Category: Mental Health

coaching, Mental Health

Birthday reflections (of a 30 something, Autistic Witch who’s been to hell and back).

Cosmic Kat

It was my birthday in January. I’m now 32! ✨🎈❤️

I once thought I wouldn’t live to see my 30s so now that I’m here it’s such a gift.

In my 20s if I wasn’t actively trying to kill myself, I was thinking about it.

I numbed my pain with alcohol and work and dating.

I thought external success would bring me happiness but when I got the “dream” job as a journalist for a national newspaper, I felt miserable.

Me, aged 18; a university student suffering from depression & alcoholism

I travelled to beautiful places but the depression snuck in with my luggage and came along for the ride.

I fell in love multiple times but with people who didn’t love me back.

I wanted escape but the truth was I couldn’t escape myself.

My life was running on auto-pilot, driven by the subconscious belief of “I’m not enough.”

When I finally hit rock bottom and burnout I was forced to stop running, turn inward and face myself.

Me in my 30s; a fully awakened Witch who loves herself



As I embarked on my Witchcraft and “mother wound” healing journey I used different modalities to support my holistic wellbeing in mind, body and spirit: Tarot, crystals, coaching & breathwork to name a few.

I learned to love myself, practice self-compassion, go inwards and honour the light AND the shadow.

I stopped saying “yes” when I meant “no.”
I stopped trying to be someone I’m not.
I got off the treadmill of “survival mode” and for the first time started to truly enjoy my life.

I embraced Mother Earth and let her heal me on long walks in the forest.
I did things that scared and excited me (like stand up comedy).
I attracted my soulmate.

Getting my autism diagnosis aged 30 was yet another awakening; an opportunity to further know myself on a deeper level and shed all of the false masks I’d been wearing in order to fit in and appear “normal.”

I’m living proof that miracles can happen when you stop trying to change the external and instead focus on your inner world first.

If you’re struggling right now, I want you to know that you’re not alone.

Things can and do change, it sometimes just takes a little bit of time.

My birthday has been and gone but here is my special gift to you: a free spiritual life coaching session.

If you resonate with any aspect of my story, I would love to support you at this point on your journey.

Find out more about my other offerings here.

Mental Health, Spirituality

Let’s talk about…Transitions

Cosmic Kat

As I write this I’m sitting in an airport waiting to board a flight.

I’ve always loved airports because they’re portals for adventure, where people converge – there’s an energy of change, readiness and excitement here.

Some people are here to go on holiday but others will be embarking on a new stage of life.

Right now in the Northern Hemisphere  we’re transitioning into Autumn and the colder months.

I’ve learnt that it’s important to appreciate the inbetween phases of life.

When something comes to an end it’s important for me to take a deep breath and fully appreciate the moment.

I need to smell the roses before I move onto the next goal and notice the changing colours and seasons of my life.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not moving forward or progressing in the way I’d like to.

But I am always healing.

Always becoming.

Always transforming.

Every day in every way my life keeps getting better and better – even when it feels like I’ve taken a step back or I’m stuck.

As Miley Cyrus sang “It ain’t about how fast I get there…it’s the climb.”

It may sound cliché but Life is a journey and along the way we check in at various destinations.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there.

Just appreciate each moment.

Mental Health, Spirituality

Let’s talk about…Depression

Cosmic Kat

Let’s talk about depression…

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I used to suffer from the debilitating kind.

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I’d have those days where I’d wake up and I couldn’t lift my head because it felt like someone had placed a brick on my forehead.

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When it got really bad I’d feel suicidal and I tried to kill myself twice.

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I don’t believe depression is an illness in and of itself – it’s just a symptom of repressed emotion, trauma, stagnant energy or a knot in your heart that you haven’t honoured or acknowledged.

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I don’t have those really dark moments anymore but I have felt quite heavy and low for the past couple of days.

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I couldn’t figure out why.

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Then this morning I pulled an angel card for Archangel Haniel (a moon goddess) and it said “Honour your feelings.”

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So I did.

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I took a deep breath and did a few rounds of EFT tapping, allowing myself to honour and acknowledge all of what I was feeling – stuck, frustrated, angry with myself, fed up that things in my life weren’t moving fast enough, impatient, perfectionistic.

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The tears came and I let them.

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I leant in to that resistance and afterwards I felt so much lighter and brighter.

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The perfectionist in me didn’t even want to acknowledge I was being a perfectionist so that’s why I’d gone into a slump – you don’t have to worry about getting things perfect if you don’t try at all.

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But there is a middle ground – I can accept that my best today is good enough and that will change from day to day.

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Today honour how you’re feeling and allow yourself to step into flow and out of resistance.

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You are ENOUGH!

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Get in touch if you’d like to explore 1:1 coaching with me so you can love yourself fully and fearlessly and attract the love you deserve.