Finding My Sanctuary: How My Portland Roots Shaped Pura Vida
If you had told my younger self—the one busy climbing trees, wearing pigtails, and collecting roly-polies in my dad’s Portland garden—that I’d spend my days helping others find their balance in a studio, I probably would have laughed. Growing up as the youngest of six children in Portland, Oregon, I was a mix of shy and curious. My father, a former Chief of Police turned engineer and master gardener, created a world for us that felt like a play land. That backyard was my first sanctuary . It...