Julie Goodridge is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her honesty and strength of character.

Her journey is nothing short of extraordinary. At just sixteen, she recognized a deep seated dissatisfaction with herself, sparking a lifelong commitment to personal freedom and growth. However, it wasn’t until her late thirties, through the transformative power of Reiki, that this commitment turned into a life altering journey of accelerated self empowerment.

Her philosophy centers on guiding clients to rediscover inner freedom and clarity by addressing limiting beliefs and embracing personal authenticity. With experiences spanning high pressure sales, academia, mental health advocacy, and parenting, she’s cultivated a unique coaching approach that blends intuition, healing, and tough love.

Her path was not an easy one. But her perseverance made her the strong woman she is today. Having faced a near fatal head injury and supporting her daughter through an eating disorder, she inspires resilience, self awareness, and the courage to navigate even the most challenging moments. Here is what she said…

Meet Life Coach Julie Goodridge:

Name: Julie Goodridge

Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind

Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to free themselves from pain, connect with their intuition, gain clarity and detach from drama so they can live happier and more fulfilled lives.

How they can help: By using various tools and techniques as well as her own intuitive guidance.

First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?

In answer to “how I am”, thank you, I am good and enjoying life.

My ex husband and I had literally just separated the week before quarantines were imposed.

We decided three months earlier and our uncoupling was incredibly conscious on both sides.

Untangling the tendrils of a twelve year involvement inevitably took its toll emotionally.

I moved to a relatively remote location just over the English / Welsh border in mid Wales and immersed myself in Nature for eighteen months, needing peace and quiet to be introspective whilst I processed and worked through it.

In a bizarre way, the timing couldn’t have been any better for me.

I work from home and my surroundings gave me what I needed.

We now have a conscious friendship and it’s ultimately been a delight to see how our now individual lives have unfolded.

I have two step daughters whose birth mother died when they were four and a half and six.

They were nineteen and twenty one when we separated and both supported us in our decision.

The most beautiful thing is that we are still a family of four even if no longer married.

We are all extremely close.

My eldest came home from university to live with her father during the pandemic and the youngest, being in a much better place mentally.

She lives with an eating disorder.

It was the right time for all of us, and we all coped reasonably well with the pandemic.

How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?

In a variety of ways, from being a terribly isolating experience to some in which they were able to use the space to delve into themselves, and a not altogether pleasant experience sometimes.

Some got very creative and I, as I explained in the previous question, found it a very peaceful and creative time.

What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?

1. That Nature can offer solace if we can slow down enough to allow it to, and even if we cannot, it has an extraordinary capacity to impart a sense of wellbeing if we are exposed often enough.

2. That our deepest pain crystallises into wisdom if we can find the strength to venture into it and through it.

3. That true Acceptance and Surrender often create an amazingly beautiful movement of Grace, opening up our lives in previously unimaginable ways.

4. That there is ALWAYS more, ALWAYS.

5. That we have absolutely everything we need within the infinity of ourselves. More creativity, more potential than we ever thought possible and more of the essence of our unique individuality that makes each of so special.

6. That Hope and Trust carry powerful intention and energy that can lead to profound and life altering transformation.

7. Change IS inevitable.

8. To always be open to learning more.

The Origin:

Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?

I started out in life as a young person, incredibly unsure of myself, with low self esteem and anxiety, wondering where my place in the world was.

I recall, at sixteen years old, sitting in front of my doctor and saying, “I know what the problem is, I don’t like myself.”

Almost at the same time, I had enough insight to realize that I was a prisoner of my mind and its reactions.

I committed to spending my life becoming free, though I had no plan for how to achieve that.

I just knew I had an intention to experience as much freedom as I could in my life.

Timing is everything, and it wasn’t until I became attuned to Reiki that my personal development journey truly began, at the age of thirty eight.

A process of accelerated self-empowerment began, which quite literally blew me away with its speed.

I was learning that, actually, anything was possible and that there is far more to life than we sometimes think.

I had worked in a sales career early on for eleven years, which helped me develop some self confidence.

I then went to university and earned two degrees, including one from Oxford University, to prove to myself that I could do it.

Yet, despite these achievements, I still felt something was missing.

Reiki changed that!

I became passionate about anything related to personal growth, which led me to start my coaching career after experiencing coaching myself.

My ex and I attended some powerful residential retreats early in our relationship, aimed at cultivating the best intimate relationship possible.

Both of us had experienced unhealthy relationships in the past, and we were curious about discovering ‘real’ love.

I ended up training with the couple who ran these courses.

I am a healer as well as a life coach, and I enjoy the combination of the two roles.

I have utilized counseling, psychotherapeutic work, and life coaching, finding that the right person and modality always seem to come along at the right time.

During this period of my life, I also spent eleven years working in the third sector for a mental health charity.

I ultimately managed a care home for eleven clients with severe issues.

I led a team of ten staff and loved the work.

I only left that role to become a homemaker and mother.

What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?

In 2011, I sustained a serious head injury after passing out on my cantering horse, falling off, and damaging critical arteries that supply blood to the brain and head.

These injuries went undiagnosed for six weeks.

It was only because my concussion was so severe, taking me back to the hospital several times, that they were eventually discovered.

