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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