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    From Burning Out to Breaking Free: Why I Created Gentle Nook

    August 2, 2025 /

    There’s a moment when everything breaks. Except for me, it wasn’t really a moment. It was a slow undoing that unfolded over months in a fluorescent-lit office, staring at case files while my capacity quietly dissolved. I couldn’t concentrate. My executive functioning had vanished. All I could manage was going to work and coming home. That’s all the energy I had left. Then my psoriasis flared worse than it ever had, angry red patches spreading across my skin like a map of my stress. The inflammation triggered psoriatic arthritis, and suddenly my joints were screaming along with my mind. I was 37, a therapist, a single mother. And I was…

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Hi, I’m Katy.

You’ll find me in the Tennessee mountains, wrapped in a waffle knit blanket, dreaming up ways to make the world a little softer. Between sips of Coke Zero and midnight creative sessions, I’m crafting permission slips for anyone who needs to hear “you’re doing just fine.”

Gentle Nook is my love letter to imperfect humanity. It's a place where deep conversations meet gentle mornings, where self-compassion isn’t just a buzzword, and where being exactly who you are is always enough.

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