Katherine
PHIFER
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You are magical being filled with so much power. Inside the first month we tap into YOU, your magic and your leadership style.
Hello. I am Katherine Phifer.
I’ve spent most of my life interested in what it means to be a person.
How we become ourselves. How we change. What we make from what happens to us. The strange intersection between beauty, ambition, identity, relationships, creativity, grief, desire, and the lives we actually end up living.
For more than twenty years, my work has lived somewhere inside those questions.
I began as an artist.
I earned a BFA in Studio Art, followed by graduate training in Art Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. I went on to work as an art therapist and mental health therapist before spending many years in the broader world of personal development, coaching, leadership, and advisory work.
But art was never really separate from any of it.
It was there before the degrees and credentials. Before the businesses. Before I had language for personal development or transformation or any of the other things I would eventually spend years studying.
And now, I’m returning to it.
Artist in the making.
I paint. I write. I make photographs. I host It Happened Over Lunch, a podcast about the conversations, ideas, experiences, and seemingly ordinary moments that change the direction of a life.
I’m interested in making work about being alive.
Especially the parts that resist tidy conclusions.
Womanhood. Marriage. Motherhood. Money. Reinvention. Beauty. Aging. Home. Ambition. Creativity. Loss. Desire. The identities we outgrow. The lives we thought we were supposed to want.
And what happens when we become willing to make something different.
My background in psychology and personal development inevitably finds its way into the work. After twenty plus years of sitting with people, studying human behavior, and examining my own life with perhaps an unreasonable amount of curiosity, I’m not particularly interested in staying on the surface.
But I’m also less interested these days in telling people how to live.
I’d rather make something.
Write the essay. Paint the painting. Take the photograph. Have the conversation. Ask the question.
And leave enough room for you to decide what it means to you.
Personally...
I’ve lived a few different lives already.
I’ve been an artist, therapist, entrepreneur, coach, advisor, writer, wife, mother, expatriate, and woman starting over more times than I expected.
I spent several years living in Sicily, an experience that changed my relationship with beauty, place, pace, and what makes a life feel rich. I now live in Tennessee with my husband, our family, and an ever-growing collection of ideas about what I want to make next.
At 49, I’m increasingly uninterested in becoming more impressive.
I’m interested in becoming more myself.
This website is where those things meet.
The art.
The writing.
The podcast.
The archive of a woman paying attention to her own life and making things from what she finds there.
Welcome.
