Life & Work with Clarissa Antoinette of West Hills, CA

Today we’d like to introduce you to Clarissa Antoinette

Hi Clarissa, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Hi there,

My name is Clarissa Antoinette, but you can call me Riss. My story involves rediscovering myself and finding my passion for holistic healing, once I left my hometown Stockton, CA and headed to Los Angeles, CA in 2014.

My parents split when I was 3 years old. I grew up with duality, my dad lived on the south side where I witnessed gangs, poverty and survival and I also grew up on the North side with my mom, which is where I experienced safe neighborhoods and this sort of upper middle class lifestyle. Many of my life experiences left me in a low place of poverty consciousness, emotional wounds and people pleasing. This way of feeling continued from 2014-2020 while I lived Los Angeles. I was also taking on a lot of heavy traumas and triggers that I couldn’t seem to overcome.

Once the pandemic hit, my life spiraled into a path I never imagined. As I slowly was getting introduced to meditation, crystal healing and vibrational sound therapy, I witnessed myself begin to feel a desire to go deeper into my healing journey. This curiosity of learning how to embrace my story and my past led me to attract many holistic healers and be apart of the community.

I began to indulge in creating my own services and community on social media and in LA County under the name ‘Essence of Riss’. I started a podcast in March 2024 called ‘Essence Podcast’, and I share how to heal the inner child, reparent ourselves and how to come back to our essence by creating our lives the way we imagine them to be. In addition, I am sharing the many ways we can take care of our energy. I host sound baths and co-host private events/ day retreats. I also provide a 1 on 1 service called ‘Restorative Energy Session’, where I use tools such as Tuning Forks, Reiki and Sound bowls to help restore the clients energy within the mind and body.

Our story is important and holds the key to our freedom. The way we feel and think create the current version of our story we are living now and our essence of who we are is what I am here to help us remember.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
As I continue to pursue sharing and working in holistic wellness, I have noticed few challenges that have risen from my healing journey. It has been a work in progress of fully accepting my past and let go of the energy of people and experiences that no longer serve me. I created the podcast to not only share my passion for energy healing and my knowledge/ interests in science & spirituality but to also to overcome the fears and doubts I have that stem from my past.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Energy healing is what I specialize in. Everything is energy.
My passion, my motivation and my love for service all stems around sharing how every thought and feeling that you express is energetically creating your health, your environment, your present moment and all around lifestyle. Your energetic hygiene is just as important as your other personal hygienic routines such as taking a shower and eating healthy. My focus on sharing helpful practices and tools as well as providing services are created to bring awareness to how important our energy is. In addition, I love bringing awareness to the inner child. The inner child knows how to experience life without shame or regrets. The connection to our inner child holds the key to our freedom to create. To release the old scripts of our past begins with the awareness of how our adult self thinks and feels within and without. To learn how to create with organic self expression is a journey that will lead you to understanding how your energy is everything and how energy healing can help restore the parts of you that have been frozen in time from the experiences of the past.

What matters most to you?
The freedom to create matters most to me. There are many of us just like myself who have created our lives based off of our family and societies opinions. There are many of us who have to hide who we are or what we love in order to be accepted, loved or valued. To gain back what is rightfully ours which is the freedom to create what our hearts desire is my mission. I truly believe healing our past can help us move forward in the direction of creating our future with freedom instead of fear.

Pricing:

• Restorative Energy Session: $40

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/essence.of.riss/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CCCWNCBd7wabi5ngcqGRlXYGVz9U4Vs
• Other: https://calendly.com/essenceofriss/restorativeenergysession

Image Credits
Amanda Hamaday