I’m Not Becoming Woo-Woo. I’m Becoming Curious

Just Julia · Sep 16, 2026 · 7m · transcript

I was three, or four, maybe five.

I was standing in the corner of a children’s birthday party, watching everyone else play.

I knew that little girl immediately.

She was me.

Decades later, I sat down beside her.

I didn’t tell her to be braver. I didn’t give her a pep talk about the life she would one day have, about all the things she would build, all the corners she would no longer hide in.

I just sat beside her.

As if to say: I’m here. You’re safe. I’m not leaving.

And somehow, being a mother now made that moment feel different. I looked at that little girl almost as if she were my own…