🌱Going Deep: Healing Your Root Chakra

Hola! (OK this is a lil long but you’ll read it if you need it)

Did you know I created Infinityland to not just represent a physical place, but a state of mind? Let me explain…

All I ever wanted to be when I grew up was safe. The only place I ever wanted to be was at peace. I didn’t dream of things like getting married, having kids, or getting a fancy job. I only ever dreamed of having a home, a place no one could ever take away from me.

This year, I turned 35, and instead of passively hitting that milestone, I decided to give myself some damn credit for making it this far. Then, I got real serious about planning the rest of my life.

But here’s the thing: to do that, I had to take inventory of everything—and I mean everything. Every part of my life that didn’t align with the vision I hold for myself and my future had to GO.

Not only did I change my environment, I CHANGED my environment. I got a new phone number. I went through every single box in my storage, purging what no longer served me. Every friend, family member, or coworker who disrupted my peace? They had to go. And let’s not forget the mental clutter: I reprogrammed any lingering sabator voices and victim mentality to redirect my brain to affirming, empowering thought patterns.

This wasn’t an overnight thing—it’d been in process for two years.

At first, the purge was involuntary and it felt like the universe was gut punching me one after the other. Life started removing things for me before I had a chance to even make those decisions. From best friends, romances, to business partnerships, it felt like I was losing everything all at once and I couldn’t understand why this was happening to me. I couldn’t see yet that it was happening for me because I deserved so much better. Ending relationships, leaving roles that once defined me, and letting go of identities I clung to for survival was excruciating. But little by little, as I leaned into sense-making tools like studying neuroscience and CPTSD to better understand my mind, learning about my chakras, Birth Chart, Human Design, and the Buddhist practice of detachment to dive deeper into spiritual knowledge, and began to pay more attention to what my body was telling me about itself through my digestive tract and nervous system, I realized something:

What felt like things being taken from me was actually life removing what wasn’t aligned so I could step into my happiest, healthiest, most aligned self. My now.

✨ Here’s how I arrived at my Infinite Mind:

1️⃣ Take inventory.
I mapped out my life decade by decade and realized just how much my body and mind had endured. Here’s what that looked like: TRIGGER WARNING - SENSITIVE CONTENT.

• Ages 0-10: Parents’ divorce, addiction impacting my family, moving states, single mom’s cancer diagnosis, racism at school, and a grandparent struggling with mental health.

• Ages 11-19: Puberty, moving three high schools across three states, sports injuries, racism at school, grief from dog passing, grandparent struggling with mental health, undiagnosed anxiety, my mom’s cancer returning, my mom passing away, living with my volleyball coach my senior year after losing viable family support, and a turbulent first year in college.

• Ages 20-30: Unhealthy relationships, housing and financial insecurity, racism and misogynoir in various environments (school, work), workplace sexual harassment, and amplified physical and mental health struggles.

• Ages 30-34: Pandemic grief, my father's cancer diagnosis, losing 3/4 of my grandparents, ongoing workplace racism and misogyny, sexual harassment by investors, heartbreak from lost friendships/relationships, and the toll of medical surgery and mental health challenges.

As an only child with one parent who is deceased and another who doesn’t even know my favorite color, I grew up without a reliable support system—often feeling unprotected. Imagine those intimate life moments when you’re sick with a cold in bed, going through a heartbreak, or feeling crushed by microaggressions at work—and there’s no nuclear home to turn to for comfort, no parent or sibling to call for advice, no one to bring you a bowl of soup, or offer a hug. The world felt like a very scary and lonely place, constantly reinforcing that I had to fend for myself and figure it out—no matter how cruel the circumstances were.

While friends and family supported me as much as they could during times of real need, I was often reminded that I wasn’t actually their responsibility. That inner voice would echo: You’re a burden. You’re on your own.

I spent years overcompensating—trying to be the bubbliest so people would like me or leaning into my intelligence, only to be told that my joy came off as unserious or unprofessional and my three degrees made me "overqualified" for roles or dismissed as a "know-it-all" in workplaces with people who hadn’t had the same access to information I did. (Not to mention the neurodivergence sprinkled in there as well, which I’ll get into in a later letter). When I finally paused to reflect on all of this, I cried—profusely. I was always too much of this or too little of that. My body had been carrying so much for so long, and for years, I didn’t even have the words to describe what I was feeling. But once I named it—complex trauma, anxiety, a disregulated nervous system, abandonment, abuse—I could finally begin to heal.

