🌿 Practical-Magick Media & Press 🌿

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, April 2019
Theme: Beauty as presence, seasonal awareness, family connection, redefining success

Summary:
Spring offers an invitation to notice the return of color, life, and wonder—but many of us are too busy to pause. This piece challenges families to engage more consciously with beauty, not as decoration but as a doorway into presence. Through reflection questions and gentle prompts, I encouraged readers to question dominant cultural definitions of worth and success and instead attune to what brings aliveness, joy, and reverence—especially in the messy, fleeting moments of parenting and springtime awakening.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This article might be the most “Late Spring” of all my early works. It dances in the space between beauty and truth, between family life and spiritual practice. You can hear my early voice wrestling with capitalism’s metrics (“raising successful children”) while gently calling people back to presence and wonder. There’s also a subtle call to reimagine beauty as a relational experience—not something to curate, but something to feel. I was still using language like “Spring challenge,” but you can sense the tender seeds of Wildwoven here. Definitely a feather from the nest, scented with blossoms and subversion.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, February 2019 (American Heart Month)
Theme: Emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, presence, vulnerability

Summary:
Rooted in the teachings of Brené Brown and the science of heart-brain coherence, this article explores how vulnerability isn’t a weakness—it’s the gateway to true resilience. I unpack common avoidance patterns like “rehearsing tragedy,” and offer tools to strengthen resilience through presence, breath, and emotional awareness. The piece closes with a simple breath-based practice for nervous system regulation and a reminder that emotional strength is a skill we can grow, not just something we inherit.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This piece sits right at the intersection of the Wildwoven Way and my HeartMath lineage. You can feel the blend of nervous system literacy, somatic practice, and reverence for story all bubbling together here. While it still leans on quotes and research, I was starting to insert more of my voice—especially in the sections about false conclusions and the stories we tell ourselves. The fact that it was written for Heart Month again makes me smile—because now I know that the heart, in all its messy wisdom, is always at the center of my work. This is a feather with a steady pulse.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, January 2019
Theme: Seasonal wisdom, mindfulness, introspection, parenting with presence

Summary:
This article invites families to shift their relationship with winter—not as a dreary, “blah” season to survive, but as a time for slowing down, turning inward, and discovering inner richness. Drawing on themes of mindfulness and introspection, I offered practical suggestions for engaging kids in presence-based practices, using winter as a teacher. It encourages noticing small details, reflecting on big questions, and using darkness and stillness as a gateway to deeper self-awareness—for both parents and children.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one is a soft spark in the snow. It’s full of what would later become my Wildwoven Winter teachings: the call to slow down, the sacredness of introspection, and the power of asking better questions instead of reaching for quick fixes. At the time, I was still offering “practical wellness” advice to families, but you can feel the early heartbeat of seasonal transformation here. The phrase “what if rather than moaning our way to spring, you leaned into the winter season to see your inner landscape reflected in it” could be dropped right into my current work. Definitely a feather—and one that wintered well.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, Summer 2018 (est.)
Theme: Seasonal rhythms, sensory presence, reframing procrastination, summer nostalgia

Summary:
In this reflective piece, I invite readers to view procrastination not as failure, but as part of a seasonal ritual—particularly during the spaciousness of summer. Through storytelling and practical journaling prompts, I explore how summer invites us into both joy and avoidance, and how presence can shift our experience. I guide readers through three steps—Identify and Savor, Free Your Mental Energy, and Reflect—to transform scattered summer busyness into meaningful moments rooted in memory, value, and the senses.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one’s such a Wildwoven Summer moment—soft, sensory, playful, and totally subversive in its challenge to overproductivity. At the time, I hadn’t yet fully named the seasonal traps, but this is unmistakably the “Late Summer cram” I now talk about with clients. I was giving people permission to stop rushing, to find wisdom in their avoidance, and to remember the childhood joys that shaped their inner rhythms. There’s a sweet blend of practical reflection and poetic presence here. A definite magick feather: sun-warmed, slightly rebellious, and rooted in the land.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, April 2018
Theme: Visioning, family values, intentional living, seasonal renewal

