My name is Chan Osanyìn (they/them) and I’m a Black, mixed-race, queer, and trans spiritual person. I have been through varying experiences that have brought me to this path - the way out of the Patriarchy and into a rather enjoyable life and livelihood. All of this happened as a testament to my own grit and determination, which is at the heart of the LGBTQIA and BIPOC experience.

I absolutely love what I do. I love this community. And I have experienced many of the struggles too many of us have faced. I have lost a lot of loved ones, become estranged from my family, transformed from the inside out, and learned to love myself so deeply I refused to compromise on my very existence. I’m sure you know the feeling.

My work here is deeply important to me. As such, I have been almost clinical in terms of my own healing. It has been a life-long pursuit of mine to figure out how to heal the deluge of trauma I was handed by my birth parents and society. And within the past couple of years I finally found the golden key, through my mentor, spiritual teacher, and huge source of inspiration - Emily Waymire - in the depths of my final battle to exit the Patriarchy. I could not have found my Purpose without her. And I will always be deeply grateful for her patience and wisdom.

In terms of my career, in a past life I was a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner and a learning & development expert. These experiences, while helpful, taught me a lot about myself. First, that I would always be learning. I am at any given moment both a student and teacher. And second, that you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves. That lesson came to me through a lot of difficulty. And I am grateful to know that now after many years of personal and professional suffering.

I have been seeing clients in the spiritist arts since 2014, where I entered the world as an herbalist. Herbs are the medicine of the earth and I’ve been so lucky to connect with my spirit team throughout the years and get to develop a fuller relationship with them.

So I am looking forward to working together. I have story after story of harrowing journey where I had to figure out how to do this thing called Life and navigate some pretty tough challenges. And I’m happy and grateful that I’m still figuring it out (being alive is pretty weird and wild 😆).