hello and welcome to the place to sew or where our motto is step out and redesign and the focus is always on you i'm your host and you're well so and there's a lovely lady that you see right here is my guest for today and i'm very excited to introduce her have had the opportunity to work on a couple of ministry programs of things like that with her and it was crystal for delhi and as usual i'm going to start out by reading her bio the two sort of values that crystal selected  legacy and continuous improvement so we'll talk about that little bit later krista was a singer a songwriter a guitar player and a worship leader she is also an entry level mental behavioral health professional who is furthering her education and plans to become a psychiatry has or neural psychologist she is interested in attaining her functional medicine license she is an aspiring preacher and writer of scholarly must've copied it wrong of the bible then more or less she is writing music running or working out almost every day she also likes to cook healthy recipes that have no way sacrifice flavor chris was involved with her church in the worship team ministry a ministry the services those with special needs and a ministry that helps women who have suffered trauma to move towards healing and wholeness and that's actually how i got to know krista was through that particular ministry she is currently applying to master's degree part of the degree programs in the mental behavioral health field working on her scholarship writings and brainstorming about what specific business she wants to start so maybe we'll start there like what are you brainstorming on in terms of a business yes i am at the stage i just really feel like the lord is leading me to god go into the business world for myself and i have actually no idea braced brainstorming with the lord i'm just like lord you know what you know right now in the season is this the season you know i have no idea i'm just talking about it with the lord right now and you know here all hill hill  the right direction and in all of that you know all of that so why don't we talk about the sort of values that you so like the legacy and continuous improvement and why are you selected those two yes so well it is hard to choose t because they are also the narrative and i also noticed how i thought certain values that a lot of my friends and colleagues you know sort of take on and it's kind of cool to realize that where the body of christ you know and i can't have every pastor at that church i listen to him a lot and you know he talks about legacy a lot and he talks about how you know god is as the bible says the god of abraham isaac and jacob and you know he's a tr i generational god and you know even today something he said in one of his pod casts his sermons is that you know when god you know says yes or no you know to for example a job like we think this is a specific job that we want lord like this is ours and what if god says no well because god is not just thinking about your life gotta sing about the generation that was before you and that the generation that's coming after you and so you know i kind of i've been even though i'm young and single and no kids yet i'm you know thinking of you know the next generation that's going to come after me and you know what god has really i see what god is done in the previous generation what he's doing in my life and i'm just so excited to see how my kids are going to someday you know take the baton and just like run with it legacy i think that fits into legacy so what about continuous improvement continuous improvement that is another one that what the lord is really taught me and then mental fast behavioral health field and something that i learned personally you know i'm getting into that field because of my own personal testimony and continuous improvement because i learned in psychology doesn't recognize this that i was a perfectionist so i'm like ok yeah i was like are you ever notice that i don't know but i would just you know suffer from anxiety inside and nobody ever knew it which is funny because you know i always had like a smile i'm always happy but i would suffer from a lot of self negative talk and dislike like nothing was ever good enough you know it's inside my own head and that's actually perfectionism but so what god is really taught me and the literature that i've studied and psychology and all that is you know sort of taking every experience and looking at it as you know ok this is what happened and what did i do well and what can i improve for next time and not saying oh well that was hardball you know i failed you know whatever it's more from a standpoint of you know what can be improved for next time and actually studies do show that you're actually more likely to improve when you come from that sort of mentality and so can you talk a little bit about the ministries and i know you have one of your students here with you one of your stuff in school yeah it was fantastic meeting her so can you talk a little bit about that particular ministry would drew you to that ministry and what do you get out of being a part of that ministry yeah well let me tell you it was a completely little lord because i never in my wildest dreams never ever thought i'd be working you know that side of the field that i want to be and i was you know i i came into this field just by recently and just realizing that i had depression and post traumatic stress disorder i was diagnosed with actually professionally so my whole life i you know went through you know that and i never knew and so i was put on medical leave from a school i was attending last year and and i before and i was to medical leave i had no idea but after going to treatment i'm like oh my gosh like it just gave me the answer is an entire lifetime of internally suffering and just progressively getting worse and so i'm getting to your question is just how they learn it's like you think you're going out to one destination it's like oh there's a whole trip you know and so i needed to make money you know when i when i was on medical leave so i just applied to a lot of jobs and i just  administrate of assist and i had no idea what i want to do with my life and i applied to this company called enable and honestly i don't even know that high don't even know i applied to that company because i was irresponsible i was just like oh clicks on my resume i'm not going to read up on the company i totally did it wrong and they ended up calling me and i applied for a full time admin assistant position but they said we don't think that in ten years you're going to be want to you're going to want to be working here is the c e o said this as my administrative assistant but we think that you have an excellent resume we're interested in hiring you for pretty and work will you and so i actually worked with the c o of that company on saturdays just helping