Hello! My name is Kara, I am a 22 year old lady with a lot of questions and a lust to find answers.
I was born in Boulder, Colorado and lived within a childhood mostly sweet. Until the age of 9, my days consisted of day-long solo adventures pretending I was a wild mustang, playtime storylines and vicious fights with my older sister, baking cookies with my mom on snow days, and large family gatherings during the holidays. I was an avid observer, a dreamer, and content creating my world as I went along. When my dad broke the news to my family that we would be moving to California, after the company he’d been with for more than 15 years had been bought and relocation was in the works, we packed up, shed enough tears to fill a small lake, and were Bay Area bound.
It was a rough go those first four years in California, filled with my more pain than any other I’ve experienced thus far. But in hindsight, also the most pivotal in terms of the awareness gathered and my uniquely developed value system. My parents divorced when I was 11 and when I thought I couldn’t take much more (how crazy to feel such burdensome weight at 11), I met my best friend or rather an angel that re-instilled my curiosity for the world. Her family, originally from Sweden, spoke Swedish in their house, had extended family constantly visiting, and possessed a humor so similar to my own family. I spent every moment with Linn. I believe it was during this time that my ardor to understand more of the world beyond what I knew came so fully into view. This too was the time I began to dip my toes into the sweet and curious waters of writing that felt so good.
Written at age 12.
Highschool came and went (thankfully). At the time of college applications and decisions, at no period did I ever feel too much zest or excitement about a particular school. I yearned hard for a gap year abroad but to no avail with my parents. The day before graduation, I committed to Northern Arizona University, one of the only schools I had visited during my senior year and did not care for much at the time. To my surprise, after just a few weeks there, I fell in love. No, not with a person that made school somewhat enjoyable, but the place itself. Flagstaff, Arizona. Oh boy what a magical land. Situated in a deep valley of ponderosa pine trees and at the base of the San Francisco peaks, every damn day I woke up feeling optimal. Mountain energy perhaps part of it, the independence I needed, the small-town vibes that reminded me of the town I grew up in Colorado the others. I was set to double-major in environmental science and German, again, both subconsciously and consciously looking for ways to leave the States and travel. My passion for the wholesome care of this Earth strong, but I was dragging, the greatest happiness I felt for those mountains and my job at an all organic, raw cafe. In August of 2017, I attended the Oregon Solar Eclipse, the weeklong, no service, most incomparably beautiful event that changed the course of my life once again. One week before I was supposed to began my next semester of school at NAU, I decided I wouldn’t return.
So began the next six months. I worked two jobs averaging around 55 hours a week since my parents momentarily decided I was completely on my own, and rightfully so until I figured out my next move. The thing was, I knew I wanted to go back to school but for what I ended up deciding upon, was not offered as a degree at NAU. In November of 2017, I applied to Bauman College: School for Holistic Nutrition and the Culinary Arts, and three days later found out I was accepted. And three weeks after that, my truck was packed and I was on my way back to Berkeley, California to begin school in March.
I determined later that the reason I did not want to see my degree through until the end at NAU was because I wanted to approach healing with and alongside the Earth from a more directly applicable standpoint. Food is something most all of us love, need, and interact with on a daily basis. We have gotten so far away from the synergistic relationship we need to have with our food growing and consuming practices that our world is hurting. Both the land and the people in it. I get so charged thinking about the ways in which I can continue to refine my own ways and inspire influence in the lives of those who choose to rise with me and make their own progressive changes. Truly, the ways in which lasting change is to come about, is by looking to the self first.
Soon as I began my program, I started to make those internal and external shifts. I came off of hormonal birth control which I had been on for the last six years of my life, and I transitioned out of veganism, which had provided me with beautiful insight the last two years but no longer fit so surely into my world. I started to listen to my body. While directly experiencing the chaotic and usually uncomfortable whirlwind of alternative mental, emotional, and physical states those next few months, I was grateful for it all. I finally felt at home inside of my body, I was learning about the foods which would support me in these transitions each day in school, and I felt empowered to speak with others about it. I found my flow.
Fast forward to June of this year, I received my certification as a Nutrition Consultant. Two weeks later, I set off on a three month travel that yet again, further developed ideas I had for the path I wanted to pursue. Sweden, Bali, Australia. I found relief in Sweden, simple insights in the motherly energy of Bali, and pure bliss in Australia. I’ll save the travel excursions for a separate blog post, but that third place I found myself in, is the defining reason I wake up with drive each day. I’ll be returning soon.
Alas, we come full circle. I left Australia sooner than expected to help my mom pack her house in Santa Cruz, California and I decided to move temporarily back to Colorado, Denver this time around. Work and save and hone in on my purpose. Becoming completely sustainable online with work both as a Nutrition Consultant and writer is my strive.
So welcome, thank you for being here 🙂
Core Values
Where there is a will there is a way. Don’t settle.
Slowing down to in today’s fast-paced world, to hear what the body is communicating, is the first step in the protocol of healing.
Decide what your truth is and be diligent in pursuit of it.
Trine Evolve 