Hi, I'm Kristin!

My husband and I moved from Chicago to Doha, Qatar in 2008. While there I started exploring many different exercise modalities and began registering for a vast variety of trainings. I have always been fascinated with babies and pregnant women so the natural step was to specialize in working with these demographics.

But it wasn’t until I had my first son in 2013 that this passion for helping women really evolved. I started scouring books, taking courses and seeking out mentors to gather as much information as was possible. Having my first baby in a foreign country, without family to help and cultural differences to acknowledge, was a rather scary situation for awhile. Often, I felt overwhelmed, lost, excited, elated, devastated all at once, as do so many new mothers. I was dealing with postpartum anxiety and some common postpartum dysfunctions but had no one to guide me through these. I became so frustrated as I felt my years of study and specialization should have prepared me to work with these conditions on my own. But childbirth and the recovery and rehabilitation process is not a checklist of do’s and don’ts. It will look different for every woman. I didn’t feel supported or heard by care providers so I made it a mission to get answers for myself by further specialized trainings, such as becoming an ICEA Professional Childbirth Educator for women in similar situations and began to build a support network or community in Doha. I didn’t set out to exclusively work with pre and postnatal women and still consider that to be only part of my professional identity but I truly have a passion for helping women be their fullest, truest self, no matter what stage of life they are in.

My family and I decided to move back to the US in 2017 right before having our second son. We have since expanded even more by adding a precious little girl to the mix. We are very much looking forward to what the future has in store now.