Introducing Julie O’Connell-Seamer

Many of you will have recently spoken to or met Julie, who joined the Palmer Higgs team in January, so we thought we’d introduce her officially!

With a grandfather who edited at Melbourne’s Age newspaper and many other literary relatives it’s no surprise that Julie’s always been fascinated with words. After completing a double major in Journalism and Literature at University she was fortunate to break into the cut-throat Industry of radio news, moving onto PR when realising with her then 20 year old clarity, it perhaps wasn’t so easy to change the world through positive reporting alone!

A booming media career and many travels followed until Julie contracted a post-viral syndrome leaving her partially paralysed. Three months of hospitalisation brought her no closer to mobility so she discharged herself from hospital confinement against medical advice, bound to a wheelchair but eventually healed and walking again through the support of meditation and natural therapies. This transformation inspired her to become a Naturopath, later writing for health and fitness websites, magazines and journals.

Whenever Julie isn’t now happily supporting Palmer Higgs Self-Published Authors and reading endless new manuscripts, she also enjoys writing (has written 2 books on post natal wellness and motherhood), leading and participating in Adventure Group activities with the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA), yoga practice and horse-riding. Her favourite reads are vast and many; from the fruitless pursuit of keeping abreast with print news to bedtime stories with her 6 year old daughter Kayli, inspiring biographies, self-help and business books, travelogues, diaries of Colonial Australians, fiction "for inner journeys" and longing deliberations over the Horse Deals and Property mags!

A lover of mantras and quotes Julie's favourite of all lines is simply the opening verse from the Dr Suess book Oh the Places You’ll Go:
Congratulations! 
Today is your day… 
You’re off to great places! 
You’re off and Away!