Julianne Harvey
@julianneharvey.bsky.social
Author. Innovator. Nurturer.
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https://julianneharvey.com | https://rubyfinchbooks.com
Newsletter & Podcast: https://rubyfinchbooks.substack.com
Libraries Forever | Ruby Finch Pictures coming soon | Post Civ out now
https://julianneharvey.com | https://rubyfinchbooks.com
Newsletter & Podcast: https://rubyfinchbooks.substack.com
For a long time now, we’ve looked outside of ourselves for wisdom, guidance, and truth. These things live in the quiet; in the deepest ground of our own souls. We need to trust our own intuition, now more than ever, in these chaotic and unsettled days.
November 2025
Trust...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
For a long time now, we’ve looked outside of ourselves for wisdom, guidance, and truth. These things live in the quiet; in the deepest ground of our own souls. We need to trust our own intuition, now more than ever, in these chaotic and unsettled days.
Making a sacrifice is supposed to cost us something. We find meaning where there’s a cost to be paid. When it’s free, and easy, and we have to give up nothing at all that matters to us, we aren’t sacrificing anything.
Sacrifice Costs Us - Julianne Harvey
We all have to start where we are. To do what we can. To remember that sacrifice is supposed to cost us. Nothing worth achieving is free.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Making a sacrifice is supposed to cost us something. We find meaning where there’s a cost to be paid. When it’s free, and easy, and we have to give up nothing at all that matters to us, we aren’t sacrificing anything.
I’m investing in my own care. I’m trying to heal my own broken heart. It’s vulnerable, raw, emotional work. I’m learning to receive care from myself, and in the process, opening my heart and soul to receive more nurture and mothering from others.
Mothering
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I’m investing in my own care. I’m trying to heal my own broken heart. It’s vulnerable, raw, emotional work. I’m learning to receive care from myself, and in the process, opening my heart and soul to receive more nurture and mothering from others.
Last chance to join the PLAN section of Write Your Novel or Memoir, beginning October 19th! If you’ve always longed to write a book in a fun, supportive, and flexible online community, please join us!
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October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Last chance to join the PLAN section of Write Your Novel or Memoir, beginning October 19th! If you’ve always longed to write a book in a fun, supportive, and flexible online community, please join us!
When I changed the calendar over to October 1st, I felt a visible lifting of my spirit. My new counsellor told me I’m grieving over the end of one chapter (hands-on parenting my kids) and not yet fully into the next stage. She said, “You are transforming. And transformation is difficult.”
October 2025
Quieter...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
When I changed the calendar over to October 1st, I felt a visible lifting of my spirit. My new counsellor told me I’m grieving over the end of one chapter (hands-on parenting my kids) and not yet fully into the next stage. She said, “You are transforming. And transformation is difficult.”
It felt so good to realise that I can always choose my response. I could be angry about not writing, or I could acknowledge that I had been in a period of creative dormancy, which meant that a new burst of creative energy could bloom in me if I allowed it to.
A Dormant Season - Julianne Harvey
For a dormant season to be effective, we have to surrender to it. To enjoy our lives without feeling guilty that we aren't being creative.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It felt so good to realise that I can always choose my response. I could be angry about not writing, or I could acknowledge that I had been in a period of creative dormancy, which meant that a new burst of creative energy could bloom in me if I allowed it to.
September’s podcast is called The Only Way Out is Through - something I learned fifteen years ago in therapy. So often we want to numb our pain or distract from our big feelings, but the key to healing is to trust that our feelings are there to do a specific job.
The Only Way Out is Through
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
September’s podcast is called The Only Way Out is Through - something I learned fifteen years ago in therapy. So often we want to numb our pain or distract from our big feelings, but the key to healing is to trust that our feelings are there to do a specific job.
Contentment is hard to find in our world today. Everywhere I look, people are attempting to achieve more, to earn more, to be more, to have more. It’s exhausting. And not satisfying or inspiring. Why have we internalised this bigger, harder, faster mentality in nearly every area of our lives?
September 2025
Content...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Contentment is hard to find in our world today. Everywhere I look, people are attempting to achieve more, to earn more, to be more, to have more. It’s exhausting. And not satisfying or inspiring. Why have we internalised this bigger, harder, faster mentality in nearly every area of our lives?
I know that looking away is not an option. Choosing not to care because it hurts is cowardly. All of that apathy turns us away from ourselves, from our souls, from our shared humanity.
Morality Still Matters - Julianne Harvey
Scrolling through the news makes me so depressed that one question keeps floating up through my subconscious: Does morality still matter?
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August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I know that looking away is not an option. Choosing not to care because it hurts is cowardly. All of that apathy turns us away from ourselves, from our souls, from our shared humanity.
New podcast today called A Blueprint for the Soul. Incredible things can happen when we are brave enough to name our big dream!
A Blueprint for the Soul
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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August 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
New podcast today called A Blueprint for the Soul. Incredible things can happen when we are brave enough to name our big dream!
It’s painful to dream, because we might fail or be exposed as imposters. Dreaming is a risk. But one worth taking, for to dream is to connect to our deepest intuition and humanity. When we cut ourselves off from dreaming, we damage our spirit in a fundamental way.
August 2025
Dream...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s painful to dream, because we might fail or be exposed as imposters. Dreaming is a risk. But one worth taking, for to dream is to connect to our deepest intuition and humanity. When we cut ourselves off from dreaming, we damage our spirit in a fundamental way.
I don’t want to be weighed down by stress that isn’t mine any longer. I want to offer support and love when people around me are struggling, but I don’t want to carry their load for them because it doesn’t belong to me.
