Hi there,

I’m Chasiti! Nice to meet you!

 I’m just going to be very transparent and real with you the reader and say that making a page all about me is not only a bit awkward but also a little hard. Like every other beautiful creature in human form, I am truly complex and multi-faceted in the simplest way. Paradoxical if you will. To keep it simple though, I will say that I am a very down to earth person (I think my astrological sign in Capricorn helps me out a lot with that). Although I’ve been told by others on numerous occasions that I have an outgoing, personable, warm, and even funny personality, I would say that I am truly introverted at heart. I love to spend majority of my time alone and usually in the embrace of nature. I don’t care if I’m riding my bike, walking trails, or simply meditating by a lake, I am always in total peace and having the time of my life when I’m with Gaia.

On the other hand, when I’m not acting like a borderline pagan, I’m at work. I currently work as a Lifestyle Director at a memory care facility. Although I have been with the same company for going on five years now, I didn’t start out in a management position but rather as a resident assistant while going to school for nursing. I’ve always loved caring for others as well as anything health and wellness related, so I thought there was no better way to materialize those passions then to work in the health care field. However, after taking some nursing-path college courses, working in healthcare, and even being in and out of the hospital and doctor’s offices due to my own personal health related issues, I quickly came to the realization that although I still loved health and wellness, the western healthcare system did not align with my heart, values, and beliefs, so I decided to just graduate with my associate’s degree and stay at my current job until I found out what the heck I wanted to do with my life.

Like briefly stated above, I have had my fair share of health related issues. I have been struggling on and off with chronic abdominal pain for about seven years now. I’ve experienced the most excruciating pain and I hate to sound morbid, but in those moments’, death seemed liked the more pleasant option. When I would go to the hospital to seek the help of medical professionals, they would quiet literally tell me there was nothing wrong with me and send me on my way. Every. Single. Time. The sympathy was so far removed that they wouldn’t even send me home with me mediation but would suggest to just take some over the counter medicine (as if I wasn’t already throwing them back like tic-tacs).  So, after one too many careless encounters, I finally said *bleep* this and them; I am putting my life and my health back into my own *bleeping* hands.

I would also like to briefly mention that it is within this time period of dealing with physical pain that I was also just recovering spiritually, emotionally, and mentally from a very traumatic spiritual experience that led me into a dark existential crisis. For the first time in my life, I experienced the dark parts of my own psyche; fear, anxiety, despair, depression, guilt, stress, and deep emotional pain all at once. It felt like a dark hole with no end in sight. After a while though, those emotions were becoming too heavy for me to carry and I had finally got to a point where I had enough of living in fear and hanging on to every word that was being feed to me. So, with a deep trust that God wouldn’t let me go astray, I decided to learn for myself the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions regarding God, life, and everything in between.

Therefore, it is through the canal of my own personal ups and downs physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well as working in healthcare and having the opportunity to care for and intimately observe hundreds of those that also suffered mentally, physically, and emotionally from dis-ease, that CHASITEA’s has been birth. CHASITEA’s therefore, is a place for those who were like me; in desperate search for answers and healing that works in all areas of life without the attachment of fear and judgement. CHASITEA’s is a place that brings together all the tools that have significantly improved the quality of my life and have aligned me mentally, physically, and emotionally with my truest essence. CHASITEA’s is for those who are ready to make the positive steps (even baby ones) toward healing themselves from the inside out. Just like a home isn’t built with just a hammer, tea is not the magic bullet, but a powerful and multi-functional tool in the toolbox that can serve as an everyday aid in the building of something within that’s not only beautiful, but whole.  And just like a hammer isn’t the only tool in a toolbox, there isn’t just tea at CHASITEA’s but also other free tools that I know works such as journal prompting and guided affirmations. My mission is grounded with pure intentions; to help aid those in healing themselves. This is not a vessel for useless capitalism to bleed through, but a sacred space for one to heal through, and I strongly believe that with one sip, one step, and one person at a time the collective consciousness of humanity can return to our truest essence; aligned, whole, and pure.