About me
Hey, I’m Katie Treggiden (she/her). I am a craft, nature and sustainability writer, certified Blue Health Coach™ and the author of Brackish here on Substack. I grew up in Cornwall and as a child, I took for granted that you could catch mackerel for the barbeque from a day boat, find grasshoppers between molehills on the lawn, and watch bats catching insects at dusk. When I returned in 2017, it was not the county I remembered. There were no longer enough mackerel for it to be worth taking a boat out fishing, and as for the grasshoppers, molehills and bats? Nowhere to be seen. In fact the Living Planet Report published by the WWF in 2024 estimates a 73% loss in biodiversity in roughly the time I’ve been alive. Baba Dioum said,
In the end, we will conserve only what we love;
we will love only what we understand.”
I am a storyteller. If I can help people to understand and connect with nature through my poems, short stories, and Blue Health Coaching™, perhaps we can reverse that decline – and feel a whole lot better in the process because we are not separate from nature, as much as modern living might try to convince us we are.
I plan to bring my whole self into this space, so I have written a post that goes into a bit more detail about what this is all going to look like in practice…
Why join me on this journey?
If you are a walker, a woman or a wonder-seeker (see the post above for what I mean by each of those terms) and this all sounds like your flask of tea, why not subscribe?
Here’s what you get:
Free subscribers: Weekly-ish public posts on a Tuesday – which might be poems or micro-stories about nature or updates on my journey as a Blue Health Coach – as well as the eight most recent posts in the archive so you can do a deep dive.
Paid subscribers: All of the above, plus weekly-ish nature connection prompts on a Thursday, monthly-ish private posts where I will be sharing the more personal stuff, access to the full archive plus the ability to comment and join the community.
Founding members: All of the above, plus a physical copy of my latest book Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World (Ludion, 2023) AND a 1:1 ‘dip’ session so you can put a toe in the water and see if Blue Health Coaching™ is for you.
*-ish: I use that suffix a lot because as a neurodivergent human with chronic and mental health issues – in fact scratch that – as a human, I sometimes need to take a break. I think it’s important to honour my – and your – need to rest, so I have included a permission slip for myself in the form of -ish. I hope you understand.
If you are buying an annual subscription / founding membership, please note that I am unable to offer refunds if you change your mind. If you are unsure, I recommend choosing a monthly subscription, which you can cancel at any time.
Stay curious, imperfection and defiantly hopeful,
Katie x