Care But Don't Carry - Julianne Harvey
I realised I know how to care and I also know how to carry stress for other people. But I don't know how to do one and not the other.
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July 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I don’t want to be weighed down by stress that isn’t mine any longer. I want to offer support and love when people around me are struggling, but I don’t want to carry their load for them because it doesn’t belong to me.
Episode 14 of Intuitive Courage is called Joy at the End of the World. For a long time, I felt despair and nothing resembling hope about the climate crisis, but now I’m grateful to be on a path to imagining a better, fairer, more sustainable world for everyone to live in. #greensky
Joy at the End of the World
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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July 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Episode 14 of Intuitive Courage is called Joy at the End of the World. For a long time, I felt despair and nothing resembling hope about the climate crisis, but now I’m grateful to be on a path to imagining a better, fairer, more sustainable world for everyone to live in. #greensky
To heal is a brave act. It requires us to show up, as our authentic selves, and to keep showing up even when it hurts (maybe especially when it hurts). And healing does hurt. Until one day, you realise the pain has faded, and now you have a scar to remember what that healing process felt like.
July 2025
Healing...
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July 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
To heal is a brave act. It requires us to show up, as our authentic selves, and to keep showing up even when it hurts (maybe especially when it hurts). And healing does hurt. Until one day, you realise the pain has faded, and now you have a scar to remember what that healing process felt like.
Telling someone we rely on them and we will miss them is a tender thing to say out loud, especially when I used to be skilled at pretending to be fine all the time, even when I was actually lonely and sad and lost.
It's Never About the Cat Food - Julianne Harvey
If you've been married for a long time, you begin to recognise that this fight wasn't about the cat food. It's never about the cat food.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Telling someone we rely on them and we will miss them is a tender thing to say out loud, especially when I used to be skilled at pretending to be fine all the time, even when I was actually lonely and sad and lost.
Podcast day! This episode is about making decisions and choosing yourself. How does the phrase “choose yourself” show up in your life?
Choose Yourself
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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June 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Podcast day! This episode is about making decisions and choosing yourself. How does the phrase “choose yourself” show up in your life?
Happy second Birthday to Ruby Finch Books! Starting this company has been a dream come true for me. I’m a big believer in marking important dates in our lives, so it’s a good opportunity to take stock and reflect.
June 2025
Reflect...
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June 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Happy second Birthday to Ruby Finch Books! Starting this company has been a dream come true for me. I’m a big believer in marking important dates in our lives, so it’s a good opportunity to take stock and reflect.
My first author bio in 2010 said, “I’m fully awake and happily original.” It’s taken me a little while to live completely into those words, but I’m doing it now, and it’s so satisfying to awaken to the meaning that’s all around me.
Awakening to Meaning - Julianne Harvey
I feel like my nerve endings are awake now. It's been an extraordinary time, waking up to the meaning and purpose that's all around me.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My first author bio in 2010 said, “I’m fully awake and happily original.” It’s taken me a little while to live completely into those words, but I’m doing it now, and it’s so satisfying to awaken to the meaning that’s all around me.
Some thoughts on rebuilding the analog world as a vibrant alternative to our digital lives.
We Must Rebuild the Analog World
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May 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Some thoughts on rebuilding the analog world as a vibrant alternative to our digital lives.
Now, I offer permission for my ambition to be part of my life. I’m learning to reconcile the ambition I feel to write, to innovate, to nurture—to believe that my biggest dreams are actually achievable. My ambition is part of me, and I’m figuring out how to embrace it and love it, not fear it.
May 2025
Ambition...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Now, I offer permission for my ambition to be part of my life. I’m learning to reconcile the ambition I feel to write, to innovate, to nurture—to believe that my biggest dreams are actually achievable. My ambition is part of me, and I’m figuring out how to embrace it and love it, not fear it.
We are all Canadians, more alike than we are different. When voting, please consider the world you want to live in. Don’t gamble with your freedom or mine. Let’s remain the true north, strong and free, forever.
What World Do You Want to Live In? - Julianne Harvey
We are all Canadians, more alike than we are different. When voting, please ask yourself, "What world do you want to live in?"
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April 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We are all Canadians, more alike than we are different. When voting, please consider the world you want to live in. Don’t gamble with your freedom or mine. Let’s remain the true north, strong and free, forever.
How we live matters. April’s Intuitive Courage podcast is about process, not product.
Process, Not Product
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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April 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
How we live matters. April’s Intuitive Courage podcast is about process, not product.
For this month, I’m returning to my second word I’m focusing on in 2025: Simpler. I’m longing for more depth and meaning. Less rushing, doing things just for the sake of doing them. I’m interested in intention. In purpose. In slowing down and noticing more.
April 2025
Simpler...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
For this month, I’m returning to my second word I’m focusing on in 2025: Simpler. I’m longing for more depth and meaning. Less rushing, doing things just for the sake of doing them. I’m interested in intention. In purpose. In slowing down and noticing more.
As a country, our elbows are firmly up. Picking a fight with polite people doesn’t get you kindness in return. In this case, it gets you a show of strength.
Elbows Up - Julianne Harvey
The long term damage of what is happening here will have ripple effects for generations. When trust is broken, it's not easily repaired.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As a country, our elbows are firmly up. Picking a fight with polite people doesn’t get you kindness in return. In this case, it gets you a show of strength.
New podcast episode! The minimalist concept that it's better to want less than to have more has really inspired me over the years.
Wanting Less
A monthly newsletter and podcast by Julianne Harvey on intuitive courage, books, TV, nurture, cats and more...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New podcast episode! The minimalist concept that it's better to want less than to have more has really inspired me over the years.