Coaching with Julie Parker
Running a dental practice well takes more than systems and checklists. The practices that truly thrive are led by people who know themselves - who understand what drives them, what holds them back, and how they actually show up for the people around them.
Alongside my consulting work with practice owners and their teams, I've developed two self-inquiry tools you can explore on your own, at your own pace. Both are free to use, and both are designed to help you get honest with yourself in ways that genuinely move the needle.
Most of us walk through life with a carefully managed version of ourselves on show. We know what we want people to think of us. And if we're honest, we know what we're working hard to hide.
What we rarely stop to ask is whether the gap between those two things is visible to the people around us - and whether it's costing us something.
From Mask to Meaning is a self-inquiry framework I developed to help people look honestly at who they are across every significant role in their life - as a professional, a leader, a parent, a partner, a sibling, a friend, and as a person in the world.
What do you hope people see - and what are you working to hide?
Not what you intend, but what others have actually witnessed
See the gap clearly, without defending or explaining
Specific, observable actions - not just intentions you hold privately
The framework is built on a simple but confronting truth: other people can only respond to what they witness. Our intentions are invisible to them. Our actions are not.
It's free to use. You sign in with Google so your answers are saved privately - only you can ever see them. Come back to it across as many sessions as you need.
Most of us move through life reacting to what happens around us without ever stopping to ask a more fundamental question - not what am I doing, but how am I being?
The Being Framework, developed by Ashkan Tashvir, is a personal development framework built around 31 ways of being - qualities like courage, authenticity, presence, gratitude, responsibility and forgiveness - that shape how we show up in every area of our lives. It's not about personality types or labels. It's about developing a deeper, more honest relationship with who you are and how you operate in the world.
As an Accredited Practitioner of the Being Framework, I built Being Journal as a companion tool for anyone who wants to do this work - whether you're working with me directly or simply curious about yourself and ready to look a little more honestly at your life. You don't need to have completed a formal Being Profile to use it.
Think of it as a private online journal that guides you through each of the 31 distinctions, one at a time, at your own pace. For each one you'll find a clear explanation of what it means, what a healthy and unhealthy relationship with it looks like, and guided reflection questions to help you get genuinely honest with yourself.
At the heart of every exploration is one question that tends to cut right through: "What would be available to you if you developed a healthier relationship with this?" - because that's where the real insight lives.
Your journal is completely private. Nobody sees your reflections but you. There's no right place to start - just pick the distinction that's calling to you right now and begin there.
If either of these tools sparks something for you and you'd like to take it further, I'd love to hear from you. Sometimes the most important conversations start with a simple question - how am I really showing up?
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