Hello! My name is Kristina.

I am currently enrolled in Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach program. One way to frame this section is: how did I get here?

I have had a life-long interest in finding meaning in life. Sometimes I have the sense that I want to find the mysterious undercurrent of our experience. What are we doing here? Probably we will never really know, so how do we navigate this wild journey with that in mind?

So I studied philosophy. Then I because disillusioned with classical philosophy because it all seemed to be coming from white men. Then I was in the software industry, for quite a while and sort of by accident. Finally I burned out there, realizing at the end that I had spent most of my career trying to do things the way I saw others doing it. I also had a dangerous tryst with alcohol during that time, and I feel grateful every day that I was able to find my way out of all of it.

In a parallel path I was studying what I think of as “inner wisdom” traditions. Buddhism, yoga, new age thought à la Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. I overcame addiction using my own path.

I am coming to believe that “the way out is in”. Through consistent meditation and contemplative practice I am discovering a trustworthy and unshakable experience of inner knowing which at the same time feels mysteriously universal. I am embarking on my coaching journey from this place.