About Krista

I know personally the pain of feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and confused as a mother.

I know the longing for something that brings you back to yourself instead of other people’s ideals or opinions.

Something that resolves your worries rather than dismissing them, that settles fear rather than aggravates it, that works deeply, and forever.

I know the longing for connection, family, and  community and the obstacles that keep us separate.

I have spent the last twenty five years gathering a bag of tools and tricks to help people resolve trauma, find their deeper healing story and step into living from their instinctual earth animal knowing. As an undergraduate, I studied Human Health and Behavior at The Evergreen State College. I have a Masters degree in Great Books from St. John’s College as well an MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. While in graduate school, I spent much of my spare time in Jungian Analysis and fell in love with mythology, archetypes and dream work. Out of this passion I focused my studies on Philosophical Counseling, an age old and re-emerging paradigm of lasting personal transformation, alchemy of the soul. I had a particular interest in understanding and healing trauma. I have traveled around the globe and maintained a spiritual practice over many years. I have facilitated hundreds of students in small group inquiry, mentored emerging writers in diverse settings, served on numerous boards, assemblies, and organizations, created community projects and designed collaborative learning programs.

What’s in my magic mama-medicine-bag?

Well, sometimes its a dash of sacred and healing foods, or just the right super-duper supplement or herbal remedy, sometimes its integrating an experience, or resolving a painful story, or maybe its helping you come up with just the right way to honor an important rite of passage. I might use a sensation tracking trick or other innovative body-mind technique. It might be a recipe, or a puppet play or even a song or poem, maybe even a well placed compassionate piece of information (I really do my very best never to give advice!!! ick….. you all get enough of that in the rest of your life) or a bit of philosophy…. and I am always adding shiny new talismans and potions to my bag……

searching the world over so you don’t have to……

But really these are all ways I help you find safety so that you can be free to trust yourself, glean the healing wisdom of your own being, and the inner knowing of how you need and want to meet each moment of your precious time as a mother!

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