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About Karen
space holder · story keeper
I have known what I was meant to do for a very long time.
Since I was young, women have sat down across from me and told me their stories. Not because I asked. Because something in me made it safe to. Listening was the most natural thing I did. Holding space for another woman's truth — that was the work, even when I didn't yet have a name for it.
The problem was that it did not look like work the way the world recognises work. There was no product. No pottery. No tidy little craft to point to and say here is what I make. It was just me. And what I do. And how I live.
So I went and got the credentials. Natural health practitioner. Life coach. Reflexology. Meditation. Restorative yoga. Adult education. Each one felt like an attempt to translate what I had always been doing into something the world would accept as legitimate.
The certifications were not wrong. They sharpened me. But they were never the thing.
It took a ten-day silent retreat and five weeks away from home before I could finally hear what I had been trying not to hear my whole life. That the work was already mine. That I did not need a craft or a product or a more impressive title to do it. That what I had been doing since I was a girl — listening to women, holding their stories, guiding them gently back to themselves — was the work. It had always been the work.
This is where Unearth Your Yes was born. Not in a moment of clarity. In the slow honest reckoning of finally trusting what I had known all along.
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I'm Karen Amy.
I'm a writer, a teacher, and a space holder for women over 40 who are ready to stop performing a life they did not consciously choose.
I have spent over twenty years in holistic wellness, life coaching, regenerative health, meditation and adult education. I have run businesses. I am a mother and a grandmother. I have walked 800 kilometres across northern Spain alone — not as the centre of my story, but as the place where I learned that the answers I had been waiting for from other people were always going to have to come from inside me.
I write weekly. I teach restorative yoga. I am building a podcast called The Crone Stories where women's midlife transformations get told slowly, honestly, in her own words. And I created You Are the Treasure — a 21-day journey for the woman who is ready to come home to herself.
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Who I do this for.
I do this for the woman who looks fine. The one whose calendar is full and whose chest is tight. The one who can name everyone else's needs but goes quiet when asked what she wants. The one who has been carrying a life that was designed by everyone except her.
She is not broken. She is not behind. She is not too old, too tired, or too far gone. She is a woman who has been performing a life she did not consciously choose, and she is ready to stop.
If that is you, you are in the right place.
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How we work together.
Most of my work happens in writing. I send Reflections of Karen Amy weekly — a long honest letter from a friend who has been thinking about something all week and wants to talk it through with you.
For women ready for the deeper work, You Are the Treasure is a 21-day journey home to yourself. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one questions. Twenty-one quests.
For women just beginning, the two free guides on the Free Resources page are a quiet way in.
I read every email. You are not doing this alone.
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In love, light and laughter, Karen.
Karen Amy
space holder · story keeper