About the author

Karen Rose Kobylka

Karen Rose Kobylka is a Canadian author, spiritual medium, tarot reader, spiritual life coach, spiritual teacher, and former beauty entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by extraordinary success, profound loss, and deep personal transformation.<br>With a 38-year career in the beauty industry, Karen built a thriving business from three salons to 16, becoming a trailblazer in mobile beauty services and creating a beauty empire rooted in service, creativity, and connection. After reaching great success, Karen’s life took an unexpected turn through mental health challenges, stigma, homelessness, poverty, and the painful experience of being deeply misunderstood.<br>​​​​​​​<br>Her fourth book, Misunderstood: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder, Stigma, and Starting Over, continues the story she first began sharing in Soul Dance: A Medium’s Triumph Over Bipolar Disorder, Mania, Psychosis, and Betrayal. In Misunderstood, Karen writes with raw honesty about bipolar disorder, mental health stigma, grief, rebuilding, and the courage it takes to reclaim your voice after being judged by one chapter of your life.<br>​​​​​​​<br>Now based on Vancouver Island, Karen offers spiritual mediumship, tarot readings, and spiritual life coaching, helping others connect with insight, healing, guidance, and the wisdom of their own soul. Through her readings, coaching, writing, spiritual teaching, and mental health advocacy, Karen’s work is devoted to helping others feel seen, supported, and empowered on their own healing journeys.<br>​​​​​​​<br>Her message is simple and powerful: They saw the diagnosis. They missed the person.