Hello!

Hello. Christy here. I want to share my story. Life broke me open more times than I can count, and I did not go looking for what came next. It found me when I finally got quiet enough to notice. 

My Parents. My father gave me the gift of telling a story, holding a room, and teaching. My mother gave me the gift of blind faith, of believing in what we cannot sense with the body. I spent the first half of my life leaning on the first and almost forgetting the second.

The Lessons. I did not wake up all at once. When I was 20 years old, my only brother, Eric, drowned. I spent the next five years in a state of self-destruction. Between my two children I had two miscarriages. My first marriage ended. People I loved became strangers. Persistent vertigo kept me incapacitated for a decade. My career burned me to the ground. My beloved daughter was in a near-fatal car accident. Out of pure fear, I removed alcohol from my life. Then, as that woman who deeply feared my own body, I was given the thing I feared most. I was guided all the way into the center of it, to sit beside a beautiful friend through cancer. This cracked my soul wide open. Each of those rock bottoms entered a different room of my life and left a lesson behind. I thought I was being ripped apart. But now I see I was being given a foundation.

Laguna Beach. In 2014 I left Portland for Laguna Beach to begin a life with a man who felt like home. His two children, my two, and a new beginning. I was happier than I had been in years. And still, I had brought something with me. Health problems. Anxiety. A heaviness I did not have words for and had carried so long I had stopped noticing it.

The Long Walks. So I started walking. Laguna Beach became my muse and the first doorway of my awakening. I read books on happiness. I listened, alone by the water, to people talk about what our daily choices quietly do for us. My body started speaking, and for the first time I stopped talking over it. And the more I understood what made a person well, the clearer one thing became. I was not living my truth. Not in my career, not in my pace, not in what I was allowing into my life.

My Awakening. I kept working. Twenty five years in high-tech sales, standing in powerful rooms, making complicated things simple. Then in 2023 I woke up completely burned out. My body had known for a long time. My mind was the last to agree. So I walked away cold. Just a knowing, and a willingness to be led.

The Marketplace. I built The Ever Good as I was finding my way, leaning into the wellness that was healing my body, gathering purpose-driven makers who infuse their work with love and intention. That energy comes through in the goods and into the hands of those who receive them. I am deeply proud of our curated marketplace. The handmade goods from small-batch makers spoke, and I had remained hidden behind their beautiful energy. But I have always known that more was emerging.

The Shaman. Then recently, a shaman looked at me and said, I see a teacher in you. I still get shivers when I read that. It hit me like a freight train. I knew in that moment I had to stop hiding and start speaking. Of course my throat is my chakra that always seemed to be most blocked. The bridge between the heart and the mind, the place where feeling becomes voice, and mine had been shut for most of my life. I could talk, but not about what I believed. Only what people expected me to say. I hid because I was afraid of sounding strange. Of losing people. Of becoming the woman who talks about souls and signs. If you are hiding too, I understand exactly why. I am telling you anyway, because nothing I feared has come true. I have been standing on both banks, and there is a way across.

Coming Forward. I am still walking this. I have old emotions to release and doors I have not opened. I am doing it in the open, because I believe my true voice is worth hearing and is the way I am helping the people this resonates with.

I Believe in Everything. Ten years ago I found a framed print with a line from Lewis Carroll. Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. It still hangs on my wall in the same place, and I still smile whenever I see it. I am only now beginning to understand why the universe put it there. Enter my beautiful gift of blind faith. Some would call these beliefs nonsense, literally, the things you cannot reach with the five dense human senses. Not so blind to me, though. God. Creator. Source. The universe. The field. Science and mysticism both. My higher self. Eternity, and the life between lives. Astrology. The new earth. The whispers from our passed loved ones. Angel signs. Synchronicities and serendipity. Mother Nature. Gaia. My ancestors, and the DNA they carried down through our bodies. The default genotype settings built into this body I chose. Meditation, spontaneous remission, placebo, and how we can heal our own bodies in ways conventional medicine cannot explain. I want a life that allows me to live with these beliefs, with intention, without fear, and to speak my truth in the spirit of serving others.

Slowness. For me, slowing down was the way to finally sense it all outside of the standard ways, deep in my soul. I was stuck before that. Slow living was always a personal aspiration. The movement began in Italy in the 1980s as a response to fast food and mass production, and it is what originally inspired our marketplace. Quality over speed. Craft over convenience. Intention over impulse. But slowness is not just a lifestyle to me anymore. It is the way we create enough quietness to learn, evolve, and grow.

How We Awaken. Slowness makes the space for awakening into an intentional, purpose-driven, soul-led life. At The Ever Good, we do this through self, home, and journey. Self is your body and mind, and how to listen and love them. Home is your environment, your people, and the ones placed in your path. Journey is your purpose, how you move through this life, your light, your gifts, and the reason you are here.

The Way In / Our Offerings

• THE PRACTICE. Personal work made for you and guided by me. Readings: The one of a kind truth of you and your life. Mentoring: Work with me on becoming you. Speaking: Small group speaking engagements.

• THE LIBRARY. Ideas worth slowing down for. Courses: Self paced teachings and tools. Blog: My musings and guest essays. Podcast: The sound beneath the song.

• THE TRIBE. Connect with those walking the same path. Community: Where we cultivate new friends and sisters. Healers: Those who share aligned values and offerings.

• THE MARKETPLACE. Shop goods infused with love and intention by purpose driven makers. Occasions: Curated gifts and special orders. Makers Circle: Our community of artisans, their stories and values.

You Are Here for a Reason. Perhaps you feel drawn to this. Something in you was already listening, and the universe answered, right on time. Get quiet enough and you will hear it too. At The Ever Good, we are driven by freedom and purpose through slow living and everything it awakens.

A reading with us is a natural way to open the door and learn something about beautiful you. Also, please join our tribe. We are so happy you are here. ❤️