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This summer my daughter and I went to Finland to visit my home island where my whole family lives, and a lot of childhood friends that we always hang out with. It is always so good to be home. "So good to be home"... This sentence etched itself to my whole being and the presence I had when I was at home. It made me wonder about feeling "at home" with myself and my place in the world. I am not going to lie, moving to the US, and the years being here has never felt like home. I

It is almost middle of June when I am writing my reflections of last months events. In May, quite a few people in my network passed away. Death has a way of connecting the people who are left behind, and I could see this was again the case. My Facebook feed blew up with stories of remembrance. In May, a Finnish BASE jumper friend of mine Lassi-Pekka Ruuskanens (age 34) body was found beneath a cliff in Italy, he had been missing since November last year. Lassi Pekka had accor

Life really is so unpredictable. Here I am, two months later, continuing to write on the blog I started in February-Reviving the Wild Heart Quest. You can never guess what happened with all that. On the last weekend in February, I did my first skydive in 11 years. What was interesting to me was how nervous I was, how enormous it felt to me. I arrived to the dropzone in Longmont called Mile Hi, and had to do a refresher theory course. There were a few other students who were t

This months blog will be a short story that came to me yet again on a run. The start of the new year really shifted something inside of me, and lately I have started thinking more about things I used to love and activities I engaged in before I became a mom. And what happened to all of that. There is a new kind of curiosity around what it means to have a wild heart and how that can be combined with motherhood. Does it involve travel the way it used to? Can it involve the spo

It was a Saturday morning; I was out on a run that has become one of my favorite loops this winter. Partly because it’s convenient and close to my house, but also because it is a gorgeous trail around a lake overlooking the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It is easy to feel gratitude when I look at the white peaks in the distance. What I don’t enjoy is how it can still be challenging to create the time to go play in them. As a mother of a 3 rd grader, working for the school sys

A few weeks ago, I was very honored to go and share a presentation about breathwork at my daughter’s school. Kids are so fun to work with and being able to teach methods of increased focus and awareness to them in 3 rd grade already, felt like a very important mission. I had prepared a 30 min slide show where I shared some fun facts about breathing and the lungs, and then had five different breathing methods that we all did together. Breathwork is so beneficial for the nervo

I absolutely love fall in Colorado. Coming from Finland, I am used to a cooler temperature and the summers in this desert climate can feel brutal on me. Whenever the temperature drops, I feel myself coming alive again. I have been waiting for this ever since my daughter and I came back from Finland in July. Coming back from our yearly trip to Finland was different this year. After rushing home to attend my grandmother’s funeral, I came back to move out of the house we have li