her you know and doing different tasks and  then we kind of stopped that and then i ended up needing to have a second job like in the spring times and she i called the company and i said you know can i work you know in the homes or whatever they have you know homes for people developmentally disabled delayed and and i ended up going to training and i did end up working in the homes one day i got a call from somebody in the office and they said are you interested in support position and i was kind of resistant to i'm like no you know but somehow i just you know there was trouble of my other job was just very highly stressful that's how it is in the mental and behavioral health field and  and i and i was like you know i need to like pull back on that and i need to explore out other opportunities like dropped purdy in there and and so i mean that's how i came to work with julia and i knew autism was i knew what you know as was but i never i mean she i mean everyone says i have a ministry to her but i got to tell you she has a mystery to me and i like learning so much and she's just so brilliant she's like we joke around she's like my walking encyclopedia and just a ball of love loves to give hugs and yeah she's been really healing to have to have a friendship with her you know so you know excellent excellent so can you talk a little bit about some of the other things that are rooted in your b like the functional medicine in some of those some of those areas yeah so functional medicine so i i've always been interested in healing and we see in the bible how jesus like walks around and he just heals like everybody who comes to him everybody and i've always since my early christian life have wanted that gift of healing that paul talks about i'm still wanting it i'm still praying for it and it's just really close to my heart because when i see somebody who walks by me and they need a miracle in their body like you know it's just like do you say ok yeah and even ask me if i can pray for them and i can't wait for the day where it actually happens you know it happens for other people of it that's ok it all comes and i was actually thinking like who knows maybe the next generation you know because children they just have a childlike faith like they don't have all the stuff that we have like the doubts that come in everything and how amazing would it be to like raise my child from the time you know that their baby just was pay for this like woman or whatever because they just feel like oh yeah you know it's that the syria first mentioned the thing that we learn first is what we believe and we take everything else that people say to us and matched up against us anyways when i talk about a function of the functional medicine so ok but i my journey to seeking after this and asking the lord for the you know gift of healing god is really taught me how practical healing is and how he has designed our bodies to heal and it's just a matter of putting the right things in place and god has taught me how and even like science it's so amazing even like cancer like it's just as simple as you know what kind of foods are we eating in matters if there's chemicals in your food it matters you know the kind of hand soap you use and that's why i've switched to all organic natural like that uses essential oils in everything the kind of deodorant deodorants can cause cancer it takes twenty seven seconds for your skin to absorb whatever you put on it and if you're putting chemicals in that it's going into your bloodstream which is going to your heart which is going to your brain it's going to your whole body and so it is that anyways it's more functional medicine and you know yeah and so god has taught me like food you know and also  know meditation mindfulness meditation a lot of there's this section of the church that things meditation is evil and it's not god actually does hind legs god is in a lot of that and it actually rewire your brain and you know stress has linked to heart disease you know and it's just you know a functional mess in approach and it even like going to a chiropractor is very beneficial getting massages is very yeah so i have a mother who has rheumatoid arthritis and that is something that you know i i think really probably got me on you know people in her life to do more of a functional medicine approach and how i hear that she's getting better and it's not to full fruition but it will because i asked the lord and i'm not going to give up on praying for that and so i don't i just as i kept praying the lord just kept bringing people with information to my life and just information books with information into my life just e mails just you know you tube stuff he's just you know the lord is just he orchestrates and then also you know i share that i was put on medical leave and i just had this thing inside me you know i was like lord i'm not against you know necessarily psychiatric medications i'm not educated enough to be against it and but i just i had this feeling in my gut like lord i'm not going on medication i just had that feeling in my gut animists man holy spirit and the largest you know and i'm not saying that that's the right thing for everybody that the lord led mean he leads us all differently in our so the next person could be right for them for a time but yeah the largest really showed me how like taking a probiotic how they're called let's cut the second brain which how it's described i think it should be the primary brain because it really leads for the brain up here you know and what you know what kind of messages are sent to the body because there's this you know the brain rest of your body connection and of course the mind  very essential for your gut and then fish oil is very beneficial for your brain i'm also a vitamin and magnesium glistening also i take and i take other things to other natural supplements and of course actually be food based or plant based which is why i go to whole foods don't get the generic kind because it doesn't even work anyways it's not real but anyways yeah and so the lord has you know and also for depression vitamin d three it's linked to you know helping give the body the nutrients it needs to help with depression mindfulness meditation is helpful for that as well running even just like getting outside like nature therapy  this is all like functional medicine approach so that's excellent i'm going to just mention you know just getting out of like i often talk to people about children today because children today spend so much more time on devices watching television in my generation staying in the house was in television was just not what we wanted to do you know and it's not only that but our parents were more like just go outside and play come back when a street lights come on you know that sort of thing so it's a very different type of experience that young young children have today and definitely being