"I get more value out of a 10 minute session with Catherine than I did out of an hour long session with a therapist." - L
Several years ago I was at a workshop led by Robert Waldinger at TEDSummit. Something he said really stuck with me… "Attention is the simplest form of love."
You give your attention away every day to a million different things. But how often do you give yourself your full, undivided attention?
The amount of information that is being thrown at you at any given time, throughout your life, is mindblowing. You are constantly translating that information into expectations, beliefs, opinions, perspectives, judgements, etc. you may not even be aware of.
Without space to give yourself your own attention it is too easy to get caught up with the day to day, losing track of time and yourself. Your magic getting buried by all the “shoulds”.
But attention is love... and love is magic.
I truly felt heard... Catherine is flexible, present and truly creates a container to hold anything I bring to the conversation.
Catherine was able to draw out what was beautiful and relevant, and was a space for all of me. Not just the pretty bits and not just the hard bits.
I felt something shift while working with Catherine. It feels like I'm over some kind of hurdle that would have been too steep to climb alone. I would have kept sliding down and not going that way anymore. Working with Catherine in this way really helps support me in getting over the hurdle called “too hard, too scared.”
- Holly
I am not here to tell you what rules to follow, or things to fix. Rather, I am here to support you in cultivating and nurturing a loving relationship with yourself.
Coaching with me is for you if:
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You have a deep desire to be ALL of you (even if you don’t know what being ALL of you means yet).
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You are tired of always making the responsible "adult" decision and want more space to play (you can create amazing things when you play).
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You are done being your own worst critic and want to invite more self compassion and love into your life.
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My biggest growth was with self empathy, and from there stemmed a better understanding of myself.
Self empathy used to feel fake and contrived. It felt like words that I needed to tell myself, but I never truly felt it. Until I suddenly started doing it, I just started saying it out loud, and I thought “where did that come from?!” That was a foreign feeling, but a welcome one.
Not only were my struggles and the things I was wrestling with validated, but I also felt like there was a way out of it. I never felt dismissed or judged for things I was judging myself for.
I needed to talk to someone, and if I hadn't, I would have continued down the rabbit hole of dismissing myself and making myself small.
I count myself lucky to have worked with Catherine.
- Lois
Catherine showed me the compassion I wasn’t giving myself, which was absolutely transformational.
After a single session with Catherine I left feeling heard, seen and supported. She took my word vomit and reflected it back, giving me the affirmation I needed to make the decisions I was unsure of before. It felt like she was holding my hand through it all… like she was standing next to me, not walking in front of me.
Since then I have launched my new program (follow through has always been hard for me), and found support for things in all areas of my life that I previously lacked. It was like I opened up to something I had been closed off to before.
Prior to our session it felt like something my soul needed to do. And ultimately, it led me to make a lot of decisions in my business and life that have gotten me to where I am today.
- Raewyn
My Story
My name is Catherine Wilks, former Artistic Director for TEDxVictoria and Senior Scrum Master turned Coach... but that isn't who I am... those are some things I have done and titles I hold... so let me start again...
Hello, my given name is Caterina, but you can call me Catherine.
I profoundly care that...
... you stop gaslighting yourselves without realizing it and instead start witnessing, and loving yourself through, your own lived experiences.
... your are supported to remove shame from your life because it is fucking harmful.
... you feel empowered to nurture the most important relationship in your life... the one you have with yourself.
... you knows that pain doesn't mean you are broken and that you don't have to figure everything out by tomorrow.
I hate small talk but LOVE deep conversations.
I wish we would replace questions like "so, what do you do for a living?" with ones like "so, what lights you up these days?"
I am passionate about creating psychologically safe spaces that ooze with imagination and the excitement of unlimited potential.
I love seeing others thrive and hate seeing people stuck in life.
I see “that’s not possible” as a challenge.
I dream of a world where humans stop othering each other and ask “how might we…” instead of stating “It isn’t possible because…”
I believe in order to heal and reshape the world we must first do the work to heal and reshape ourselves. And by showing up in that space we start a beautiful ripple affect that reaches farther then we will ever know.
I have struggled to build a nurturing and loving relationship with myself, and through these struggles, have learned how fucking important this relationship truly is!
I am a dreamer, a creative, a deliberate optimist who embraces the shadows, a recovering people pleaser, a mother, and a neurodivergent witch.
I am perfectly imperfect and that is fucking beautiful!
I felt so comfortable with Catherine right off the bat, which was a surprise, as I can be really closed off.
Knowing that I'm coming in to talk about personal things makes me nervous.
I only had a few things I knew to say, but as we talked, things started rolling out. Our sessions felt like casual conversations that Catherine would smoothly transition to help me pick apart whatever I was struggling with, getting me to the root of it quickly.
Our sessions fueled my realization that we are all human. I got help with so many things in such a short period of time and I am still using the suggestions Catherine gave me to help improve my body image, among other things.
Catherine helped me a lot in such a short amount of time. I would 10/10 recommend her to anyone, but especially those struggling with anxiety, overthinking, or feelings they just don’t understand.
- Julianna