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Hi, I’m Kate.
Mother of two, LCSW, and maternal health advocate for over 20 years.
I help ambitious mothers of young children feel calm, confident, and deeply connected to their kids without giving up the career or life they love.
As the founder of the Parent and Family Wellness Center in Colorado and creator of the Calm Connection Accelerator™, I have supported over 6,000 women through the most important years of early motherhood.
I believe this: you do not have to choose between achievement and connection. When you feel steady on the inside, you finally get to have both.
You Don’t Have to Earn Joy: The Lie High-Achieving Mothers Have Been Taught
There is a quiet rule many high-achieving mothers live by.
I’ll enjoy myself after…
After the dishes are done. After I answer those emails. After I fold the laundry. After I catch up at work. After bedtime. After this season.
Without realizing it, we begin treating joy like a reward. Something we earn after we’ve been productive enough, responsible enough, or selfless enough.
LEADING BY EXAMPLE AT WORK AND HOME
Motherhood and work are not opposites. They are two branches from the same tree.
The better you take care of yourself, the more you have to offer both. And it does not require a dramatic overhaul. Small steps, taken now, build into something lasting. That is the long game.
We use our experience as mothers to make us better at our work. And our work to make us better mothers. Not one or the other. Both, as one.
Because the goal is not balance. It is wholeness. And what we work on at the Calm Connection Accelerator.
