I could not be more excited to share that this fall I’ll be taking a group of 16 women to the Arizona desert for a long weekend of renewal, connection, and a deep reset.
and YOU are invited...
Awaken Within is an intimate, 4-day desert retreat designed to help you slow down, reconnect to your inner voice, and return to yourself.
What you can expect:
– Morning meditation + yoga to gently wake up your body and mind
– Afternoon sessions (with sound baths, dharma talks, & reflection) to go a little deeper
– Space for rest, stillness, and time alone (no overpacked schedule)
– Nourishing, beautiful meals (you don’t have to think about a thing)
– Meaningful conversations with women who just get it
– Time in nature, quiet moments, and room for clarity to come through
This isn’t about pushing, fixing, or becoming someone new. It’s about softening. Listening. Remembering. You’ll leave feeling more grounded, more clear, and more connected - to yourself and to what actually matters.
We’re keeping this experience small (just 16 women), because the intimacy of the group really matters.
If this is speaking to you, comment “AWAKEN” and I’ll send you all the details.
I would genuinely love to see you there. xoxo
For a lot of my life I lived overwhelmed, with just about everything. But especially how to take care of myself. It felt like another thing to do. And I led with shame and perfectionism. As if somehow who I was in the moment wasn’t enough. Constantly trying to “fix” the woman I was (my body, my diet, my patience…all of it). It took me years to learn how to come home to myself (I know to sound cheesy, but it’s true), and lead from a place of love. How to build my inner wellbeing being (through mediation and mindfulness) and it is WILD how everything else snowballed. I started letting go of so much old shit. I stopped obsessing over food and workouts and optimizing myself - and I just let myself LIVE and trusted my body and mind to lead me. And it’s changed everything. It didn’t happen over night. And it wasn’t a quick fix. And it’s STILL a daily practice (my mind loves to mess with me), but I’m so much faster at recognizing it, with a place of compassionate curiosity and then gently course correcting.
But I know it’s not easy. If it was, we all wouldn’t be running around sick and tired. (And there wouldn’t be a billion dollar business capitalizing on us feeling like we’re “broken”). But it is possible.
We’re starting a 4 week mindfulness program at the end of January, Well Within. It’s 4 weeks of support, community, to rebuild this inner foundation of wellbeing. Becuase I promise you that when you can get honest and clear about what’s happening “in here”, everything changes.
❤️comment “within” and I’ll send you all the information. We begin 1/28.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or just a little lost in your own life, please know, you don’t have to do it alone.
You have a choice.
To slow down. To breathe again. To reconnect with yourself.
Inner peace isn’t reserved for the lucky few - it’s available to all of us.
Ease, clarity, confidence, feeling good in your own skin… they’re possible. And you deserve to feel that way.
This program was born from my own story — the years I spent striving, numbing, and trying to hold it all together — and the quiet, consistent practice that helped me find my way back.
Over 4 weeks, we’ll come together as a collective of women - to remember who we are, to rebuild trust with ourselves, and to find freedom in presence.
If something in you is whispering it’s time, I hope you’ll join us.
Comment “collective” if you’re ready to join me. A new round is bringing 1/25.
I’ve had a spiritual side since I was a little girl - but for many years I brushed it off, feeling like it was too “woo” or not practical. It’s only been recently, in my mid-40s, that I’ve welcomed this side of me back in, and I can honestly say that I feel more grounded, clearer, and dare I even say...more joyful because of it.
7 woo things I do that have truly changed my life... (coming from someone who would have rolled her eyes at this years ago)
✨I make plans based on how I feel in the moment (which I’ll be honest, is not always so easy when you’re married to me). It sometimes means changing (or canceling) plans last minute….without guilt.
✨ I energetically cleanse (in all different ways). My body with Epsom salts, my home with sage, and my relationships with cord-cutting meditations (more on that later if you’re interested).
✨ I trust my gut immediately. If my stomach feels off, if I get chills, if I just have a feeling - I don’t negotiate with it. I trust each of those signs deeply. My body always knows.
