Julie Lewin, CEO and Co-Founder of Lightcode Lab, is not your typical business mentor. With over four decades of pioneering work in energy medicine, Julie’s journey began with a psychic reading that offered her a choice between two starkly different life paths. Choosing the path of healing and longevity, she discovered a divine gift—the ability to see inside the human body—and turned it into a profound healing modality called AreekeerA®. Since then, Julie has touched the lives of tens of thousands through her work as a medical intuitive, spiritual coach, and business mentor. Today, her mission has evolved: to guide high-achieving individuals toward expanded consciousness without fear of judgment or loss. Julie is here to normalize the spiritual journey, offering a grounded and sacred approach to merging success with soul. In this interview with Mystic Mag, Julie shares her powerful story, the evolution of her energy medicine, and why now is the time to embrace intuitive living as a new form of leadership.
Your journey began with a life-altering psychic reading in 1984. How did you summon the courage to trust that message, and what did your very first intuitive healing experience look like?
I think I already knew the truth of that reading, because the clairvoyant said to me that my marriage would fail if I continued on the path I was on. That was the key for me. Everything else he said would come to pass eventually, but that one statement stopped me in my tracks.
At the time, I was planning to leave my husband with our seven-month-old baby. But after the reading, I thought, I have to rethink this. And now, we’ve been married 43 years this year.
It was that reading that actually kept our marriage together.
Over the years, we did come to points where we said, “Okay, we’re getting divorced.” And each time, I would say, “Let’s wait eight weeks. If we still feel the same after eight weeks, we’ll take the next step.”
You know what? We never felt that way eight weeks later.
The reason I chose eight weeks was because I wanted to go through two hormone cycles—to make sure I wasn’t making a decision based on hormones or temporary emotions. And here we are, 43 years later.
Just the other day, I was talking to my husband about this. I said, “When we got married, I dared to dream that we would grow old together.” Now we’re 65 and 73, and I said, “We’re growing old together.” It’s that dream—of growing old together—and fulfilling the destiny that the clairvoyant spoke of, that kept me going.
I didn’t feel like I had much of a choice. I felt like if I didn’t follow that path, I would have a really awful, painful life and die at 53. Whether that was literally true or not, I’ll never know—but I can tell you that on the morning of my 54th birthday, I woke up shaking and sobbing. My whole body was trembling, and I thought, Oh my God, I’ve done it.
The significance of that was huge, because in my 53rd year, I had a relapse of thyroid cancer—the same cancer I’d first had in 2000. It was almost like the universe was asking me, Are you really going to do this, Julie? Are you really going to walk this path? Because we can take you out, basically.
And so, that’s what gave me the trust and the courage to walk this path—even when it was dark, even when it was hard, and even when I didn’t want anything to do with it.
It always brings me back.
And I love it.
I love it.
AreekeerA® is a modality you’ve refined over nearly four decades. Can you share how it differs from other energy healing systems, and what makes it uniquely effective for both physical and energetic healing?
I have a passion for helping people learn how to heal themselves. I really don’t want people to give me their power—I want to empower them. So I needed to create something that was effective and that could create shifts not only physically, but also emotionally and spiritually.
Originally, I was focused on creating a method that could shift the seven bodies. I needed to be able to share with people how they could reclaim their health.
I also want to mention something important here. I did a few podcasts with a doctor from India, Dr. Vishal Rao. He’s a neck cancer surgeon, and he has a deep passion for understanding what people who experience radical healing do differently from those who get diagnosed and eventually pass from their illness.
He told me he viewed me as a radical survivor of cancer.
One of his patients once said to him, “Doc, you do your 10%—which is the surgery—and I’ll do the 90%. That’s my responsibility.” I’ve had multiple surgeries, and that statement really stuck with me.
So, AreekeerA® is about providing people with the tools, resources, and mindset shifts that empower them to take ownership of that 90%—the part that’s their responsibility.
Because here’s the truth: the doctor, the practitioner, or the therapist didn’t create the disease or illness in the body. Each individual created it—through what’s going on in all of their bodies. And they are the ones who have to unwind it, transform it, and transmute it. Maybe “fix” isn’t even the right word—it’s about transformation.
At 25 years old, I set out to create something that would empower people to do just that. What I didn’t expect was that it would take me on a journey filled with incredible health challenges that I had to figure out how to heal myself.
Those experiences gave me my baseline set of tools to begin helping others.
It was 10 years before I appeared on the TV show The Extraordinary, and after that, tens of thousands of people began reaching out to me for help. But in those 10 years before the show, I worked with anyone who would let me. I would say, “I can see inside your body—would you like me to help you with that?”
That’s how it started. And it’s evolved so much since then.
It’s taken me on a deep spiritual journey—which is absolutely a part of true healing.
And that’s how all of this came to be.
What type of services do you offer?
It’s been 40 years since I started this journey, and over that time I’ve developed a body of work. My main focus now is the AreekeerA® Institute, where I pass that knowledge on to other practitioners.
I’ve worked with massage therapists, doctors, and mental health professionals. What I’ve found is that the mental health workers are integrating AreekeerA® into their existing toolkit—things like hypnotherapy, EMDR, and counseling. They incorporate AreekeerA® into what they’re already doing, and their clients are experiencing accelerated breakthroughs they hadn’t seen before.
