"Don't spend all of your time trying to find yourself. Spend your time creating yourself into a person that you'll be proud of." – Sonya Parker

Ciao. My name is Kirstin and I am lucky enough to be navigating motherhood and my early thirties while living in a small beach town outside of Naples, Italy. Over the last five years, I have traveled many roads in attempts to find myself. You may have known me as a marketing director. As the go-to resume girl. As a theater enthusiast. As your mom’s tech support. As a postpartum mental health care advocate and writer.

For the last three and a half years, I have primarily been “mama” — a job I cherish but honestly spent a long time coming to terms with. Last year, in an attempt to recenter myself as an individual, not only as “mama” or as a partner, I added “yoga teacher” to my never ended list of titles I chased the ever elusive answer to the age old question, “what do I want to be when I grow up?”

These days, if you ask me, “what do you do?” the most honest answer would probably be, “I am a mom. I am a traveler. But above all, I chase happiness. And that is enough.”