My concussion saved my life and, ultimately, my carotid arteries.

I had several blood clots on each side of my head, as well as significant arterial damage.

The miracle, and it truly is a miracle as far as I am concerned, is that none of the clots moved into my brain.

I could have so easily suffered a stroke or died at any moment.

Several doctors have since asked me if I realize just how lucky I am.

I do!

In the moment I was told of that diagnosis, a previously unexperienced level of gratitude moved into my life, and it has never left.

It took several doses of heparin to dissolve the clots and six months for the arteries to heal.

I am incredibly lucky, as these types of injuries often don’t heal at all.

It took three years to fully recover from the concussion.

Those three years turned out to be some of the most valuable in my life.

The Coaching Style:

How do you innovate with coaching your clients?

Being informed by the process of getting to know a client in the first instance, my coaching identifies goals clients have, recognising no longer useful beliefs and patterns of thinking and behaviours.

Previously perhaps essential for survival in a sense.

The more open and authentic a client can be the quicker the root of issues can be identified and worked with, ultimately releasing them with Love and respect for the purpose they had.

Unpicking a process of exploration into depths of themselves they may never have experienced.

I am interested in bringing Freedom into my clients lives, internal Freedom which allows them to express more creatively from an inner compass that already knows what is right for them.

It is simply a journey to what is already there. Importantly simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy, and strength, courage and a commitment to the process takes discipline.

Navigating what can be extremely uncomfortable momentarily takes guts.

What’s unique about your coaching approach?

I trust the space and go where the coaching or healing takes me (us), without trying to control it.

The deepest releases and shifts occur working this way.

What benefits do your clients get after working with you?

Persistent, positive transformation with a mind more easily able to recognise the inner wisdom, knowledge and intuition that exists in each of us.

Clarity becomes easier to find, and boundary setting is no longer stressful.

There is a deep knowing that what is truly best for oneself will ultimately be the best thing for anyone else involved in a particular issue or situation.

Attachments to previously painful situations begin to fall away.

This creates space for the ability to remain compassionately distanced from what now may clearly be recognized as ‘drama.’

In my experience, the attachment to creating drama in our lives is incredibly common.

However, letting go of that attachment is one of the most liberating experiences we can have.

Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?

My intuition, gut feelings, and life experience guide me in my work.

I allow sessions to unfold naturally, letting them go where they need to go, even if that requires gentle but tough love.

One of the most challenging times of my life was caring for my youngest daughter, who lives with an eating disorder.

For four years, I supported her through her journey, an incredibly difficult time for all of us.

I discovered that when you believe you’ve dug as deep as humanly possible, it’s still possible to dig even deeper.

It was essential to use tough love until she reached the point where she wanted to live again, a process that took several years.

I believe we all have an inner warrior, and when the situation calls for it, that warrior will surface, if we remain open to the possibility.

Our family mantra became, “Change is inevitable,” and it remains our guiding principle to this day.

Now twenty three, my daughter is an incredible human being who inspires me daily.

The Impact:

If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?

There is ALWAYS more, ALWAYS.

What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?

That, as crucial as our minds are to experiencing this wonderful thing called life, there is only so much we can understand, study, critique and get to grips with on that level.

Learning that we are all connected to each other, and part of something so much greater, helped me develop trust and continue with my journey knowing that we are supported by unconditional Love.

Even though support is always available, we don’t always feel it, and this is one of the key areas I focus on.

I help people connect with their intuition, and once that connection is made, it becomes a part of them that cannot be taken away.

I am deeply passionate about living with freedom and helping others experience the same.

Your final thoughts?

My final thoughts are that, based on my own experiences and those of my clients, we are capable of dealing with any situation that crosses our path.

The key lies in choosing to face it, because we always have that choice.

Holding onto hope can provide an opening.

Hope carries a powerful energy, and deciding to remain open to life’s possibilities, even from a place of darkness, can lead to meaningful and significant change.

To summarize, I have faced many challenges in my life.

I am twice divorced, once unconsciously at the age of 26 and again consciously at 57.

I brought up two young girls whose birth mother tragically took her own life when they were just four and a half and six years old.

Becoming their stepmother has been, and continues to be, one of the most rewarding roles I have ever had.

Losing my father eight years ago remains the greatest loss of my life.

Yet, my journey through grief has taught me a profound truth: no one can ever truly be taken away from us.

My father resides even more strongly in my heart now.

His presence reminds me that we must not allow ourselves to die inside when those we love pass away.

I continue to pursue a path of personal development and remain in awe of what life has to offer.

Over the past four years, I have faced health challenges that have slowed me down but also provided an opportunity for even deeper and more profound growth.

I am now much better and excited for what’s next.

Life is always an adventure, and I look forward to embracing it wholeheartedly.

Where Can You Find Julie Goodridge?

If you liked this interview and if you would love to connect with your own intuition, get rid of pain, gain clarity and detach from drama, go to www.juliegoodridge.com and see how Coach Julie can help you do that.

If you’d like to peak a glimpse into her coaching, watch this video:

You can also follow her Facebook account.

And if you’d like to connect with her more personally, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message on her Email juliegoodridge1@gmail.com. It was an honor having this interview with her.