Julie Evans, MA, is a licensed massage therapist, ordained deacon, healer, and freelance writer. With her mission to help people transform their wellness into a way of life, Julie takes personal pain, loss, and disease in hand, assisting others to interpret what their bodies and minds are telling them. Julie is a writer and columnist for Healthy You magazine. Her work has also appeared in numerous other media, including Pulse magazine (Voices from the Heart of Medicine), Fictionique, NPR's The Roundtable, the Woodstock Times, and Writers Read Online. Her piece "Sacred Touch" was published in the anthology Into Sanity: Essays About Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Living in Between (Talking Writing Books, 2019). Julie lives in Woodstock, New York, with her husband, Tommy Porto, and their cat, Marietta.