What Counts as a Win?
When you’re used to measuring life by achievement, doing nothing can be surprisingly difficult
Katinka’s Substack
Where mental health, meaning and real life meet
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TFL: Text For Logistics
Why some conversations need more than a screen
When Keeping Busy Becomes a Way of Avoiding What We Don’t Want to Feel
What my Hyper-Achiever taught me about the difference between healthy ambition and using productivity to escape uncomfortable emotions
The Difference Between Success and Alignment
What if your emotions are less like a problem to solve and more like a compass pointing you towards the life that's truly yours?
What Protects Us Can Also Imprison Us
The uncomfortable psychology of avoidance
The Conversation You’re Not Having
A complaint is often a request in disguise.
From Burnout to the Veg Patch: Kathy Slack on Depression, Values and Redefining Success
Host Katinka Blackford Newman speaks with Kathy Slack, author of the memoir Rough Patch, about her breakdown after a decade in high-pressure London advertising that looked successful on paper but left her burned out and depressed.
Why the Hard Things Matter
The goal is not an easier life. The goal is becoming the person who can handle a harder one.
What If Motivation Isn’t the Problem?
Stop Waiting to Feel Like It
Don’t Let Stories Get in the Way of the Facts
The stories we tell ourselves about weight loss, confidence and life
The Balsamic Vinegar Filter
The hidden assumptions that influence how we see ourselves, other people and the world