So how did The Connection come to be?

It started with a lifestyle that looked a lot like yours. Full-time work, raising children (including a set of triplets and a singleton), eating on the go, running on too little sleep, and practicing reactive self-care — constantly trying to fill buckets that were, in reality, bottomed out.

For 20 years, Julie had been guiding others through their healing — helping clients navigate stress, trauma, and the weight of lives that had become too much to carry. She was good at it. What she wasn’t doing was any of it for herself. She was preaching what she wasn’t practicing, pouring into others while quietly running on empty. She was the lighthouse guiding everyone else safely to shore while she was the one drowning.

By 2020, she was working 60 to 75 hours a week across four positions at four different locations, doing what it took to keep everything afloat. Her body had been asking for attention for a long time. In 2020, it stopped asking and started demanding. In September of that year, Julie experienced a TIA.

What followed was a cascade — an Interstitial Cystitis diagnosis in October, IBS in November, COVID in December, a Fibromyalgia diagnosis in January 2021, and an ER visit for cervical radiculopathy in February. Her body had delivered its message loud and clear: something had to change.

In June of 2021, Julie began her journey back to herself — working with a health coach and diving deep into the biopsychosocial model and its undeniable connection to overall health and healing. And then something powerful happened: she started taking her own advice. The same tools she had handed to clients for 20 years — when applied to her own life — worked. That journey lives on at @the.journey.back.2.me, proof that it is never too late and that healing has no age limit.

The Connection was born from that lived experience. The link between mind, body, heart, and soul is not a concept Julie read about — it’s one she lived. The connection between mental health and movement is too powerful to ignore and too important to leave out of the healing process. That’s exactly why she built a practice that brings both together.

MISSION

The missing link in your healing journey isn’t another prescription or another referral — it’s a community built around you. We bring together trauma-informed therapy and intentional movement to deliver connected, whole-person care that addresses your mind, body, heart, and soul. Our team of trauma-informed therapists and instructors follows your lead, amplifies your strengths, builds your toolkit, and holds space for every part of your story — because healing doesn’t happen in isolation, and it shouldn’t.

VISION

We are the missing link between fragmented care and true well-being. We exist to close the gap between surviving and thriving — building a community where every person has access to a team that sees them fully, meets them where they are, and walks every step of the journey with them toward healing and lasting well-being.