About Me — Julie Borden

A late bloomer. Blooming now. Finally.

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First, some basic facts:

I was born in L.A. — in the San Fernando Valley specifically — and that’s where I still live today.

I’ve been married to my husband for twenty-six years, but that doesn’t feel possible because I don’t feel old enough.

I have a twenty-year-old son who was born funny and wise and still makes me laugh and smile every day.

I have degrees in psychology and social work.

I worked in adoption and foster care for most of my career and have been a full-time therapist since 2018.

I’ve wanted to write forever, but mostly have just thought about it rather than doing it. This Medium page is the most consistent writing I’ve done. The words are coming freely and I can’t imagine stopping anytime soon.

For the rest of my “About Me,” I will share a revised version of my first-ever story on Medium, from last May. I was trying to write something new, but I think I summed myself up pretty well back then:

I was once asked to write my life story in six words. Those six words came to me easily. They were:

Finally figured it out, sort of.