Hey, I'm Kate
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I'm a somatic practitioner and recovery specialist located in northern Minnesota. SOMANSION is where I share the tools that make real, long-lasting change possible — the kind of change that actually holds.
I'm also a single mother of two, which is the most important work I'll ever do.
When I'm not working, you can find me outside — moving my body, basking in nature, playing in the woods or on the water. And after a respectable run of the mom-bod years, I'm back in the gym, reminding my muscles that they exist. I read, I write, I learn for the joy of it, I travel when I can, and I'm always trying to build a few more good memories with my kids. I'm also venturing into the joy of differenet kinds of cooking and more healthy eating — figuring out what nourishes me, one meal at a time.
The life I have now is a life I once couldn't picture. That's part of why I do this work.
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I was 26. Divorced. A son not yet four. My third DUI was behind me, inpatient treatment was behind me — three months away, doing the work, or so I thought.
I believed, in the particular wisdom of the desperate, that becoming a wife and a mother would be the thing that saved me. That loving him enough would override wanting the drink, the drug, more than I wanted anything else.
It didn't.
I dropped him at daycare to start his week with his dad. The liquor store opened at 8am. I was there when it did.
The shame came fast, the way they tell you it will. Booze turned to meth while he was gone. And I knew — I knew — it was only a matter of time before it happened on my time. My parenting time.
That was the limit. Not the DUIs. Not the treatment center. The moment I understood that loving him wasn't enough to save either of us.
Because healing for someone else is never enough. It has to start as something selfish. You have to want yourself back before you can want anything else.
I'm ten years sober now, beginning this.
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I know what it's like to want to stop and not be able to.
I know what it's like to sit in a room full of people who can't see what's underneath because you've gotten very good at hiding it.
I know what it's like to be in a body that doesn't feel safe to live in, dwelling with anxiety or depression.
I know what it's like to lose the version of yourself you thought you were going to be — and to slowly, quietly become someone better than that.
Shame doesn't only live in addiction. It lives in the ordinary ways we exit our own bodies and disconnect from the people right in front of us:
Phone-scrolling instead of eye contact
Over-explaining or over-apologizing to prove you're a good parent, spouse, friend, coworker, son, daughter, cousin, whatever label - human.
Snapping, then over-correcting with affection — reactive, then smothering, never actually present
Staying endlessly busy so the feeling can't catch up to you
Perfectionism wearing a productive mask
Saying yes when your body is screaming no
Numbing with anything socially acceptable — food, work, shopping, exercise
None of these are the problem. They're the exit.
Whether you're still in the grip of chemical use, or ten years past it and just now realizing the emotions never got released — this is a room for that.
That's what Somansion means. Learning to stay with yourself.
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That the body is where healing actually lives.
That recovery belongs to everyone, no matter the position they're in.
That faith — whatever yours looks like — is welcome.
That we're more alike than we are different — and that the willingness to learn from someone walking a different path is one of the most healing things a person can do.
That money should never be the gate closed to anyone's health and betterment.
That you don't have to do this alone.
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Integrative Somatic Practitioner (ISP) · Integrative Wellness Academy
Recovery Specialist (RS) · Light University
Professional Life Coach · Transformation Academy
Mindfulness Coach · Transformation Academy
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) in training · Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
10+ years in personal addiction recovery