Writer, Coach, Facilitator
Cathia Friou
Cathia Friou is a writer, life and leadership coach, and certified facilitator in the work of Brené Brown. A healthy divorce advocate and author of the memoir Rock Paper Scissors: Scenes from a Charmed Divorce, she is also a trained mediator. Cathia writes personal essays on Substack at The Mosaic.
Cathia earned an MFA in creative writing (nonfiction) from Queens University of Charlotte and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a Certificate in Executive & Organizational Coaching from New York University and in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University. Her final project for CDS was a creative nonfiction essay exploring the experience of female incarceration.
As a graduate of the North Carolina and Colorado Outward Bound Schools and having walked 200 miles along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, she is an adventurist at heart. Cathia possesses an insatiable appetite for Jungian psychology, podcasts, and cartoons appearing in The New Yorker. Cathia has two adult daughters and lives with her husband and their goofy Goldendoodle, Cash, in Charlotte.
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