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Katie
Wisdom
O’Malley
through
mindfulness
As a kid Katie O’Malley sat in front of the TV in her family
home watching the Australian TV drama A Country
Practice. Katie watched a woman on the show sit under
a triangle, her legs crossed, her eyes closed and her face a
picture of tranquillity. Intrigued, an 11-year-old Katie raced to her
bedroom and decided to give meditation a shot. Breathing in,
and out, she found the stillness she craved. The world seemed to
melt away. Her mind settled. She felt peaceful. It was welcome
relief for a girl often overwhelmed by an avalanche of thought
and emotion.
DYING INSIDE
Fast forward nearly 30 years and Katie has built a career for
herself as a mindfulness practitioner. Today Katie helps women
find that same sense of peace she gained an inkling of as an
11 year old. But the path to finding her calling wasn’t easy.
Despite the positive meditation experience, Katie spent years
seeking to distract herself from the feelings of inadequacy
that threatened to swamp her. She sought escape in dance, in
partying, in busyness.
By the time she was 30, Katie was married with four beautiful
girls, investments, great friends – a picture-perfect life. Yet
one day she found herself in the bathroom of her lovely home
considering all she had, and feeling that she was dying inside. “I
felt like I was living from behind a masked face,” she says. “I had
everything I wanted, but nothing I needed.”
ACCESSING INNER WISDOM
Through meditation and mindfulness, Katie came to
understand that, despite a loving upbringing, she’d always felt
she wasn’t enough – not a good enough wife, a good enough
mother, a good enough friend. But now she simply became
mindful of the realisations, instead of distracting herself from
them. She made the space and the time for stillness – and she
allowed her own inner wisdom to arise from the space she’d
created. By allowing her wisdom to speak to her, Katie began not
only to heal but also to bloom.
Later, after working with thousands of women as a
mindfulness practitioner, Katie realised most women struggle
with some kind of notion they are not enough.
And she came to understand that all
women have the power to overcome
such beliefs by accessing their
internal world and listening to
their innate inner wisdom, if
they can only create the time
and the space to listen.
LIT UP IN POTENTIAL
Today Katie helps other
women to discover their own
inner beauty, wisdom and
strength. Through one-on-one
sessions, group mindfulness
programs and retreats, and
transformation workshops, Katie
helps women become the grounded,
connected, purposeful humans they were meant to be. And she
is in awe of their transformations.
“It’s just amazing to see another human being lit up in
their potential,” Katie says. “I watch them go on to enjoy
more fulfilled, deeper relationships, to find the clarity of who
they really are. They realise everything they need is inside of
themselves. It’s beautiful to witness.”
Get involved
Katie helps women
become the grounded,
connected, purposeful
humans they were
meant to be.
Learn how you can use mindfulness to access your inner
wisdom and transform your life by contacting Katie at
www.ignitinghearts.com.
Photo by Celia Galpin Photography
www.celiagalpinphotography.com