Authentic

I've judged the feminine hard. For a long time I've viewed being "feminine" as being weak and offering no value to the world. This judgement stemmed from how I viewed my mum. She stopped nursing when my brother and I were born, to be there for us whilst my Dad worked. In my little head, I made up the belief that women have nothing much to give, whilst men go out there and get s...

My boxing coach, Roger and Tania from Fit2Box , threw me into the ring and my ego shat itself.  I've been happy training on the pads, on the bags and in the ring with them doing drills. So when they said, "hey, jump in the ring with Mikayla" (who by the way is a boxing beast and has been training for one year), all my shit came up! "No I'm not ready! I'll look like a...

When people say, "just be yourself", that can be uber confusing to decide which "self" to be. There's a self in all of us that has an agenda and guideline for how you HAVE to be in order to be loved, accepted, valued or the most powerful. This is the self that you'll put forward on dates, job interviews, around friends or new people without even thinking. It's an...

In the last two years I have leaned in on knowing how I act, behave, think and feel pre period, during period and post period. Prior to that, I just thought I was nuts and coo-coo and tried to push through however I was feeling. These days, my body ain't having it. I've learned about the four phases of menstruation - summer, autumn, winter and spring. I've listened more to what my b...

These seven words keep me very grounded. Whenever I feel the need to live up to societal timelines of getting married, having a baby or getting my eggs frozen because I'm now considered geriatric in the fertility world, I remind myself of these seven words. Whenever I am looking left and right at what others are doing in my industry and I start telling myself stories that I'm a loser, th...

I love my alone time — it’s where the introvert in me thrives and I love the silence. I can hear my inner voice clearly, the quiet space is freeing and it’s where some of my biggest chats with my higher self takes place. I do need to manage this part of me because I can shift into shutting people out and not needing to see anyone. There’s a part of me that’s very happy on my own however I now know...

I am smack bang in the middle of my self initiated growth shit storm. My ego is throwing up MAJOR resistance to listening to my Truth and I'm in all sorts. Self doubt is alive! Second guessing my Truth is alive! Hanging onto the things I have always been done is alive! The chaos feels real! This is the mess that comes right after you've summoned the Universe and asked for change, growth,...

It has been the LONGEST journey to like my body. For as long as I've been inside my body, I have punished it in many ways. From over training, under eating, restricting food then binge eating then throwing it up, to drugs, alcohol and allowing myself to have sex with people I didn't want to. Over the last two years I have been healing my relationship with my body through actually nourish...

Covid put me on my butt big time! What started out as hay-fever symptoms, it quickly turned into below zero energy, a non-stop headache, loss of taste and smell and reduced lung capacity. But what knocked me for a six was the zip-a-dee-doo-da energy levels and not having anything to give expect for going to the toilet, eating food, watching Sex And The City reruns and moving from the couch, to bed...

I am a Judgey Mc Judge. I used to think it was wrong and bad to judge others and have  thoughts in my head like, "why are they wearing that? Why is she with him? Why do you talk that way? OMG can you chew any louder?" Over time I have come to accept and normalise judgement. I was done with pretending I don't judge, when I do! I got sick of the shame I felt and wondered if trying to...

Never will I support or encourage the use of face altering filters. Do you know how long it’s taken me to love and accept my goddamn face? From hating the shape of my eyes due to being called a “chink” in primary school, to being called a “round moon head”, to my skin and all its acne and being dumped for someone else who didn’t have pimples, AND MORE! It’s been a long ass journey for me, and I’m...

What a ripper start the year! First up, I was in bed on NYE with COVID and got hit pretty hard. Second, I had my ideas and plan for this year and started mapping them out when I got some energy back. It took some decent time planning out the year as I have OCD tendencies, so when I took a step back to look at the year in a snapshot, my whole body, namely my gut, said, "NO"! In today&apos...

