I spent eight years running a cafe wine bar in Mount Isa, outback Queensland.

From the outside, it looked like success. Inside, I was disappearing.

I was feeding everyone else my staff, my customers, my community and starving myself. Not just physically. Energetically. Emotionally. I had nothing left.

Then a spider bite nearly killed me.

Three surgeries in four months. Then a skin cancer diagnosis. Then five weeks of radiation therapy I delayed because I felt I couldn’t stop because the business needed me, the people needed me, and somewhere along the way I had forgotten that I needed me too.

My body gave me the full stop I couldn’t give myself.

What followed wasn’t a recovery. It was a rebuild.

I worked with a coach who helped me get out of my head and into my heart. Through tapping, breath work, energy clearing, and meditation, I began releasing the stuck patterns and old beliefs that had kept me locked in chaos. I rebuilt my nutrition from the ground up. I rebuilt my identity. I rebuilt my relationship with myself.

I came out the other side calmer, more grounded, and more whole than I had ever been in my life.

Not a fixed version of the old Katrina. A new one.

That is the work I now do with other women. Not from a textbook. Not from a framework someone else built. From the inside of that experience from having lived every part of it.