by Kristi Pikiewicz | Aug 26, 2020 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health
When I led trips for Outward Bound, we spent a lot of time talking to our students about “real fear” vs. “perceived fear” and how difficult it is for your brain to discriminate between the two. It was easy to show Outward Bound students all of the ways we...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Aug 19, 2020 | Inspiration, Mental Health, Self Help, Uncategorized
I’m on the admin team at a small K-8 school in Boulder, Colorado, and as I write this, we are still wondering what back-to-school is going to look like a week from now. Will we really be able to use outdoor classrooms to create socially distanced learning? If...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jul 1, 2020 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Education/Parenting
It looks like we’ll never know exactly how Leif hit his head this week. We were mountain biking and suddenly there he was, sitting confused on the side of the trail. No one saw him fall and he doesn’t remember what happened, but judging from the dirt and...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jun 10, 2020 | Mental Health, Self Help
In 2001, my then-boyfriend said this post’s title to me so many times while I was learning to ski that by the end of the day he was my ex boyfriend. Nineteen years later I am beginning to realize he may have been onto something. If you’ve learned to ski or...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Apr 22, 2020 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Uncategorized
Girls’ weekend! My daughter, Kestrel, and I went on our first girls’ trip over President’s Day weekend. We hopped off the plane in Santa Barbra, jumped into our rental pickup truck, and headed to In-N-Out. Kes decided that french fries taste better on the beach...
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