Hello & Welcome to the Honouring Your True Self Community
Are you exhausted from looking after everyone else but find it hard to stop
over-giving?
Are you fed up of repressing, suppressing and ignoring your needs, wants and desires that are screaming to be expressed?
DO YOU LONG TO REST AND PLAY MORE?
“Karen is the most beautiful person I’ve met in a very long time. She exudes a rare gentleness and authenticity that inspire confidence and trust without judgement. She’s been through immense difficulties herself and turned her experience of the darkest times into joy, a zest for life and a genuine desire to help the rest of us to do the same.” Emma Jones
This is a Magazine and Community for deeply caring and over giving people pleasers who want to make the shift from Exhausted Caring to Empowered Caring and/or Create a more Satisfying and Nourishing Life in which to Flourish.
It is my intention to build this magazine into a cosy space where we can collaborate, get support and share, the good the bad and the ugly of
Becoming Our True Selves.
I am open to collaborate on this project with guest posts, your own stories of success, podcast interviews (especially if you have overcome adversity) and more. I would love to hear from you if being here sparks ideas, thoughts or questions and you would like to connect.
Inquire by emailing: yourtrueself@proton.me
Transformational Coaching
I am an experienced Transformational Coach, guiding clients to their fully expressed, true potential by helping them see, understand and dissolve obstacles to creating a life they can thrive in.
Inquire about coaching by emailing: yourtrueself@proton.me
Empowered Carers Community
It is possible, more healthy and desirable to remain caring AND feel nourished, fulfilled, fully expressed and happy in yourself.
Being in Community means you feel less alone and gives you the peer support you need when you lack confidence and need a boost.
Sharing your Thoughts, Ideas and Struggles about what stops you Flourishing and what needs to happen for you to Nourish and Nurture your Nature, you learn to TRUST yourself and Thrive rather than just Survive.
If you are a carer, parent, health care worker or people pleaser running on empty, feel numb or are functioning on autopilot and want to get some zest back into your life, you’re in the right place and we would love it if you came and joined us. Subscribe for free here
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Discussions, Explorations and Encouragement while Cultivating Compassion for Yourself.
The chance to be part of a Community of Empowered Caring People all helping each other succeed.
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Find the confidence to be more Discerning in Prioritising your Well-being & Trust Yourself while you Cultivate Healthy Boundaries and Self-Care.
Feel Inspired and Motivated by other people’s stories while making the shift from Exhausted Caring to Empowered Caring and Create a Life You Love.
“Karen helps you to understand your own behaviours, where they originate from and how these patterns can prevent you from putting yourself first. Clearing the path to seeing what your personal needs are, gives great release and confidence to accept and listen to your true self.” Lucy Anderburg
A bit about me
I am a recovering people pleaser and over giver and at my core a deeply caring person but also a playful, fun woman.
As a multi-passionate chameleon my interests flit from one thing to another. I like to dance through life doing a variety of things. This can look to other people like I don’t care or don’t finish things and used to make me feel ashamed. But the truth is this is how I maintain a sense of flow and wonder for life and I now embrace this quality in myself.
As an emotional being (which most of us are) I am learning to feel again. At a very young age I learned to suppress my emotions and repress my true authentic self in order to feel accepted and safe. But I now know that it’s safe to be myself and that was my immature child self trying to make sense of the world. For her, I have deep acceptance and compassion.
I am building a life where I can wake up in the morning and do whatever I feel like doing. Shoulds, oughts and musts are being thrown out in favour of honouring and trusting my own needs, wants and desires unapologetically. More solitude. More connection. More fun. More play. More creativity. More time in nature. More learning, expanding and evolving. And more rest.
A Lifetime of Experience
I live on the beautiful Welsh Borders countryside in the UK, in an old rustic farmhouse, with my husband, two adult sons (aka kidults) and two kitties called Misty (or often Fluffy) and Marigold.
I brought up a large blended family of children and step children through two marriages and fostered four teenagers. I was a qualified nurse for over ten years and then retrained as a Coach over twenty years ago.
I am an art, colour, nature, cat and people lover. A Quiet, Gentle, Sensitive Introvert. I have a gift for making the complicated simple, organising and systemising home environments and a common-sense approach to life.
Like most people, I have been through some profound experiences (losing my eldest son, brother a friend and an uncle in three separate road crashes in one year being among them).
My lifetime of experiences shape and inform who I am and how I work and live.
For inquiries about Transformational Coaching, please email: yourtrueself@proton.me
Here on Substack, I follow my passions for creativity and self expression through writing while blending and sharing my oodles of life experience and wisdom.
I am a published author with the short story of my son’s death in this anthology of inspiring stories: Believe You Can Live a Life You Love at 50+: True Stories to Inspire Women by Sue Williams
“The world changes not because someone tells us to do something, but because we each make a decision to do something different. Karen has done just that!”
Linda Parkinson Hardman, The Writing Shed
With Love
From my True Self to Yours
xx Karen xx
PS. If you would like to contribute, collaborate or inquire about coaching please get in touch by emailing Karen with this email: yourtrueself@proton.me
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