Ending up back where you started with Kristen Kalp

<p class="p1">Imagine making the momentous decision to pack up your entire life and move cross-country from Pennsylvania all the way to Portland, Oregon. You decide to start your move on January 1, 2020, because it feels clean and fresh with possibilities, and you embark on your journey with enthusiasm and optimism.</p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">And then everything, and we do mean <em>everything</em>, promptly falls apart.</p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">You get COVID, but you don’t know it’s COVID yet because no one knows what it is, and almost die.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">Your partner loses their job because of the pandemic, making you the primary breadwinner while you’re still <em>struggling to breathe every day.</em></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">Your teeny tiny apartment, where you’re now trapped with your partner in a brand-new city where you don’t really have friends, and can’t make new ones, is <em>infested with spiders.</em></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">That’s just a taste of what Kristen Kalp’s 2020 was like … and lord, the hits kept comin’. So, we sat down with Kristen, our friend-we’ve-never-met-in-real-life, to talk about what was inarguably <em>the worst year ever</em>. She got into…</p> <p class="p1"> </p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">How she managed to keep functioning when literally everything was awful and she was trying not to die.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">Why she didn’t totally lose faith, even in the pit of despair, that things would ultimately be OK.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">How, less than a year after her disastrous move, she ended up right back where she started at the end of 2019, but isn’t upset about it.</span></li> <li class="li1"><span class="s2">Her wisdom for you, if you’re terrified of making the “wrong” choice and everything turning to crap.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p class="p4"><span class="s3"><a href= "https://clarityonfire.co