Summary:
This article reframes “spring cleaning” as more than just tidying your home—it’s an invitation to reexamine your family life through the lens of clarity, celebration, and alignment. I guide readers through four steps: Clarify Your Vision, Rejoice in the Beauty, Replace Old Habits, and Weed Out Stuck Beliefs. Each step includes questions to reflect on together, gentle challenges to outdated patterns, and ways to co-create a more intentional family rhythm.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one’s a little more structured and coachy, but it still holds early echoes of what would become the Wildwoven Way. I was beginning to pair seasonal metaphor with personal transformation, especially around visioning and releasing old beliefs. While the language leans more toward “family life planning” than Wildwoven’s deeper seasonal soulwork, the values underneath—intention, rhythm, co-creation—were already planted. This one’s like a tidy little garden row in the feather trail. Not quite wild, but definitely woven.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, February 2018 (American Heart Month)
Theme: Emotional physiology, heart-brain coherence, healing through sadness

Summary:
This article explores the intersection of emotional wellness and cardiovascular health, focusing on how sadness—and other emotions—directly influence heart rhythm, hormone levels, and nervous system regulation. I introduce simple practices rooted in HeartMath and emotional integration, including the Inner Sanctuary tool and the Genuine Positive Emotion Practice. Rather than bypassing sadness, the piece offers compassionate techniques for metabolizing emotion and supporting heart coherence through daily attention and breathwork.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This was the first time I got bold enough to talk about “transforming sadness” in the same breath as science—and it marked a shift in how I brought emotional truth into public spaces. I was still speaking through a wellness frame (Heart Month! Physiology!), but what I was really doing was offering grief its rightful seat at the table. I didn’t know it then, but this was an early heartbeat of what would become my Autumn teachings in the Wildwoven Framework—an invitation to let emotion move through, not around us. Quietly radical. Another magick feather, folded with care.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, October 2017
Theme: Seasonal reflection, journaling, self-trust, transformation

Summary:
This article reframes Autumn not as a loss-filled descent into darkness, but as a season of bountiful inner harvest. I guide readers through four steps—Preparation, Journaling, Creative Expression, and Intention Setting—designed to help individuals (or families) reflect on the year, integrate key learnings, and honor the transition into winter. The piece weaves nature-based metaphor, nervous system awareness, and practical prompts for embodied transformation.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one was definitely an early Wildwoven whisper. The structure is a little more linear than my current work, but the spirit is already there: honoring the letting-go season, trusting the invisible root-work, naming what’s ready to fall away. The tree metaphor (“You’re a beautiful tree and you just produced some amazingly gorgeous leaves… Now feel your trunk and your roots”) still makes me smile—it’s earnest, but true. I can see how I was beginning to speak directly to the body, to the breath, to the soul of the reader.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News, July 2017
Theme: Nature connection, accessible wellness, family-friendly outdoor rituals

Summary:
This article highlights the many mental and physical health benefits of nature immersion—citing research on reduced stress, improved heart health, and mood elevation—and offers accessible ways families can experience these benefits close to home. From bird feeders and stargazing to “moth bathing” and growing vegetables, the piece encourages readers to bring nature’s healing gifts into everyday routines, no hiking boots or national parks required.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
Oh, this is such a sweet and scrappy Wildwoven ancestor. I was already pushing back against the idea that you had to “escape to nature” to experience wellness—and advocating instead for humble, homegrown rituals: moon picnics, backyard birdsong, veggie gardens. Even the term “moth bathing” (a playful twist on forest bathing) carries my signature mix of science and delight. While I was still using terms like “transformation coach,” I can see the deeper ethos taking root—inviting people to re-enchant their everyday lives through connection, rhythm, and curiosity. A feather with dirt under its nails.

🪶 Originally published between July 2019 in the Peninsula Daily News Family Section
Themes: Nature connection, sensory awareness, healing practices for families

Summary:
This article introduces the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or “forest bathing,” and invites families to explore nature together with all their senses. I offered practical ways to slow down, tune in, and experience nature as more than backdrop—whether on Olympic Peninsula trails or in a backyard garden. The piece encourages child-led exploration, sensory mindfulness, and letting nature guide the way.

🪶 Magick Feather Trail Reflection:
This one holds up. Long before The Wildwoven Way had a name, I was writing about how nature regulates our nervous systems, how slowing down opens us to wonder, and how healing doesn’t require a guru—just our senses and a patch of forest. This piece is an early breadcrumb on the trail. I can feel the roots of the Wildwoven Framework here, even though hadn’t yet fully claimed my own seasonal language. It’s early days Kristin, but the voice is starting to rise.

