Hi, I’m Katie!
When I was a little girl, I only wanted one thing: to play harp on stage. In a sequin dress with smoke dancing around my legs.
The only thing standing between me and that dream was my body. Because every time I went to play for people, tension crept down my shoulder to my arm like a python, strangling my muscles and stiffening my wrists.
“It’s just stress,” my teacher said. “Everyone feels it.”
But my stress seemed different. I didn’t know any other kids who could only play a few games of tennis or write for an hour before their hands started shaking.
Then one day, I walked into a major orchestra audition that I’d been practicing for for months and I prayed, “please body, play like I know you can. Don’t let me down.” I sat down in a cold room, in front of even colder judges, and as I started to play, my hands stiffened. I made my first mistake and they stiffened even more. I only got through half of the piece before a sob choked my throat and I ran out of the room.
A few days later I received a message from one of the judges asking, “Did you even practice?” He had no idea.
By the time I was 25, my body had won. I woke up one morning with arthritis shooting down my hands and legs. I couldn’t play music, let alone comb my hair or work anymore. So I went from doctor to doctor as each one added labels to my medical file: Chronic Lyme disease, dysbiosis, allergies, adrenal fatigue. But none of them had a solution.
Then a friend referred me to a nutritionist who studied my body and said, “Your body needs different foods. Try this for four weeks.” So I gave up sugar, alcohol, milk, and soy. And after 2 weeks, the pain stopped. After 2 more weeks, my skin cleared up for the first time in 10 years.
That lit a fire in me and I asked myself, If food can make that big a difference, what else is possible? I began to study my body like an anthropologist deciphering a new language.
I noticed how certain foods made my mind clear or fuzzy; how certain breathing patterns relaxed my muscles and thoughts; how certain people made my belly soften or tighten. Eventually, I began to see the same pattern inside: even my limiting beliefs lived as tension in my tissues, softening only when I examined and shifted them.
In the process, my body went from betraying me to becoming my guide, showing me the foods, people, and thought patterns that gave me energy. If I had doubts, I just had to look at my hands for proof. The nodules were gone, the bones had shifted, and electricity ran down my fingers again.
I discovered something that I’ve shared with every woman I’ve worked with since then: there is no distinction between your body and your mind. Everything you do that supports one, supports the other.
Six years after I woke up with arthritis, I woke up again, feeling the best I had in a long time. I asked my then boyfriend to take me to a music store so I could rent a small harp and put my fingers on it. I couldn’t play as fast as I once could, or as technically, but I didn’t really care. I started running my fingers up and down, finding a slower rhythm, and for the first time, writing my own songs.
A few months ago I performed two of those songs on a stage and this time, the music came out exactly the way I hoped it would. I thanked my body that night, because I finally knew that every symptom, pain, and tension was really a sign post guiding me back to my health and personal power.
It's exactly that relationship with her body and that sense of personal power that I help every woman I work with cultivate. If you’d like support reconnecting to your own strength and clarity, I invite you to book a gift session and let’s connect. I’d love to hear your story.
Credentials
NLP Master Practitioner - Completed in July 2025
Bachelors Degree and Honor’s Thesis in Neuroscience - University of Pennsylvania 2015
Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release Practitioner, BBTR Institute - Completed in 2021
Holistic Nutritionist (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), Nutritional Therapy Association - Completed in 2023