Katie Jesionowski
Writer, creator, and coach. Sharing stories through humor and honesty about ambition, identity and the quiet work of growth.
Featured Work
As an Overachiever, I Didn’t Think I’d Like Yoga. I Was Wrong.
A personal essay about my relationship with yoga over many years—from accidentally stumbling into my first class as a skeptical, type-A athlete, to repeatedly abandoning the practice when it challenged my ego, to finally returning during a period of grief, injury, and emotional reckoning.
Published in Yoga Journal
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Unscheduled Stop: While Playing Tennis
No one, including me, thought it was torn. I never should have been able to do the walking and the climbing. But also no one could explain the pop. Even in that moment, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t enjoying winning this injury. If there was a competition of who got hurt the…
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While Closing a Business
And if you aren’t picturing this as a slow-motion video montage set to Hall and Oats’ “You Make My Dreams Come True” then you are really not grasping the joy of this time period. This. Was. The Year. The biggest year of our lives! 2020. We weren’t wrong.
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I began writing when COVID closed my business. I kept writing when I realized that it helped.
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