Julie H. Parker

Julie H. Parker is a graduate of Middlebury College, 1954, with a year of study in France. She taught French, wrote for the weekly Altadenan-Pasadenan, discovered yoga in a time of relapse, offered sessions for 40 years and dipped into television instruction, earned an M.A. in Marriage, Family Therapy 1992, created a 10 year program called Teen Futures for PUSD helping teens with relationships, and at 80 began writing Journey Beyond Despair.  At 92 and 93 she and her husband Peter have an extraordinary marriage of 70 years, due in part to early struggles overcoming severe mental illness. She writes to frame mental illness as a mythic/heroic journey with an end goal: Know Thyself.