call the power of positivity — presence, perception, possibility, and practice. Not spiritual bypass. Not pretending the hard thing isn't hard. A practiced return to what's still possible.

"Everything we seek already lives within us. True healing is the journey back home."

Connect with Julie:

Website: www.consciousness-medicine.com
Podcast: Healing Codes
Instagram: @juliewilliamshealing
Facebook: @consciousnessmedicine
Episode 88 — Seeing the Divine and the Potential in Everyone with Julie Williams