Episode 14 –
Julie’s Healing Journey — Trauma, Cancer, Nervous System Regulation & Finding Personalized Care

What happens when cancer diagnoses, childhood trauma, and years of feeling unheard collide — and you finally find a team that sees the whole picture?

In episode 14, the KK and Jenny welcome Julie – a client of Into the Woods Wellness – to share her healing journey and what changed after finding the team at Into the Woods. 

Julie describes a childhood in foster care, longstanding trauma, and feeling stuck, unheard, and boxed in by traditional medical care after a 2021 lymphoma diagnosis (treated with surgery and follow-ups, no chemo) and later melanoma, alongside insomnia, fatigue, and multiple medications. She explains how individualized, compassionate support at Into the Woods—high-dose vitamin C IV therapy, bloodwork, mindful yoga for nervous system regulation, and a parasite cleanse—helped her sleep, come off medications, and begin feeling safe and “more human.” 

Through the personalized wellness program, she learned how inflammation-triggering foods, caffeine, sugar, gluten, and dairy affected her body, lost significant weight, and gained tools and accountability. 

Julie hopes her story reaches others in dark places and shares there is more healing to come (including EMDR in time) as part of her healing journey.

Conversation Timestamps

00:00 Welcome Back Episode 14
00:13 Meet Julie Today
00:53 What Fills Your Cup
02:07 This or That: Healing Journey Edition
03:12 Writing as Healing
06:56 Planning and Social Style
08:30 Feeling Stuck Before Help
09:14 Cancer Diagnosis Spiral
10:55 Finding Into the Woods
11:42 Personalized Care Difference
15:08 Trauma and Mental Health
18:23 Alternative Healing Modalities
20:58 Fight or Flight Breaking Point
24:03 Compassionate Team Support
25:04 Mindful Yoga Release
25:49 Vulnerability and Release
26:11 Breathwork and Nervous System
26:52 Yoga Yin and Connection
27:44 Writing and Not Good Enough
29:01 Parasite Cleanse and Detox
30:39 Sleep Breakthroughs
34:40 Personalized Nutrition Reset
38:40 Weight Loss and Root Causes
40:33 Lifestyle Balance and Consistency
42:32 Owning Your Health
45:14 Healing Next Steps: EMDR
46:49 Hope Investment and Closing