Julia W. Burns, MD has worked as an adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist healing trauma for over thirty years. She studied music and psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and medicine at Wake Forest University Medical School. Her first book, Momma, Who’s Babygod? shows how prayer and the Holy Spirit can influence parent-child dynamics. Dr. Burns first learned about childhood trauma in her role as Medical Director of a three hundred child welfare agency. She has published articles in Buddhist and trauma survivor magazines. She deeply believes that all wounds no matter how severe can be healed and demonstrates this in her bestselling books. Visit Julia’s website at JuliaBurns.org.
Songs for the Forgotten
Songs for the Forgotten: A Psychiatrist's Record offers a strong practical component also, providing information about trauma and healing. [...] You'll be inspired and renewed after reading this important work." –Steve Pemberton, acclaimed speaker, advocate, and bestselling author of A Chance in the World
Combines pivotal moments from Julia Burns’s Southern upbringing in the 1970s with case histories accumulated through three decades of treating psychiatric patients, particularly those drowning in the cultural epidemic of child abuse. This book is her journal of rupture and return.
The reader will follow the author’s hard-won reconciliation. In telling panoply of stories, including her own, Burns argues for the interconnectedness of humanity: when one child is hurt, our humanity is violated, and we are all responsible for undoing that damage. If no one steps up to save children, to show them they are worth saving, the cycle of abuse will continue.
Songs for the Forgotten offers a strong practical component, providing information about trauma and healing. Burns illustrates how hope and wholeness can come from remembrance and telling.
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Who Cares What the Numbers Say?
A journey in defying cancer
In this story about her harrowing battle with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer, Dr. Julia Burns encourages readers to take charge of their own health by seeking multiple medical opinions and fighting for a treatment plan that meets their emotional and spiritual needs as well as their physical needs.
Chapter by chapter Julia shares lessons learned from her own journey through cancer. The numbers were abysmal: her odds of survival were so low some wondered why she should even bother fighting. Julia didn't care what the numbers said—she defied the odds and found a path where few had dared to look.
Julia Burns inspires others who face seemingly insurmountable challenges to take heart, to advocate for themselves, and to pursue the path that makes them feel well and whole—no matter the odds.
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