Crystal Oakman, LLC

12/05/2025

Don’t forget to stroll and see all the cool Nutcrackers this weekend. And if you find a fav, you can make it yours by bidding on it! I definitely have a few favs, and totally love to see the creativity alive and well in our community. 🖤

Silent auction '2025 Nutcracker Stroll & Online Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

12/03/2025

A goal for you as we begin our inward review and tend to our selves in anticipation of the coming new year.

I am teaching myself how to take up space. How to not apologize constantly for the way I live and breathe. How an apology isn’t something I am supposed to say before I speak in a conversation. How I’m so sorry, isn’t something I have to say before I just allow myself the basic right of speaking about anything.

I am teaching myself that I am allowed to exist on this planet without thinking of myself as a burden. How to not apologize for things that are out of my control. How to understand when people are trying to manipulate me into thinking the worst of myself and most of all how to stop thinking the very worst of myself as I deserve better than that from myself.

I am teaching myself that humans can exist without assuming the very worst about themselves and how the people around them perceive them. How to not apologize when someone bumps into me and I immediately assume it is my fault. How to not apologize when I ask a question because I think others will think I am stupid. How to love myself for these flawed bits of me no one has ever wanted to love before.

I am teaching myself that all the lies my abusers told me about myself were so very wrong. How I am allowed to make mistakes. How as long as I apologize and amend things, anything is fixable if I still have love in my heart for the other person. How not everything that has ever gone wrong in every relationship is my fault.

I am finally learning how to take up space as a human being. It’s taken a long, long road to get here. And I still have a very long way to go before I am done understanding that it is my job to take up space, that I am not just an afterthought or a secondary character in this gift of life I have been given. That who I am is not an apology, that who I am is not wrong. ~Nikita Gill

11/30/2025

The DCA Nutcracker Stroll and Auction starts tomorrow. This year, I colored outside the lines so to speak, choosing to create a guardian that I feel fully (front and back!) embodies the mood of the season.
The Grovekeeper - as I have named him - will be displayed starting tomorrow along with this season’s other nutcrackers around town. I hope you enjoy them all! ❄️

10/24/2025

Can you figure out where this clue leads? 🕵️‍♀️

10/22/2025

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

09/29/2025

So close now! My creation is nearly ready. 🖤

09/24/2025

The autism news has brought me back to some of the conversations I had in my book regarding mother blame. We really do keep repeating life, don't we.

https://crystaloakman.substack.com/p/excerpts-from-the-imprint-about-mother

09/06/2025

Fascinating! It’s possible that if a new food is introduced at the same time you have a cut or some other skin damage, your body might associate that food with “bad” and you develop an allergy.

A new study from Yale School of Medicine has uncovered a link between skin injuries and the development of food allergies. In mice, researchers found that when a new food was introduced into the gut at the same time as a skin injury, such as a cut or even sunburn, the animals developed food allergies to that food. This connection may explain why children with chronic skin conditions like eczema are three times more likely to have food allergies, with skin inflammation sometimes preceding allergic disease.
The findings suggest that the immune system may “remember” foods introduced during times of skin damage as dangerous, even though the gut is normally tolerant to new foods. This challenges the notion that allergens must enter the body directly through broken skin, suggesting instead that signals between the skin and gut may drive allergic responses.
Read more here: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/skin-injury-may-bring-on-food-allergies/

09/04/2025

Before "Your Imprint Rewritten: A 12-Week Deep Work Experience" opens to the public, I’m inviting a small number of participants to walk through it first.

This is a beta round - free access in exchange for honest feedback and (maybe) a testimonial. Here’s what the beta round entails:

- You’ll complete the online course within 14 weeks.
- You must complete all activities and share reflections within 1 week of finishing each module.
- Your feedback will help me shape the final version before its release.

If this resonates, send me a short, private message or email (please do not post your desire here on FB, and please keep your message to 2 - 4 sentences) about why you want to do this. I'll be selecting applicants over the month of September for ::fingers crossed:: testing to start in October, November at the latest.

Please note: with only a few spaces available, I won’t be able to choose everyone who applies. My goal is to find the right fit - voices who can help me fine-tune what I hope will become a truly stellar course.

If you're open, I’d love to hear from you. Privately message me here or email me at crystal@crystaloakman.com

09/02/2025

Who could you be if you stopped suffocating under the traits you were told would keep you safe?
https://crystaloakman.substack.com/p/shrink-wrapped

08/24/2025

Coming soon!

Your Imprint Rewritten is a 12-week, self-study, deep work experience for those eager to do more to uncover their generational echoes. This online program is a companion to my book, "The Imprint," and was created for those of you with the desire to dig deeper in your own transformation.

Including guided audio, educational videos, thought-provoking prompts and practices, and a workbook designed for true integration and reflection, I built this immersive course to offer more for those who want to reclaim a life that belongs only to them.

This is where your true story begins.
Dare to know yourself, and by doing so, rewrite your legacy.

08/21/2025

Early morning vibes 🖤