An Honest Life Update: Diagnosed with a Rare, Mysterious Illness

Big life updates here ❤️‍🩹 Julia is about to go in for surgery, so I thought it was important to share with you everything thats going on, diagnoses, Julia's full health story and how art has always helped her to heal. Art prints: https://www.motherthemountain.com/store Our Book: http://geni.us/MothertheMountain https://www.patreon.com/motherthemountain https://www.instagram.com/motherthemountain/ Anastasia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anast.asia/ Julia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliavanderbyl/ We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land. In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined. Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country. We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial. The Music in this video is by @MapleGlider Good Thing, Swimming, Performer, As Tradition, Your'e Gonna be a Daddy and Friend Chapters: 0:00 Julia’s health update 0:45 Why Julia hasn’t been around lately 1:20 How she uses painting and art as a tool to heal 3:10 New diagnoses: she needs surgery in a few days 5:10 Painting, health and all the details 8:02 How to support Julia 10:13 Julia’s mysterious 17 year illness 19:12 Creativity as medicine 26:27 Thank you ❤️‍🩹