about
i am a 40 year old woman as well as a wife and mother to two little boys, ages 5 and 3. I grew up on the east coast about an hour outside of nyc but went to college in colorado which would remain my home on and off for the next 20 years, we recently uprooted our life and moved our little family back to my home to be closer to family.
i don’t know many people whose life has been smooth sailing and mine is no different. after many painful setbacks, my life started to shift and once it started moving it seemed to all happen very quickly. is there such a thing as too much of a good thing?? in the past few years my life looks closer to what i had hoped it would be and yet it seems that something was lost during the past few years with changing identities of wife & mother, sleepless nights and essentially no self-care - a term i was not familiar with before becoming a mom. even afterwards i did not understand what it meant. it seemed that no mothers around me were basking in regular massages, leisurely coffee dates with friends or time being quiet and alone. all of these things felt luxurious and not a necessity. but my journey over the next 5 years of limited time to myself and higher stress of purchasing our first home, renovating it, building a community garden, planning a wedding, getting married, challenging pregnancies, raising babies, navigating the first years of marriage, running multiple businesses alongside my husband and then moving across the country, renovating another house while living in my parents house commuting 45 minutes to the kids school, brought me to the end of myself. this is my story to finding my way back to seeing the beauty that is my life, to seeing the light in my eyes again when i look in the mirror. to grounding myself, sinking my feet into the earth and blooming once again.
