Kate Wallinga spent her professional life in the fields of mental health
and criminal justice, before breaking her back and being put on
permanent disability in 2014. She has worked in the fields of
correctional psych, forensic psych, and crisis assessment.
Kate studied criminal justice and mental health counseling and worked
in the New Hampshire State Prison system, locked psychiatric facilities,
and several emergency rooms.
In 2010, Kate had a near-death experience, which led to her being
housebound for a year. In 2014, Kate broke her back and had to
leave her career. In 2019, Kate's father died by suicide. She has
battled health issues including epilepsy and deafness. But, as she
will share today, although broken, Kate moved forward and she
will show you how to as well - no matter what you have gone
through.
After accepting the necessity of leaving her preferred career, Kate
spent a few years moping, then started listening to podcasts. She loves
true crime genre and soon realized this is what she wanted to do - to
connect with and share other people's stories.
In her interview, she shares her incredible story and how she became a
story-teller, a story-collector, and a.....herder of cats.
Podcasting seemed the logical next step after Kate worked in the fields of
forensic and correctional psychology, and crisis assessment.
Ignorance Was Bliss is a show about how we become who we are and
making just about anything sound normal - from PTSD to podcasting to
serial murder. It is about people's stories.
This podcast is about how we become who we are - about making
just about anything sound normal. Over time, the focus of the show
has widened to include the normal, the average, the ordinary, that
all of us can understand...but we continue to think of ourselves as
somehow messed up, weird, wrong.
We're not.
You're not.
Honest.
Connect with Kate Here
