ABOUT KATRINA SHARLENE

WHO THIS IS FOR

I spend my time writing about faith and what it means to follow Jesus when life gets complicated. I’m not here to give you a polished version of the Bible. I want to talk about honest theology, because that’s the only kind that actually holds up when things don't go according to plan.

Women who read my work are often working through:

• Shame around sexuality or past sin, and whether God's love actually reaches there

• Seasons of real doubt when showing up to faith still feels important

• Wanting a deeper walk with God, not just better habits or cleaner behavior

• The gap between who the church says God is and who He seems to be in the middle of their actual life

I don't write from a place of having it figured out. I write from the place where God found me.

HOW I GOT HERE

My journey with Jesus really started back in 2008. It wasn’t because I finally had my life together; it was actually because I had run completely out of reasons to keep pretending I did. At the time, I was in college, struggling with depression and slowly failing out of my classes. It wasn't that the work was too hard, I just didn't feel like I was worth the effort of showing up anymore.

Everything changed that winter when my cousin was in a terrible accident. The doctors told our family she wouldn't even survive the night. As I stood in that hospital room, I watched people pray in a way I had never seen before. It wasn't formal or rehearsed; it was the kind of prayer that only comes from people who genuinely believe someone is listening. That night, I finally whispered a prayer of my own: "If You're real, let her live."

And she did. She lived, she spoke, and she moved. She walked out of that hospital in less than thirty days, even though the doctors had told us to expect months or years of recovery—if she recovered at all.

I had been waiting to get my life together before coming to God. Waiting to be good enough. As if grace required qualification, or as if the door only opened from my side.

But that was the moment I finally understood that God was never waiting for me to become worthy. He had already made a way, so I stopped waiting and just started walking.

Years later, while I was serving on my church's prayer team, I started writing devotionals for a season of fasting and prayer. My pastor and my community saw something in my writing long before I recognized it in myself, and that season eventually became my first book, Pure Intimacy. I wrote it for women who are tired of the silence and shame that usually surrounds the topic of sexual sin—women who deserve to know the God who truly, deeply loves them.

WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW BEFORE YOU LEAVE

He love you, lady. And I don’t mean the polished version of you that feels like she has everything together, but you, exactly as you are in this moment. You don’t have to carry the weight of your anxiety or the pressure of a future you were never meant to manage on your own. God is steady and kind, and He hasn't missed a single detail of what you’re going through.

I’ve been married to my husband for thirteen years now, and I’m deeply rooted in my local church. Every year that goes by, I’m more convinced that actually understanding who God is changes everything about the way we live, and that conviction is really the heart behind every word I write. I’m just glad you’re here, and I truly hope these words meet you right where you are today.

LETTERS FROM KATRINA

I send out short, honest letters about following Jesus and learning to trust His heart when life gets heavy. They’re written for the women who are still showing up, even on the days when it’s difficult.