Becoming a Chair

Written By Cristy

When this film, Tokyo! by French director Michel Gondry first premiered locally, I was having a hard day at my former job and to add to the challenge, I got into an argument with my spouse. I decided to go this film on my own as a bold act to seek inspiration. as I had long regarded films by this director such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I was deeply moved by the main character's search for her own worth, as the film took a strange turn into the surreal and absurd. She became a chair. I thought to myself well, at least to become a chair is to have a noble and useful function. I started walking towards the exit of the theater feeling therapized in a good way when I bumped into a man walking in. It was the director himself to my surprise. I had no idea there was a special Q &A at the end, so I promptly returned to my seat to take in more insight on this strange plight of transformation. To this day, I still feel the metaphor rings true and love how the magical realism genere can jolt us into deeper truths. 

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

https://imaginaltherapy@gmail.com
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