Hello, hello, I’m Christina!
I’m an educator turned stay-at-home-parent turned writer turned dreamer.
Every thing that has ever been has led me to this moment.
Christina Lindvay
who am i?
Twin Parent
I am mama to two beautiful daughters. I am so grateful to have connected with online mom groups and to be in a generation where motherhood and parenting norms are constantly celebrated and challenged. My evolution into motherhood has been bumpy and downright painful sometimes. It’s also one of my greatest joys.
Teacher
I taught 10 years of Kindergarten and one of 4th grade before I took an unintentional 6 year hiatus from education. But the teaching gene never left me. I took my experiences in private, public, and charter settings, in Montessori and Traditional spaces, from classrooms in PA to CA, along with my time as a stay-at-home-parent and Preschool President, to return to education with a new perspective. I believe in transforming ourselves so we can transform our teaching. And y’all, I can’t wait for what we get to do together. Order “Dear Teacher, You’re Enough” today!
Sober Badass
Oh, boy, this is a big one! I spontaneously stopped drinking in January 2019 and thus began a deep dive into questioning my relationship with alcohol. I am forever indebted to the Sober Community for sharing their wisdom and guidance.
Human Being
This is my greatest lesson–learning to be human. Sometimes I live high on spirit and it’s my greatest challenge to allow my human self to come through. I stumble, I trip, I fall. But I also run, soar, and leap. This is me making space for it all.
I’m so glad you’re here.
I have words to share. They’ve been in me all along and I knew they needed a bigger space to live. Once I said I could, once I gave myself permission to be, they haven’t stopped. It’s been a long time coming. Truly, thank you for being here. I hope we can grow together.
I currently live in Vancouver B.C*. I lived in Oakland, CA for five years and before that my hometown of Erie, PA. My husband and I have dated for nearly 20 years, almost half of our lives. We have twin seven-year-olds.
I am everything and nothing.
I started this website to share myself with you. You’ll find me at the intersection of Spirit, Education, Motherhood, Parenting, and Sobriety. I am all of these things, more, and none of them in particular.
I am simply me and that’s why I’m here.
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*I am learning and unlearning, a constant work, and through this I wish to acknowledge I am on the traditional, ancestral, unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples (Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations). I came from the unceded territory of the Ohlone People and was birthed on the lands of the Erie people.
I am constantly being shown the ways I am still comfortable in my privilege. I strive to change the status quo by working towards Conscious Parenting/Education, acceptance of our whole self, the dismantling of our conditioned beliefs, and through Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist education (including but not limited to the oppression and marginalization of BIPOC, neighbors who identify as L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+, and to those with a different culture and religious belief than my own).
I believe in a world changed, where we live in the beauty of presence. We are all people who want love, connection, belonging, and purpose. I also recognize you and I are perfectly imperfect. We will slip. I strive to be inclusive and I wish no harm, and I recognize my actions and words may still show the growth I have yet to do. I am willing to do better.
Hate is not tolerated here.
Let’s connect and grow together.