To me, that felt like all my dreams coming true—seeing these counselors use what I’ve created and witnessing such profound results. I’m talking about people who’ve had 60 years of mindset or mental health challenges—transformed, just like that. It’s mind-blowing.
So yes, my main focus now is the Institute.
I’ve also been a teacher on Insight Timer for nine years. I have some free meditations available there, and a few that are part of the Member Plus program behind a small paywall. I’ve just uploaded and had approved my Energy Hygiene course, which is now part of the Insight Timer platform. It’s $59.99 USD per year for a membership, but with that, you get access to everyone’s courses—including mine.
I’m planning to put all of my work on there. I remember lying in bed after that clairvoyant reading and saying, “God, if you want me to do this, show me how.” And for 40 years, I’ve followed the prompts.
The strong calling now is for AreekeerA® to be available to the world. And putting it on Insight Timer—which has 20 million users—feels like the right step. Anyone who wants it can now access it.
My daughter and I also work together—we do decoding, energetic excavations, and clearings, helping people on their healing journey. We provide them with resources and support.
But my greatest passion right now is training new AreekeerA® practitioners—passing on this knowledge and watching it ripple out into the world.
As an intuitive business mentor, how do you integrate spiritual guidance with practical business strategy, especially for clients navigating high-stakes environments?
That’s a really great question.
Here’s the thing: our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. So, if we want to change what’s happening around us, we need to work on what’s happening within us. That’s the foundation of what I teach my clients—how to do the subtle inner work to navigate and grow their business in alignment with their energy.
I’ve developed some specific techniques for this. One of my clients, for example, has expanded her business significantly in the past six months. I’m genuinely inspired by what she’s accomplished. She shows up to the call every week, shares what’s happening, and I listen very closely.
From there, I can see the opportunities for applying energy work—where to join the dots. Often, clients tell me all these different things going on in their business, and I say, “Do you realize that this connects with that, and that connects with this?” And they’ll respond, “No, I hadn’t seen that.” So, part of my work is helping people connect the dots—not just practically, but energetically.
Because I’ve been in business for so long—and coaching entrepreneurs for 15 years—I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t across a wide range of industries. I bring that practical insight along with the energetic aspect. It’s so important to bring energy into business intentionally.
I once heard a story about the CEO of a major company in Australia. She was asked, “What’s the most important thing you have to do every day?”—given that she oversaw thousands of employees. Her answer was: “My primary responsibility is to make sure my energy is right, because my energy informs the entire energy of the business.”
That has always stayed with me. It’s exactly how I approach business mentoring. I focus on ensuring that the person at the top—the leader—has their energy in alignment. Because when their energy is clear, focused, and grounded, the business follows suit.
So yes, that’s what I do: I help entrepreneurs shift their inner world so their outer world—their business—can thrive.
How has your understanding of Source or Divine Guidance evolved over the years, and what does it mean to live a “sacred life, moment to moment” in your day-to-day experience?
In the beginning, I used to just lie in bed and say, “God, if you want me to do this, show me how.” That was it.
I grew up going the religious route to God—I started Sunday school at five and attended many different churches. But then, in my twenties, I realized that I could actually talk directly to God and have that personal communion. Once I started on this path, around the age of 25, I would lie in bed at night and say, “You’ve got to help me.” And then I would follow the breadcrumbs—the synchronicities, the things that stood out—and say, “Oh, I’ll try that.”
One of the things I’ve always had is persistence, faith, and trust that I’m being guided. It feels intrinsic to my very cells. Over the years, that trust deepened. And yes, of course I doubted—especially when things got crazy. But I always came back to the evidence. The evidence that there is something greater guiding me, something bigger than myself, leading me on this journey.
That trust led me to a profound experience in 2001. I was caring for someone who had cancer, and during a hands-on healing session, I had this incredible physical sensation—it felt like God was breathing me. In that moment, I wasn’t separate from anything. That experience deepened my connection to my faith and to trusting the process.
Even now, I tell people: I know some horrible things are happening in the world. But I truly believe everything is in divine order. There is a higher reason for what unfolds, even if we can’t always see it. I trust that. I trust the divine order of it all.
Today, I feel deeply connected—to everything. I often say: “I’m living an ordinary life in an extraordinary way.” And it’s true. I live a humble life, but I love it. I absolutely love it.
For me, it’s all about: What am I giving to the world? What am I receiving from the world? And what is my connection? It’s all about connection. I believe connection is the most important thing we can cultivate—whether it’s connection to nature, to others, or to something greater.
I feel connected to the stars, the sky, the clouds—I love all of it. And it’s not always pretty, and it’s not always easy. But if you can tune into the rhythm—the ebb and flow of it all—then life begins to make sense. Nature informs us.
I often look to nature for guidance. The waves run up the beach, and then they run back down into the ocean. That’s the ebb and flow. And I see that same rhythm in my own life. It’s not about being good or bad, right or wrong—it’s just the organic flow of what is.
So yes, I feel like I live a sacred life. And I bring that sacredness into the everyday.
