A mother finding herself abroad.
A spirit on a healing journey.
An expat family from the US living in Costa Rica.
Here you’ll find stories and resources about finding purpose after motherhood, healing, from trauma, Ayurveda & wellness, spirituality, minimalism, and life with children in Costa Rica.
Join me on my journey from my Starting Point.
After my father died when I was seventeen, I spent years pushing down the pain of a traumatic childhood. Becoming a mother reopened old wounds and revealed the anxiety I had never recognized in myself. This story explores grief, childhood trauma, and the moment I finally began the process of healing.
By the time I was a teen, my dad’s drinking had taken over our lives. Some days he was the funny, charming man everyone loved, and other nights I braced myself for the anger that came through the door with him. Eventually the people who truly became my family helped me make the hardest decision of my childhood: I didn’t have to go back.
My dad was many things: a handyman, a town character, a man battling his own demons, and a fiercely proud single father. In our tiny apartment he created a home the best way he knew how. This post reflects on the complicated love between a father and daughter learning how to survive life together.
A childhood marked by addiction, poverty, and chaos as my mother struggled with drugs and abusive relationships. After years of instability, homelessness, and trauma, everything changed the week of my eighth birthday when I was put on a plane to live with my father in Iowa.
Becoming a mother forced me to confront the ways childhood trauma had shaped my nervous system. Struggling with anxiety, stress, and the fear of repeating my father’s patterns, I began searching for healing. What followed was a series of strange coincidences that led me into the world of sound healing and synchronicity.