The Handmade Life offers coaching, consultations, and healing traditions through workshops to support purposeful living, to preserve knowledge for future generations and to foster well-being and a love of the natural world.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, who coined the term “handmade life” describes it as the “wholly mindful life”. The Handmade Life offers support for ways of living and be-ing that are rooted in self-trust, in alignment with one’s values, and supported by a healthy community.
About Katie:
Katie Hanus is a life coach, herbalist, mother to two teens and founder of The Handmade Life. Katie has supported her own family’s unique health, learning and developmental needs for nearly two decades through a variety of modalities and therapies. Katie studied with Sacred Journey School of Herbalism in Austin, Texas and The Herbal Medics Academy of Taos, NM with an emphasis in empowering healthy lifestyles in women and children. Katie also completed deathcare studies with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins’s D-School. She holds a certificate in nature-based coaching and is a graduate of Dr. Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach training.
“When the instincts are injured, humans will "normalize" assault after assault, acts of injustice and destruction toward themselves, their offspring, their loved ones, their land, and even their Gods.
This normalizing of the shocking and abusive is refused by repairing injured instinct. As instinct is repaired, the integral wild nature returns. Instead of dancing into the the forest in the red shoes until all life becomes tortured and meaningless, we can return to our handmade life, the wholly mindful life, re-make our own shoes, walk our walk, talk our own talk."
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes,Ph.D.