Katie Gustafson

Katie Gustafson I use an integrated approach to therapy. I like to draw from several different models to customize t

The holidays can feel loud on our nervous system.A little awareness goes a long way.Save this for a gentler season. 🤍
11/21/2025

The holidays can feel loud on our nervous system.
A little awareness goes a long way.
Save this for a gentler season. 🤍

A tiny little Enneagram holiday starter pack because these weeks bring out so many parts of us — the cozy ones, the over...
11/20/2025

A tiny little Enneagram holiday starter pack because these weeks bring out so many parts of us — the cozy ones, the overwhelmed ones, the gentle ones, and the “I need a minute” ones. 😅

Whichever energy you’re bringing to the table this week… it belongs.
Truly.

Which one feels most like you right now?
(And feel free to tag your type 👇)

🤍 P.S. I wrote something tender on Substack this week about emotional hospitality—welcoming the feelings that show up during the holidays.

Link’s in my bio if you want to read it.

11/19/2025

Most of us try to outrun the emotions we don’t like…
but the ones we avoid usually carry the most wisdom.

When we stop fighting our feelings and get curious instead, everything softens—
including us.

If this resonates, I wrote more about emotional hospitality on Substack this week.
It’s tender, practical, and might give you language for what you’re feeling.
🤍 Link in bio.

Most of us were never taught how to sit with our emotions—especially the uncomfortable ones.So we avoid them.Push past t...
11/18/2025

Most of us were never taught how to sit with our emotions—especially the uncomfortable ones.
So we avoid them.
Push past them.
Or try to “stay productive” instead of staying present.

But the emotions we ignore are usually the ones guiding us the most.

I call this emotional hospitality:
Treating your inner world with the same curiosity and compassion you’d offer a guest in your home.

It’s a simple but powerful leadership skill.

Next time an emotion shows up—frustration, overwhelm, insecurity—pause and ask:

What am I feeling?
Where is it showing up in my body?
What need is underneath this?

Leaders who can answer these questions show up with more clarity, steadiness, and emotional intelligence.

If you want to go deeper, I wrote a longer reflection on emotional hospitality and how it shapes our relationships, work, and well-being.

👉 Read the full post on Substack: https://katiegustafsonco.substack.com/p/emotional-hospitality-the-lost-art

Y’all, dinner parties are my spiritual gift. I love them so much. Even though I haven’t had as many lately…they are alwa...
11/14/2025

Y’all, dinner parties are my spiritual gift. I love them so much. Even though I haven’t had as many lately…they are always my most favorite way of connecting to friends and family—new and old—familiar and not so much.

When I read book Unreasonable Hospitality, it became my whole personality and I bought a bunch of copies and gave them away like a missionary with Bibles.

Hospitality doesn’t just happen around a table. It’s this elegant practice we can use in relationship to self and others.
One of the simplest and most transformative emotional intelligence tools I teach clients is what I call the “Hospitality Five.”

It’s based on the practice of attending to your emotional life the way you’d attend to guests at a dinner party—with intention, curiosity, and care.

Here are the five questions:
1) What am I feeling?
2) Where do I feel it in my body?
3) What story is this emotion telling me?
4) What do I need?
5) How will I meet that need?

This practice strengthens self-regulation, increases clarity, reduces reactive communication, and supports healthier relationships at work and at home.

Small habits create big internal shifts.
Hospitality is a powerful one.

Cheers to the weekend 🥂

A reminder to welcome your emotions the same way you’d welcome a guest—curiously, kindly, without rushing them out the d...
11/13/2025

A reminder to welcome your emotions the same way you’d welcome a guest—curiously, kindly, without rushing them out the door.

When you welcome your emotions instead of pushing them away, what changes for you?

11/11/2025

You don’t have to save the world.
Just create a clearing—
and wait for what’s meant to find you.

Save this for when you need it 🌱

Fall always brings out my sentimental side. A walk around Radnor (road is finally open folks!) and suddenly I’m remembe...
11/09/2025

Fall always brings out my sentimental side. A walk around Radnor (road is finally open folks!) and suddenly I’m remembering every version of myself that’s ever stood on this path. But here’s the thing I’m learning: nostalgia’s a lovely visitor, not a place to live. The best moments aren’t back there—they’re unfolding right in front of us. 🍂🍁

Somewhere along the way, most of us learn it isn’t safe to be who we really are.So we hide. Behind the good girl, the ac...
11/04/2025

Somewhere along the way, most of us learn it isn’t safe to be who we really are.

So we hide. Behind the good girl, the achiever, the easygoing one—the version most likely to keep us loved and safe.

But the truth? The layers we think are protecting us often become the very thing that keeps us stuck.

This week on Substack, I’m sharing about identity, therapy, and the Enneagram, and what it really means to come home to yourself.

🕊️ Read it here → [link in bio]

Somewhere along the way, most of us learn it isn’t safe to be who we really are.So we hide. Behind the good girl, the ac...
11/04/2025

Somewhere along the way, most of us learn it isn’t safe to be who we really are.

So we hide. Behind the good girl, the achiever, the easygoing one—the version most likely to keep us loved and safe.

But the truth? The layers we think are protecting us often become the very thing that keeps us stuck.

This week on Substack, I’m sharing about identity, therapy, and the Enneagram—and what it really means to come home to yourself.

🕊️ Read it here → https://open.substack.com/pub/katiegustafsonco/p/naked-truths

11/03/2025

Midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s a cosmic quality-control check.
The Enneagram just helps us notice what’s actually working… and what’s just habit, hustle, and old survival glitter. ✨

Here’s to choosing alignment over approval, rest over proving, and “nope” over noise.
Turns out coming home to yourself is the real glow-up. 🤍

That was fun… and I am wiped 🤪👻🎃The grand finale of October came and went and exactly two people out of hundreds recogni...
11/01/2025

That was fun… and I am wiped 🤪👻🎃
The grand finale of October came and went and exactly two people out of hundreds recognized the costume. One was a 12-year-old who said, “Oh, my mom is 52. She’ll get it.”
I’ve never felt so… vintage. 😂

Truth be told, I was never a big Halloween person—until Tucker. This child was born for the stage (shocking, I know) and his love for costumes has fully converted me. The candy highs have crashed, the glitter is everywhere, and our neighborhood is already twinkling like December. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here’s to holding on to Harvest just a little longer 🍂✨
And yes, Daniel channeled his inner photographer (very method) - and a casual nod to Woody Allen- so he’s barely in the photos. It’s an artistic choice, apparently.

Happy weekend, friends! 🎃🍁✨

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