I am Kara... And I know exactly what it feels like to be stuck.

Law degree. Arts degree. Masters in Gender Studies. The ‘Good Girl’. Well educated, well travelled, 42 countries and counting. Twelve years at the United Nations advocating for women’s empowerment around the world. Everyone telling me how “impressive” my life was.

I married my wonderful Swedish husband, love of my life. We built a life together across continents. We had two beautiful boys. I had everything I was supposed to want.

People had no idea what was really happening though. And honestly, for a long time, neither did I.

I struggled for eight years with undiagnosed health problems and sleep deprivation. Exhausted in a way no-one can imagine. Constantly told to just rest. To meditate. To slow down. So I ran off to Nepal and studied meditation at a Buddhist monastery (no joke!).

It did not fix anything. Because it became just another thing to add to my list of things to perfect.

That was the pattern I could not see. Perfectionist. People-pleaser. The woman who said yes to everything and felt guilty the moment she tried to say no. The woman who kept searching for the next qualification, the next achievement, the next thing that would finally make her feel like enough.

It took burning out twice to finally get honest about what was actually going on.

Not until I sat down and spoke honestly with someone did I finally start to see it. The stories I had inherited. The patterns I had been running on autopilot for years. The version of myself I had been performing for everyone around me while the real me quietly disappeared.

Now I coach from that place. Not from a textbook. From the other side of the exact thing you are going through.

I work with busy working mums who are exhausted, lost and ready to stop surviving their life and start actually living it. Women who know something needs to change but have no idea where to start.

That is exactly where we begin.