Why Julie Created Girls’ Club
The Girls’ Club was created by Julie Ann White after 30 years working in education, three years supporting women healing pelvic trauma, and a profound personal journey of reconnecting with her own body. Across all of these experiences, Julie witnessed a consistent pattern: many of the challenges women face in adulthood — from low self-worth and poor boundaries to shame around their bodies — begin in childhood, during years when their emotional and physical development was not fully understood or supported.
In her trauma-informed pelvic healing work, Julie noticed that every woman she worked with needed some form of inner child healing. Their difficulties often traced back to moments where their emotions weren’t acknowledged, their bodies weren’t discussed, and their developing identities weren’t supported.
This understanding did not remain professional — it became deeply personal.
Julie recognised the same patterns in her own life. For most of her adulthood, she carried a significant disconnection from her own body. As a mother, this translated into avoiding conversations about female anatomy, periods, and body confidence with her daughter. She didn’t talk openly. She didn’t name things. She thought silence would make things easier, not realising that her own discomfort was shaping her daughter’s relationship with her body.
Her silence became her daughter’s silence.
Her avoidance became her daughter’s uncertainty.
Her disconnection became her daughter’s disconnection.
And then, everything changed.
Julie and her daughter were involved in the Manchester terror attack — an experience that shook their world and created deep emotional imprints that no parent or child is ever truly prepared for. In the months and years that followed, they found that access to appropriate support services was increasingly limited. The help her daughter needed simply wasn’t available in the way it should have been.
So Julie did what she has always done: she stepped into action.
Determined to support her daughter back to wellness, she trained in a range of healing modalities — from trauma-informed practices to somatic and emotional regulation methods — building the skills she needed when the system could not provide them. This training not only transformed her daughter’s healing journey, but became the foundation of the powerful, integrative approach she now brings to the women and girls she works with.
This realisation — combined with her decades of professional experience, her intimate work with women, and the personal journey she travelled alongside her daughter — became the driving force behind Girls’ Club.
The Girls’ Club is the space Julie wishes she had as a young girl — and the space she now wishes she had known how to create for her daughter. It brings together her expertise in developmental psychology, emotional intelligence, trauma-informed practice, and body literacy to offer girls something generations before them rarely received: clear, confident, shame-free education about their emotions, their boundaries, their bodies, and their periods.
Julie created Girls’ Club because she believes girls deserve to grow up with the tools, language, and support that allow them to feel empowered in their bodies, confident in their identity, and emotionally equipped for the world around them. Her mission is to break the generational patterns that so many women are now working to heal — by giving today’s girls what yesterday’s women never had.
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What is it?
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The Girls Club is a safe, empowering online space created to support girls aged 10-13 & 14-17 as they grow into confident, emotionally aware, and self-assured young women. It’s built on the understanding that many adults today carry unhealed experiences from childhood — conversations that never happened, emotions that were never expressed, and needs that were never met.
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The Girls’ Club exists to change that story.
We give girls the space and skills to express themselves honestly, understand their emotions, and build healthy relationships with themselves and others. Through guided conversations, creative exercises, and interactive sessions, they develop emotional literacy, self-regulation, empathy, and communication—the foundations of emotional intelligence and resilience.
A key part of this journey includes learning about their changing bodies. We explore puberty, periods, and reproductive health in a grounded, age-appropriate way, helping girls develop confidence instead of shame. By strengthening their mind–body connection, they learn that their bodies are not something to hide or feel embarrassed about, but something to understand, respect, and feel empowered by.
This isn’t about fixing girls; it’s about equipping them—helping them understand who they are, what they feel, how their bodies are changing, and how to express themselves safely and confidently.
By nurturing emotional awareness, body confidence, and self-compassion early in life, The Girls’ Club helps prevent the silence, shame, and disconnection that so many women spend years trying to unlearn.
It’s a place where girls are seen, heard, and valued—where they can be completely themselves, and where their inner voices are honoured, not silenced.
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How It Works
The Girls’ Club is a six-week online program designed to guide girls through the emotional, physical, and social changes of early adolescence in a supportive, trauma-informed environment.
Each week focuses on a key theme—from emotional regulation and communication to body awareness, periods, and puberty—helping girls build confidence, connection, and resilience.
Sessions are 90 minutes long and include:
• Check-ins and group discussions to encourage open sharing and trust
• Creative and reflective activities to explore feelings, beliefs, and experiences
• Practical tools for emotional regulation, communication, and navigating challenges
• Clear, empowering conversations about puberty and periods to build confidence and remove shame
• Journaling prompts to support self-reflection between sessions
Facilitated live on Zoom by Julie Ann White, sessions are interactive but sensitive to individual comfort—girls are always free to share at their own pace.
Each meeting builds on the last, creating a gentle journey from self-awareness to self-acceptance and inner confidence. Girls learn to trust their emotions, understand their changing bodies, and know that being themselves—just as they are—is more than enough.