We're ending the podcast year with some big questions my loves. In today's episode there's no fking around, ducking, weaving or avoiding the questions that really deserve some air time. I strongly suggest you have a journal and pen by your side and take time to answer the questions. All my love, Merry Christmas and I'll see you in your earballs in 2022. kat.john katjohn.com.au...

It can be a real pain in the ass when your values remind you why "this" or "that" doesn't align with you anymore. Recently, I was offered two decent paying TV commercial roles. One was for four 'n' twenty pies and the other was Sportsbet. When I received the emails the answer was an immediate no. My whole mind, body and heart sang it like a gospel choir. It was s...

You're either consciously creating outcomes in your life, or wishing that things would change, continuously talking about it and then being smacked down on your ass by the Universe. I was having this chat with my client last week after two major areas of her life went down the toilet. One being her relationship that she wasn't happy in for years, and the other, her work. She wanted both...

My ego has been getting caught up in living at a pace and rhythm that actually isn't mine. It looks at people around me and thinks, "oh shit, you're not doing enough Kat! You need to hustle more, post more, do more, create more, busy your schedule more!" It feels when I try to force myself out of how I know I want to live, how I want to create and to dance with life at the pace...

I had a great moment on a coaching call with The Legends a few weeks back. A good handful of them felt the need to confess that they had taken a break from the modules as they were integrating the work. To their surprise, they got a big "hallelujah" from me and a round of applause. There's one thing to "do" the work. To know it, read it, talk about and think about it, but...

I had a list, a big fat giant list of everything I wanted in a man. But I didn't just have one list ... I had umpteen lists because I kept forgetting to add "this" or "that" and wanted to make sure the Universe got my order right! For years I was delivered what I wanted - the height, the success, the hunger for life, the physical chemistry. But for all those years, each pe...

Something is definitely shifting in me of late, and I'm letting it happen. Usually, I'd psychoanalyse it and try to make sense of it, but this time, I'm allowing the intelligence to do it's thing as I step aside. I can feel areas of my life that I have ignored or not placed as much importance on call me to lean into them, like family, adventure, and creating experiences and mom...

My beautiful client and now friend, Maddie, experienced a miscarriage over twelve months ago after falling pregnant unexpectedly. Being a mum was not on her radar at that time in her life, so this threw her for six. Maddie went through a McFlurry of emotions and thoughts about what to do, what not to do and reassessed her life in a very rapid and short period of time. At her core, she knew that ha...

After my big fat healing last Sunday, it was time for me to put the lessons into practice. Once I had let out the big tears and journaled, I knew to create an end result to help me channel my focus into what matters ... my family. Every part of my ego wanted to revert back to the old pattern of being open for a day and then shutting up shop, aka my heart, for the rest of the week. But fk that - th...

Holy mother of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The last four days have been some of the most intense, in your face healing that's taken place for some time. I have breakthroughs regularly, but this one was one of those almighty one's that cracked me open so I could see, hear, feel and be in new ways. Ways that were more in line with my truth, my authentic self - my essence. In these last four da...

It's been a long process to land in owning that I don't want to have children of my own. I've wrestled with this for some time, listening to others opinions, watching others with their children and thinking, "fk, am I missing something?" I've  been told me many, "oh but Kat, you'd be such a great Mum!" I look at my parents and think I'm robbing the...

When I don't live true or closely to my values, my inauthenticity radar starts ring-a-ding-dinging! Most of my life before the age of 25 years old was having no values or saying I had them but never being able to stick to them. People pleasing and seeking approval came first and as a result my self esteem, confidence and trust in self dwindled. No wonder I struggled to look at myself in the m...

Pam Ahern is a deadset super hero in my eyes. She's the creator of Edgars Mission here in Victoria, one of my most favourite places on Earth. A lifelong animal lover and activist, Pam always had her heart for the animals. After being a long-time champion equestrian, everything changed when a tiny piglet, the eminent Edgar Alan Pig, trotted into her life in 2003 and led her down a path she’d n...