Who is she?
why is she here?
I started writing long before I ever planned to share any of it.
I’m an educator, mother, author and creator of reflective tools focused on personal growth, identity, and emotional awareness.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in English and French as well as a Bachelor of Education. I completed additional training in trauma-informed practices and learning differences.
When life kept delivering one curveball after another, and I found myself knee-deep in survival mode, I blended my two world together — professional understanding and lived experience — to create tools that help people (read: me) access what’s actually beneath the surface (I was my first customer).
Drop the Mask is a guided journal, focused on emotional awareness and self-reflection. It has guided prompts, original poetry woven throughout and space to process (not perform).
she became anyway is a poetry collection about what unfolds during and after survival: the quiet, messy process of becoming. Most of these poems were written in the middle of rebuilding — after trauma, loss, identity shifts, and learning how to exist as myself again.
my linktr.ee has links + videos for the books
Substack is a new space for me and I’m looking forward to establishing it. I visited many corners of the internet over the last few months trying to find the space that fit: trying different platforms and media before designing my own website because I just needed my own space.
The story of “terelliPOV”
terelliPOV came from pieces of my children’s names — “ter” from Carter, “elli” from Ellie — woven together with the idea of perspective.
Somewhere inside motherhood, my perspective shifted completely.
The way I saw myself and the way I moved through the world changed.
terelliPOV became a space for that unfolding — the rebuilding, the reflection, the writing, and the versions of myself I met along the way.
I really wanted the aspect of community, though.
Enter substack.
Space + Belonging? A recovering people pleaser’s dream. I’m really interested in sharing my story, without a word or time limit, and helping people move from surviving to intentionally rebuilding their lives.
If it feels right —
Thank you for reading, for being.
created by kate
through lived experience, not just theory