About Kate Drummond
Author of The 8-Minute Method · out 24 October 2026
MY STORY
I’m not here to perform or pretend.
I’ve built this space for women who have lived — through responsibility, loss, motherhood, shifting identities — and who are quietly ready to trust themselves again.
Midlife hasn’t felt like an ending to me.
It’s felt like a turning inward.
Over time, I began choosing a simpler, more intentional way of living — one that supports clarity, steadiness, and a calmer nervous system. For me, that’s included living plant-based and alcohol-free, not as rules or ideals, but as personal choices that help me feel well.
There is no single right way to live.
What matters is learning to listen to yourself.
A RETURN TO MYSELF
In my late thirties, everything began to shift.
Perimenopause arrived early. Life felt stretched. I was blending two families and carrying more than I could name. Something had to change.
So I slowed down.
I simplified my habits, my diet, and the way I spoke to myself. I let go of alcohol. I began paying closer attention to what my body and inner signals were asking for.
What emerged wasn’t a new version of me.
It was a return to who I already was.
That return continues to shape how I live — and how I work.
HOW I WORK
I don’t work from a formula.
Today, I offer private work for women navigating midlife. A steady space to pause, reflect, and move through change without pressure to fix or reinvent yourself.
I listen. I reflect. I walk alongside.
This work is about reconnection rather than reinvention — remembering who you are beneath the noise, expectations, and roles you’ve outgrown.
You don’t need fixing.
You don’t need to start over.
You need space to return to yourself — and the steadiness to trust what you already know.
This is where well-th begins.
THE LIFE BEHIND THE WORK
Lived, not learned
Eight markers that shape how I work — not credentials in the conventional sense.
Just the lived ground the work has grown from.
· Plant-based
· Alcohol-free since 2017
· Mother to four/Blended family
· Reiki Master
· Living with ME/CFS since my twenties
· Fibromyalgia post-menopause
· Twenty-five years in banking and
consultancy before this work found me
• Featured in Best Magazine — "The 8 Minutes That Changed My Life •
WHAT'S COMING NEXT
This work is moving
Four pieces in motion right now — each one a doorway into what The Purposeful Life is becoming.
July 2026 · Festival of Sport
I speak at the Festival of Sport — the first public conversation about the 8-Minute
Method and the small, repeatable shifts that actually change a life.
October 2026 · The Book
The 8-Minute Method — three years in the making — arrives in the world on
Saturday 24 October. The fuller form of everything I have been teaching privately
for nearly a decade.
October 2026 · The First Circle
The Invitation — a sacred circle of eight women — opens its first cohort the same
month. Three more circles will follow as the work grows.
Through 2027 · Retreats and Collaborations
Small-group retreats and selective brand collaborations — calm, intentional
gatherings rooted in the same quiet practice.
None of it loud. All of it on purpose.
I write letters on Substack - quiet long-form pieces on midlife, intuition, and the work of returning to yourself.
WHAT TO DO NEXT
Two ways in
Two doorways — one lower-commitment, one for the women ready to talk.