Welcome!

Hi, and thank you for stopping by. I’m Kriste, the creator of Honey Help YourSelf and The Honeycast. Little did I know it at the time, but I began taking the first steps of this journey in the spring of 2008 when I created a tiny blog of the same name. Back then I was frustrated and bored in every direction; I was chronically overworked and underemployed and overindulging in go-nowhere relationships. Add to that the barrage of big life questions that had everything to do with finding my purpose and the larger point of it all.

How did I wind up alone again? If I’m so creative, how come I keep devising ways to play small all over the place? And this one: Am I ultimately going to wind up face down in a ditch, looking back over an insipidly timid life half-lived with all my music left inside me? Now that’s an especially gut-wrenching consideration, given that I was a singer. But so went the stabbing questions that woke me up in the mornings, rode shotgun through my days, and didn’t let me rest until I bedded down in the wee hours.

Since that time a lot has changed: I moved across the country and went on to work I enjoy, I turned forty, and plunged into a course of study and eventual teaching that lead to a depth of fulfillment and joy that had been all but elusive before I seriously got busy on me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying I’ve reached nirvana or that mine is an effortless, rainbow-laden way through life. Hardly. What I am saying, though, is that I am coming to deeply appreciate what it means to show up for real, to be present and accounted for, to opt for optimism even when things look least likely to break in my favor. What I know is opportunities to grow ourselves and live well abound.

In the process of my work—years of studying, writing, teaching, traveling, and speaking with so many amazing people—the constant truth is this: the more we commit to cracking open our hearts, the more we come to the aid of others along the way, the more help we actually get. Did you know this, honey? Yay/Voilà/Duh!

Think of Honey Help YourSelf as the distillation of years spent training, writing, and teaching about creativity and Energy—that unseen force that connects us, shapes us, is us, and walks through the door long before we ever arrive on scene. Similar themes run through everything I do—from the recordings, the posts, the readings too. My aim is to encourage you to live by the best that’s in you, to keep you reaching beyond your comfort zone, and to bring your A game to the rest of us while you’re at it. The other aim is to keep me accountable while I do it, too.

If I may rip a few lines from our celebrated Queen of Soul, I ain’t no psychiatrist, I ain’t no doctor with degrees. However, I do hold a master’s degree of fine arts, which accounts for all the writing and pretty pages. I’ve also got a host of various certifications in energy healing, mediumship, clairvoyant training, and hands-on work with many hundreds of clients, all of which account for a fair amount of the content you’ll find here. In case you didn’t already guess, I’m an avid student of spirituality, transpersonal psychology, metaphysics, good food, and language. I’m all about investigating the outer workings of the inner world and how we move with it (or not), which means I’m bringing my own brand of rhythm and blues—just like the Queen.

Want to keep in touch? Better yet, want to spread the news about what a bang-on job I’m doing? There are so many ways to share. For starters, you can…

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Then again, word of mouth works just fine. In other words Honey, Help YourSelf!

Welcome! I am so glad you’re here.