Hi there, I'm Chrystalla
“Behind every light, there is a story”
~ Frances Pritchard, my mother
In the past, I have referenced myself as being a spiritual person or sometimes as being on a spiritual journey. However, I know now that spirituality does not come in chunks of life, mystical encounters here and there, or when confronted with divine manifestations that defy words. I believe such moments have no time frame and happen spontaneously to anyone. I think life is not merely existing physically but in totality, is spiritual, sacred and often challenges human logic.
I share this because every thought and action I take guides and molds me to keep discovering myself.
Our life is a spiritual journey and this is spirit in motion...
I have been frustrated, and confused, and I have struggled. I enjoyed abundance yet also shame, financial hardship, loneliness, elation, healing, transformation and alchemy. I have experienced profound humbleness and felt my largeness and my smallness all at the same time. I have been inspired and inspired others, learnt from master teachers for each thing I was meant to learn and I learnt the power of Great Love, Kindness and Compassion. The peak of my life as a Creatix was birthing my cherished son. My journey as a mother and grandmother is my continued transformation. I have had the sacred honour of walking with people in their hours of need and also dying and learnt how to stay present in the moment and see their souls.
I experienced such love and tenderness from my mother who was my master teacher about how to love and forgive. She carried me full term despite being advised by her doctor that I would endanger her life. My father of Greek heritage, gifted me my name which I am still growing into. Not only could I not say it as a child but it would take me many years to feel its frequency.
Chrystalla is derived from the Greek word ‘Chrysos’ which means “gold” in Greek. The name Chrystalla is a feminine form of the name Christos, which means ‘anointed one’ or “follower of Christ”.
I received my first Reiki treatment in 1994. I remember feeling it was a memory of something I had always known; it was a memory of peace. I had been searching for peace for a very long time. Together with John Chew, my second husband, we embarked on our healing journey and ministry together not just giving Reiki treatments but also teaching the three degrees of Reiki to many people in Canada and other countries. It changed my life in a profound way, helping me on my human journey.
I walked across Spain in the year 2000 completing the Camino de Santiago (also known as the Way of St. James), an ancient pilgrimage across Spain and one of the three major pilgrimages of Christendom. It was during and after this life-changing experience that I came to know more about Jesus and most significantly, I heard Mary Magdalene call to me for the first time. It took me 14 years to accept this call from her. Now, I have opened my mind and heart to being a Magdalene to walk this life in service of others.
In 2007, I was called again. This time to enter service in doing hospice palliative care work. I have learnt so much from each client and their family members. I learnt to listen, be fully present and to walk with empathy, respect, acceptance, kindness and compassion at all times. I have had the sacred opportunity to journey with people to the threshold of life and death where they go on and we, the living, remain here.
I have several medicines that I love to use; Reiki energy healing, my medicine drum that brings calm and connects us to our own heartbeat and Mother Earth. I bring empathy, kindness and compassion and sprinkle this with meditation, breath work and Cacao blessings or ceremony as we drink the sacred medicine plant of Cacao. And, I use my voice as my gift from birth, to calm and bring comfort to people be it through meditation, deep exchanges or sitting in silence as I listen and respond to how we are led. But the greatest of these is that I bring my heart of Love.