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Published in the Peninsula Daily News, September 2014
Theme: Resilience, emotional regulation, media boundaries, seasonal transitions

Summary:
This article offers readers a practical, heart-centered approach to managing seasonal blues and emotional overload during the transition from summer to fall. I share three core tips: Limit exposure to traumatic events, Start your day with intentional emotion, and Radiate positivity in the midst of chaos. The guidance blends research on media-induced anxiety with simple daily practices that cultivate presence, curiosity, and emotional sovereignty—especially for families navigating a new school year.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one came from my steady voice in the storm. I remember writing it during a time when mass media trauma was ramping up, and I wanted to offer people a different way: not to bypass pain, but to center wonder, to pause and breathe, to choose beauty as an act of resilience. While the language leans more into “lifestyle coach” territory, the bones are Wildwoven. This article carries the earliest whispers of what I now teach as Autumn practice—rooting in nervous system calm instead of spiraling with the winds. It’s a quiet, powerful feather with a wheelbarrow full of subversive hope.

Published in the Peninsula Daily News/Sequim Gazette (early 2010s)
Theme: Core values, aligned living, HeartMath, reclaiming desire

Summary:
This article offers readers a simple but potent framework for identifying their core values, naming their true desires, and clearing internal obstacles to more wholehearted living. Drawing on my early HeartMath work, I guide readers through reflective exercises that illuminate what’s underneath surface goals and how misalignment can quietly sabotage fulfillment. It’s a practical, heart-centered call to live with more alignment, clarity, and courage.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
Oh, this one is such a time capsule. I can feel my “newly trained HeartMath coach” energy pulsing through it—earnest, hopeful, trying to meet readers right where they are (to-do lists and all). The part about asking “If I got this, what would that give me?” is a question I still use with clients today. Even if the language was more conventional then, the core was there: helping people dig beneath the surface to reclaim the truth of what really matters. This is definitely one of the first feathers on the trail—tucked between vision boards and values charts, but pointing toward something deeper I hadn’t yet named.

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Published in the Peninsula Daily News, September 2012
Theme: Vitality, gratitude, perspective, mindfulness, early somatic coaching

Summary:
In this foundational article, I define vitality as “fully alive, genuinely engaged in the world, living into the wilderness of body, mind, and spirit in a way that is unique to you.” I introduce three key habits that support this kind of living: Cultivating Gratitude, Changing Perspective, and Tuning In to the Body. The piece offers early glimpses into my future work with nervous system integration and nature-based healing, with practices drawn from HeartMath, somatic mindfulness, and life coaching tools.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This one is so early, it’s basically the nest lining. Written before Wildwoven had a name or even a whisper, it still carries the seeds of everything that came later: nervous system wisdom, nature’s power to regulate, and the invitation to come back to your body and your breath. It also shows my earliest attempts to integrate coaching language with soul-based reflection—complete with gratitude games and reframes that still hold up today. The line “notice your body, your mind, and your spirit all at once” might be the first feather I ever named, even if I didn’t know it yet.

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🗞️ By Diane Urbani de la Paz, Peninsula Daily News
📅 February 6, 2013

“A fresh bouquet of love letters soon will be written to Port Angeles… The letter could come into the hands of someone who needs it at this particular time, added Halberg.”

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This project became a short-lived viral sensation (we were featured on both KOMO-TV and KING 5 – TV, local radio stations, and even the AP picked it up so we even started hearing from folks in Europe!!)

But for me, it was always about more than media buzz. It was a tender rebellion—proof that glitter, glue sticks, and anonymous affirmations could be acts of sacred care. We weren’t just life coaches running an event; we were weaving spells of belonging, one envelope at a time.

I still believe this: a little love can create exponential ripples of kindness. 💖

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📎Here’s one from Evansville, IN

Peninsula Woman feature, Peninsula Daily News – April 3, 2011

Summary:
This four-page spotlight followed Kristin’s return to the Olympic Peninsula as Program Director at Olympic Park Institute (now NatureBridge). It chronicles her shift from a corporate career at T-Mobile to leading experiential outdoor education for youth, integrating her values, love of nature, and leadership skills. The article highlights her Crescent School childhood, identity evolution, and passion for reconnecting kids to the wild.

Kristin Halberg, Peninsula Woman, 2011.

🪶 Magick Feather Reflection:
This article captured a pivotal moment—when I stepped away from what was expected and began building a life more aligned with who I really was. I didn’t yet have language for it, but this was the beginning of the Wildwoven Way. I was learning to trust the natural intelligence of cycles, to lead from my values, and to return to the places that shaped me—not just geographically, but soulfully.

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