Katie Wrigley of The Catapult Effect launches her first book: From Crutches to Half Marathon: A Cognomovement Journey from Childhood Trauma to a Reclaimed Life, and hits 3 bestseller lists!

This book made me feel hopeful, happy, seen, excited, proud, inspired and amazed…Katie’s story is wonderfully woven together…well written and succinct. Be curious, lean in, find out what else is possible! – Andrea Tellez, BS, MA

(pictured) Katie Wrigley, Author, Cognomovement Expert, Founder of The Catapult Effect

On July 20, 2026, Katie Wrigley published her first book through Kindle Direct Publishing: From Crutches to Half Marathon: A Cognomovement Journey from Childhood Trauma to a Reclaimed Life. Within the first 48 hours, it landed on three Amazon bestseller lists: Indigenous Health & Healing, where it hit number one, along with Chronic Pain and Energy Healing.

“I was overwhelmed with gratitude and humbled by the response. My goal was to reach just one person, so they know what is possible if they’re willing to put in the work,” said Katie Wrigley about the book’s early success. “Writing a book was something I had wanted to do for a long time, but I didn’t write it for me. I wrote it for the person at the end of their rope, desperate for a morsel of hope. This success means more people will get that message, and find out what is possible for themselves,” added Katie Wrigley.

From Crutches to Half Marathon is a real accounting of Katie Wrigley’s journey, from months of disability in 2017 and 2018 to completing a half marathon in 2024. She recounts a path that began with psychedelic medicine and led her to Cognomovement, which she found 23 years into her chronic pain and which, over the next two years, unraveled it completely. At the height of that pain in 2018, with diagnoses piling up like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and severe Complex Post Traumatic Stress (C-PTS), Katie Wrigley had almost no hope left, and she was terrified. She knew her current state was never going to scale for a long life, so she stepped outside traditional medicine, and was stunned by how much changed. Not just her health, but her whole life.

Doctors had told her she would need three separate surgeries to resolve all of her pain. Zero surgeries later, Katie Wrigley crossed a half marathon finish line with tears of gratitude in her eyes. The book details exactly what she shifted to get there. “So much of what we are told we have to tolerate is simply nervous system patterns working against us,” says Katie Wrigley. “Our bodies hold so much more wisdom than we are led to believe, and when you have a way to tap into it like Cognomovement does, everything can change,” emphasized Katie Wrigley.

The book, From Crutches to Half Marathon: A Cognomovement journey from Childhood Trauma to a Reclaimed Life, is half memoir, half roadmap. Every chapter ends with exercises, so readers aren’t just reading Katie Wrigley’s transformation, they’re starting their own.

Beta readers met it with high praise, and From Crutches to Half Marathon, currently holds a 5-star rating on Amazon. “This book made me feel hopeful, happy, seen, excited, proud, inspired and amazed. Katie’s story is wonderfully woven together, well written and succinct. Be curious, lean in, find out what else is possible!” said reader Andrea Tellez, BS, MA.

From Crutches to Half Marathon is available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

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