A little about me

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How to summarize the whole package that is Krista...That's a tricky one.

We will start with the basics. 

I am a Wisconsin Native. Currently transplanted in Arizona for the last almost 8yrs. I grew up in a pretty typical 80's-90's family life. Nothing crazy or wild happened growing up. I lived a pretty happy mellow childhood. I'm the youngest of 3 siblings and the only girl. We grew up at the outskirts of the city with a few tiny woods nearby and lots of grassy fields to play in. We weren't monitored much because in the 80's and 90's freedom to roam was still a thing. We were often called back home for dinner via Fog Horn. I shit you not my mother used this method to call us home for dinner until neighbors began to complain about the sound of the fog horn haha! After that she had to resort to strengthening her voice amplification.

I was a tomboy that preferred to hangout in the fields/woods much more than playing with dolls/barbies. I loved to sing (still do) and would often sit in my room most nights bellowing out some tunes to kids 'We Sing' cassette tapes until my parents tolerance level was reached. We Sing turned into country music classics which turned into a mix of artists like Alanis Morissette, Garbage, LeAnn Rimes, Deanna Carter, Dixie Chics, Natalie Imbruglia, Jewel, Michelle Branch. My life goal from 3yrs old until HS graduation was to be a singer. After HS I was dreaming of moving to Nashville to become a country singer. However, my nerves and my lack of any real voice lessons/guitar lessons made me realize that dream wasn't gonna work out for me.

After High School my Dad suggest looking into Massage as a career because I was so awesome at giving him feet/back massages after his long days on his Mail Route. I figured 'why not?,' as holistic health stuff was always slightly on the back on my mind. I attended Massage School for a whopping 3 months before life took a course correction and my parents began a long divorce. I was too stressed out by being the last of the 3 kids left at home and being turned into a middle man between my parents while going to school fulltime that I opted to get married to my BF almost a year earlier than planned. We rushed the marriage (we skipped involving family and married at a court house), i quit massage school and so began the path that turned into a 13 yr journey as an Air Force spouse.

Being a military spouse had it's ups and downs but overall I enjoyed the military lifestyle and getting to live and see many places I otherwise wouldn't have been able to. I got to meet a lot of amazing long term connections and friends that I still keep in touch with occasionally today.

As my marriage progressed, however, things just weren't going along so greatly as the years went on. 2007 was probably the starting point that I began to get little nudges from my husbands behavior towards me and of my own emotional feelings and behaviors. I began to realized we weren't fully on the same page in our marriage. 2007 would be the what I consider the precursor to my Spiritual awakening that really took off in 2016. My marriage continued on but after our year apart in 2007 as he was gone for a full year with work, we didn't come back to each other as the same people we had left. Things slowly started fizzing out over the next 8-9yrs.

Within that 8-9yr period We moved and lived abroad for the first 3yrs, my parents divorce finally finalized and my dad came down with terminal cancer. The following years I became pregnant and had my awesome son! We moved back to the US and landed in AZ (I flew here pregnant and my son was born in AZ). Within the first year of my son being born my dad passed away from Liver Cancer. Within a few years I was in a pretty bad depression as I was coping with new motherhood, coping with the fluctuating grieving process of my dads passing and feeling ever so alone in my marriage. I reached a point of depression where I became suicidal. This would be the ultimate end of The Precursor and begin the transition into my Spiritual Awakening (but more to come on the details in future posts). I managed to pull through the 'Dark Knight of the soul' and not actually commit suicide. I kept it to myself because I didn't want people to know I was planning it. But life happened and a turn of events occurred that was my spiritual awakening which sent me on a roller coaster of awareness's and new hopes.

I decided to go back to Massage School once again and this time it worked out. However, the more I began finding myself and reconnecting with the old me, and most especially as the spiritual awakening progressed; it began to threaten my husband in some ways. My marriage crumbled the happier I got with my inner growth. We separated a month after i started Massage School. We officially divorced a year and a half later. That was a very tumultuous year for me and I am beyond amazed at the many forms of support I received from family, friends, acquaintances and mentors. Their strenght, support, belief in me and kindness kept me holding on to my dreams when my dreams felt completely impossible to reach. 3 years later I am here to say there is always a light at the end of a tunnel, even if it doesn't look like there is one. I am now in the middle of my rebuilding phase of life but I am not the same person I was before all these events.

I am now aware of much more than I was aware of otherwise. I have a stronger faith in the invisible support team we have with us at all times. God (insert whatever your name for it is), Angels and Guides. They do exist and are always helping you whether you aware/believe of it or not. However, your acceptance and belief does open you to more support and assistance as you are more willing to ASK them for it and more open to accepting the help and gifts.

So who is Krista now?

I am a dreamer, a visionary (i sometimes struggle with conveying my minds thoughts into words for people). I still sing. Probably don't get outside quite as much as I'd love to these days but i'm still called to nature. I try to garden and most of the time i'm successful but boy oh boy is AZ weather a tough one to navigate gardening through. I am a homebody who also craves the occasional extrovert experience (thus why blogging is more my route than YouTubing). I get over stimulated very easily/ quickly when i'm in extrovert mode so it doesn't last long and i'm back to being my introverted self. I crochet and sew and occasionally draw/paint.

My son trails along with me in all of this. I have him full-time through the year, minus summers and somehow we manage to jive through life mostly in-sync with each other. We do have our butting head moments as he has a strong personality of independence and leading; not always great when it comes to situations that listening to Mom is a necessary haha. He is a kind, sweet, thoughtful soul and those butting head moments are usually minor.

 I am 2 yrs into my a career as a massage therapist. I am grateful to all the support from my mentors for helping me to reach where I am currently at in this 2 year period. And especially grateful for the clients that have seen success in their health and journey's while under my touch and presence. My favorite modalities are relaxation, somewhat of a myofascial based therapeutic form of massage and CranioSacral Therapy. I am still learning, growing and expanding in each of those area's. Growing and Learning in any arena of life never truly stops in my opinion!

I thank you for visiting and checking out a little of my back story. I look forward to feedback and blog topic suggestions. Feel free to reach out if you have any thoughts/questions you'd like to inquire about or share.

Take care for now!
Krista