Meet Reese Jula Murphy
A life shaped by healing, self-discovery and service
Reese Jula Murphy is the founder of Taos Sage Waters, a spiritual guide, author and facilitator whose work has grown from decades of personal healing, inner exploration and service to others.
Her approach is deeply intuitive and earth-connected, but also grounded in lived experience. Reese knows what it means to spend years trying to understand why certain patterns, emotions and reactions continue long after the original experience has passed.
That journey eventually became the foundation of her work: helping others reconnect with themselves, develop greater self-trust and begin seeing what may be possible beyond the patterns that have kept them feeling stuck.
At the heart of Taos Sage Waters is Reese's belief that healing is not about someone else having all of the answers. It is about learning how to hear and trust yourself again
When the Work Is Personal
From surviving her own history to helping others explore theirs
Reese's work with trauma is deeply personal.
For many years, she lived with the effects of childhood sexual trauma before fully understanding how those experiences had shaped her relationship with her body, intimacy, self-worth and the people around her.
Her healing unfolded gradually through different stages of adulthood. Some approaches helped her access emotions she had suppressed. Others helped her understand the body's responses to trauma and recognize patterns such as freezing, disconnection, hypervigilance and self-protection in a completely different way.
There was no single moment that changed everything.
It was decades of consistently returning to the work, questioning old beliefs, developing compassion for herself, learning to recognize her needs and gradually building a relationship with herself that felt safer and more loving.
That lived experience is one of the reasons Reese created Transmuting Sexual Trauma.
She wanted to offer women who have already begun their healing journey another way to explore the patterns, beliefs and protective responses that may still be influencing their lives, without defining themselves by what happened to them.
The program grew from Reese's own extensive therapeutic, transformational and spiritual experiences. It is not psychotherapy or clinical trauma treatment, and Reese is clear about the importance of professional mental-health support when it is needed.
A Different Relationship With Healing
You are not something to be fixed.
One of the most important things Reese has learned through her own journey is that lasting change rarely comes from handing our power to someone else.
Her work is therefore intentionally collaborative.
She does not see herself as someone who "heals" another person. Instead, she guides people through experiences designed to help them notice what is happening within themselves and begin listening to their own intuition more clearly.
Through meditation, energetic practices, reflection and questioning, Reese helps people explore old patterns and relationships from another vantage point. Her intention is always to strengthen someone's relationship with themselves rather than create dependence on a practitioner.
For some people, that may begin with recognizing a repeating pattern.
For others, it may be realizing how often they dismiss their own needs, doubt themselves or remain connected to an old story about who they are.
The work begins wherever they are.
Where Spirituality Meets the Earth
The philosophy behind Taos Sage Waters
Reese's spirituality has always been closely connected to nature.
For her, Taos Sage Waters reflects that relationship.
Taos represents a place where connection to the land remains deeply present. Sage represents wisdom, both earthly and cosmic. Waters represents movement, renewal and the possibility of life returning to something that has become dry or depleted.
Her work incorporates intuitive and energetic practices alongside influences from Sacred Feminine and shamanic healing traditions, meditation and decades of spiritual exploration.
Reese describes the foundation beneath all of it simply as "the Earth and the Stars, the Above and the Below."
It is also why Taos itself plays such an important role in her retreats.
Stepping away from routines, being surrounded by quiet land and open skies, receiving nourishment and having room to rest can create enough distance from everyday life for someone to notice themselves differently.
A Life of Service
Turning personal transformation outward
Reese's interest in transformation has never been limited to healing sessions.
At one stage of her life, she founded the Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance, developing a leadership program for teenagers that combined intensive personal-development work with a three-week service experience in India and Nepal.
The program gave young people an opportunity to experience another part of the world while contributing
directly to communities facing poverty.
That chapter reflects something that continues to run through Reese's work today: the belief that personal growth becomes even more meaningful when it changes how we participate in the world around us.
Healing, writing and the search for meaning
Reese's spiritual exploration also became the inspiration for her three-book series, Darius' Endless Cord Trilogy.
Through Julia McNeil and her celestial guide Darius, Reese explores many of the themes that have shaped her own life: free will, relationships, karma, shadow, intuition, spiritual awakening and the long process of remembering who we are beneath the experiences that have shaped us.
Writing became another way for Reese to explore one of the questions at the heart of Taos Sage Waters:
What if our most difficult chapters do not have to become the end of our story?
Today, through her writing, retreats, Soul Restoration sessions and Transmuting Sexual Trauma program, Reese continues creating spaces where people can explore that question for themselves.