Kerry's Journal
Reflections, hard truths, and the occasional dispatch from Lisbon. Written for women who are done performing and ready to start living.
Featured · February 2026
There is a particular kind of discomfort that arrives in your forties and fifties — not dramatic, not a breakdown, but a low hum. A persistent sense that something is off. That the life you have built, the roles you inhabit, the person you show up as every day, is not quite... you. The world calls this a midlife crisis. I call it something else entirely.
Continue readingJanuary 2026
We spend enormous energy managing our feelings — suppressing them, explaining them away, apologizing for them. What if we listened instead? Your emotions are not the problem. They are the guide. Here's how to start paying attention.
January 2026
After years of doing the work — journaling, coaching, surviving the unsurvivable — one question cut through all of it. Not a clever question. A simple one. The kind that, when you finally sit with it honestly, rearranges everything.
December 2025
People see the Instagram version of starting over in a new country. They do not see the grief, the bureaucracy, the days when you question everything. Here is what I wish someone had told me before I got on the plane — and why I would do it all again.
November 2025
I have nothing against positive thinking. But repeating "I am worthy" into a mirror while your nervous system believes the opposite is not healing — it is decoration. Real change requires understanding the thought beneath the thought.
October 2025
For a long time, I was proud of my ability to survive things. I had been through a lot and I was still standing. It took me years to understand that survival is not the same as living — and that the person who survives is not always the person you want to stay.