Hidden Gems: Meet Kristina Sanchez of Chrysalis by Kristina

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kristina Sanchez.

Kristina, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
For most of my twenties and into my thirties, I was the woman who was always in a relationship. I would jump from one relationship to another, and once I was in one, I had a tendency to lose myself.
I loved what my boyfriend loved. I put his needs before mine. I gave everything I thought a “great girlfriend” was supposed to give. Then, when the relationship ended, I would ask myself, “What did I do wrong? Why wasn’t I enough?”
I remember crying to God many times and saying, “I need help. I can’t keep doing this.”
I was raised Catholic, so spirituality, energy, and intuitive abilities weren’t things we openly talked about in my household. I was actually hesitant to explore them because my faith was and still is very important to me.
But in 2018, after hitting rock bottom in another relationship, I knew something had to change.
Around that time, a friend invited me to a metaphysical seminar that completely shifted my perspective. For the first time, instead of focusing only on what the men in my life had done wrong, I began looking at what I believed about myself.
I realized I had spent my whole life giving my power away because I didn’t truly recognize my own worth. I had been carrying beliefs and emotional wounds from childhood that were influencing what I accepted in relationships.
That realization began my own healing journey.
I started working on trapped emotions in my body, limiting beliefs, and relationship patterns every day. I wasn’t doing it simply because I wanted to find a better relationship. I reached a point where I wanted to heal for me. I no longer wanted to be the woman who questioned whether she deserved love.
As I healed, my God-given intuitive abilities also became much stronger. I began seeing and hearing things intuitively that I couldn’t explain at first. With guidance from mentors, I learned to understand, trust, and eventually use these abilities to help others.
By 2024, I realized the work I had done to heal myself could help other women who were struggling with the same feelings I once carried: “I am unworthy.” “I am unlovable.” “I don’t deserve love.”
And that’s when I knew I had found my purpose.
The pain I had spent years asking God to take away had become part of the wisdom I could use to help someone else.
That led me to create Chrysalis by Kristina.
The name “Chrysalis” represents transformation. A caterpillar doesn’t simply wake up one morning as a butterfly. There is a period of transformation that happens where no one else can see it, and I believe healing can be very similar.
Today, I help women identify and heal the protective messages, limiting beliefs, emotional wounds, and energies that can keep them feeling unworthy or repeating unhealthy relationship patterns. My goal is to help them come back to their own power and become open to the healthy, emotionally safe love they deserve.
In many ways, I’m helping the woman I once was. And I’m incredibly grateful to God that I now get to use my own journey to help another woman through hers.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Oh, definitely not! It was NOT a smooth road. But looking back, I can honestly say that if it weren’t for that road, I most likely would not be where I am today.
One of my biggest struggles was learning to trust my intuition and my intuitive gifts. In the beginning, I constantly questioned whether what I was hearing or seeing was “right.” No matter how many times I reached out to my mentors, asked questions, or received validation about my gifts, there was always that little voice saying, “Hmm… but is this really correct?”
Eventually, I realized that was my own self-doubt and ego creating noise, and I had to learn how to quiet it and trust what I was receiving.
Another major struggle was uncovering the beliefs I had carried with me since childhood. I began realizing that so many of the beliefs I held about myself, love, and relationships didn’t begin in adulthood. They went much further back.
Learning where those beliefs came from and how to heal them was one of the hardest parts of my journey. But once I began understanding their roots, something clicked for me. I realized, “I am here to break these generational patterns.”
I wasn’t just doing this work to heal myself. I realized I was here to bring healing to the generations before me, while creating a healthier path for the generations that come after me.
So no, it has not been a smooth road. But I can now look back and see that every struggle was leading me closer to where I was supposed to be.
Today, I get to take what I learned through my own healing and use it to help other women find their power, heal the beliefs and wounds that have held them back, and become more open to the healthy love they truly desire.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Chrysalis by Kristina is an intuitive healing practice that helps women heal deeper beliefs they may not even realize they are carrying, trapped emotions stored in the body, emotional wounds, and protective messages that may be affecting how they allow love and relationships into their lives.
One of the areas I specialize in is releasing what I call protective messages of the heart. When I tune into a woman’s heart space, these messages can appear to me almost like billboard signs carrying statements such as, “I hate men,” “Real love doesn’t exist,” or “All men cheat.”
The interesting part is that most women don’t consciously know they are carrying these messages. A woman may genuinely desire healthy, emotionally safe love while, on a deeper level, her heart is still holding onto messages created from past experiences to protect her from being hurt again.
That’s where my work comes in.
What sets my work apart is that I’m not just looking at her current or most recent relationship. I dive deeper into her energetic field and intuitively see or hear: When did this begin? Why does her heart believe this message? What happened that made her feel she needed this message to stay safe? And how can we release it?
Many times, when I bring up the situation connected to the message, the woman immediately knows what I’m talking about. Other times, she may not consciously remember the experience at all—and that’s okay. She doesn’t have to force herself to remember. I’m there to help her release what she is ready to let go of.
My goal is never to “fix” her. My goal is to help her understand why these protective messages were created and guide her back home to herself. I want her to begin loving herself again, recognizing her worth, and understanding that she doesn’t have to lose herself in order to receive love.
My work also extends beyond relationship healing. I offer intuitive energy healing and communication with animals, which has become an incredibly meaningful part of what I do. Just as humans can carry emotions and experiences that affect their well-being, our furry best friends need love, support, and healing too!
One of the things I’m most proud of is seeing Chrysalis by Kristina expand beyond remote sessions and into in-person healing experiences. I collaborate with a gifted sound bath healer to create women’s circles where I conduct collective intuitive healing, followed by a Reiki-infused sound bath to help the women integrate and receive.
But what I’m most proud of is witnessing the transformation itself.
I get to see women release beliefs and messages they may have carried for years—beliefs that were affecting how they experienced themselves, love, and relationships. After our work together, women have told me, “I feel lighter,” “I’m not reacting the way I used to,” or simply, “I just feel different.”
Those moments mean everything to me.
What I want readers to know is this: if you are a woman who keeps finding herself in the same relationship patterns and wondering, “What am I doing wrong?” I want you to know that you don’t have to keep blaming yourself.
There may be deeper beliefs, emotional wounds, or protective messages within you that were created during a time when your heart was simply trying to protect you.
Those messages don’t have to define your future.
You are worthy of healthy, safe love. And my work with Chrysalis by Kristina is about helping women release what no longer serves them so they can come back to themselves and become more open to receiving the kind of love they truly desire.