2️⃣ Give yourself some f*cking credit.
I stopped waiting for anyone else to acknowledge my survival and started clapping for my damn self. Yes I’ve accomplished some remarkable things career wise (becoming an education director in my early 20s, a university professor and student affairs director, an award-winning artist, a venture-backed tech founder, earning my first grad degree by 24 and the second by 31 etc) but that wasn’t what I felt defined me. My testimony carries far more weight than any work accolade—and it deserves to be heard. In a society obsessed with individualism, job titles, salaries, investments, and endless cycles of work and consumerism (shout out to capitalism), I realized that I needed to be the one to validate my journey. My survival, my resilience, my smile—that’s my real achievement.

3️⃣ Focus on healing chakra by chakra, starting with the Root.
The Root Chakra is the foundation—home, safety, security, stability, finances—family. For someone like me, who grew up surrounded by constant instability, I had to make a choice: I needed to DECIDE and FOCUS on creating safety and security for myself to rewrite the next chapter of my life’s story.

When I reflected on all my travels, I asked myself, Which environment would make me feel the most grounded in my Root Chakra? Costa Rica was a no-brainer.

The move here wasn’t just about packing bags; it was about designing my life with intention. Intention to be immersed in the nurturing and nourishing sounds and sights of nature—surroundings that calmed my nervous system.

And let me tell you something I learned along the way: your Root determines your rise.

I listened to my intuition as my compass and it led me here. And to secure my spot in peace and with my chosen home, everything and everyone that didn’t align with my confident Root Chakra—had to go.

4️⃣ Plant seeds for the future.
The Sacral Chakra sits just above the Root Chakra and serves as the energy center of creativity, passion, and joy. It’s where emotions flow, ideas are born, and desires take form. For me, this chakra feels like home—the space I naturally gravitate toward, often bypassing the grounding necessities of my Root Chakra to dive straight into the wellspring of inspiration, imagination, and self-expression. Reflecting on this, I realize that my natural inclination to focus on my dream state within the Sacral Chakra also became a coping mechanism to navigate the shaky ground of my unstable Root. My imagination was often a safer place to be than my reality.

As a Manifestor by Human Design with an astrological Pisces Stellium, creativity is my native tongue. I was born to create, innovate, design, dream big, and bring new ideas to life. My Human Design is to create and initiate—which is distinct from maintaining. I’m meant to spark things up and then delegate to others to continue, freeing me to move on and create something new.

Understanding this innate trait about myself brought immense clarity and allowed me to give myself grace for my natural inclination to shift toward different creative directions after bringing a project to a certain point. Throughout my life, I had heard everything from "You dream too big, reel it in," to "You keep switching things," or "Why can't you just leave things as they are?" These critiques often made me question my instincts, but I’ve come to realize this tendency is not a flaw—it's quite literally part of my Human Design and natural flow of interest. So, I chose to embrace it—my imaginative mind—as a superpower.

My visionary skills truly shine in the early stages of building: getting things off the ground, passing them on, and moving forward to ideate and design what’s next. For the first time, I recognized that my talent as a visionary is a unique gift—not everyone has the ability to imagine, create, and iterate at this level. This realization helped me acknowledge my creative genius and lock in on my specific zone of genius. I began designing my life and career around this strength, partnering with those who excel in long-term execution to complement my abilities. (I’ll dive deeper into this in an upcoming newsletter.)

As a born creator, you can imagine how challenging it was to reprogram my mind to pause my innate drive to make some new creative thing and instead focus on aligning my Root Chakra first. But this reprogramming has been essential—it’s provided me with the solid foundation I need to pursue the aspirations of my Sacral Chakra in a more stable and secure way. While I’m currently grounding myself in my Root Chakra, I’m also planting seeds for my next phase in the Sacral Chakra. I can’t wait to unleash my next wave of creative potential, this time with an intentionally designed foundation that will allow me to truly thrive.

✨ Why am I sharing this?

Because this process—taking inventory, clearing space, and realigning—isn’t just for me. It’s for anyone ready to move out of survival mode and step boldly into an intentional life.

This is why I created Infinityland—not just as a physical place or an experience, but as a state of mind. Infinityland represents the power to tap into your infinite mind, affirming infinite possibilities from wherever you are, whenever you need.

Wherever you are on your journey, I hope this inspires you to take that next step toward your infinite potential. And as I share my journey to bring my dreams to life through art and adventure—know I’m planting with intention to support and share with you.

Sending you sunshine and seashells!

Pura vida,

Kristina 🌺

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