Meet Katie, an iPEC Certified Coach

Life can have a way of keeping it interesting. During the more 'interesting' or 'challenging' times, it is of the utmost importance we engage in the support of those who are not only educated in supporting others but have also walked the coals before us. 

My journey has kept it interesting, and for many, nail biting along the way. I was an unsettled teen and young adult who often felt unseen and unheard, becoming a parent at 22. Secretly navigating an extremely abusive relationship, I was able to exit and secure a better life for my son and I, achieving a BA just as my second child was born; throwing me into post-partum psychosis. Navigating mental health, as a fiancé, soon to be business owner, and mother of two was challenging to say the least.  Somehow, we tend to keep it together for the outside world just enough to get by. Yet, medications are often not quite fitting for our brains, and it can take too much time trying to get it just right. The years between my second born son and the birth of my twin girls were extremely rocky. Our household was in disarray and each relationship under our roof was falling apart. Each of us suffering in our own ways. Once my husband and I welcomed the twins, our world crashed and burned over the coming year and a half. I had hit capacity, and all my trauma came out, everywhere! In a 'defense' strategy of the medical system, they placed me on a black labeled anti-depressant without my knowledge. This medicine wreaked havoc on my system, personality, and everyone within my home. Through many challenging twists and turns, I was able to withdraw and utilize different/new resources to find the correct medication balance. This was when my healing journey could finally begin in 2018. Truly processing my trauma was necessary and the time had come, there was no more 'thinking' I was fine after a session or two. I stuck to therapy and other forms of healing over the next two years. Then in 2020 coaching, and coaching school was the turning point for my family. 

It was a challenging journey, facing the pain I caused others, because I couldn't breathe myself at the time. However, I knew that mindset would get us nowhere. It didn't matter why it happened; it just mattered about how I showed up to witness it for them. My husband and our four children are happy, healed, connected and loved... This would not have been possible unless I got there first. Coaching created the safe environment to liking and loving myself, which were the essential tools for navigating and healing my relationships. 

There's a magic in normalizing our challenges as a human that opens us up to choices moving forward. 

Therapy processed the past, and coaching changed the future! 

So, what would you like to work on today?

At Psych Ward CEO, we specialize in mindset. Exercising our emotional intelligence is the pathway to creating sustainable change.