Barbara Brady

spiritual teacher/INTUITIVE coach/
SPEAKER & ARTIST

Take my hand.

I’ve been there. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and empath myself, I’ve struggled with the pain of not fitting in; trying to conform to living a conventional life when I’m a free-spirited hippie and gypsy at heart; believing I’m too sensitive, and that there must be something wrong with me because I didn't want what most of my friends seemed to want.

I spent years living from ego and fear; making head-based decisions, giving my power away to others, & believing I needed to follow society's “rules” for a happy life; often resulting in living someone else’s recipe for my life instead of my own, then feeling disconnected from myself and unfulfilled.

After a few spiritual crises, which led to spiritual awakenings in my life, including "Dark nights of the soul", I finally started listening to and heeding the call of my soul’s discontent more often - which meant getting out of my head, re-connecting to my heart & spirit, embracing my sensitivity and following joy as my compass, instead of limiting “rules”.

I learned universal spiritual truths that transcend religious dogma and over time, applied them to all areas of my life. I paid more attention to what brought me joy, like creative writing, painting, dancing, and co-creating & leading ceremonies & rituals, and did more of these things. I decided to become less attached to what I thought should be, and live more in surrender and trust. The more I did this, the happier I became, and the greater peace, freedom and sense of empowerment I felt. These changes helped me move to a place I loved, with a community of people I love, and doing work I love, making a positive difference in peoples' lives, including building bridges among people of diverse worldviews & cultures through leadership coaching, cross-cultural training, interfaith ministry, leading ceremonies, painting, speaking and writing.

The idea for DIVINE JUICY LIFE® came to me through index cards! Around 2009, I wanted to help myself remember what I loved, and to focus more on those things. So I bought a stack of multicolored index cards, and with colored markers, wrote something I loved on each one. “Singing to a friend on the phone”, “Smelling truffle oil”, “Comforting someone and hugging them”, “Meditating”, “Listening to Bossa Nova music”, “Painting abstracts” and “Doing cartwheels on the grass” are a small sampling. I then realized that these things fell into certain “categories”, which eventually became the 5 Divine Juicy Life® flavors of Soul Alignment, Healing Pain, Nourishing Relationships, Creativity & Play & Sensory Immersion.

Quickly I realized “This is where I want to dwell! In all this juicy goodness of what I wrote on the index cards! And I want to bring along others who’d also love to play and dwell here!”

And so, Divine Juicy Life® was born.