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I’m Katie. I live in Los Angeles with my husband and a couple of our adult kids, work with laws and regulations, and am back in school studying industrial-organizational psychology. On the surface, that’s a fairly ordinary life. Underneath it, I’ve spent the last year in conversation with a part of myself I didn’t know was still waiting — a teenage version of me who got left behind decades ago, somewhere around the time my father died, my mother remarried, and I learned that telling the truth could cost me the people I trusted most. She woke up in the summer of 2025, and I haven’t stopped listening since. This blog is where I talk about her and what we’ve learned together. Some posts will be scenes from then. Some will be about now — the patterns I’m only just recognizing, the ways an eleven-year-old’s grief quietly shaped a forty-something-year-old’s instincts. I’m also working on a longer memoir, and this space isn’t a preview of that book so much as its own place — looser, more immediate, written closer to the moment I’m having the thought. I’m not writing this because I’ve arrived somewhere finished. I’m writing this because I spent 35 years being told I was the problem and that my truth was not correct. I don’t believe that anymore. If any of this is familiar to you — if you’ve ever had to leave a part of yourself somewhere just to survive the rest — I hope you find something here worth staying for. Remembering. Understanding. Integrating.
Remembering. Understanding. Integrating.
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