JOIN THE Brave and Beautiful membership Community

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

— Viktor Frankl

Life is so imperfect. And beautiful.

If we are to really live – abundantly – we need to make space for messy. We need to embrace the truth that life can be really hard, challenging, scary, and painful – but also a beautiful adventure.

We get to decide who and how we want to be in the world and how we’ll show up to life. This can feel incredibly stretching and is best done in brave community with others who are also committed to this work.

The Brave + Beautiful Membership Community is one way that we can gather together and make space. It’s a place for the brave and weary woman in the messy middle of life to come aside and rest awhile, be nourished and strengthened, mind, body, and soul, so that you are able to show up fully to life and continue your journey to freedom.

It’s a place for you to receive evidence-based education + encouragement to help you learn and practice tools, mindset shifts, and habits to help you release what no longer serves, reconnect with the truth of who you are what you want and need, realign your life with your highest values and priorities, and live fully awake and alive in every season.

If you don’t feel particularly “brave and beautiful” you can click here to jump to my message to you and then come back to check out membership details if you feel ready.

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JOIN the brave and beautiful in september! ❤️ our theme for the year is “come home to yourself”

New members can join the Brave & Beautiful Membership in September, January, and May. Doors are now OPEN for a September start.

• The community is capped at 60 women so space is limited. If you want to talk with me before making a decision to join, reach out here.
• As of September 2021 the B+B will be on a new platform, circle.so (off of Facebook). You will NOT need social media to join the community. This is an inviting, organized, and easy to use space.
• Members who join for a full year get four months free AND their choice of free access to my Self-Paced Seasonal Living Course when it’s live (ETA spring 2022) OR $50 off to use for their next B+B registration or a 1:1 coaching bundle.
• The email you use to register will be added to or tagged on MY EMAIL LIST so that you receive updates and important details about the membership.
• After payment, you’ll be redirected to a thank you page and in August you’ll receive a welcome packet to help you know what to expect and how to get started.
• Sign up for The HOPE Map or ask to be added to the waitlist to be the first to know when doors open again after this session.

$240 — 4 months or 1 SESSION OF THE BRave & Beautiful community ($60/MOS)

*Sept through Dec 2021

$300 — 6 months of Brave & Beautiful community ($50/MOS)

*Sept through Feb 2022

$480 — 12 months of Brave & Beautiful community ($40/MOS)

*Sept through Aug 2022

*Once you’ve paid for a full-year you lock in that price for future renewals

$375 — Add on 3 consults with krista

*Special offer for new or current B+B members. These consults are for you if you want to work on a deeper, more intimate level with me on the work we’re doing inside the B+B Community.

Your guidance in finding new approaches, new ideas, and new attitudes that so resonate with me is part of what I love about Brave and Beautiful. And all of that plus such a supportive and accepting community is just the best! Much more than what I might have imagined if I’d have envisioned a great virtual space to learn and grow. I am so appreciative. Thank you, Krista.

— Stacy Low

The materials and guidance you’ve provided in the B&B have helped me gain valuable insights into my personality. Your program is far superior to a lot of offerings out there.  They are kindergarten and you are graduate school.

—Amy D

Imagine being part of a private community to talk about the things that truly matter to you

The B+B incorporates intentional weekly, monthly, and quarterly rhythms that allow for reflection and inquiry, engagement and practice, integration and rest. Quarterly seasonal check-ins will support your mind-body-soul health, invite you to set new intentions or course correct as needed, and mindfully transition from one season to the next.

COME HOME: REMEMBER YOUR WAY HOME TO YOURSELF

Door open in September, January, and May and you are welcome to join us for one, two, or all three sessions; you’ll experience tremendous value whenever you join and for however long. And also, each session weaves together to form a beautiful whole to help you come back home to yourself.

