Katherine North: The Legend of Heathen Mysticism
SEASON THREE FINALE
Introducing Katherine North, the legend of Heathen Mysticism - one of my favourite ever people and coaches - AND WHAT A STORY.
Buy her book for the full skinny and listen to this conversation to hear about her beautiful wild life.
“Women’s bodies are potent territory, you could even say that they have magical powers and so the urge to control them is about power.”
We are hilarious together - when coaches talk they get curious and ask questions so sometimes I go off a bit - it’s a conversation - please enjoy!
We had so much fun and pin-balled around time and topics from Religions (of course) to babies, abortion, parenting, marriage, name changes, transition, big families, small families, disaster, earthquakes, acting, Japan, truth, the embarrassment of me meeting her Mum, wild Tokyo in the 2000s, her memoir (please buy it - I’m giving one away - contact me if you’d like it), her ode to Christmas magic and so so much more.
“I didn’t know who I was in my core but I was very afraid of who I was in my core…”
Katherine is one of the best coaches I have ever experienced and I love a good coach. She has wild integrity and is a great story teller who has a flare for the dramatic without being pretentious - although I have nothing against the pretentious! I mean she is a badass who unfolds her life in such a real way and a way that has so much room for all that is inside it. There are many ways to lead a life.
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was terrified, who was raised in the church with her devout evangelical Missionary Christian parents, but she held a deep dark secret inside of her…
Read more here.
I have been so inspired by Katherine and Nick and the way they navigate their marriage - I mean their love story is wild and unique and filled with rich beauty. And messes. Lots of messes. But they help me to believe that anything is possible and as I lie back on my sofa bed listening to the birds sing their sundown chorus and I prepare to go have a dip in the sea before dinner, I think about the deep joy in authoring our lives. Im doing whatever you want to; changing your name, moving to an island, getting loads of chickens, writing books, falling deeply in love and moving and changing everything, in the joy of sex and sexuality and the miracles that our bodies are.
Links
Website https://declaredominion.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/declaredominion/
Discovery Plus Documentary ‘Life Under Renovation’
Shout out to FEW
Just Another Beautiful Family https://declaredominion.com/documentary
Books
Holy Heathen a Spiritual Memoir and The Secret Society of Saint Nicholas
Find them here: https://declaredominion.com/books
