Grand Rising! I’m Julie D!
I’m a National Guard veteran — Kansas and Virginia Air National Guard — and like so many who served, I came home without a map. The uniform comes off, but the vigilance doesn’t. The mission ends, but the nervous system never got the memo.
What I found on the other side of that threshold — through HeartMath, through the labyrinth, through sitting in circle with other veterans — was not a cure. It was a path. A way back to myself. A way to hear my own heart again.
Golden Feather Silver Linings was born from that path. It is the practice I wish had existed when I came home. It is built on the understanding that healing is not linear, not clinical, and not one-size-fits-all. It is a ceremony. And ceremonies require a guide who has walked the ground themselves.
Credentials & Training
HeartMath Certified Coach · Certified Labyrinth Facilitator · SDIA Warrior PATHH Graduate & Brand Ambassador · Vet to Vet USA Peer Facilitator · National Guard Veteran (Kansas & Virginia Air National Guard)
Weekly volunteer peer facilitator at the VA Medical Center.
“If you don’t go within, you go without.”