✨ Who I Am
I’m Kate Holmes — writer, researcher, lived‑experience advocate, and champion of women’s stories. I’ve spent more than a decade writing honestly about the messy, beautiful, complicated parts of women’s lives: confidence, identity, reinvention, motherhood, midlife, and starting again when life doesn’t go to plan.
I’m not polished, perfect, or pretending. I’m a real woman navigating real life — just like you.
✨ What I’ve Lived Through
My story isn’t neat. It’s full of chapters I never expected:
- Post‑natal depression
- Grief
- Divorce
- Abuse
- Single parenting
- Empty nest
- Disability
- Relocation
- Rebuilding my identity from scratch
- Learning to laugh again
- Learning to trust myself again
- Learning to take risks again knowing that I protect my peace and am my own best friend.
I started blogging during one of the darkest periods of my life, and it became the lifeline that helped me breathe, connect, and eventually rise.
✨ What I Believe
I believe women’s stories matter. I believe reinvention is possible at any age. I believe a giggle helps. I believe confidence can be rebuilt. I believe starting over is not a failure — it’s a beginning even when it feels a little wobbly.
And I believe women deserve spaces where they feel seen, supported, and celebrated.
✨ What I Do Now
Through Woman on Thin Ice, I write about:
- women’s lived experiences of work, play and relationships
- confidence and self‑belief
- motherhood
- midlife identity
- starting again
- everyday resilience
- the baby steps that change everything
I also run The Kate Edition, where I offer content writing, workshops, community sessions, and lived‑experience‑led support for women who want to rise, rebuild, and reinvent.
✨ Why I Share My Story
Because when women tell the truth about their lives, other women feel less alone. Because our stories have power. Because reinvention deserves to be celebrated. Because life after divorce, grief, or change isn’t an ending — it’s a renaissance.
✨ A Few Things That Make Me, Me
- Adopted at 11 months by a wonderful family of storytellers and performers
- Londoner by birth, Yorkshire lass and Francophile
- Studied Law at Cambridge University
- Obtained a Masters in Creative Writing recently
- Fire‑walker (yes, really)
- Boudoir shoot model
- Mum of three young adults
- Owner of a wicked, dry sense of humour
- Neurodiverse
✨ If You’re Starting Over, You’re in the Right Place
Whether you’re rebuilding confidence, rediscovering who you are, or simply trying to find your footing again — you’re welcome here.
✨ Want to Connect?
You can explore my writing, join my newsletter, or reach out if you’d like to work together.
