IF YOU’RE HERE IT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE A MEDIAL WOMAN
(WHETHER YOU KNOW IT YET OR NOT)
A MEDIAL WOMAN IS ONE WHO LIVES in TWO WORLDS at once:
THE SEEN & THE UNSEEN
As a huge-hearted and ambitious human with big dreams and a sacred vision for what’s possible in this life—for you and for the collective—you play a critical and tricky role:
Bringing heart and soul to everything you do…in a world that more often than not depletes, devalues, and even trivializes your value, your values, and your incredible gifts.
Whatever it is you’re here to create—your art, your writing, your business, your children, your life—I know that you are creating it from your soul, and with your whole damn heart.
But it can be f*cking hard.
Especially when culture seems hellbent on dismissing you: trivial at best; a madwoman at worst.
But we are historically in a time in which, for all its flaws, we get to decide. For ourselves, and for the future of us all. (No pressure.)
HELLO, DEAR one.
I’M KATE
YOUR GUIDE INTO SOMATIC (BODY, MIND, & SOUL) LIBERATION
A decade ago I made the fateful decision to leave my in-house publishing job as Senior Editor to become a freelance book editor & book coach for women writers.
Within a month, the #MeToo Movement came for us all—and I became a woman who held my sisters as they wrote and shared their trauma-laden stories.
At the time I believed I was one of the lucky ones.
I spent years holistically editing, educating, & coaching women writers to believe in their creative visions, write the books they’d spent years dreaming up—even when they required facing & retelling immense past trauma—& secure agent representation, & book deals galore—
But after years of burnouts & chronic stress I had to ask myself the hardest question:
WHAT ABOUT ME KEEPS CREATING THIS SAME RESULT?
The answer was complex & multi-layered, but it boiled down to this:
As it turned out, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones; I was one of them. And I was living in total disconnection from my body as a result of the childhood trauma that had laid hidden inside of me for 30 years, waiting for the day I was strong enough to know the truth.
Coming home to my body turned out to be more than just a necessity: it has been the most transformative experience of my life—a hero’s journey & a homecoming so deep that I found myself in ways I didn’t know were possible.
I retrained as a Certified MindBody Somatic Practitioner so I could share this groundbreaking, deep-healing, whole-life-realigning work with others like me—& welcomed all the more mystical, kooky, & magical aspects of myself that got revealed to me in the process.
Nowadays, you can think of me as the symbolic witch in the woods, & WHOLE HOUSE the glowing home deep in the forest: here to hold you through the depths of your greatest becoming yet on this lifelong heroine’s path of healing, reclamation, & liberating self-expression.
Thank you for being here. My soul sees your soul.
THE WHOLE HOUSE PHILOSOPHY
a little more about me
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I identify as 50% house cat, 50% wild cat.
According to my latest shamanic journey, however, my primary spirit animal is jellyfish
The calliope jellyfish spends its days sun-floating close to the surface of warm, shallow waters, effortlessly cultivating its food source, algae, which grows harmlessly upon its "skin" as it floats and snacks. #learnfromnature #goals
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Many a PhD, interestingly! (I only have a measly Masters...)
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Dr. Esther Perel
Dr. Manuela Mischke Reeds
Dr. Gabor Maté
Qveen Herby
David Sedaris
Ilana Glazer
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This is an excruciating exercise and NOT AT ALL CONCLUSIVE but...(in no order)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
The Neopolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Middlemarch by George Eliot
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
