About Kat

I remember hiding behind our kitchen door at age five or six, spooning Betty Crocker vanilla frosting straight from the tub. I knew I shouldn’t. I knew I’d get in trouble. I knew I’d feel ashamed afterward. Yet I couldn’t stop. That moment planted the first seed of a complicated, painful relationship with food that would follow me for decades.

Like many women, I grew up believing my body was the problem.

I judged myself against other girls by age seven. I snuck junk food at nine. I went on my first diet at eleven (and I’m honestly not sure it was the first but it is the first one I remember). My teenage years became an exhausting cycle of restriction and rebound overeating.

I learned early that love and approval seemed to arrive only when I was shrinking myself—literally and figuratively.

I spent thirty years chasing weight loss, convinced that if I could just get smaller, I would finally feel happy, worthy, and at peace. Diet after diet added more shame, more emotional baggage, and—statistically—more weight. The 90–97% failure rate of diets wasn’t a secret; it was just one I refused to admit applied to me.

All the while, I was trying to figure out how to navigate the world with a neurodivergent brain that I didn’t yet fully understand, I’m not certain I understand it now. Sensory sensitivities, emotional regulation challenges, and that classic “all-or-nothing” intensity made food both a comfort and a battlefield.

In typical neurodivergent fashion, once I decided to figure it out, I became obsessed. I studied Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/tapping), became a certified hypnotherapist, trained in Reiki, Bach Flower Remedies, and several other holistic modalities. I was determined to break the cycle for my children and for myself.

But no matter how many tools I collected, something was still missing. I kept hitting the same invisible walls. The deeper I looked, the clearer it became: the real issue wasn’t my weight. The real issue was the parts of me I had learned to hide, reject, and abandon. Parts like the anger I wasn’t allowed to feel, the needs I had silenced, the “unacceptable” emotions I had pushed into the shadows.

I thought I wanted to lose weight.

What I actually wanted was to love and accept myself, exactly as I am.

That’s when shadow work changed everything.Studying Shadow Work (and becoming a certified Shadow Coach in 2025) finally gave me the missing key. For the first time, I stopped trying to fix or eliminate the “dark” parts of myself and started integrating them with compassion. I learned to meet my inner critic, my repressed anger, my people-pleasing tendencies, and my self-doubt with curiosity instead of shame. Through shadow prompts, Truth Tapping (my own blend of shadow work and EFT), and hypnotherapy, I began to heal the subconscious blocks that had been running my life on autopilot.

The transformation wasn’t about shrinking my body anymore. It was about expanding my sense of self. Self-acceptance became the soil where real change could finally grow and eventually turn into self-love. I stopped trying to hate myself into a better life and started loving myself into one. I learned the beautiful truth: “You are perfect as you are, and there is room for change.”

I’m still on this journey. There are days I slip back into old patterns, on those days I practice the same gentleness I now offer my clients. I no longer believe I’m broken or need fixing. I’m neurodivergent, beautifully complex, and 100% worthy of healing. I know I’m worth fighting for, even on the hard days.

Today, as a holistic coach and hypnotherapist, I help women who feel unhappy, stuck, or disconnected from their true selves do the same work. Through shadow work, Truth Tapping, and gentle subconscious tools, we uncover the hidden parts that have been holding you back and integrate them with love. The result isn’t just feeling “better”, it’s finally feeling like yourself again: calm, clear, authentic, and genuinely happy.

If any part of my story resonates with you, I’d be honored to walk beside you on your own Shadow to Light journey.

You deserve to be happy and healed and you don’t have to do it alone.