EP164: Going Off The Grid with Kate Merrick, Part 1 - Sandy Cooper-The Scoop on Balance

When I was considering taking a one-year social media hiatus in 2019, a fellow writer told me to look up Kate Merrick. When I did, I discovered that we had a few things in common: We were both authors, we both love the ocean, and sadly we had both buried a child. I bought her book and savored it slowly with a highlighter in hand. At the time, she was the only published author in my genre that I knew of who had walked away from social media. And now we also have THAT in common. Today she’s here to talk about all of it in the first part of a three-part conversation.

More about Kate: Kate Merrick is a speaker, author of 2 books, co-founder of the Reality family of churches, homeschooling-ish mom, and most recently co-founder of a surf/lifestyle brand for girls and women called Mijas Del Mar. She loves Jesus, surfing, dancing on the patio table, and anything delicious. She lives in Carpinteria, California with her husband of 25 years, two-ish kids, and a flock of noisy chickens.

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And She Still Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering, by Kate Merrick

Here, Now: Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overconnected World, by Kate Merrick

Kate Merrick
Hi! I’m Kate. I’m wife to Britt Merrick, mom to Isaiah Harley, Daisy Love, and Pheodora Sunshine. We have a little church in Carpinteria, California. My first book And Still She Laughs released in 2017, and Here, Now is due out April 2, 2019.