able to get out there and you know play jump ro just on your block or you know kickball this on your street a lot of kids just don't get that kind of that kind of thing anymore so i want to shift just a little bit and kind of go back to what you taught you were talking about earlier about having your own business so do you see a connection between the functional medicine and potentially having your own business and i say that because i had a guest on very recently her name was marcia and she's a wellness coach and she specializes in do use of essential oils so she was an individual who went through some challenges in her life it was looking for an alternative to kind of the traditional way of healing and she ended up going into you know working with essential oils so do you see may be that kind of connection for you as well because as you're talking that's what i'm kind of putting together again so you should say that i'll take it as another confirmation i have a really dear friend who i don't know like for very important things in my life the largest gives her visions like for me like dreams the first dream that she got for me like a really brought me out of my old life and i won't even get into that this point but just stepping in to walk away from in my life when i was coming i always grew up with like religion everything but actually knowing jesus and the love in the is so funny another rough patch of my life you know i will get into that either but just recently the lord gave her a dream and she was like crystal i saw you like you had like this this building in this kind of practice where you know people could come and they could go get counseling if they wanted they they came and they could you know take classes to teach them about you know nutrition and food and how that effects our health and just like different things and she's like there was even this you know tablet and there was just these apps you could click on and if you want to learn and and she's like a people were filling out paperwork and there was like a line and but then with the right stuff and i was looking around like oh my gosh like that's my vision that's my business i want to have my own practice some day i just see i love our western medicine i love that you can go into an e r and you know if you have a broken bone you have to get treated like i absolutely love our country i love our systems you know god is so and nothing's perfect but that's why we always need to improve but anyways and i think that i have a vision to also not only you know have my own practice but to really get into the health care system and and really have a functional medicine incorporation be incorporated into our system so that will be my own business some day and i don't know i when to do star in the fact that you soon christian news in all of the gas i love music i just makes me come alive i didn't feel no better like i just feel so at home in my heart when you know music especially what i'm like singing and whatever that will come some day to really excited because i do think that's a plan for my life that the lord has or you know maybe my kids who knows you know but yeah  know i ever since i could talk i probably like three i started singing i don't even know i just was always singing always singing and i remember in first grade i wrote a song for my best friend it was like on a hot she hot pink sheet of paper and you know i still have it the spelling there kind of wrong and everything and this is so cute like i wrote her dog and i've always just like written music and sang and just it just comes to me like that and i just bought my i phone and like i have a first one chorus verse to chorus bridge it's kind of cool and then i go home and i'm like i'm great let's put chords to it you know it's really easy for chord progressions so yeah that's just how it half is there some time lately i've noticed i've just been getting like a chorus or just a couple lines and then i actually sit down and start writing so you know that's one of the things that i find so particularly fascinating is our creativity and i think with living under western philosophy and western culture there's more of a tendency to hold right brain left brain thing into focus focus on the the logic in the analytical but i look at myself like i'm a scientist but i'm also an artist and i think we do ourselves a lot of injustice when we start to look at ourselves  analytical and logical or you're creative you're both you know god is not a god of division so he didn't take our brain and make it one thing over here and one thing over there so the whole creative outlet and everything fun and absolutely  fascinating you were talking about the fact that you started singing when you were three my daughter olivia she's a performer a stage performer i saw it when she was story the first time she stepped out on the stage that there's something different there was just something different know put me on a path to kind of nurture that and i look at her now and i get moved to tears when i see her performance i've been moved to tears listening to you sing as well so i just kind of wanted you to know that so one thing i met a crystal about them with yes they are something you just said actually the paul says to test you know the word and hold fast to it and i think that concept can be applied to anything you know being told where either left brain or right brain  honor and respect information that we're given because it comes from people who've gone through it and you know who have lived it but at the same time we can take whatever information is given to us whether it's in church you know from mentors like whatever and we honor and we were grateful for it but we have to take it and we have to test it for ourselves and what does that look like it's like well lord i don't know and just kind of dialoging you know what the lord about it  journaling or like whatever it doesn't have to be done at all one setting you know that's another thing i've learned about myself continuous improvement is you have to come and you have to have that initial conversation appropriate in this context of the lord and then you know and then it also says i think it's five verse three like in the morning i wake up and i present my offerings and my sacrifices to you and i wait for you to come and speak to me for you to come and answer me i've noticed i've noticed that the lord is still  questions that i've asked him five years ago oh he's just like i'm waiting for you to come in and serious like you know god will take the rest your life to answer questions and so and you know the more you learn it's like the more there is to learn  myself to be blessed that god put me and you kind of connected together or me who knows what will be able to do together in the future we're already working on liberating tame are together and who knows we will see you next time at the place to s