Crystal Oakman, LLC

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 🖤

08/20/2025

How often do we miss the sacred, simply because it isn't rare?
New Substack post: The Veil and The Sea

https://crystaloakman.substack.com/p/the-veil-and-the-sea

08/02/2025

It’s time to start planning your fall. And Carlisle is going to be the place to be. 🖤

Fall is in the air today and it's getting us excited for spooky season.

Mark your calendars because you want to make sure you are a part of Spellbound: A Downtown Carlisle Halloween Event happening October 22-26, 2025. More details coming soon.

07/31/2025

In horror, understanding the ‘why’ is how you stop the bloodshed. In life? We rarely ask.

https://crystaloakman.substack.com/p/the-anti-yoda-and-the-dean

07/23/2025

This is a long read but an absolutely fascinating article. It highlights the gap we’ve seen in the mental health field of cases where psychiatric symptoms can be alleviated or even cured with treatments that focus on the body and not the mind. It speaks to the harm we have done by the specialization and disconnect between psychiatry and neurology and physical health. And it gives hope. Some very smart people are starting to put the pieces together, and we could be getting enough data now to really make a difference in a whole lot of lives.

When Christine was nine years old, her mother, Mary, said, “Come here. I want to tell you a secret.” Mary said that a man she had known in medical school, a professor, was sending her messages about a plan to take her away and live in a mansion together. Mary leaned over and began separating strands of Christine’s hair, as if searching for lice. “Does he put listening devices in your hair?” Mary asked. “Does he ever ask you to say things to me?” Christine said, “I believed everything she said until she accused me of something that I knew wasn’t true.” Mary had always been tender and doting and practical. Christine said, “I just had this feeling in my body that she was not the same.”

After years in and out of psychiatric hospitals, in 2023, Mary collapsed in her bathroom and struggled to move. She was taken to a hospital in Brooklyn, where the doctors discovered that she had lymphoma, a sometimes fatal form of cancer. She began a treatment that combined chemotherapy with rituximab, a medication that targets antibodies involved in the body’s immune response. When her daughters visited her at the hospital, Mary responded to their questions with one-word answers. Her face had a vacant expression. They thought she was dying. Mary did, too.

Two months after beginning chemotherapy, Mary was moving a little more freely, and she had begun to carry on conversations. Her daughters noticed that her personality seemed different: she was calm, outgoing, and polite, and she often expressed gratitude. Christine had the same feeling in her body that she’d had when her mother first became ill—the sense that something at Mary’s core had changed. By the summer, Mary’s cancer was in remission. She hadn’t taken antipsychotics for months, and yet “her psychotic symptoms are gone,” a doctor wrote. Christine told the doctors, “She had a 20-year psychiatric history. Have you heard of this? Could any of her medications have caused this?” Rachel Aviv reports on the connection between autoimmune disorders and psychiatric conditions—and what happens when a mental disorder is suddenly cured: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ISVtbv

07/21/2025

Wanna frolic? Here’s a fun way to get outside, explore, and enjoy life for a while. 😍

PAINT A ROCK, HIDE A ROCK DAY
Thursday, July 24th
Downtown Carlisle

Paint A Rock, Hide A Rock Day is Thursday, July 24 and I want YOU to celebrate with me. I have hidden 50 Carlisle themed painted rocks throughout Historic C1 District of Downtown Carlisle (map in the comments) and I WANT YOU TO FIND THEM. All of the rocks are numbered and have my signature on them. If you find a rock, please, post it on social media and tag me () and use hashtag so I know it has been found.

Paint A Rock, Hide A Rock Day is a day dedicated to painting and hiding rocks, often with a specific theme or design, encouraging acts of kindness and joy.

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST and help me spread the word about Paint a Rock, Hide A Rock Day on Thursday and join me in finding some rocks in Downtown Carlisle.

All rocks will be hidden in the C1 Historic District of Downtown Carlisle which covers from West Street to Bedford Street and Penn Street to South Street.

The rocks will be visible and will be outside. NO ROCKS will be hidden inside businesses or in areas that are blocked to the public.

Once all of the rocks are found, I will post on my social media that there are no more rocks to be found.

07/18/2025

Not all thirsts are for water.
Not all oases are real.
Before you chase the next desire, read this.

https://crystaloakman.substack.com/p/the-mirage-of-want

07/16/2025

Truth