Hi! I’m Krista.
I’m a crisis-to-comeback coach — but before any of that, I’m just a mom, a woman, and someone who has been flattened by life more than once and gotten back up anyway. Still Standing exists because I needed it to. Now it’s here for you, too.
About Me
This is a woman who has survived what most people fear most and kept showing up anyway.
I’m a 50-year-old woman, a mom, and someone who has spent the last several years learning what it actually means to keep going. Between 2020 and 2026, I lost my 17-year-old son, was diagnosed with breast cancer twice, and went through a divorce. Any one of those seasons could have taken me under. All of them, together, nearly did.
But I’m still here. Still standing — not because I had it all figured out, but because I decided, one day at a time, to keep going anyway. People kept telling me I moved through it all with grace, with strength, with a smile. I didn’t always feel like I had those things. I just kept showing up. That’s what I want for you too.
My Story
Losing Teige — 2020
The morning after my son died, I told my kids: this has the capability to destroy us, but we will live, and we will do it with grace in spite of this. That sentence became the thing I had to prove true, one impossibly hard day at a time.
First Breast Cancer Diagnosis — 2023
Grief was still fresh when I heard the words “you have cancer” for the first time. I kept moving because I didn’t know how not to. Treatment, appointments, fear — and somehow, still standing.
Divorce — 2024
While my body was still healing, my marriage ended too. Another loss stacked on losses. Another version of my life I hadn’t planned for.
Second Breast Cancer Diagnosis — 2025
Cancer came back. By then I’d already learned that surviving doesn’t always look strong or graceful on the inside — but you can still choose to keep going, even when you’re tired of being brave.
Still Standing — 2026 and beyond
Everything I lived through became the reason Still Standing exists — a place for women in their hardest chapter to know they’re not alone, and that their worst chapter isn’t their last one.