It's Been a Minute

And I’m thrilled to share with you what I’ve been working on.

If I were to describe the reason for my hiatus from blogging visually, it would be that spinny circle that comes up when something is trying to load. I’ve been doing a ton of work on myself, and a ton of processing.

It all started with that pesky ego, mine built a wall around this blog. It combined frustration of not getting enough “reach,” coupled with fear around what to share next. What pieces of my depression-filled past were ok, what parts would be “too far?” And am I really doing anyone any good if the numbers aren’t ticking up quickly?

Ego pushed my “should” meter to the max, it was almost like I was trying to force myself to confess things, my anxious mind was telling me that was the only way to make this blog great. That I had to share more to be more, to hit that magical number of subscribers. I lost sight of why I was doing this in the first damn place.

And I lost sight of my very real belief that if I move the needle towards balance for one person, that is a lifetime of enough. (I even wrote a blog about that.)

I got lost in our society’s pressure on performance and likes, and it made me angry. For a while, I was angry at every part of my life. Every bit of my existence started to feel like not enough, and the harder I pushed to change it, the harder the universe pushed back, “Not now, Katherine.” Zero change came, zero new achievements, and my anger grew.

Then I went to therapy, and my therapist said something that has been a game changer for me. It’s simple, but for me, was incredibly impactful, “you know, some achievements are outstanding, and sometimes constant achievement is just a way to continue to numb, to continue to avoid the work on that painful part of you that still needs focus and healing.”

It is not an understatement to say that simple statement almost instantly changed the game for me, and my mind skyrocketed back to balance. The next few therapy sessions we dug deeper than we ever had, we worked on the super hard, super tucked away stuff, and practiced some EMDR. I was ready.

The shift from there my friends has almost been inconceivable to me. This last month and a half, I have felt more balanced, more present, more at ease with life than I maybe ever have. I feel solid, focused and strong in my belief that yes, there is absolutely more out there for me (and for everyone), AND what I have now is absolutely enough, AND the way I was going about getting more was doing me no favors.

And let me tell you, what a wonderful time of year to get this gift. To be in full presence during the joyful moments of this season. To sit and savor the Christmas tree lights and a warm fire with my pup, to take in the crisp winter air, a good book, a warm cup of coffee. Of course that’s not to say life is perfect and that there isn’t stuff popping in now and again that brings back my angry. But man, it sure is sweet to be fully here for the joyful moments.

Then I heard Eckhart Tolle say (something like) this, “True success is the act of doing small things, every day, extremely well, and with great care.” The pushing, the “future,” the big light at the end of the tunnel, it doesn’t exist, all that TRULY exists is this moment. So anytime that need to question how things are going creeps in, its the perfect time to remind yourself of this, snap yourself back to the present, and do the very thing you are doing at that moment with pure presence, pure grace.

This approach creates so much more joyful focus in my work, a reminder that what I’m doing every day is striving to help everyone around me become the very best versions of themselves —through all the “little” things. That focus carries me through the bumps and hurdles of everyday company life and gets me back to laser in on what matters, my people.

This shift is now making its way back to this blog, and the real, raw reason I’m writing—to serve. To share with others things that have helped me find peace in the chaos of the mind, or at least find a tiny bit of relief for a minute, an hour, a week. To help you know that you, my cherished reader, are not alone in this. And it feels more than magical to be back in this space, to be back here with you—just YOU.

Even writing that, I start to feel a tingle of excitement in my fingers. Aliveness, if you will. Now…back to work on how to not focus on “the numbers” once I hit publish. I think presence coupled with my purpose will be key. And I hope I will be talking to you again soon. ❤️

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Balancing a Brain that’s Fighting Back

By Katherine Warren • April 6, 2025

Your brain will straight up lie to you. There’s no way to sugar coat that, friends, there just isn’t. But your brain also creates beautiful ideas and inventions, and well, everything you see that surrounds us. It’s the power of the AND. Your brain is the king of the “and.” The first step in finding balance is recognizing this. The second step is discerning the beautiful part of your brain from the beast. The third is not reacting to, judging or negotiating with the beastly part. It’s tough, tough work. It’s lifelong work. And even if your friends start calling you things like the “definition of balance” (a term so kindly bestowed on me by some friends recently). You’re still gonna have to work your a** off on this part for the rest of your life as you sway back and forth, in and out of balance. Does it get easier? Yes and no. The beauty of understanding the feeling of balance is that you don’t have to rely on your brain so much. You know how it feels to be in a place of solid, grounded peace, no matter what your brain is shouting you “should” or “could” be doing. The harder part is that the more you find balance, the more likely it is that you are upleveling your life. Your focus and pure presence have likely brought about more of whatever you define as a successful life--mentally, physically, or materially. That uplevel can mean those brain lies cut a little deeper, make you question every decision you make to protect your peace. If you’ve learned to sit with that pain in your belly, it might fight a little harder to make you pay attention to it. It might put up a bigger fight to try to force you to listen to those untruths. This is when you have to remind yourself, your brain will straight up lie to you. Under no circumstances should you negotiate with these thoughts. That’s where spiraling lives, that’s where lack of balance lies. Sometimes holding hard to your balanced routines will do the trick.