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The Creation
This is where I began to rebuild. Sometimes in the middle of the fog, sometimes before the fire was fully out.
The Creation is the season of choosing myself, setting boundaries, and daring to imagine a life beyond survival.
Here you’ll find the work of reclaiming voice, truth, and possibility — one deliberate choice at a time, even when the way forward wasn’t clear.
An Identity Shattering Loss
The loss of Tatsuda’s wasn’t a transition. It was an identity-level rupture.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 12, 20253 min read
The Thing I Never Wanted To Lose
Some losses don’t take your future. They take your foundation.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 12, 20253 min read
2017: The Call to Possibility
I didn’t realize I was living a lie until I stood on a stage hoping not to win.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 12, 20254 min read
The Miscalculation of Architecture
They saw my softness and assumed that was all there was. They never recognized the structure beneath it.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 11, 20252 min read
Explicit Courage
I found something I wrote in May—and it reminded me just how fiercely I saved myself.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 11, 20252 min read
When Heartbreak Meets Ego
No one warns you that after a breakup, it’s the ego, not the heart, that keeps flinching the longest.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 11, 20253 min read
Late Lessons
No one teaches you that self-abandonment can look a lot like kindness.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 10, 20253 min read
The Universe Rewards The Brave
Unexpected wisdom from a Christmas movie.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 9, 20252 min read
Your One Precious Life
What will you do with your one precious life?
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 9, 20252 min read
Mirrors
There are parts of us we can ignore for years… until a relationship holds them up to our face.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 9, 20254 min read
The Courage To Be Disliked
This year taught me more about courage than any philosophy ever could.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 7, 20252 min read
Am I A Narcissist?
Self-honesty is terrifying until you realize it’s also the doorway to becoming who you truly are.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 4, 20252 min read
To See and Be Seen
In the forest, I found more than a waterfall. I found a new way of seeing myself.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 4, 20252 min read
The Aura I Didn't Know I Carried
You learn a lot about yourself when a room full of strangers silently studies your soul.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 2, 20253 min read
The Anatomy of a Collapse
I thought I understood endings, until I learned what it means to live through the kind no one can see.
Katherine Tatsuda
Dec 2, 20253 min read
Brick By Brick: Rebuilding Belief
Sometimes the biggest cage you escape is the one your own beliefs created.
Katherine Tatsuda
Nov 28, 20252 min read
The Importance of Discomfort
Before I ever learned how to feel my feelings, I learned how to shove them down.
Katherine Tatsuda
Nov 27, 20252 min read
Above The Clouds
It’s hard to stay tangled in the weeds when you’re looking at the world from the sky.
Katherine Tatsuda
Nov 24, 20251 min read
Thought for Today
Trusting myself doesn’t magically solve everything, but it consistently points me in the right direction.
Katherine Tatsuda
Nov 20, 20251 min read
You Should Be A Therapist (Apparently)
Twice in one week I was told what I should be. I disagree.
Katherine Tatsuda
Nov 18, 20252 min read
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