On the morning of our last Chat with Crystal call, we all received the tragic news that our beloved S.W.A.T. siSTAR and graduate, Kathryn Chavez, had passed away suddenly by suicide. Crystal worked closely with Kathryn for many years, coaching her 1-on-1 on her business and helping her build her website. Kathryn was so loved within the S.W.A.T. Institute and was truly such a light to all who knew her. Apart from being an amazing coach and intuitive, she was also a phenomenal singer, having spent...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Jasmine about an old shame story that Jasmine has been carrying for over 20 years. It is a story she has not told anyone, not even her own husband. Jasmine worries that she can't be a truly empowered woman and coach doing authentic work in the world unless she comes clean with her husband and tells him about her past. Crystal helps Jasmine realize that we all have done or experienced things that we carry shame over, but that we still have the right to create ...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 7 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Katy and Ellen. Ellen shares that she is an 'empath' who has been deeply affected by the January 6th event in the US on Capitol Hill. Using the Empowerment Coaching process, Crystal helps shift Ellen from despair to courage--one step, or emotion, at a time. But first, Katy updates Crystal on her journey from the first time they chatted back in September 2020. Katy has not only gotten her drinking under control; she has dealt with the guilt and shame of not be...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Sarah. After joining the call, Sarah tells Crystal that she feels as though her 'father wound' has manifested itself into her relationships and the way she views men, and that she's "secretly" upset with her dad. It's a secret, she says, more so to herself, as she never wants to deal with the feelings around it and often pushes them down. She shares that she's never met her father and has only spoken to him one time on the phone when she was 18-years-old; a c...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Ellen. Ellen calls in looking for a little guidance. After taking many different certifications, she still feels she's not confident enough to begin offering coaching services. Unsure about her next steps, she wonders: how should she start a coaching call, "break the ice," and get the client comfortable? How should she price herself, and what about the technical side? After chatting with Ellen, Crystal learns that she was never actually given the opportunity ...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 3 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Katy. After joining the call, Crystal instantly recognizes Katy’s voice. Having coached Katy over 14 years ago, Crystal had shared a story about Katy in her 2006 book, Transcendent Beaty (with her permission, of course). At the time of their coaching, Katy was so worried about never getting married or having children. In Transcendent Beauty, Crystal shares a process where she helps Katy “find the voice of her fear,” also something Crystal calls ‘Working with ...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 11 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Robin. An educated woman, Robin is a Doctor of Metaphysical Science, a Drugless Practitioner, and a Certified Empowerment Coach through the S.W.A.T. Institute. After battling an auto-immune disorder and learning how to heal her health and life holistically, Robin sold her medical spa six months ago to focus on growing her business to reach women on a larger scale. Though filled with inspiration and ideas, Robin calls in and expresses that she now feels she’s ...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr
During this call, Crystal chats with Sandika. Living “off-the-grid” on a very remote island in Western Canada, Sandika offers a variety of services to her clients, both virtually and in person. She leads empowerment adventure weekend workshops near her home, is an empowerment coach, as well as the Mentorship Coaching Coordinator at the S.W.A.T. Institute. Before graduating as a coach, Sandika was a hair stylist; a service she still offers part-time to people living on her island. During this epi...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 6 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Jennifer. Although she has been taking the necessary steps to launch her career, she is still nervous about putting herself out there in a bigger way. She struggles using social media, and worries that her messaging or mission won’t be perceived in the right way. Crystal helps Jennifer to understand that although she might be afraid, she has to start putting herself out there to strengthen her “courage muscle” and answer her calling. Alisha then joins the cal...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 7 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Norma. A few days away from the one-year anniversary of her beloved 22-year-old son’s sudden passing, Norma shares with Crystal that the past year has been the most unimaginable pain and numbness that she could ever begin to explain. Though her family and friends have been well-meaning, the experience has made her realize that most people do not know the right things to say or do for a woman grieving the loss of her child. She explains that the best thing you...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 1 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Alicia. Despite a brutal upbringing that included extreme emotional and sexual abuse, an abortion at 11 years old, kidnapping, and more recently being diagnosed with breast cancer and receiving a double mastectomy, Alicia has defied the odds. Not only is she a strong, successful woman completing her Empowerment Coach certification at the S.W.A.T. Institute, she is also a phenomenal mother. Her son has completed his master’s degree and is in the midst of getti...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 16 min
During this call, Crystal chats with Carol, who says the first time she ever did something selfish was when she was 40 years old; she left her husband. But even that decision was more for her daughters, who at the time were 11 & 12 and who told her they just wanted to see their mom happy. Now, at 53, Carol realizes she's never really allowed herself to consider what would make her happy. Instead, she lives her life just under the radar... never shining too bright, never following her dreams,...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Why Would God Leave You Now? — is an empowerment coaching call between Taryn and Crystal. Taryn has spent the last year getting ready to put herself out there in a big way. She’s completed Empowerment Coach Training, had a beautiful website built, and is in the process of developing her own course to help women become their greatest Self’s. She shares with Crystal, that although she’s “done the work”, she still can’t help but feel some fear and self-doubt about putting herself out there. As a Ch...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr
My Adult Kids are Spending Christmas with My Ex Who Left Me at Christmas -- Is a coaching call between Crystal and Linda. Linda reluctantly shares with Crystal that she is feeling a little upset and abandoned. Her ex-husband, who years ago up and left her and their children over the Christmas holidays, is invited to spend the night at her now adult daughter’s home, to have Christmas morning with them and her little grandchildren. In an effort to not “rock the boat,” Linda didn’t get an invite fr...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 7 min
What To Do When a Friend Dumps You - is a coaching conversation between Charlene and Crystal Andrus Morissette. Years ago, Charlene went through a divorce that she describes as “something you see in the movies.” And though it was so turbulent and painful, a lot of the heartbreak came from the betrayal of the women closest to her. Throughout the years of her marriage, Charlene created a really solid place in her community and a group of female friends who’d been inseparable for over 20 years. Now...
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 10 min
My Mother Sold Me into Sex Trafficking is an empowered coaching conversation between Crystal Andrus Morissette and Willow. Willow is 21-years-old, and this month marks a year since she was rescued from sex trafficking. She and her younger siblings had been trafficked at the hands of her mother since Willow was four-years-old. Her mother, who was also a victim of trafficking, was murdered by her abusers in 2017. Her younger brother, committing suicide in foster care last year, as a result of the ...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 12 min
My Five Children Have Stopped Talking to Me - is a coaching conversation between Crystal Andrus Morissette and Shirley. After a 36-year-long toxic marriage and turbulent divorce, Shirley and her children have been through a lot. Shirley knows that because she was so deeply wounded and disempowered, she didn’t always make the best decisions with her kids, because she was struggling a lot of the time to even take care of herself. Since her divorce, and what she describes as a “series of unfortunat...
Jun 07, 2019•1 hr
Am I Sexually Liberated or Still Wounded? - is a coaching conversation between Crystal Andrus Morissette and Naomi. After being sexually assaulted numerous times, including having her virginity taken from her, Naomi has done a lot of empowerment work, soul searching, and healing. Though she craves a deep connection with another person, she has recently been having these visions that she is meant to experience sex with different people to become sexually liberated and to trust others through prac...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr 9 min
It’s Time to Face Your Anger — is an empowerment coaching call between Taryn and Crystal. Taryn has been through some devastating events; the sudden death of her husband last year, a brutal rape, dealing with her mother’s ongoing dementia, breaking her femur this past year, and her battle with her weight and self-worth. Despite all of these traumas, Taryn is very high functioning; with a great career and attitude. She tells Crystal that she is not broken, that she’s empowered, dealt with it all,...
May 17, 2019•1 hr 2 min
I Feel Like I’m Stuck In Groundhog Day - is an empowerment coaching call between Crystal and Wendi. Wendi is a highly educated physical therapist, with certifications in Energy Balancing, CranioSacral Therapy, Body Grounding & Meditations, Yoga, Somato Emotional Release, and more. Trying to juggle it all; Wendi works six days a week, is a full-time sports mom, trying to be the perfect wife, daughter, and mother while also trying to spend more time building her business practice. She feels un...
May 06, 2019•52 min
I’m a Medical Doctor, but I’m Not Smart or Good Enough - is an empowerment coaching call between Crystal and Rima. Rima is a certified Medical Doctor, Medical Intuitive, Reiki practitioner, and yoga teacher, among other things. Despite all of her accomplishments and accolades, she can’t shake this feeling of never feeling good enough or sure of herself and her next business step. Listen to Crystal coach her from shame through the empowerment ladder!
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 7 min
A 22-Year-Old, Old Soul - is an empowerment coaching call between Crystal and Kiana. Though Kiana, only 22, has done some deep soul searching within herself, she comes to Crystal asking for help ridding herself of a trait she believes she picked up from a partner in a past relationship; being judgemental. Crystal asks Kiana why she feels being judgemental is such a negative quality, and helps her remember the time she decided being judgemental was one of the worst things you could be. Listen to ...
Apr 12, 2019•54 min
I’m Afraid to Lose Weight - is an empowerment coaching call between Taryn and Crystal. Though Taryn has had a very difficult last two years of losing her husband to cancer, undergoing two surgeries, breaking her femur, being in rehabilitation for three months, and more, Taryn has spent the time doing the work to heal internally. She does not feel broken; she feels sure in her passion, purpose, and her worth. What she is really struggling with, is her desire to lose weight so she can be on her ga...
Mar 22, 2019•59 min
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" is a coaching conversation between Sandika and Crystal. Sandika shares her feelings of insecurity around her partner, and shares that she always seems to find herself in this place; always in a relationship obsessing over every aspect of it, and questioning if he’s ‘the one’, and always feeling she like needs a backup plan in case things don’t work out. Sandika opens up a little about her childhood and her feelings of not being loved by her father the way she need...
Mar 22, 2019•1 hr 7 min
No More Shame - No More Shame is a conversation between Crystal and Gwen, a 59-year-old woman who worked for 35 years handling death penalty cases. After an extremely tough year, she had a meltdown and quit her job and moved out of state to be with her girlfriend of 10 years. Once she moved in, the relationship immediately began to tank, and now she is feeling lost. She has no job, used up her savings, and doesn’t know what to do. She’s also embarrassed because she’s finally admitted to herself ...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 4 min
"My Self-Righteous Aunt Triggers Me " is a coaching conversation Crystal has with Allison from France. Though a 39-year-old successful woman, Allison feels as though her decisions are never taken seriously or respected, especially by her aunt. Crystal helps Allison understand why she is being triggered and gives Allison a process to neutralize and eliminate the emotional charge. Tune in!
Mar 01, 2019•55 min
"30 Years Without Love" - This week on Chat with Crystal, Crystal chats with Laura about her struggles with self-care and procrastination. After further discussion, Crystal learns about an incident that occurred in Laura's life 30 years ago; an 'abrupt end' to an abuse relationship that left her traumatized. Crystal and Laura discuss the affect the incident had on her life, and her desires moving forward which include finding a life partner. Crystal provides some insights and even shares a bit a...
Feb 22, 2019•1 hr 6 min
"I'm Afraid to Shine" - On this week's Chat with Crystal, Crystal speaks with Lori who shares her deep desire for wanting to travel to Peru. She has wanted to do it for years and can afford it, but is afraid to make the trip, to let her family and friends know that she is a healer and loves the world of shamanism. Brenda from last week also joins the call, and shares how her relationship with her son-in-law is progressing. Listen to Crystal talk these ladies through the empowerment ladder so the...
Feb 15, 2019•57 min
"My Son-In-Law is Jealous of My Relationship with My Daughter" - On this week's Chat with Crystal, Crystal speaks with loving mother, Brenda, who feels triggered by her son-in-law's judgement of her and his interferences between her and her daughter. Crystal learns more about Brenda's fear of being judged and her relationship with her own mother before her passing. Listen to Crystal coach Brenda through these feelings and climb the empowerment ladder!
Feb 05, 2019•59 min
