Kathryn Lackey transforms personal pain into purpose, guiding women to reclaim their lives after a partner’s addiction. A seasoned designer and entrepreneur, she discovered design therapy while navigating the devastation of her husband’s secret double life of sexual addiction. What began as a survival job became her calling, helping others create beauty and stability in their lives.
In her book, Letters from Love’s Battlefield, Kathryn shares her deeply personal journey. She had found—and married—her “officer and a gentleman.” For years, they built a beautiful life and family, but slowly, he began to change. After two decades of marriage, she sensed something was wrong. She remained blind to the depths of his darkness until his secret life was publicly exposed. As the painful details unraveled, Kathryn’s world shattered. He faced indictment, plunging deeper into addiction before his ultimate incarceration.
Through raw, emotion-filled letters—written but never sent—she reveals the heartbreak, betrayal, and resilience that shaped her journey. Amid the pain, she found the strength to survive, protect her children, and, ultimately, heal. Now, she shares her story to help other women find hope, personal strength, and a renewed sense of self beyond a partner’s shame.
Kathryn’s healing journey was not just about survival but transformation. She found strength in forgiveness, knowledge, and faith, uncovering new opportunities for joy and purpose. Now, she empowers women to release shame, grow through their pain, and design a life aligned with God’s intention.
As the Founder and Creative Lead of Heart of the Home Styling & Designs, Kathryn merges her love for design with her passion for helping others. A Journalism graduate from the University of South Carolina, she understands the power of storytelling in shaping lives. While her career is a significant part of her journey, she considers her greatest achievement raising her two children alone after addiction tore their family apart.
In 2024, Kathryn returns to Dallas to reconnect with family, embrace new opportunities, and continue her mission. She finds joy in time with loved ones, self-care, exercise, and volunteer ministry. With her personal story now unfolding in her debut book, Kathryn refines her life’s vision, her business, and her message of hope. She proves that even after the deepest betrayals, healing, abundance, and victory are possible.
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Kathryn Lackey is a seasoned designer whose career began in 2006 as a mere survival job following the revelation and public exposure of her husband’s double life of sexual addiction. Through years of struggle, the scars of limiting beliefs, self-doubt, and an unbalanced life of grind defined her role as addiction’s victim, void of true joy and purpose. She then awakened to this existence as a choice opposite God’s plan for His daughter.
In her debut book, Letters from Love’s Battlefield, Kathryn vulnerably shares her journey of metamorphosis through addiction’s consequences of incarceration and ultimate death. Now at a place in life where her passion is to help spouses on a similar walk, Kathryn’s desires are to empower women toward healing and wholeness from the shame of a partner’s addiction guided by knowledge, bold faith, and self-discovery. She continues to design her life and grow her business while supporting women victimized by trauma, exalting each opportunity to share God’s healing and unveil the Design within.