Hi, I’m Krystal…
Being an embodied permission for EASE is something that gives me great purpose in my life. .
I adore working with soulful, witchy creatives, healers, entrepreneurs, mystics, leaders, and passionate go-getters to help them ground and optimize the use of their daily energy, let those secret creations out into the world, and who are driven to make a real difference where they’re needed most, all while letting ease be a major part of the picture.
My pronouns are she/her. I currently live on occupied Erie and Kaskaskia lands of Northeast Ohio, USA. I am a cis, white, hispanic, queer, witchy ease lover. I’m a self-projected Projector (Human Design lingo) and an Aquarius sun, Pisces moon, and Cancer rising (allll the water!). I am elated to be off the burnout-hamster-wheel and am a nature-loving kitty momma to Lilo and a whole lot of plant babies.
Most of all…I love EASE. Our journey together helps you discover your unique definition of ease for yourself.
THE QUESTIONING:
Have you ever paused to question why exactly the societal rhetoric around ease is as negative as it is?
Have you asked yourself questions like:
Why exactly is ease considered lazy or less than?
Why is napping bad?
Why is rest so frowned upon?
What’s the real reason why I haven’t taken a vacation in years?
Why is being busy and exhausted held up like a badge of honor?
Why is ‘perfect’ or ‘nice’ the goal?”
There’s just so much there. And most of those answers, when you really dig deep, are rooted in deeply patriarchal, supremacist, capitalist, raciest, sexist, and ableist ideologies.
These notions run so deep and are so internalized that they remain deeply hidden to us and a lot of our loved ones. Worse yet, we blame ourselves for the relentless systemic impressions made on our psyches as if this is who we really are.
When I look outside the window, I don’t see the trees and flowers and birds struggling to be their full, glorious selves. Then I think to myself: “If nature doesn’t struggle to be itself, why do we?”
Witnessing Mother Nature do her thing left me begging the questions: What if things were actually meant to be easy? What if ease really was our nature? What then? What if for as much hard stuff in life, there’s equal and greater ease waiting for us inside those very same moments? Huh…
This is what we are here to explore together:
How to let ease drench our lives through practical (and magical) self-care rituals and practices.
THE WHY
One thing I know is that today’s global systems, structures, and the “way it is” was not made with ease in mind. In fact, they weren’t even made with our full-range humanity or wellness in mind, let alone ease.
It took watching a close family member nearly die in the hospital from the very severe effects of alcoholism for me to WAKE UP. This experience catalyzed my spiritual awakening which helped me see the even truer reason that had brought my family to this crisis point. At the core of things, so many of us don’t know we can take care of (or even feel worthy) and love ourselves the same way we do our loved ones. I emerged from this very intense, swimming-in-cortisol experience to ask:
Is this it? It this seriously it? Is this what I’ve been busting my butt in school and work for? Just to possibly end up in the hospital halfway through my own life because I don’t know that I’m worthy of taking care of myself?
Where did I (and countless other women, femmes, and caretakers) get the idea that I’m not worthy of the same love I pour into everyone else in my life?
One thing did become clear:
If I don’t take care of myself, who else is going to?
The generational cycles of self-sacrificing, self-neglect, emotional avoidance (and subsequently addiction) ended with me that day. I was no longer going to allow the rest of my life to be so damn hard.
Enter ease.
EASE. PRAY. SELF-LOVE
Soon enough, I set out on a messy, illuminating, soul-searching healing journey that took me to Bali for two months. My time there changed everything. It was the first time in my life where I didn’t have an calendar to follow, roles to play, no one needed me, and I could just…flow with my days. Having that S P A C E helped put so much into perspective. So much so, that I learned that I actually really loved my own company! I let myself thaw out from the intensity that had become my norm into a new reality where ease seeped its way into my cells and I couldn’t let it go. I learned what self-care truly was.
When I allowed my needs and desires to lead (things that are inherent to my beinG), I found that things got easier for me.
While things are most defintely easier in paradise, most importantly, I was learning new questions to ask:
What if ease is allowed?
What if ease is actually my nature?
What if ease could be my new baseline?
What if ease is always available in any given moment, I just have to learn how to find it?
In the end, self-care led me to ease.
As a deeply conditioned “good girl” and straight-A student, I got repeated messages like “don’t-rock-the-boat,” “get the house/job/guy then you’ll be happy”, “work hard”, “easy is lazy”, “give to everyone else but yourself”, “skinny is best”, and by all means, “DO NOT speak your mind, your truth, your heart, or your emotions!” After all this messaging, the fact that prioritizing myself ended up making my life easier was something I just sincerely never saw coming! Having needs and speaking up for them was the thing that terrified me the most, and yet, it’s a fundamental key that unlocks more ease in my life every single day.
Just like any retreat-like experience, there’s always a lingering curiosity of how can I bring the best parts of this immersive Bali experience into my everyday life?
That question has transformed into a near decade long devotional journey into emboding ease for myself, my clients, and my community alike.
EASE ISN’T ALWAYS EASY
Taking a stand for ease in a world that is anything but is…ironically…not easy. Choosing ease isn’t always easy, but it’s always worth it.
Choosing ease inherently goes against the grain of the very fabric of our modern-day lives.
Additionally, one person’s version of ease can be wildly different than another’s version of ease. Therefore, this is why Ease Mentoring is highly customized as we intuitively listen to your rhythm of ease.
Where ease might get written off as “fluffy,” be dismissed, judged, and wildly misunderstood, the most important piece to me is that engaging with ease be incredibly practical. It’s hard to write it off when you are surrounded by the gifts and transformation that ease opens up to us. Things like:
Getting better, restful sleep
Managing your days so that you get things done AND take care of you
Speaking up for boundaries that are long overdue and then get to enjoy the freedom and ease that comes from that hard work! (i.e. less drama, noise, and distractions)
Making more time for creativity that lights up your soul between meetings (yes, that’s 100% possible)
Making money being YOU in the world instead of being limited to trading time for dollars
Releasing energy that is not yours which leads to having more clear, vibrant energy during the day
So many more…
Whether it be through Ease Mentoring, Astrology, Human Design, ease rituals, energetic tools, and more, mirror back to us what lies hidden about ourselves or what we need reminders about.
SELF-CARE MEETS COMMUNITY CARE
It’s amazing what reveals itself to us when it’s the right time, with the right people, with the right safety, and the right readiness.
Ultimately, I believe:
We all have gifts, methods, ways to bring more light, perspective, and/or love into our lives and the lives of those we care about
With the awareness and consciousness we have within us at this time in history, ease is more accessible than it could be for our ancestors
Ease is our nature and Mother Nature is our guide
Systems of oppression have a very real presence in our modern lives and need to be dismantled, re-examined, and healed for more of us to have the fighting chance to have ease as a reality
We all have a responsibility to each other and our communities. When we tune into our human nature, we thrive when we ALL thrive. Therefore, we must redistribute overflowing resources to those without opportunity or access to them
Self-care only takes us so far. We must remind ourselves of the importance of where self-care becomes community care and community care becomes self-care. We need each other.
Sustainable ease arrives when our humanity (human care) and spirit (spirit care) are cared for individually (self-care) and collectively (community care)
There are vast lessons to learn in this arena and we will...together.
For now, you’ve taken the first and most important step there is, which is to simply begin by opening up to the radical idea that ease might actually be the way forward. I’m not promising it won’t be messy (while simultaneously being showered in miracles), but I am, however, promising that you’re worth living an ease-aligned life. Always have been. Always will be.
I’m so glad you’re here.
Much love,,
