From Fired to Framework: My Story of Healing After Job Loss

Hi, I’m Karen Waleska — and this is me, healing after job loss in real time.

Six months ago, I lost my job.

It wasn’t just a title — it was a rhythm of proving myself in rooms where I was always too much or not enough.

When the email came, I didn’t see it coming — the termination or the rebirth.

But here I am now, building something I didn’t know I needed: a soft place to begin again.

This blog, this brand, these tools — they were born in the aftermath of healing after job loss and heartbreak.

The tears. The rage. The silence.

The nights I didn’t know who I was without an Outlook calendar telling me.

Have you had to rebuild from something you didn't choose?

Birth of a Brand—In Real Time

Untrained™ started as a grief ritual.

A way to make sense of the emotional loops I kept spiraling through — in love, in work, in silence.

My structured, technical mind wanted order.

My creative, fashion-forward side wanted expression.

When those two collided, Untrained™ was born — a healing framework disguised as a magazine.

Every page in Untrained™: The Pattern Issue was written in the aftermath.

It became my blueprint for clarity — proof that even in chaos, you can design your comeback.

That’s where the phrase came from:

You’re not broken. You’re editing.™

The Journal That Helped Me Reset

After releasing The Pattern Issue, something shifted.

Women didn’t just want to read the story — they wanted a system to walk themselves through the fog.

So, I created The Clarity Reset Guide™ — a guided journal built for emotional resets and pattern awareness.

It wasn’t theory. It was lived experience — the same process I used to stop spiraling and start rebuilding.

Each page helps you:

• Recognize the patterns that keep you stuck

• Release the illusion of control

• Rebuild calm through reflection and structure

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Subscribe to download one guided page from the journal — the same page that helped me stop overthinking the past and start moving forward.

💌 Your clarity starts here — one page, one pattern, one reset at a time.

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I’m Not Afraid Anymore

For months, I hesitated to share this story.

Would people misunderstand? Mock it? Minimize it?

But here’s what I learned:

I don’t need everyone to get it — just the right ones to feel it.

That includes you — if you’ve ever:

• Felt dismissed without explanation

• Rebuilt yourself from a page of scribbles

• Known your story was too valuable to stay silent

This is the walk of someone who chose clarity over performance.

So… Where Are We Going?

If you’ve made it this far, thank you.

You’ve just read a real-time reinvention.

Kioki Reimagine was born from my breakdown, but it didn’t end there.

It became my rebuild. My ritual. My return to clarity.

Now, it’s here for you — whether you’re healing after job loss, heartbreak, or a season that forced you to start again.

✨ This is where we begin again.

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