✨ I visualize my future self every night before sleep. When our brains drop into that quiet in-between state, I rehearse exactly how I want my day (or my new month, year, chapter) to feel. ✨ I ask for downloads. And I get them! Learning to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety has been everything (I’ve received downloads around sobriety, moving to the west coast, starting to teach meditation)
✨ I get curious when things fall apart. Instead of spiraling, I ask: “I wonder how this is going to work out?” It’s a small reframe that changes everything
✨ I write letters from future me. She thanks me for not giving up, and reminds me that it’s all working out exactly as it should.
I have a full Substack post that breaks down all of these practices and shares how you can begin to hear your own intuition and voice. Comment “woo,” and I’ll send you the full post.
Oh, and if you’re new here - Hi. I’m Katy. I’m a mom of 4 who slowly rebuilt her life over the years through meditation and mindfulness practices - and I help other women do the same. Welcome. I’m so glad you’r
Call it woo, I don’t care. It’s true. The universe, spirit, god (whatever you chose to call it), does not give us what we want…..
It gives us MORE of what we already ARE.
How wild is that to think about?!!
So we can either chose to stay in lack, focus on the negative, what we don’t have, what’s wrong or who wronged us - and we can stay in that cycle of more and more suffering. Wondering why nothing is changing.
OR - we can begin to embody (right now, today!) exactly what it is that we desire. Love, abundance,support, peace, ease, joy.
It’s so cliche, but it’s true. It all starts in here. Inside you.
Whatever we focus on, whatever we put out into this world - is a direct correlation of what we receive. It’s the law or resonance.
The universe does not give you what you want,
It gives you what you ARE 🤍✨
In the past 6 months our community has grown by 60K new faces - and I could not be more excited to have you here 🤍✨
So first and foremost, if you’re new around here - welcome!!
I thought it was time for us to reintroduce ourselves if we’re gonna be spending some time together. So I’ll go first - but I’d love to hear from you, too. Where are you from? How did you find me? Why did you stay? Or maybe just what’s on your heart and mind this season….
I’d love to get to know you a little better ❤️
If I were starting over, today, and I wanted to quietly upgrade every aspect of my life, here’s exactly where I’d start.
I wouldn’t blow up my whole life (although tempting…lol). I’d get really honest first. - I’d spend a full day getting clear on who I’m becoming. how she thinks, what she values, what she no longer tolerates, how she moves through her days.
- I’d take a quiet look at my relationships. The ones that ask me to shrink or overextend… and gently release them. - I’d stop talking about wellness and actually live it -
sobriety, sleep, stillness, nourishing food. The things that aren’t flashy but change everything.
- I’d be willing to walk away from anything that looks good on paper but doesn’t feel good in my body. (I’ve done it before. I’d do it again.)
- I’d clear out my closet, my home (and my life) of things I’ve outgrown. - I’d come back to meditation. And start mentally rehearsing the life I want instead of replaying the one I’m trying to leave behind.
- I’d get outside first thing in the morning. Before the noise, before the scrolling. no phone, no podcast, just me and my breath)
- I’d stop explaining myself to people who have already decided who I am.
- I’d choose one thing that scares me… and move toward it anyway. Because fear is usually the doorway, not the stop sign.
And I’d let myself take up space. A lot of it. More than I’m probably comfortable with, and I’d start getting comfortable being seen, having needs, and using my voice.
Reinvention doesn’t start when everything looks different. It starts the moment you get radically HONEST with yourself.
✨And if this resonates with you but feels a little overwhelming, I get it. This is the exact work inside my guide, Well Within. simple, daily practices, meditations, mindset shifts, and practical tools to help you come back home to yourself - because we’re not meant to do any of this alone. Comment “guide” and I’ll send it your way🤍
You know that game, “if you really knew me, you’d know that I…..”
Well, if you really knew me, you’d know that I only read non-fiction and that my nightstand is always overflowing with weathered books that have been read, re-read, highlighted, bookmarked and loved. Books that have healed my soul, given me direction, helped me understand myself and the word and been one of my biggest teachers. Some are filled with poetry, others about meditation and mindset, and some simply about what it means to reawaken in midlife.
If I was a woman in midlife - looking to reconnect with my heart and find inner peace - these are the books I’d devour….
