Where it started for me…
I always felt like I was ‘different’ from what felt like the moment I was born. As a kid I felt deep feelings. I was very aware of my surroundings and other peoples emotions.
Often, I would have a ‘deeper knowing’ about something and often it would turn out to be right. I wasn’t a normal kid who liked playing barbies. I was a kid that sensed the other realms and had a deep connection with the ‘Universe' for lack of a better term.
When I grew into my adolescence, I fully rejected this part of me. I got drawn into the normal teenage saga and felt disconnected from myself and to the depth of life, however, I was aware that something was missing, I just didn't know what.
In my early twenties,
my life changed….
I got into a serious relationship where I became a stepmother and made that my entire identity. It was a part of my life that gave me so much. I wouldn’t be who I am today had it not been for my experience and I would never go back and change the decision I took to be in this relationship and what it came with, despite it not really being the ‘normal’ life of someone in their twenties and despite it’s challenges. However, looking back at my old version of myself, as we all do at times, I do recognise that the person I was back then again put myself in a position where my focus was entirely on others rather than the connection to myself.
I was so engrossed co-raising a child and navigating the ups and downs of a complex relationship that the disconnection to myself and lack of connection with the universe wasn't really something I was aware of that I had even lost… but yet again, despite whole-heartedly loving my role as a nurturing step-mother, having many moments of deep love, fun and joy in my relationship and progressing in my work developments, I still knew something was missing deep inside of me.
It took me an engagement, an entire planned wedding and 9 years later with many dark nights of the soul to finally receive the epiphany that I did. This came in the form of a beaming light penetrating my living room at the time where everything that had a form went blurry. I heard a calm and deep male-like voice saying “you will need to leave this relationship”.
My wedding was meant to be in three months. I had what felt like a ‘perfect’ life on the outside but I just knew that I could not ignore this voice….
Especially because I ignored my inner voice in the form of whispers in many forms and this felt like the last warning.
I asked myself so many questions…how will this affect my step-son? How will I cope with my shame of cancelling a wedding three months before it was meant to happen? Will my fiancé be okay? Even, who am I without them? But despite having experienced some beautiful moments with my then fiancé, raising a beautiful boy together alongside his biological mother, I knew it was my time to move onto a new chapter in my life.
This is when my connection to Source came flooding back in.
This is when I realised how important God is to me and that I will never block myself off from the wisdom of the higher powers anymore.
I simplified my life. I got out of the rat race.
I went traveling, met with Ayahuasca, found communities that spoke my language and experienced some profoundly conscious relationships which pushed me to my growth edges and forced me to face my truth and what truth is for me.
Now, I’ve left my UK life behind and have cultivated a life which feels aligned with who I truly am. I am still a student of life of course and always be. Like everyone, life regulary tests me and I am repeatedly humbled by the cycles of life - the multiple deaths of ourselves that we need to surrender to in order to make way for our re-births. That being said, I am experiencing things that I only dreamt of 10 years ago. I feel fully guided by the divine and I am fully devoted to the path of authenticity.
ABOUT
Katinka is a Transformational Life Coach, Wellbeing Practitioner, Reiki-Sound Healer, and Retreat Facilitator. She is passionate about bringing the sacred into everyday life by integrating ritual and ancient wisdom with the modern world. From a young age, Katinka has been committed to spiritual curiosity and expansion, immersing herself in traditions and practices such as eastern, indigenous, shamanic, and tantric arts. This rich tapestry of experiences informs her work in transformational life coaching, workshop and retreat facilitation, sound therapy, and energy healing.
Katinka is also the co-founder of a retreat project called Woven Wisdom, which was created with the intention of bringing people together, particularly women, for connection to Self and community.
At the heart of her work is a genuine appreciation for the richness of life and a desire to share and discover together with others. Whether through ceremonial work, coaching, or sound healing, Katinka guides people in finding the resources and tools they need to replace unwanted patterns, habits, and stories with their soul’s calling, awakening the ear to our inner whispers and the sacred within.
Working deeply with the body and unconscious, she empowers others to step onto their path of truth, deeper knowing, love, consciousness, and wisdom. Using the sacred triangle as her core navigator, Katinka helps others embrace and embody their fullest potential in a connected and long-lasting way.