The work we do together will help you:

• Re-envision your life and examine your beliefs about yourself, your story to this season of life, and what it means to live a full, messy, beautiful, and meaningful life. Craft a Life Vision that reflects the truth of your values and what you want and need.
• Understand how to adopt seasonal living for more compassion, clarity, and resilience in your personal and creative life.
• Reconnect with your true and wise self as you deepen your roots of self-awareness, deepen self-trust, and become your own best friend; tell the truth about who and how you are and live with more curiosity, less judgment. Explore what it feels and sounds like to allow more joy, play, permission, and pleasure into your life.
• Practice self-compassion and learn emotional and cognitive tools that contribute to a strong sense of agency; live less on autopilot and more on purpose and bring compassion and understanding to your old patterns and narratives. Pause regularly to notice your strength and courage, to celebrate your hard work, and to pivot as needed.
• Build lifestyle habits/practices/rhythms that support mind-body-spirit wellness. Explore mindfulness and somatic practices to deepen mind-body-emotional awareness and live with more calm, presence, and joy.
• Take imperfect action through comparison, perfectionism, fear, and life’s challenges to begin walking in greater freedom. Loosen your grip on what was and make space for new, joyful possibility.
• Forge healthy and lasting relationships with other growth-minded women doing the soul-stretching work alongside you; learn, grow, and become in brave community.

fall session: harvest + UPROOT

uproot OLD PATTERNS AND STORIES + pUT DOWN NEW ROOTS Of purpose, wholeness and joy

• Explore a framework of Seasonal Living + practical application, understand how it impacts the way you treat yourself and helps you show up to your personal and creative life with greater clarity, compassion, calm/ease, resilience, and joy in every season.
• Explore Polyvagal Theory and (overlap it with The Enneagram for those interested) as you learn to understand your fears, motivations, the narratives you live with, and learn to work with and not against your wiring for a healthier, more conscious life. Tell the truth about where and how you are now so that can you carve an honest and hopeful path forward.
• Do a seasonal check-in as you transition from summer to fall (or winter to spring depending on where you live) that helps you refocus and tell the truth about what you want and need for mind-body-soul wellness as you move forward.
• Learn and practice mindset shifts and emotional/cognitive tools that help you mine for the wisdom and beauty in every season, live wholeheartedly and engaged in meaningful ways, and bring more mindfulness to your life. Shift from shame, comparison, or judgment into curiosity as you explore what is and isn’t working for you in this season and why. Make space for more of what you do want and need.
• Pull from the science around habit formation and The Enneagram and other forms of typology to choose habit tracking, systems, rhythms, and practices that align with your wiring (even as you learn more about your unique energetic or emotional patterns) and allow you to quiet all the noise to stay focused on your unique priorities, values, or desires for this season.

WINTER SESSIon: fertilize + rest

become your own best friend + CRAFT A LIFE VISION for the next season of your life

• Deepen your roots of self-awareness; explore identity, essence vs personality, uncover your true self underneath layers of conditioning, social expectation, the ways you learned to feel safe or loved, or ideas about who you should be and how you thought life would be, in order to become your own best friend and tell the truth about who you are.
• Explore the difference between finding your purpose vs living on purpose and why this is freeing and begin to practice taking steps toward what you want and need, using your voice, and walking out your values. Grow in relationship with yourself as you deepen self-trust, become more attuned to your physical, cognitive, and walk up to your core motivations and fears and how they drive you.
• Learn to honour your wiring in practical ways and give yourself permission to rest, play, and experience pleasure, make space for engaging/producing/creating and space for retreating/going inward/just BE-ing (or all the ebb and flow of life), build your skill around boundary building/setting, teach others how to treat you as you practice loving yourself well.
• Handcraft an honest and compelling life vision for the next season of life that reflects your strength and struggle, core values, highest priorities or desires; explore your personal “enough”, examine your circle of impact, and set intentions for what’s next.
• Do a seasonal check-in as you transition from winter to spring (or summer to fall) that helps you refocus and tell the truth about what you want and need for mind-body-soul wellness as you move forward.