In no particular order
- anything by Pema Chodron (my personal fave, The Wisdom of No Escape)
- You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay
- The Untethered Soul, by @michael_a.singer
- Ask and It Is Given, by Esther Hicks
- anything by Mary Oliver
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen (read over and over and still makes me cry)
- A Return To Love, by @mariannewilliamson
- A New Earth, by @eckharttolle
- The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin
- Mindset, by Carol Dweck
- Wintering, by @katherinemay_
- A Radical Awakening, by @doctorshefali
What am I missing?
This has been such a hard lesson for me to learn over the years. To understand that not everything I think, everything that happens, or everything some does or says - has to mean so much. It can be so easy for our minds to take something small happening right now in this moment and make it into a much larger story in our minds. Spending hours, days, weeks (sometimes an entire lifetime) down a rabbit hole in our mind.
I’m certainly not insinuating that we shouldn’t analyze certain stories or experiences in our lives - absolutely. It’s how we grow, learn and adapt. But not everything.
Be careful of what rooms your mind enters and how long you spend there - you could be missing a big beautiful life while you’re in there.
✨ not everything has to be that deep. Not everything has to mean so much….🤍
spring break photo dump and a confession to make. While I’m so grateful for this community and I genuinely love what I do, I don’t always love how I feel being on this app and on my phone in general (anyone else?). Especially the past few months.
I’ve been trying to find a balance. Being off my phone more to be more present in my very real life at home with my kids. And while I know taking breaks (from everything) is healthy and good for us - there’s a small part of me that feels like I’m not doing “enough” as a creator showing up here more often. And the tension I feel between wanting to be “on”, while also being true to what I know is healthy for me, is very real.
But the truth is - I just don’t care anymore (not that I don’t care about all of you.) I don’t care about the old social media norms anymore (posting daily, showing up 24/7, whatever). It doesn’t resonate with me anymore - and feels inauthentic. I share when I can. How I can. About things, feelings, and experiences in my everyday life. Which means most days I’m just trying to manage a home, four kids, and my own well-being - so showing up (even when I want to) gets pushed down the list.
One of the things that I’m leaning into right now is trusting my own pace/needs and putting blinders on. People are always going to be out there doing “more (more reels, more with their kids, more with the business, more with their workouts). Let ‘em. It doesn’t mean they’re going anywhere faster than you. It doesn’t make them more successful or happier than you.
I share all of this to say that we can’t allow other people’s norms, rules, or the way they “do things” to dictate how we feel about ourselves, how we measure ourselves, or how we show up. Guess what, kids, no one knows what they’re doing. There are no rules. There is no “one way” to do things. Ignore the advice. Ignore what other people are doing. Ignore the rules.
Trust yourself. Listen to your heart. And follow your gut - it’s the only barometer you need. And ps - you’re doing great. I’m proud of us. xoxo
If I were a woman in midlife looking to feel her best, this is where I’d start….
I wouldn’t add anything in. In fact, I’d most likely do a whole heck of a lot less. I’d start by stepping back and taking an audit of my life. Getting really honest about where my energy, time, and mind are going. I’d start noticing my patterns, my habits, my blind spots. The old stories I replay on repeat. And then I’d slowly start working on shifting them one by one (with compassionate curiosity).
Most likely, the thing you need is not another supplement or a new diet, but rather some deeper mindset shifts. And those do not change overnight, my friend. But each time you consciously choose a new pattern or a new mindset shift (when you don’t open that phone and scroll, or you catch your mind as you start comparing yourself to someone online), you slowly start course-correcting the ship. And over time, you end up in new waters.
Curious if any of this resonated with you, or what you’d add to the list...
I came home from leading our retreat in Panama with so many lessons learned. One of which was just the simple reminder of why we do this work (whatever “this” is). We do this work (whether it’s yoga or meditation, journaling, therapy, whatever) because the greatest love we’re all still searching for….is our own ❤️
And yet, we look everywhere outside ourselves to try and find it. Some of us spending our entire lives searching. For these 22 women, and myself included, our week together in Panama helped us get one step closer ❤️
Today on the podcast I’m sharing all about the retreat. What it was like, what we did and most importantly- what we all walked away with. While we may not all be able to spend a week away on a black sandy beach in Panama meditating and practicing yoga - we can all find ways in our days to come home to ourselves, live with our hearts a little more open and find ways to offer ourselves our own loving kindness right in our own homes….
Comment “SHOW” and I’ll send you a direct link to the full episode 🤍
