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Hi, I'm Katie
Most people meet me now and see someone grounded, reflective and rebuilding her life with intention.
But the version of me you see today was shaped in the mess, not in the moments where everything was going well.
This isn’t a story about having it all figured out.
It’s a story about surviving, unravelling…
and choosing to rebuild anyway.
In 2017, a rare brain condition put my life on pause.
Double vision, blinding headaches, the fear of losing my sight; it was the kind of illness that strips everything back. I healed against the odds, without surgery and without long-term medication.
But once I got better, I slipped straight back into survival mode because that’s what happens when you’ve never been taught how to live, only how to cope. Then in 2023, everything changed again.
My nephew died suddenly, and the world I knew shattered. Grief didn’t just break me, it stripped away the version of me I’d been hiding behind for years.
Therapy became a lifeline and slowly, painfully, honestly… I began meeting myself properly for the first time.
It was grief that cracked me open.
It was therapy that rebuilt me.
And it was that rebuild that changed everything.
There was a moment in all the heaviness where something clicked.
A realisation so simple it almost felt silly...
Life isn’t that deep.
We only get one shot.
So why wouldn’t I want it to be extraordinary?
Why wouldn’t I go for the things I wanted?
Why wouldn’t I stop overthinking and start living?
Why wouldn’t I chase the life the younger version of me believed I could have?
It was the first time I saw just how much of my life I’d been surviving instead of living.
From there, the real work began:
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Understanding the childhood patterns shaping my adult life.
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Breaking habits that kept me stuck.
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Finding the parts of myself I’d buried.
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Choosing small daily changes over waiting for the “right moment”.
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Learning what it means to truly feel.
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Letting go of who I thought I had to be.
I realised something life changing, You don’t need a perfect plan to change your life. You just need one honest decision.
And you need to want it badly enough.
I’m not special. I’m not privileged.
I’m not someone who had a leg-up or a convenient start. I’m a girl from a council estate who wanted her life to mean something. I’ve been broke, burnt out, in an overdraft, working two jobs, putting myself last, living on autopilot, handling chronic illness, and crawling through grief I never expected.
I get it, because I’ve lived it.
I want to be the person I needed at 14, when everything felt heavy and I didn’t know how to make it stop.
Why I Do This Work
Healing changed my life in every way and not in a glamorous way.
In an honest, uncomfortable, necessary way.
It taught me that:
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Life gets better, even when you can’t see how.
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Joy exists even in the hardest seasons.
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Resilience isn’t magic — it’s built.
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We’re all carrying more than we admit.
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The smallest actions change everything.
I don’t want anyone living in quiet unhappiness because they don't know another way and I don’t want the next generation growing up with the same emotional weight many of us carried into adulthood.
My mission is simple:
To share what I’ve learned, to offer real tools, and to help people understand themselves on a deeper level without the fluff, clichés or toxic positivity.
I’m researching resilience. I’m speaking in schools, charities and community spaces. I’m building a movement based on honesty, connection and the belief that life can feel better than this.
In the next 10 years, I see:
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Workshops in schools
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Panels and events
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A research project with my name on it
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A building or programme dedicated to emotional education
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Stories told far and wide
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People feeling less alone and more capable
I don’t want to “fix” the mental health crisis, no one person can. But I do want to help reduce the quiet suffering.
I want people to have the tools to get through their darkest moments. I want hope to feel accessible again.
I’m an introvert at heart, even though I come across confident.
I’m always thinking ten steps ahead.
I find joy in the simple things; that first sip of tea, mornings with my dogs, the sea air, hiking, nature, small moments that make life feel soft and real again.
Those things remind me what I’m fighting for:
A life that feels lived, not endured.
If you're sutrggling right now I want you to know this:
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You will make it through this.
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You are more capable than you think.
And your life can become something completely different from what it is right now. You just need one brave decision to start and I'm glad you're here.