Spring/SUMMER SESSION: plant + WATER

handcraft a brave + sustainable life that feels like home

• Deepen your roots of self-compassion, explore tender + fierce self-compassion, grit, agency, and resilience; take imperfect action in your life via practices, mindset work, and ongoing work around self-trust and befriending yourself and with the skills learned/strengthened throughout the fall and winter seasons.
• Practice using your voice and grow in emotional literacy, increase your capacity to sit with discomfort and uncertainty (essential for walking in freedom and wholeness), learn more about your nervous system and how you feel safe and secure in your body and life, become less easily triggered/shift out of auto-pilot into more conscious or intentional living.
• Explore your stories and lived experience (and science where applicable) around freedom, sovereignty and, agency and begin to unravel or disentangle yourself from what no longer serves you. Practice truth-telling in a safe and brave community as you step out and begin walking in greater freedom.
• We find our way in action (not before) so as you go, you’ll receive practical and emotional support as you encounter obstacles whether internal or external and you’ll witness others doing this sometimes hard and soul-stretching work too which helps reinforce the idea of “common humanity” (an important component of self-compassion).
• Pause for a seasonal check-in to support mind-body-soul health, release, receive, refocus as needed, as you transition from spring to summer and then summer into fall (or fall to winter and winter into spring according to your hemisphere). Practice the truth that life continually calls us deeper into growth, becoming, and finding our way home.

Finding you and your courses have been life-giving for me. I feel like it is a debt I will never be able to repay.

—Roxanne

A monthly roadmap and dedicated guide for you

Some topics are spread over more than one month to allow for deeper exploration. But generally we walk through the following structure as we dive into our new topic and apply the work to our lives.

Week One// WHY

I’ll introduce the topic of the month and WHY it matters; we’ll examine our experience and thoughts about it, any compelling research, and we’ll get honest about where we’re at. Self-awareness is essential to sustainable and healthy growth.

Week Two // WHAT

We’ll start talking about WHAT we want for ourselves in this area (we’ll establish personal goals and intentions) while staying grounded in self-compassion and I’ll offer ideas for WHAT we can do to grow and begin practicing the concepts for the month.

Week Three // HOW

We’ll get more specific about HOW to apply the habits, tools, mindset shifts or the practical application of ideas (and how to sustain positive change) and we’ll address issues or resistance that come up; this is about taking imperfect action to move closer to who and how we choose to be in the world.

Week Four // Rest & Reflect

We need time to synthesize and notice what’s showing up for us, and we need time for actual rest. In Rest Week I’m offline though members are welcome to continue engaging with each other and the material. This week also allows time to catch up on videos/work from previous weeks. Week 4 of each module offers (optional) prompts to guide you in self-reflection along with resource ideas for further learning. Every three months we have an extra week to “Rest & Reflect.”

Join the Brave & Beautiful Membership for 4 months – $240 ($60/monthly)

*Sept through Dec 2021

Invest in yourself for 6 months – $300 ($50/monthly)

*Sept through Feb 2021

Join me inside the Brave & Beautiful community for 12 months – $480 ($40/monthly)

*Sept through Aug 2022

*Once you’ve paid for a full-year you lock in that price for future renewals

I have stayed mostly quiet in the FB group, but I have benefited greatly from doing the work offline and it has truly made a huge difference in this time of transition and rebirth for me. I look forward to reviewing the materials again on my own – I know I will discover many things I missed the first time through. Thank you for being willing to share with and guide people in all seasons of life.

— Christine H

I so appreciate you, your posts, thought processes, interviews, your way at problem-solving, the content you create, and your support. Joining this group is the very thing that helped me to begin to take steps forward from probably the worst season I’ve ever been through since childhood. I was so stuck and discouraged. Now I am making headway in leaps and bounds!! Brave and Beautiful has been so inspiring and so life-giving for me, as well as my Listening Partnership with (another member) and I just wanted you to know and thank you again. Who you are and what you carry is truly immeasurable in my life.

