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Balance

Sustainable practices for wellness, mindfulness, and meaningful work. 

Sustainable practices for wellness, mindfulness, and meaningful work. 

Meet Katherine

“I know what it feels like to live out of balance — and I know the way back."

Hi, I’m Katherine. My blog helps people find steadiness in wellness, work, and daily life. My approach is rooted in mindfulness, mental health, and practical wellness practices (food, movement, and my favorite meditation-baking). These tools guided me through a 20+ year journey with depression and continue to support how I show up for my life and career today.


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I wrote  "Your Balance Blueprint" to jumpstart your journey towards balanced living. Each pillar contains a wealth of reasonable, sustainable, day-to-day practices to find and maintain balance.

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    Balanced Mind

    Mindfulness and mental health practices that are accessible, sustainable and easier to fit into your day-to-day. These tools were key to my personal journey of overcoming a 20+ year battle with depression and are strategies I continue to use to maintain my mental health every day.

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    Why You Can’t Run From Yourself (And What It Means to Truly Move On)

    By Katherine Warren • April 27, 2026
    A personal reflection on change, mental health, and why healing doesn’t come from starting over somewhere new.
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    A Simple 7-Minute Mindfulness Practice to Reset Your Day

    By Katherine Warren • April 8, 2026
    A simple 7-minute mindfulness practice you can use to reset your day, even when life feels busy. 
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    Resolution? Put your Brain Health First

    By Katherine Warren • December 31, 2025
    I am living proof that people can, in fact, change.
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    Balanced Body

    A balanced, reasonable approach to wellness with no "all-or-nothing" restrictions. Browse these blogs for tips on exercise, food and how mindfulness and mental health can help you tune into the most impactful wellness strategies for YOU. (Plus some blogs on my most favorite mindfulness practice, baking.)

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    Soup Sundays: A Simple Ritual for Balanced Eating and a Balanced Life

    By Katherine Warren • April 26, 2026
    I posted on social media this week about Soup Sundays at the Warren house. It is a near sacred practice here, and very much a part of living a balanced life.
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    A Real-Life Approach to Balanced Eating (Why 80/20 Works)

    By Katherine Warren • April 15, 2026
    What balanced eating actually looks like in real life. A simple 80/20 approach to healthy habits without restriction, guilt, or perfection.
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    What Balanced Eating Looks Like on a Real Weeknight (Easy, Healthy Dinner Idea)

    By Katherine Warren • April 14, 2026
    A real-life dinner that balances nutrition, ease, and enjoyment
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    Balanced Leadership

    A balanced you at work means showing up focused, present, authentic and energized for your work and your people. Supporting your team in finding and maintaining balance helps them experience more joy and focus in their work. A balanced team produces higher-quality results in less time while fostering a people-first culture that also benefits your bottom line.

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    Why a Balanced Life Blogger and Culture First Leader Cringes When I Hear “Work/Life Balance”

    By Katherine Warren • February 9, 2025
    It never fails, when I try to explain the beautiful, balanced culture we are building at KidGlov (focused on finding joy in our work), someone inevitably says, “Oh, you mean good work/life balance?”
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    The Art of Vulnerability at Work

    By Katherine Warren • February 8, 2025
    There’s an art to vulnerability, especially at work. Being real is what connects us as humans, but that doesn’t mean you need to share every nitty, gritty detail for someone to relate.
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    My Take on Wellness and Volunteer Programs

    By Katherine Warren • February 7, 2025
    What does wellness mean to you?
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    How To
    Guides


    Mindfulness Meditation 101

    The basics to incorporating mindfulness into your everyday life, plus  some additional resources for deeper learning.


    Balanced Eating and Exercise

    My top five tips for balanced eating and movement, plus some of my favorite recipe and wellness resources.


    Bring Balance To Work

    Five considerations for creating a more balanced workplace and why that matters for productivity and profitability.

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    The Focus Method

    A four-step framework to build focus, energy, and resilience — without burnout.


    Finding focus isn’t a break — it’s the way forward.


    Services

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    I facilitate Private ReTREATs with your group of friends or coworkers. We practice balanced living enjoying meditation, yoga, beautiful food, a little learning, and lots of down time.

    I offer keynotes, half day worksshops and daylong ReTREATS on Mindfulness in Everyday life, the Four Pillars of Balance and Becoming a Balanced Leader.

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    I lead culture audits and strategy sessions for organizations of all sizes, helping align initiatives, teams, and leadership through a people-first approach that also supports a healthy bottom line.

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    I teach private mindfulness classes  that incorporate a variety of meditation techniques and tools to sustain a daily practice.

    Ready to take your balance practice to the next level?


    I get it—prioritizing yourself is HARD. But I am here to tell you firsthand, the gifts that you give yourself will impact everyone you encounter. Cultivating balance in you will create deeper, richer relationships at home, at work, and out in the wild. Let’s build balance in ourselves so that we can gift it out into the world for others.

    Looking for help with strategy or marketing? Great! You can reach out to me at KidGlov for those services.

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    Balanced Life Coaching

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    Sustainable Mindfulness

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    Stress-Free Cooking