Julie Ann Barnhill

Lively speaker and aspiring author, Julie Ann Barnhill believes that laughter is good medicine and often the lone antidote for remaining sane amidst life’s events. She approaches life, marriage, motherhood, and spiritual growth with open abandon and enthusiasm.

Julie Ann has addressed conferences, retreats, high school and college events, and study groups for more than 16 years. Her most popular topics and workshops include: She’s Gonna Blow!, motherhood and anger; You Go Gurrlfriend!, the power of friendships; Making Peace with Your Adoptive Past, an adoptee’s need for stability, security and significance; Lies My Mother Told Me with a Straight Face, maternal ‘lies’ versus eternal truths; Spunky Sistahs Seeking Spiritual Significance, the heart of passionately driven Christian Women; How to be a Smelly Christian, life as a compelling fragrance of Jesus Christ; and Christian Women Who Think, understanding a Christian worldview with confidence. She has also written a book, She’s Gonna Blow!, based on her workshop of the same title.

Julie Ann and her husband, Rick, live in Prairie City, Illinois with their three children, as well as their dog, cat, and parakeet.

Information courtesy of Harvest House Publishers. Posted May 2003.