When you feel good physically, you feel good emotionally.
Now that I have overcome my chronic illness, I feel good. I am so grateful to be well.
Sometimes, we have setbacks like a chronic illness
or sometimes we have setbacks like a chronic condition.
I had a frozen shoulder.
That was painful and challenging.
Unfortunately, during my chronic illness my doctors didn’t address my health holistically so it took longer to overcome.
When you feel good physically, you feel good emotionally.
Now that I have overcome my chronic illness, I feel good. I am so grateful to be well.
Sometimes, we have setbacks like a chronic illness
or sometimes we have setbacks like a chronic condition.
I had a frozen shoulder.
That was painful and challenging.
Unfortunately, during my chronic illness my doctors didn’t address my health holistically so it took longer to overcome.
I am my own blind spot.
I didn’t realize this about myself until recently.
As a healer and clairvoyant, I can see the possibility for the future in my clients.
I see the health of their bodies, such as inflammation or pain.
Even emotions such as fear, anger, or sadness.
I can see if there are unhealthy or toxic people in their lives and who they are.
I can see pivotal past memories,
even those they have never shared before with anyone.
And even past life experiences, if they are open.
Read MoreMany people believe that the tradition of Thanksgiving originated when the Pilgrims arrived and Native people helped them to survive their first brutal winter. We were taught in school that the settlers invited the Indians to a big feast of brotherhood as a way of thanks.
This is not the case.
Keep in mind that the first settlers were not in Plymouth, MA but in Virginia.
The people that arrived on the big ship in Massachusetts were adventurers and Separatists. They were people who were looking for adventure and religious freedom. Two very different types of people.
The Native people were not afraid with their arrival since the shipped contained women and children. They knew that warring people would not bring women and children, but still they stayed to themselves and watched and didn't interfere.
They watched as the settlers diminished that winter from 100 to 51 and then they went to help them to survive.
Read MoreGrowing up my family was one of about two black families in town. Now there is more diversity, but back then not so much.
Some weekends my family would drive to New York to visit my great uncle and great aunt and my cousins.
One time my great aunt asked me, “Khristee, do you double dutch?”
”No,” I replied.
“Do you know how to double Dutch?“ she asked.
“No,” I replied.
She smiled.
“I will teach you.“
We went to the back.
“First, just watch.“
I watched the ropes swing quickly and the girls jump in and effortlessly jump and dance with the ropes. I was mesmerized.
“Now, you try.“
The twins started the ropes. They spun round and round.
“Now, jump!“
Read MoreToday is Indigenous People’s Day.
It wasn’t until my boyfriend in San Francisco back in 2011 called Columbus Day Indigenous People’s Day that I began to call it the same. He was the first person I had ever heard say Indigenous People’s Day and to honor Native people on this day.
And I am part Native American.
Today it actually makes me sad that people say Columbus Day and honor someone who didn’t discover America but was the beginning of land being taken away from Native people.
In grade school, I remember learning about Manifest Destiny.
It was man’s destiny to take as much land as he could the text books said.
We didn’t learn that peace between the early settlers and Native Americans was not true.
Read MoreI have another educational talk coming up soon! I am a featured speaker at the Natural & Spiritual Healing Summit. A virtual summit that starts next week.
I am so excited!
I will be speaking on October 12 at 11 AM ET. My talk is Healing Yourself Through Food: Learn To Use Food As Medicine.
I have been a holistic healer/health expert for over 17 years.
I will talk about how potent food can be as medicine.
I believe it is important to get to the root cause of a chronic illness or chronic condition and once that has been identified the right food can heal us naturally.
I will share my health journey: how I healed myself naturally from my 15 year illness through food, how food was the answer to overcome my illness, how food is often an overlooked aide to wellness, and how I help my clients to heal naturally too.
Food is medicine. Food can contribute to illness or to wellness. We must choose wisely.
Use food to be your greatest ally to help prevent illness, sustain wellness, and to overcome your chronic conditions naturally.
Save the date!
“The best teachers are still learning, and the best healers are still healing.”
So true.
I see all of my clients as my teachers.
I am always learning something new from my guides.
I am always learning something new from my research.
I am always learning something new from books and my life experiences.
I will always be a student of life.
And I am always concentrating on my healing.
I heal myself through energy work, meditation, the foods I eat, and the supplements I take.
I heal myself by spending time in nature.
I heal myself through mindfulness.
I am like a hummingbird with a curious mind, a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to always seek the sweetness and pleasures in life.
Read MoreWhen I was sick with my chronic illness for 15 years, doctors tried to give me medication after medication.
They treated the individual symptoms, not the root cause.
Or
They didn’t treat me at all.
They believed I was just depressed
or
a hypochondriac.
They didn’t know that by offering me more medication they were making me sicker.
People didn’t think I looked sick.
They only believed the doctors
and
my doctors didn’t do the right tests
so they said I was fine.
I have a hard time looking back at pictures of when I was sick, even if it was a happier occasion, like these pics of me on vacation.
I see how sick I was.
Read MoreWhen I was sick with my 15-year illness, I was not the same person I am today.
Today, I smile easily and often.
The little things make me so happy.
I am so grateful for EVERYTHING.
But when I was sick with my chronic illness, I was too sick to smile or laugh.
They say that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown.
It’s true. It takes a lot less energy to be emotional-less.
Read MoreLast week, I offered a free Masterclass on why infertility is rising around the world.
As many of you know, for the last several years I have been writing a three book series about childbirth around the world through a holistic perspective.
It’s probably no surprise that through my in-depth interviews and research, I learned that miscarriage is more common than I thought. Many women who I interviewed had miscarried or had trouble conceiving and many did not know how common it is today in the US and around the world.
Miscarriage didn’t use to be so common.
Infertility is rising.
