Krista J. Konkin ... Finding Me

After 27 years of pursuing my dream of being a working, urban, bohemian Music Theatre performer, I woke up one day in my funky apartment in Canada’s biggest city with a message on my phone from my agent and realized that I was living my dream…

And I wasn’t happy at all.

Not only wasn’t I happy, I was totally questioning my larger purpose for being put on this planet. I remember sitting in the dressing room backstage at what would be my last professional contract. I looked around at the scenerio and thought, is this all there is? Agents, contracts, diets, false eyelashes, call backs, vocal fatigue, long distance relationships, erratic bank accounts, divas, loneliness? Was the hot sting of a spotlight hitting my face or the wild applause of an audience all worth it? And was it, at the end of day, even remotely creative or artistic?

So began what I like to call my pre-mid-life crisis.

The last two years of my life have been a messy, thrilling roller coaster of events. I went on hiatus from theatre, sold everything I owned, broke up with a man I thought might be my husband, moved to Vancouver with only a credit card to pay rent, learned how to lindy hop, job hunted with only a theatre diplomia to back me up, wondered what I was if not a performer, learned about investment real estate, started my blog, fell in love with Jordan, got lost then found and then really lost again, discovered a spiritual philosophy that made sense, started living with my couldn’t-be-more-different-from-me boyfriend and, on my 29th birthday, decided I should be sharing this journey with the world.

Thus the birth of kjkonkin.com.

I am still the wacky, dramatic personality from Moose Jaw, SK. I am still in love with the stage and the feeling of moving an audience with something I have said or sang or danced or felt. I am my mother’s daughter, my brother’s sister and the Absentee Auntie. I am the wicked Ex that broke many hearts and the councellor friend who always has wisdom to preach. But most of all, I am clueless. I am in searching… for courage, for belonging, for passion, for an income, for the faith to sustain it all.

I am Finding Me.

And I invite you to join me.

XOXO KJ Konkin