about rev. Julie Haas
My work is deeply personal....
Years ago, my life brought me to a threshold where everything had to change.
I have lived through experiences that required me to rebuild from the inside out—surviving coercive control, navigating profound illness after the birth of my third child, reclaiming my life after becoming bedridden by autonomic nervous system failure, and walking my own path of recovery.
Each chapter asked me to meet myself more deeply—to listen to my body, question what I had been taught, and find my way back to myself.
Today, I live with profound gratitude for more than 16 years of sobriety and for the life I once wasn’t sure I would get back.
Those experiences reshaped everything I understood about healing, resilience, love, spirituality, and the human spirit. They taught me that healing is rarely linear, that the body carries wisdom, and that we are often far more resilient than we realize.
My journey through struggle and into sovereignty now informs the work I do today: helping people move through life’s meaningful thresholds with greater awareness, connection, intention and reverence.
A Life Rooted in Care
My professional life has always centered around caring for and connecting with people.
Before Faithfully Driven became what it is today, I spent 20 years as a dental hygienist, giving me a longstanding foundation in healthcare, compassionate one-on-one care, and the deeply human experience of sitting beside people when they feel vulnerable.
For nearly two decades, I have also been actively involved in the recovery community, supporting women navigating addiction, trauma, identity, relationships, and the deeply personal work of rebuilding their lives.
My own long-term sobriety is part of this work, but it is not the entirety of it. Years within the recovery community have given me a deep understanding of the ways addiction, trauma, relationships, the nervous system, identity, and belonging intersect—and of the extraordinary resilience that can emerge through recovery.
Body, Energy & Healing
Over time, my own healing led me into deeper study of the body, nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and energetic medicine.
I became a Usui Reiki Master and studied multiple approaches to energy work that recognize the relationship between our physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual lives.
I later completed a Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate, deepening my understanding of how trauma can be held in the body and how nervous system support, embodied awareness, and compassionate connection can become part of the healing process.
This work taught me something I continue to return to again and again:
The body is not something we need to overcome.
It is often one of our greatest sources of wisdom.
The Call to Ministry
Alongside my healing work, I felt called to explore spirituality in a broader and more expansive way.
I spent two years at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City studying world religions, contemplative traditions, sacred ceremony, spiritual care, and the many ways human beings have sought meaning, belonging, and connection throughout history.
That path ultimately led me to become an ordained interfaith minister.
It also gave language to something I had felt for a long time:
The sacred does not belong exclusively to religion.
It lives in the moments that change us.
A child entering the world.
Two people choosing one another in marriage.
A couple recommitting after years of life together.
A family gathering to honor someone they have lost.
A person moving through recovery, grief, illness, awakening, or profound personal transformation.
These are thresholds.
And I believe they deserve to be witnessed, honored, and held with intention.
Clergy for Modern Life
Through Faithfully Driven, I bring together what I have lived, studied, practiced, and witnessed.
My work lives at the intersection of spirituality, somatic awareness, nervous system wisdom, energy healing, recovery, relationships, and sacred ceremony.
I serve people through weddings, vow renewals, baby blessings, memorial and celebration-of-life services, premarital counseling, and private energetic healing sessions.
The form of the work may change, but the intention underneath it remains the same:
To honor the sacredness of being human.
To create space for people to slow down and recognize the significance of the moment they are living.
To help people reconnect with their own inner wisdom, strength, and capacity for healing.
And to bring reverence back to the beginnings, endings, commitments, transitions, and transformations that shape our lives.
This is what clergy for modern life means to me.
Not doctrine.
Not expectation.
Presence. Ritual. Meaning. Connection.
Sacred without dogma, and deeply rooted in the human experience.
Because no matter where we have been or what life has asked of us, I believe this deeply:
We are far more resilient than we realize.