How do you define success?
Well, if we’re talking about healing, I believe success is quiet.
It’s not loud. It’s not, “Look at me! I’m healed!” It’s quiet. It’s soft.
It’s when that old trigger doesn’t bother you anymore. It doesn’t activate you the way it once did. It’s when something happens and you pause and think, “Hmm…the old me would have totally gotten angry about this,” but this time, you didn’t.
That’s success to me.
I see this with my clients all the time. A woman will come to me and say, “Kristina, he didn’t call me, and the old me would have gone crazy. I would have been checking his social media or wondering what he was doing. But this time, I just said, ‘Okay.’”
Sometimes they’re even surprised by their own reaction!
Those moments may seem small from the outside, but to me, they’re huge. Because that’s when you realize something within you has truly changed. You’re no longer forcing yourself not to react. You genuinely don’t feel the need to react the way you once did.
When my clients share those little but HUGE wins with me, those are the moments when I sit back and think, “Okay, Kristina. You’re doing something right.”
To me, that quiet change is where real transformation happens.

Pricing:

• Protect my Heart: Intuitive Heart Healing Session – $180/session – Sessions are available remote only. – A personalized 1:1 session focused on releasing protective messages of the heart that area ready to be released. Releasing limiting beliefs, trapped emotions stored in the body, and energetic imprints that may be affecting love, relationships, and emotional well-being.
• Animal Energy Healing + Communication: $140/session. Personalized intuitive energy healing and communication for animals.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.chrysalisbykristina.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrysalis_by_kristina/
• Other: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chrysalis_by_kristina