Hi, I'm Kat.

I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, just days before the winter solstice, during one of the darkest times of the year.

Since then, life has taken me across countries, cultures and languages. I've chased the sun, built businesses, raised children, moved across the world more than once, fallen in love, made mistakes, changed my mind, started over and followed more than a few strange inner nudges.

I've also spent much of my life curious about what it means to be human.

I've studied different spiritual traditions and ways of understanding consciousness. I've traveled to places that have changed me. I've sat with teachers, explored practices, read endlessly, asked God a lot of questions—and paid attention to what Life seemed to be teaching me through my actual life.

Because that has probably been my greatest teacher.

Marriage. Motherhood. Friendship. Work. Money. Creativity. Loss. Beauty. Conflict. Starting over. The people who open my heart and the people who show me exactly where I've closed it.

Heart-Powered Living grew out of my experience with all of that. I use these practices because I need them.

I forget. I react. I get caught in my own stories. I close my heart. I lose perspective. I sometimes know exactly what I should do and do something else anyway.

And then I remember.

I'm not particularly interested in becoming a perfect human. I've tried. 😂

I'm interested in becoming fully human.

More awake. More present. More honest. More alive. More willing to meet this strange, beautiful experience of being here with an open heart.

That's the place I share from.

Not because I have the answers to your life, but because I've spent years paying attention to mine—and I've learned a few things that might help you pay closer attention to yours.