Author: Katie Kolenberg

Do you sometimes compare your life to other people’s lives? And by compare, I mean make yourself feel inadequate/inferior/undeserving/stuck because someone else seems to have it better than you. It’s called comparisonitis. Made easier thanks to the huge role social media has in our lives and everyone’s tendency to only post the highlight reel. But it’s been around longer than social media. It’s a human condition, and it’s important to talk about it. One of the things that used to make me feel like this about was how hard parenting felt when I had no family close by. Child no 1

About this time last year I found myself in an unproductive and negative headspace. I’m generally a high energy, get-shit-done person and usually have a very optimistic outlook, so it was obvious something was out of whack. It took me a while to get the balance back, and in my quest I reacquainted myself with a concept I’d long forgotten about. Masculine and feminine energy. If this is something you know nothing about, I strongly encourage a bit of googling as many business, self development and health experts have opinions about it, and it’s very, very interesting! Most people tend