It’s time to take a look at why this is happening so that it can be remedied.
Watch my Masterclass.
It is 40 minutes and will bring you insights that are not being discussed.
Read MoreMany people love to look at old pictures when they were younger,
“The good old days…”
But I don’t like to look at pictures of myself when I was sick with my 15-year illness.
At the time, I may have been able to hide that I was sick from others who didn’t know me.
I had a lot of shame for being sick for so long.
Some of my friends on social media may never have known me when I was sick.
They may have never seen me sick.
They may think that I have always been so happy, healthy, and vibrant.
I look at this picture and I don’t recognize myself.
Read MoreIn 2010, I overcame my 15 year chronic illness. The next year, I moved to San Francisco and lived in California for 5 years.
This pic was of me on New Year’s, less than 5 years after overcoming my chronic illness. This was me celebrating in Hollywood. I had moved to Hollywood three months earlier when this pic was taken. I was so happy to be well and to be living my dreams.
The old me would never have imagined moving across country. Or being so healthy or so joyful.
After I overcame my illness, I focused on doing everything that brought me joy. For so long my days were focused on survival, getting through the day, trying to be well.
Read MoreRecently, I had a discovery call with a woman. She had found me from Googling. She was looking for someone to help her with trauma and she wanted to work with someone in Connecticut because she was moving to Connecticut.
But somehow, even though, she had found me from a search she didn’t know I was a healer and a medium.
Once I told her that I was a healer and a medium and described the work that I did she became so fearful.
I am an empath so I could feel her fear towards me. It was the oddest feeling. I am the type of person people tell me everything, the type of person strangers open up to upon meeting, the type of person people say they feel joyful just to be around. And yet, a woman who needed my help was fearful of my titles. We had a nice rapport but once I said I was not a coach but a healer, she froze. In a timid voice, she asked how I became a medium.
“I thought you were a coach,” she said.
“I do offer recommended action steps like a coach,” I said, “but I do much more. I wear many hats. My sessions are deep.”
Many times when someone asks how someone else is doing, the other person may respond, “I am so busy.”
I always find the response “That’s good” to be odd.
Why are they glad the other person is busy instead of well or happy?
And some people even say, “Well, at least it’s better than the alternative.“
Better than being relaxed and at peace? Better than someone feeling they are enough and that they don’t have to hustle to fit in? Better than feeling balanced and healthy?
I think it’s so important for us to practice mindfulness.
There are so many natural ways to remedy pain and anxiety. I have found that one of the most misunderstood ways is by using CBD. I have recommended so many natural remedies over the years to my clients and loved ones, but was curious to learn more about CBD, so I was so happy to be asked by Ridgefield and Wilton Magazine to write an article on CBD so that I could do more research on this topic.
Now that I have done so much research and gave CBD to my grandmother when she was ill, I wish my grandmother's hospice nurses had recommended CBD instead of immediately giving morphine and Haloperidol for physical and emotional pain.
I gave my grandmother CBD and she did very well with it, much better than with the medications. I was so happy that CBD gave her relief.
Read MoreHappy Summer! Sunday was the official beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere. Did you set your intention?
With the change of seasons, it is important to take a pause and think about what you want to create this new season. It's not just on New Year's Day that we should set a new intention, but it's always important to reflect, re-prioritize, and set new goals. Some entrepreneurs and small businesses set quarterly goals and then after each quarter reassess and then create new ones. But you don't have to be an entrepreneur to set a goal for the summer.
What do you desire?
More fun?
More confidence?
More time for creativity?
More time for healing?
More time for self-care?
Read MoreWhen I first started doing healing sessions, I offered sessions in a small herb store in Ridgefield, CT which had an empty back room. I put an ad in the local paper with a coupon for first time clients and I received a call from a woman interested in my services. She had thyroid cancer and had recently lost her husband. She was grieving her husband’s passing and dealing with her cancer diagnosis and feeling very alone and depressed. She wanted help healing her cancer. She had heard about Reiki and how it benefited cancer patients and she was open to trying it. She was my very first client and I was nervous. I had my certification in Reiki and I had been studying shamanism for months or maybe it was a year, but this was my first paying customer. Did I have the ability to heal? I wondered. Could I help this woman? What if I couldn’t help this woman?
Thoughts swirled in my head of lack of confidence, but then I remembered what my Reiki Master who taught me said. She said, “You will never be given more than you can handle, especially with your first client. It is law. You will be given someone who you can help to show you, you have what it takes as a healer.”
I took her words to heart and met with this petite woman at the store.
Read MoreThis weekend my family celebrated my grandmother’s 100th birthday. We celebrated all weekend. We had so much fun. Relatives drove up from the south. We spent hours opening up cards. She received presents, flowers, phone calls and ate so much delicious cake and good food.
My dad wrote a press release for my grandmother and submitted it our local paper, but even though, my dad submitted it a month ago and followed up with emails and calls and I reached out to the paper too, they didn’t respond back to either of us and didn’t include it in the paper this past week so I thought I would share it with you all here.
Alice Arrington, a resident of Ridgefield, CT for the past 10 years, celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday, May 7.
Read MoreEvery May 1, I always think of my college friend, Sunil Rajan, who died on his birthday May 1, several years ago.
In college, I had a really bad seizure. I had a history of seizures since I was 13 years old. It was so scary. Because I had a really bad seizure in college, I had to stay up all night and then go to the hospital to see if they could stimulate it with strobe lights to see if I had epilepsy. Sunil was one of a few friends who came to my apartment and stayed up all night with me and because I wasn’t allowed to sleep a wink, he didn’t sleep a wink either.
He was a good friend. He had compassion for me.
Later after college, by chance we met again and continued our friendship. Shortly after that, he fell from a ladder while at work and had a grand mal seizure and had to be rushed to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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