About Business in the Bath

My mission is to be a relatable voice for bipolar: encouraging and demonstrating how to create a life and living you love.

Business in the Bath exists to help people with bipolar – and those supporting us – see and believe that a meaningful, flexible and rewarding lifestyle is possible.

My vision is to contribute to a compassionate, informed, destigmatised world – a world where you’re no longer considered brave if you share you’ve got bipolar.

What's with the bath anyway?

A bath flips the idea of professionalism on its head. For me, baths represent rest, safety, self-compassion and gentleness. All the things we need to bring our best selves to work.

Business in the Bath stands for compassion, courage, curiosity, community, unrelenting optimism and gentleness in life, work and business. I’m tired of old-school notions of toxic positivity, hustle culture and sacrificing your mental health to get ahead.

Through podcasts and panels, presentations and workshops, and articles and poetry, I help people with bipolar – and those who support us – see and believe that a life and living we love – with rhythms and systems that look after us – is within reach.

Who I am and what I've done

Living with bipolar for nearly 20 years.

However, I wasn’t diagnosed until after my daughter was born, when I suffered a very serious postpartum episode and was hospitalised.

A successful business owner.

I’m an experienced content writer and editor. Since 2017, I’ve written hundreds of blogs, dozens of case studies, a handful of white papers and annual reports, and edited several books for self-published authors.

For more info, please visit my other websites: www.katierickson.co.nz and www.compassionpoetry.co.nz

A published writer.

My essay “Chickens are the answer for me” was shared in Kiwi Diary 2024.

“Expecting”, a poem about my experience of being committed to hospital under the Mental Health Act is published in The Poetical Lobe: A Community Poetry Anthology.

My creative non-fiction piece titled: V, Virgins and Vitality was published in the online magazine, The Pantograph Punch.

A lived experience perspective of bipolar.

I offer webinars and lunch and learn sessions to corporates and small-to-medium-sized businesses.

In 2019, I gave a presentation at Presbyterian Support Northern – on my lived experience, my poetry, and my recovery – to a room of health and safety officers who work in the mental health crisis, and support for victims of family violence, sector.

I presented my story, “Lullabies in a time of psychosis” to an audience of over 100 at the University of Otago 2017 Service User and Academia Symposium in Wellington. I’ve been a guest lecturer at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in the Master of Music Therapy programme every year since 2018.

I was a panellist for a MUV Talks event on Neurodiversity in 2022.

An entertaining and informed podcast guest.

I’ve been a guest on various podcasts talking about subjects as broad as creativity, money, hormones, being at peace with my pace, and parenting with bipolar. The podcasts I’ve featured on include:

Book me for Mental Health Awareness Week 2025.

Are you sussing out where to allocate your wellbeing budget for 2025?

Why not put a portion aside for a presentation during Mental Health Awareness Week which could change your team’s perception of bipolar and maybe even their lives?

Get in quick to book one of five lunch and learn spots for Mental Health Awareness Week 2025.

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