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Today, Julie is sitting before me with her equilibrium restored.Īt 42, she exudes high energy and has a megawatt smile and, on paper, much of her life reads like a modern-day fairy tale. So many Americans are on pharmaceutical drugs that it didn’t seem a big deal,' she said ‘I always knew about it and to begin with it didn’t ring alarm bells. Luke’s medication was never a secret between him and Julie. He took me in his arms and rocked me like a baby. 'That was how Luke found me – hysterical. 'So I ran out to the car, rolled myself up in a ball and convinced myself I was having a nervous breakdown. ‘I was shaking and howling and I thought, “I can’t let the children see me like this.” ‘Everyone thinks of me as someone who always holds it together, but in that moment, I lost it,’ she says. Julie had wrapped all the presents for their four children and prepared a festive lunch, but suddenly on Christmas morning, a sickening wave of panic and despair washed over her. Her husband Luke was in bed, ‘too ill to even fake it’. Julie Montagu drives a 13-year-old red Mini, but most of the time the car sits idle outside her home in Southwest London.Īs a yoga instructor, nutrition expert and all-round health guru, she prefers to cycle everywhere.īut not so long ago, when her normally sunny disposition was overshadowed by a family crisis, the car became briefly useful – as a place in which to hide her tears.
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But it has been the making not the breaking of us, ' said Julie Montagu ‘It’s been hard and painful and I wouldn’t wish what we have been through on anyone.