You may already know a great deal about bulimia and recovery.
Yet despite that knowledge — and all the determination and repeated effort you have brought to stopping bingeing and purging — you may find yourself still caught in the struggle.
What if it is not your effort that has been lacking?
What if conventional accounts of bulimia and bulimia recovery have obscured where you actually need to begin?
My work is with adult women experiencing bingeing, purging or both, whether or not restriction or other attempts to compensate for eating are also part of what is happening.
You may call what is happening bulimia. A professional may have given it another name. You may never have had a diagnosis at all.
These experiences may fall within diagnoses such as Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa binge-eating/purging type or OSFED — but a diagnosis does not determine whether your experience belongs here.
If you are unsure whether working together is appropriate, we can talk privately before deciding.
You may already have gathered a great deal of information about why bingeing and purging happen — and what you should do to stop.
But there is a problem we rarely notice.
From all that information, an explanation can begin to take shape — and to shape how you understand your own experience before your experience itself has really been examined.
And once that explanation defines the problem, it influences where you look for the solution. If it sends you looking in the wrong place, you can spend years struggling to stop bingeing and purging or to recover. And when nothing changes — or the change doesn't last — you may conclude that the failure lies with you without ever questioning the explanation you have been working from.
An explanation of an experience is not the same as understanding your experience.
Your experience is the primary evidence.
There may be familiar patterns, but we don't assume in advance what is relevant or how the pieces fit together.
We begin with what has actually happened and is happening in your experience.
Before deciding what something means, we look at what is there: what came before, what followed, what changed and how the different pieces connect.
What can appear confusing, contradictory or even inexplicable to you now can begin to make sense when we see how they connect.
A structure begins to emerge — and with it, a clearer understanding of what is actually happening and where change really begins for you.
The way those pieces fit together will not necessarily be the same for every woman, which is one reason generic information and one-size-fits-all approaches can fail to create lasting change.
There is a path from where you are now to freedom, but how you cross cannot be prescribed in advance.
My framework draws together lived experience, physiology, overlooked chapters in eating-disorder history, the construction of bulimia's diagnosis and classification, and the cultural contexts in which women come to understand their bodies, bulimia and recovery.
I have developed and refined this body of work through more than twelve years of guiding women worldwide to freedom from bulimia.
I bring that body of work into conversation with your experience and what you truly want. Neither replaces the other. Together, they allow us to understand your particular structure and discover what is needed next. That conversation continues throughout our work, shaping the path as it unfolds.
PAUSE
Discovering Your Current Structure
We begin with a pause — not a delay in the work, but the vital beginning of it.
Pause gives us the space to discover your current structure: how the different pieces fit together and what keeps the struggle in place. As that structure becomes clearer, so does your true starting point — and from there, what is needed next can begin to emerge.
REORIENT
Reorienting Towards Freedom
Once your current structure can be seen more clearly, it can be understood differently. What had looked like a problem within you can begin to make sense as part of the structure you have discovered.
Together, we reorient around what is now visible and what needs to change for freedom to become possible.
Freedom itself becomes clearer — not merely the absence of bingeing and purging, but a vivid, believable way of living that gives our work direction and gives your agency and motivation somewhere to go.
CROSS
Building a Structure for Freedom
Crossing is where understanding becomes lived.
I support you as what you are discovering and understanding begins to take form in everyday life — through new choices, responses and ways of living that increasingly support your freedom. Over time, what once required so much attention, negotiation and effort no longer needs to organise your life. Your attention and energy return to you for the life you want to live — and to love.
Recovery is often framed as a long, difficult struggle — one that may never quite end. But what if that is not simply a description of recovery: What if it is shaping what you can see — and what you believe is possible?
Why does that matter?
Because the future you believe you are heading towards changes what feels possible — and worth doing — today.
Start here. Complimentary, and yours to keep.
DESIGNED FOR FREEDOM
You may have brought knowledge, determination and repeated effort to recovery, yet still find yourself caught in the struggle. What if it is not your effort that has been lacking, but something important in the account you have been given?
The Crossing is a private, four-month collaboration between you and me. Together, we discover what has kept you stuck and struggling and what can set you free — and I support you fully as you cross from where you are now to where you truly want to be.
DISCOVER THE CROSSING →WHEN FREEDOM FEELS URGENT
Sometimes freedom acquires a particular urgency. You may be approaching an important milestone or transition — or the cost of continuing as you are may have become too great to ignore.
Concierge brings me to your location for an individually designed period of concentrated, in-person work. Over an agreed number of days, focused time together sits alongside ordinary life, allowing nuances, connections and spontaneous moments that might otherwise remain hidden to emerge. We can recognise and respond to them as they happen.
Concierge is shaped individually. It can be a concentrated piece of work in its own right or an immersive element within The Crossing. Its duration and form are agreed with you privately.
ENQUIRE →Listen, I get that you may not want to think too much about the risks of bingeing and purging. But it would be remiss of me not to say something.
Bingeing, purging, restriction and other ways of trying to compensate for or control eating can affect both physical and psychological health, sometimes without obvious outward signs.
You do not have to look unwell, be underweight or have a particular eating-disorder diagnosis for your health to be affected. You may not think you are "that bad". You may feel perfectly well. But the absence of obvious consequences should not be taken as evidence that no harm is being done.
The body is incredibly adaptable, sometimes so adaptable that it can be easy to assume everything is fine. Until it isn't. And some effects can be easy to attribute to something else.
I cannot, nor would I want to, scare you into recovery. Fear is not a good place from which to begin, and it is unlikely to take you very far.
But I do want you to be informed.
You do not have to become more unwell for what is happening now to matter.
A few things worth knowing — read the blog post →
Therapy takes many forms. The difference lies in the particular focus and framework of my work. The Crossing is a private coaching and mentoring collaboration focused specifically on bulimia, binge–purge experiences and freedom. I do not diagnose or provide therapy or medical treatment. I bring my lived experience, a developed way of understanding what may keep the struggle in place, and more than twelve years guiding women worldwide. Together, we explore how that understanding relates to your life and what needs to change for freedom to become possible.
Some women undertake The Crossing alongside therapy, medical care or other specialist support. Where these are needed, The Crossing complements rather than replaces them.
The Crossing begins as a four-month collaboration — enough space for the work to unfold fully. At the end of four months, we review together where you are and what, if anything, is needed next. Some women choose to continue; others are ready to move forward on their own.
Concierge is shaped individually. It can be a concentrated piece of work in its own right or an immersive element within The Crossing. Its duration and form are agreed with you privately.
No. Julie works with women at all stages — from those actively struggling to those who feel "mostly okay" but want true freedom, not management. The common thread is the desire for a life that is genuinely free.
Julie works with clients worldwide via video call. In-person work is available through Concierge. Distance has never been a barrier — many of her most meaningful engagements have been entirely online.
Investment is discussed privately once Julie understands your situation and what the work would involve. There are no fixed price lists because the work is never fixed — it is shaped around you.
You've been managing this long enough. A free discovery call with Julie is a conversation — no pressure, no sales pitch. Just an honest look at where you are, where you want to be, and whether working together feels right.
The call takes 45 minutes. It might be the most important conversation you have this year.
BOOK YOUR FREE CALL →"It's such a relief to speak about binging and purging with someone who has done it. Someone who knew what it's like to sneak around and make weird excuses and do weird stuff! I felt truly understood by you. Before I was always met with confusion and puzzlement — I even felt the eating disorder specialists didn't really understand. What an amazing, hopeful feeling to see you recovered. I loved the process you took me through on the call."
— E.R., 43
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