You rarely have time to do the things you want to do, to take care of yourself beyond the essentials, or even to figure out what that looks like to you, which makes you feel like you’re stuck and will never be able to change. You also struggle to spend money on yourself if it’s not related to your family or your work, and you tend to put yourself at the end of the list of needs in your life. Sometimes you question whether this is just the way life is and if you’re being ungrateful and wanting unrealistic things. But you can’t shake that feeling that you need and want more out of your life.

I believe a big part of what makes this happen is the conditioning women have been born with and have adapted to as they grow up – that we are here to serve others, and that if we take up more space we might be called bossy, selfish, overly sensitive, loud or needy – so we keep ourselves small. But we don’t have to follow that path anymore. We are so much more powerful than we have been led to believe and we deserve to live rich, multi-dimensional, passionate lives. But we need time to explore this and it is so hard to find it with everything else we have to do in our lives. We want soul enriching and nourishing experiences that honour who we are, and unfortunately everyday life makes it hard for us to follow these desires and intentions.

I understand what it is like to be burnt out, time poor, trapped in your life and paralysed by indecision and unworthiness. I understand the struggle of mental health, work/life balance, motherhood and staying connected to who you are. These things kept me going in circles, living a life that didn’t feel quite right and being a person that didn’t feel quite right either. It wasn’t until I started the deep inner work and joining the dots with my creative explorations, that everything began to make sense and incredible shifts began happening. 

A few years ago, I found myself yet again fed up with the repeating patterns in my life – particularly the way I would sacrifice my own needs for work or family, as if everything else was more important than me. I reflected on my life and had a number of epiphanies about creativity and self leadership and what it means to truly know yourself and become the fullest or highest expression of yourself. The deeper I dove, the more I learnt: the combination of self discovery, somatic and creative practice is a pathway to courage, clarity and truth. 

 I am here to give you the gentle nudges and new doorways that your soul is craving to step into a more authentic expression of who you are. I am here to help liberate you from what gets in your way of following your dreams, needs and passions. Your experience of your life matters and I can help you change that experience. I have been to dozens of retreat experiences over the years and I know the ingredients needed to create safe and explorative in person experiences, and also why ‘in person’ can often be the most transformative (because of how the social engagement system in our brains work).

This is why I created Wild Spark, a nourishing and joyful retreat that takes care of you by showing you the magic inside you, unlocking your creativity and guiding you into self-compassionate insight and perspective so you can recognise where you’re being held back, and step forwards with more courage and confidence into the life you always dreamed of having. Wild Spark is an enriching self-care experience and ultimately represents commitment to your personal and creative growth and evolution.

You have incredible magic inside you. It lies in wait, in your heart and your imagination. Let’s make sparks. 

Katie xo