—Joyanne Ferrara

When you invest in this community

The Brave & Beautiful community is not about stuffing our lives full to the brim with information; you already have full lives. Setting aside 2 hours/week will allow you to engage with the material and participate in discussion, though some members spend more or less time. In this community, you will find ample time and space to discuss, reflect, and engage with the deep and rich work in a gentle and encouraging manner. You also get support from me and each other when you feel stuck or need encouragement.

As a member of this inspirational community you will receive:

• Educational modules that that help you live with purpose, wholeness and joy, and help you “come home to yourself” including weekly exercises/practices with worksheets and relevant resources to support you in doing the work
• Two Coaching Calls each month on the current topic (you do not have to join live/replays are available) to support you as you work through the core content/material provided
• A weekly Group Chat to connect with other members and talk about how we’re applying the material to our lives or receive support and encouragement (two are led by me, one is a peer-led group)
• Quarterly seasonal check-ins to support your mind-body health, invite you to set new intentions or course correct as needed, and mindfully transition from one season to the next
• Access to two mini-courses to help you deepen self-awareness: Exploring the Enneagram and The Strengths + Challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person. These are free for you to work through at your own pace if/when you’re ready but you’re welcome at any time to ask questions in the group about these bonus courses.
• Meaningful connection & opportunity to build long-lasting relationships with growth-minded people
• Opportunity for deeper, more personalized support via coaching with Krista at a special price

Get started today with one SESSION or 4 months of the B+B – $240

*Sept through Dec 2021

Get 1 month free when you invest in a B+B Membership for 6 months – $300

*Sept through Feb 2022

Save $240 when you invest in a B+B Membership for the year – $480

*Sept through Aug 2022

*Once you’ve paid for a full-year you lock in that price for future renewals

*If you have an issue with the shopping cart (as happens on occasion), email me at [email protected] for help.

Krista has an incredible gift not only of words but also of really seeing into the struggles common to so many women. Krista doesn’t just leave us to struggle—she helps find a way to shift our mindset, look at our circumstances differently and help us find joy and celebrate the win, no matter how small. She is patient, knowledgeable and caring. The resources she writes are life-giving to me. I find myself learning something profoundly new and helpful each time I go through the materials.

—Teresa C

Build meaningful relationships

Weekly Zoom Calls offer time and space for coaching + connection. Showing up live is absolutely not required as replays will be available to watch or listen to when you’re ready and we all live in different corners of the world. The first part of the call is educational and related to our growth-work and the second half are informal times to share how you’re learning/practicing, ask questions, and build relationship with other members.

We also currently have an extra Peer-Led Monthly Group running inside of the membership. This group is another opportunity to build friendships and feel heard and supported by other members.

As a community, we gather inside a Private Group (not on social media) – this is where you’ll receive your monthly PDF, applicable worksheets, join the coaching videos (or watch the replays), ask me questions, and connect with other members. You can choose to participate in all group discussion or simplify by focusing on core content only. Core content for each month is organized within a separate GUIDE (like a file folder) inside the group.

Live Call Schedule

• I offer an assortment of times because we have members from the US, CAD, NZ, AUZ, UK+ but replays are available. Showing up live is not a requirement for “success” in this group though IF you can make it live once in a while, I suggest focusing on the Group Chats which allow for relationship building + receiving real-time support and encouragement.
• Zoom calls are usually around 1.5-2 hours long and you’re welcome to pop in as you’re able. Remember that you can watch the reply at your own pace.

Week One

Zoom Call: Wednesday, 11 am MT//1 ET

Peer-Led Group Chat: TBD

Week Two

Zoom Call: Wednesday, 1 pm MT//3 ET

Week Three

Zoom Call: Wednesday, 5 pm MT//7 ET

Week Four

Rest Week(s): No calls

*Times may vary in the future. Replays are available.

*Rest + Digest Month call days/times may vary

I feel like this group has already helped me start living my own life, and for that, I thank you all! 

—Cindy P

Is the Brave & Beautiful Community right for me?

