Adoption begins before language. Long before an adoptee has words to describe loss, the body has already experienced separation, rupture, and survival.
In this presentation, adoptee and somatic coach Julie Brumley explores how early adoption experiences are stored in the nervous system and how these preverbal imprints can shape identity, attachment, and the lifelong search for belonging.
Drawing from her own lived experience and years of body-based work with adoptees, Julie introduces her Belonging Blueprint™, a seven-phase framework designed to help adoptees rebuild safety, self-trust, and connection from the inside out.
Participants will learn:
• Why adoption wounds are often stored in the body rather than the mind
• How preverbal trauma shapes identity and attachment patterns
• The role of nervous system regulation in healing adoption loss
• A somatic pathway toward belonging, self-trust, and integration
This talk offers both insight and practical tools for adoptees and those who support them.

About Julie:
Julie Brumley is an adoptee, speaker, somatic coach, and host of The Resilience Project Podcast, where she explores the layered experiences of adoptees and the broader adoption constellation. Adopted at seven weeks old, Julie’s personal journey through identity loss, attachment wounds, and reunion led her to develop a body-based approach to adoptee healing.
She is the creator of the Belonging Blueprint™, a seven-phase framework that guides adoptees through the core experiences of loss, rejection, shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and surrender—helping them rebuild safety and belonging from within.
Julie is the founder of Coming Home to Self, where she leads programs and workshops for adoptees around the world, including her flagship program Revolution: Uncovering Your Birthright. Her work integrates somatic practices, nervous system awareness, and lived adoptee experience to help individuals reconnect with their bodies, their identity, and their inherent sense of belonging.
Through her coaching, speaking, and podcast, Julie is committed to creating spaces where adoptees feel seen, understood, and supported as they rediscover what it means to truly come home to themselves.