Katie

Katie Cavenagh: My Story

Who am I?

When thinking about this question, it brings up the deeper question of “What stories do I want to attach to the identity I present to the world so it can create expectations around me?”

Clearly I am someone who thinks in ways that might fry some circuits of the mind. I think very outside the box, because for me, there is no box. 

Ever since I was young I knew I was a little different. I was into some weird things like telepathy, ghosts, and all things supernatural, especially magick. I also grew up in an almost 200 year old house, so it’s not like I had any encouragement from Spirit there (wink).

I ventured out on my own and by the tween years I was calling myself a Witch. It was the point where I claimed my magick, initiated myself into the craft, and began my journey.

Throughout the years I grew, I learned, I practiced. Then I quit. 

The dreams became too vivid, the nightmares too real. Entities, darkness, my own demons. It took hold for a good fifteen years before I found my way out.

And here I am. I don’t know how, but here I am.

The years, no, decades of survival, struggle, crippling depression all falling away behind me. Now the days are replaced with presence, learning, acceptance, and most important, feeling.

All the books, courses, workshops, events, webinars, meditations, you name it — all that knowledge is programming itself in my cells, moving me closer and closer to embodiment. The full receptivity to an entirely new system. 

It’s taken a long time, but these are slow builds. Unlearning a lifetime of falsities you wholly believed were true shatters your entire perception of who you are. 

So you ask me who I am?

I can tell you about a few big moments in my life and let you decide.

Growing up I always said I wanted to be a rock star. I grew up on stage from the age of four. I was (and still might be) a Triple Threat. Best yet, I practiced with a Star Stage and a Debbie Gibson Electric Youth cassette tape that wouldn’t quit.

I’ve since created a life where I get to professionally teach and perform tap dance, keeping its rich history alive. I spent twenty years travelling to NYC to learn from the masters about this art, and have dedicated my life to passing it on. Starting in 2010 and reviving in 2016, I founded the CT Tap Collaborative as a way to share the traditions of Tap with all who are interested. 

I also ended up with a bad hip injury three months after I got married in 2012. Two surgeries (both sides) and a c-section later, it was 2015. 

During the COVID Pandemic in 2020 when were all quarantined, I started Feel Your Light. It was after a fight with my (ex)husband on his 40th birthday in Florida. It was birthed as a way to share my perspective with people who were aligned with it and interested in expanding their minds and changing their lives.

2024 brought a revamp to the business and Sacred Cocoon Healing, LLC emerged. Big new office. Fully certified sound healer. Certified sound facilitation instructor. Reiki master. Licensed hypnotist. Published author. Event leader. Collaborator. Speaker. Teacher. In demand.

My life is busy yet has a lot of peace. My mind can be still and calm. I can relax my nervous system and operate from a place of clarity rather than reaction. I am aware of my patterns, how they play out, and how they affect my life. I am able to articulate needs and boundaries. I’m willing to sit with my pain, my fears, and my demons. I’m no longer afraid of the darkness.

And, I have done all of this intentionally.

Put myself through the wringer, and yet, here I am. 

Lived and learned lessons that I didn’t think I’d survive, but here I am.

Built many things from nothing, over and over again, and guess what? I’m still here.

So, who am I? 

I’m finding out every day. 

But if you were to ask me to give you a definition of who I am, I’d say, “I am the Rock Star of my own life, that’s who I am”.

And if you hang out with me long enough, you just might see you’re the Rock Star of your own life too.