I love this beautiful gathering of women and believe it offers a unique opportunity to learn and grow together in a kind and supportive environment. But it’s not the right fit for everyone in every season.

GET 1 MONTH FREE wHen you invest in a Brave & Beautiful Membership for 6 months – $300 ($50/MOS)

*Sept through Feb 2022

enjoy 4 MONTHS FREE when you invest in a Brave & Beautiful Membership for 12 months – $480 ($40/MOS)

*Sept through Aug 2022

*Once you’ve paid for a full-year you lock in that price for future renewals

IF YOU DON’T FEEL “BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL” RIGHT NOW…

I want you to know that if you don’t feel “brave and beautiful” right now – this group is exactly for you. For most of my life, I felt anything but. But over time, as I learned to show up through fear and finally decided I’m good enough, I realized that I always was far braver than I realized and that I am messy, imperfect, and beautiful too. So are you.

I started the Brave & Beautiful Community 4 weeks before my husband and I were in a serious car accident, 7 weeks before my beautiful son ended his life after a brave and ferocious battle with severe depression and persistent suicidal ideation.

It might seem like the absolute worst timing but instead, it has served as a lifeline. Study, service, and brave community held me fast as I learned to breathe again. And my willingness to show up raw and real in all my imperfection and the messiness of life modelled courage and strength to the other women who chose to join me here.

This space is not for people who already feel they have life all figured out – it is for the BRAVE + WEARY SOJOURNER. All this means is that if you feel weary, you love to learn, you’re ready to even tentatively acknowledge that you are brave because you have not quit, if you would love to meet and engage with other growth-minded women from different corners of the world doing their own deep emotional work, then this will likely feel like an incredibly encouraging and strengthening community for you.

We can choose to SAY YES to showing up fully to our imperfect & beautiful lives.

Not sure if this is the right fit for you in this season of life? Reach out for a 20 min chat and we’ll figure it out together.

I look forward to connecting – and if you have any questions about my new community please reach out here.

Krista xo

I joined the Brave & Beautiful Community to have a group of growth-minded women to journey through this season of my life with. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to learn new strategies for living with purpose as well as supporting and celebrating other women as we share our lives together as part of the community. Brave & Beautiful is a wonderful investment and I would highly recommend making the commitment.

—Shana H

Krista’s blog simply speaks to me. It’s growth-minded, raw, & real. Sometimes I see myself living the self-care, mindfulness theme well, but other times I just want to move about my day and not overly focus on anything. I wasn’t sure about an online community because I am “offline” mostly. I feel the connectedness though! Gretchen Rubin talks honestly in her Happiness Project about how some days she doesn’t want to hold the door for that slower woman behind her. I appreciate Krista so much for continuing this journey. I really see it as her gift and thank her.

—Tara B

REGISTRATION is open for a september start!

Doors to the Brave & Beautiful Membership are now OPEN. Join The HOPE Map or ask me to add you to the waitlist if you’re not ready to join but want to know when doors open next time. The B&B Community is capped at 60 women so that we can build a relationship and so you don’t get lost in a crowd.

Join the Brave & Beautiful Membership for 4 months – $240 ($60/monthly)

*Sept through Dec 2021

Invest in yourself for 6 months – $300 ($50/monthly)

*Sept through Feb 2022

Join me inside the Brave & Beautiful community for 12 months – $480 ($40/monthly)

*Sept through Aug 2022

*Once you’ve paid for a full-year you lock in that price for future renewals

$375 — Add on 3 consults with krista

*This is a special offer only for new or existing B&B members. You must be a current member to purchase this bundle. These consults are to support you more deeply in the work we’re doing inside the Brave & Beautiful Community.

I have followed Krista’s work for a couple years now. She has challenged me to see” how” I’m thinking, and that it’s OK not to be perfect in this messy life. The Brave and Beautiful Membership Community has shown me that others are also seeking answers to a messy life, while still being imperfect. I truly believe we are becoming “Community.” Thank You Krista, for all your hard work, and leadership.

—Deb Gates