About Julie.

As a fellow cancer survivor, Julie meets you exactly where you are.

Built by a cancer survivor for cancer survivors.

About Julie.

As a fellow cancer survivor, Julie meets you exactly where you are.

Julie's Story

Julie Davidsons cancer journey photos showing Julie going through her diagnosis for about page
I’ve always been a fit, healthy person Certificate IV in Personal Training, then Certificate III in Health & Wellness Coaching, work I love. Then I found yoga, deeply enough to start my yoga teacher training in August 2025.
 
What I didn’t know was what was happening underneath all of it. For months, my body kept telling me something was wrong pain, sleepless nights, night sweats. I put it down to overdoing it with exercise, maybe perimenopause. My GP wasn’t so quick to settle on that. She kept digging. Blood tests, a pelvic ultrasound, anti-inflammatories nothing helped, and nothing explained it.
 
Eventually she sent me for a CT scan, in case it was a kidney stone.
 
That was the day everything changed.
 
The radiographer told me she’d really recommend I contact my doctor that day. I walked out to my partner and burst into tears before I’d said a word. We got the last appointment of the day. It’s probably just a kidney stone, I told myself.
 
It wasn’t.
By the time I sat down with my GP, her face told me something before she said a word.
“You have a mass in your abdomen, approximately 14cm,” she said. “I’m in shock. It could be cancer.”
Julie Davidsons cancer journey photos showing Julie going through her remission for about page

A few days later, with the pain worsening, I was admitted straight to the oncology ward, before anyone even knew for certain what the mass was. Testing moved fast. Before I’d had time to process any of it, I was hearing the words Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Stage 3. That was September 2025. I cried. I’m grateful my partner was there there’s no way I could have held onto a single detail of that conversation alone.

I started chemotherapy and immunotherapy days later. Treatment was hard seven months took a real toll on my body. On 23 February 2026, I was told I was in remission. Even now, I still find it hard to believe I went through cancer, survived it, and came out the other side.

What surprised me most was what happened next. Once you’re told you’re in remission, it’s almost like: go live your life. Recovery takes time. Come back every three months for bloods.

And then you’re standing there, alive, “done,” and utterly unsure of who you are or what comes next.

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That gap between finishing treatment and actually feeling like yourself again is where
AWAKEN was born. I’m building this because I searched for that kind of support myself
and couldn’t find it. So many women land in that exact space: alone, unseen, unheard.

This is the work I do now, alongside other women finding their way
through that same space.

Jules x

Julie’s Professional Background

Julie-is-a-Cancer-Survivor

Cancer
Survivor

I've lived through diagnosis, treatment, and the identity shift that follows. This work comes from lived experience.

Certified Coach
& Mentor

Cert III in Health & Wellness Coaching, with a focus on identity, self-leadership, and resilience through major life transitions.

Qualified Personal
Trainer

Cert IV in Personal Training, with experience helping clients rebuild strength and confidence in their bodies, safely and at the right pace.

Julie is a womens post cancer specialist

Women's Post-
Cancer Mentor

Specialising in supporting women specifically through the post-treatment phase, the part of the cancer recovery that often gets the least support.

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How We Work Together

Rebuilding Identity

Rebuilding
Identity

We start by getting honest about who you are now, not who you were before, and not who you think you "should" be.

Body-Mind Integration

Body-Mind
Integration

Movement and mindset work together here. As your body rebuilds strength, your sense of self rebuilds alongside it.

Community Support

Community
Support

You're never doing this in isolation. Connection with other women who understand is part of how the rebuilding happens.

Honest and gentle progress

Steady, Self-Paced Progress

No rigid timelines, no comparison. Progress that respects where your body and energy actually are, day to day.

A Look Inside AWAKEN

Cancer survivor Qualified coach & mentor Personal trainer Yogi in training, finalising my yoga teacher training

Ready to take the next step?

The AWAKEN Membership

  • Self-paced INSPIRE framework, home workouts, and yoga
  • Monthly live sessions
  • A community that gets it

1:1 Mentoring Intensive

  • Personalised, one-on-one guidance
  • Support through your specific challenge or transition
  • Led by someone who’s lived it