FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING
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Hello. I'm Katherine and I am passionate about transforming my pain into purpose and using my personal and professional experience and expertise to support others.
I am an experienced, trauma-informed coach, midlife mentor, motivational speaker and author. I am also a woman who has transformed her own life, career and relationship patterns - recovering from an eating disorder and other addictions, burnout, breakdown and relationship self-sabotage to find fulfillment, wellbeing and healthy love. |
Whatever you're struggling with, I imagine I know how you feel.
If you are tired of doing life on your own and long to be in a loving partnership, I know how you feel.
If you are confused and bemused by your single status and wondering if you'll ever find love, I know how you feel.
If you are bored or soul-dead in your career and long to feel passionate and alive again, I know how you feel.
If you feel down, depressed, stressed, overwhelmed or burnt out, I know how you feel.
If you are grieving because you have missed the opportunity to have children, feel ambivalent about parenthood or still hope to have children but are running out of time, I know how you feel.
If you are struggling to process deep wounds from your early life that affect your functioning in the present, leading to chronic self-sabotage, I know how you feel.
I have been there. I hear you. I see you.
And I have good news: transformation is possible. It requires courage, determination and the right kind of support, but it's available to all of us.
My story attests to that.
If you are tired of doing life on your own and long to be in a loving partnership, I know how you feel.
If you are confused and bemused by your single status and wondering if you'll ever find love, I know how you feel.
If you are bored or soul-dead in your career and long to feel passionate and alive again, I know how you feel.
If you feel down, depressed, stressed, overwhelmed or burnt out, I know how you feel.
If you are grieving because you have missed the opportunity to have children, feel ambivalent about parenthood or still hope to have children but are running out of time, I know how you feel.
If you are struggling to process deep wounds from your early life that affect your functioning in the present, leading to chronic self-sabotage, I know how you feel.
I have been there. I hear you. I see you.
And I have good news: transformation is possible. It requires courage, determination and the right kind of support, but it's available to all of us.
My story attests to that.
MY STORY
I woke up on my 41st birthday in my lovely North London flat and watched my tears drop onto my pyjamas. I'd worked so hard for this - the high-flying career, the financial freedom and independence, the home of my own - so why did I feel so empty and alone? There was no partner to bring me breakfast in bed and no patter of tiny feet on the wooden floors. Why hadn't I managed to make a relationship work? What had I been striving for all these years?
My love life hadn't gone to plan and I felt lost in my professional life too, despite an impressive CV and a job that prompted people to say, 'Wow!'. I'd worked hard and climbed high. I'd travelled the world with prime ministers as a Reuters correspondent and sipped champagne in Downing Street and the White House. I'd lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Brazil. I'd reported on earthquakes, conflicts, tsunamis and terrorist attacks.
Yet by my late 30s, I no longer felt fulfilled in that high-profile, high-adrenaline role. My authentic self was crying out to do something else, to work at my own pace and to find a better work/life balance.
My love life hadn't gone to plan and I felt lost in my professional life too, despite an impressive CV and a job that prompted people to say, 'Wow!'. I'd worked hard and climbed high. I'd travelled the world with prime ministers as a Reuters correspondent and sipped champagne in Downing Street and the White House. I'd lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Brazil. I'd reported on earthquakes, conflicts, tsunamis and terrorist attacks.
Yet by my late 30s, I no longer felt fulfilled in that high-profile, high-adrenaline role. My authentic self was crying out to do something else, to work at my own pace and to find a better work/life balance.
FROM BREAKDOWN TO BREAKTHROUGH
On a Good Housekeeping magazine photoshoot
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I went through burnout, breakdown and depression. I healed from self-harming behaviours including an eating disorder, binge drinking, workaholism, perfectionism and dysfunctional relationships with men who didn't value me or wouldn't commit. I went on a journey of recovery and self-discovery and I transformed myself, from the inside out. The results have been incredible. I am now married to a wonderful man and I live near the sea in Dorset. I have written a book called How to Fall in Love and I am writing a few more, and I've transformed my career. I now coach, write and speak from the heart, helping others transform their lives and find fulfillment, balance and peace, wellbeing at work and a healthy and loving relationship. It would be a privilege to work with you, write for you or to speak to your organisation. |
Just married!
Photo: Camilla Arnhold Photography
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I believe one of my biggest achievements to date is forming and maintaining a healthy and loving relationship. I see it as a miracle given my childhood wounds and my disastrous track record on the dating scene.
I am also incredibly grateful to have healed my eating disorder and found a good level of health and wellbeing (always a work in progress!). And I am proud that I finished and published my first book and built a coaching practice that significantly impacts other people's lives. Finally, I'm delighted to be living by the beach and swimming in the sea all year round. I have found my home. |
HOW I WORK
I am a trauma-informed coach, which means I have the experience and expertise to understand the deep roots of your blocks and challenges and to support you to break through them.
I walk the walk - I have overcome many of the challenges my clients struggle with myself, from a faulty relationship with myself, disordered eating, addictive and compulsive behaviours, self-harming relationship dynamics, depression and undesired singleness. I understand childhood trauma, grief, loss, emotional pain, loneliness and childlessness, because I have experienced them myself and have studied them in depth.
I am an intuitive empath, with a gift for grasping what's really going on inside my clients' hearts and minds, behind the words and the mask, for understanding their patterns in work, love and life and for supporting them to make courageous changes.
I have a talent for holding space for groups of women and allowing hidden feelings and memories to surface. I lead by example, sharing my own vulnerabilities.
I have 20 years of experience supporting others to change their relationships with themselves and form healthy relationships with others, first informally through support groups and networks and over the past six years, professionally as a coach. I have a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills from the Westminster Pastoral Association in London, a degree from Oxford University and I'm a graduate and fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. I speak fluent Spanish and reasonable Portuguese.
I've lectured at universities, spoken in schools, to organisations and appeared on national television and radio, including on BBC Newsnight and Woman's Hour. My writing on self-love and relationships has been published in the national media, including Red, Psychologies, Good Housekeeping, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Medium. I blog regularly on my own site, From Forty With Love, and have been sharing my journey there since I was 39.
If you're looking for support to transform your life and your relationships, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
I walk the walk - I have overcome many of the challenges my clients struggle with myself, from a faulty relationship with myself, disordered eating, addictive and compulsive behaviours, self-harming relationship dynamics, depression and undesired singleness. I understand childhood trauma, grief, loss, emotional pain, loneliness and childlessness, because I have experienced them myself and have studied them in depth.
I am an intuitive empath, with a gift for grasping what's really going on inside my clients' hearts and minds, behind the words and the mask, for understanding their patterns in work, love and life and for supporting them to make courageous changes.
I have a talent for holding space for groups of women and allowing hidden feelings and memories to surface. I lead by example, sharing my own vulnerabilities.
I have 20 years of experience supporting others to change their relationships with themselves and form healthy relationships with others, first informally through support groups and networks and over the past six years, professionally as a coach. I have a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills from the Westminster Pastoral Association in London, a degree from Oxford University and I'm a graduate and fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. I speak fluent Spanish and reasonable Portuguese.
I've lectured at universities, spoken in schools, to organisations and appeared on national television and radio, including on BBC Newsnight and Woman's Hour. My writing on self-love and relationships has been published in the national media, including Red, Psychologies, Good Housekeeping, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Medium. I blog regularly on my own site, From Forty With Love, and have been sharing my journey there since I was 39.
If you're looking for support to transform your life and your relationships, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
If you'd like to share some of our wedding joy, take a look at this video: