Speaking
Looking for a gifted speaker for your next conference, retreat, or event?
Krysta is a passionate presenter with a heart to see the people of God healthy and thriving. She delivers life-giving messages using humour, humility, key therapeutic insights, and her love for God’s word. Her enthusiasm and her expertise as a therapist will engage your listeners and point them to the heart of God.
Krysta has expertise in the following areas:
Sexual Well-Being.
What does healthy sex look like as believers? Unfortunately for many Christians, there is little education about how God created our bodies and even less education around sex. In this dearth of information, we are often left with just simple soundbites around saving sex for marriage and not denying our future spouse. We need so much more to build healthy sexuality. Unfortunately, the little we have learned about our bodies and sex has caused immense harm. Often it’s God’s precious daughters that are paying the price. Religiously conservative women experience less pleasure and more pain than the general public. The orgasm gap is also more significant for religiously conservative women than for women in the general population (42% gap vs 26% gap). Religiously conservative women experience double the pain during sex than the general population. God’s heart breaks for those of His daughters who have experienced significant sexual wounding. Christian teachings on sex should be making us more into the image of Christ, but are they? Let’s discuss how to build a sexual ethic that compels us to look like Jesus in how we treat others and in how we treat ourselves.
Fight, Flight
& Freeze.
Why are so many believers chronically anxious, or shut down and numbed out? Why are we frequently quick to anger and easily irritated? God created our intelligent nervous systems to spend much of their time in the Window of Tolerance, our nervous system’s sweet spot, where life feels doable, and we feel capable. But trauma and sustained challenges push us out of the Window of Tolerance and into Fight, Flight, or Freeze, where we live in a state of overwhelm or shutdown. And God didn’t create us to spend our lives there. Sleep disorders, digestive issues, nonexistent sex drives, low immunity, and chronic pain, our bodies speak the truth of this. Add to that the soaring rates of anxiety and depression. Thankfully God put us humans together with incredible wisdom that provides a path back to safety where we can experience connection and joy just as we were created to!
These Good
Bodies.
When God created the first human beings, He called them, “very good”, bodies and all. Unfortunately, diet culture has lured us away from the truth of our good creation with lies that smaller bodies mean happier lives and that being attractive is where our value is found. Countless women spend their God-given gifts, talents, and time in the pursuit of the thin ideal, often under the guise of health. What if our creator God desires to partner with us in advancing His kingdom, but so much of our energy is spent on “fixing” our bodies? What a clever scheme of the enemy to see God’s powerful daughters wasting their lives. But what if we could return to knowing our worth and value in the eyes of our loving heavenly Father apart from what our body looks like?