ready to walk in greater freedom?
You don’t have to look, sound, feel, or live like anyone else. Quiet all the noise and handcraft a sustainable and spacious life or business that feels like home. No more masking, rejecting yourself, feeling ruled by fear or shame, or trying to squish your beautiful self into a stifling box.
“She decided to be her own best friend and committed to practicing self-compassion. No more bullying, wishing herself away or berating herself for simply being human in a messy world. Slowly but surely, comparison, perfectionism, and fear fell away until she began to breathe more easily. She found freedom.”
Remember your way to Freedom
Compassionate, holistic and evidence-based support to help you honour your unique wiring, become your own best friend, and choose a life of deeper freedom.
MINE FOR THE BEAUTY + WISDOM IN EVERY SEASON
Seasonal living helps us live mindfully attuned to the rhythms of the natural world, our body and our life. It teaches us that joy and pain, strength and struggle, are tangled up together in a full, beautiful, meaningful life.
more resources to support you on the journey
What if you approach growth or a desire to find deeper healing or freedom from the perspective that you’re already enough? Give yourself permission to be wholly loved even as you are in progress.
ALIP Topical Resource Pages
7 topical resource pages to support you in showing up fully to life in every season. Each page gathers relevant articles, interviews, resource recommendations, along with hard-fought wisdom + lived experience to help you live brave and mind-body-spirit whole.
I decided the single most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
— Anne Lamott
“What if I embrace my limitations and stop railing against them. Make peace with who I am and what I need and honour your right to do the same. Accept that all I really want is a small, slow, simple life. A beautiful, quiet, gentle life. I think it is enough.”
slow, seasonal, self-compassionate living for the brave + weary
You’re imperfect. Life is messy. Show up anyway. I’ll help you figure out how.
What if All I Want is A Mediocre Life?
What if I all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of in-between. Where calm lives. What if I am mediocre and choose to be at peace with that? The world is such a noisy place. Loud, haranguing voices lecturing me to hustle, to improve, build, strive, …
9 “Bad Habits” I Think You Should Adopt for a Happy Life
Inside: For a happy life you might choose to joyfully disregard much of the wisdom du jour. Here are 9 “bad habits” that make me delightfully happy. This post contains referral links. I prefer to leave my bed unmade until bedtime and happily hang out braless and in pj’s much of the day. I think …
Now is a Perfect Time to Be Happy
Inside: Happiness is a choice for most of us, much of the time. I don’t have to wait until I lose weight, resolve all struggle in my life, or gather up 3 degrees to my name. I don’t have to wait till I’m married or divorced or until I find my dream job. I don’t …
A LITTLE Bit of Light for THE Journey
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Your light of courage and truth continues to inspire me and challenge me to be more courageous. I know it’s very hard work. Thank you for being on this journey with me and for offering your hard-earned guidance and wisdom.
—Ann D
“Freedom to me means feeling safe and at home in my body and my life. Three key things were required for me to live an unshackled life of purpose, wholeness, and joy: I needed to put down deep, hardy roots of self-awareness and self-compassion and practice showing up imperfectly on purpose through fear (so much fear!) to build a sense of agency and resilience. I was not, as I had believed from my early years, wrong, bad or broken but a highly sensitive soul navigating a noisy and messy world that isn’t great at honouring diversity. Slowly, I came to know and like myself, I learned to shake off shame and judgment, honour my wiring, and remember the truth that I am brave, beautiful, and knit together on purpose. So are you.”
krista xo
Kind Words
I hired Krista because I didn’t know which way to go in my business and I was unsure of what I had to contribute. I didn’t know how to share my voice in a way that felt authentic and meaningful. I was afraid of showing up as the person I really am. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my experience working with Krista. I needed someone to push me gently out of my comfort zone so that I could show up more boldly in the world and she was that person. The bonus is I felt seen, heard, encouraged, and supported all along the way.
–Kelly Wojtaszek
Krista has been my coach and my cheerleader (without the pom-poms!) through what has been a very difficult year. She has gently guided me into making myself more aware of my patterns of self-protection and encouraged me to shine a light on my gifts. With her help, I’m slowly starting to unravel my habitual safety latches which is having a profound effect on my inner life, and also my close relationships. Step by step I feel I’m able to show up in a more confident and sparkly way in a world that has for so long seemed loud and intimidating to me. I will always be profoundly grateful to Krista, who in my mind is one of the world’s hidden treasures… and who I’m so lucky to have stumbled upon.
– Betsy Huggins
Years ago I gained great courage from a quote I heard regarding the power of telling our truths and being authentic as a catalyst for others to do the same. Krista is a perfect example of just how true this is. Her courage in telling her truth, no matter how messy, has been an inspiration to me for many years. And, in her Brave & Beautiful Membership community, she has provided a safe space where others can follow her lead in the company of like-minded women. Truly a gift!
– Sandra Kerr-Porcari
