Featuring Dr. Chrissy Stachl
Tuesday, April 28th | 5:30pm – 7pm Pacific Time
Sexual shame doesn’t live only in the mind—it lives in the body, and often, most acutely in our relationship to our genitals. The discomfort, the silence, the reflexive disconnection we feel when asked to simply be with that part of ourselves is the accumulated weight of social norms, religious conditioning, systemic marginalization—systems that have long depended on controlling bodies to maintain power. In this talk, Dr. Chrissy Stachl, a somatic empowerment coach and PhD-trained scientist, explores where sexual shame comes from, how it lives in the nervous system, and what it actually costs us to carry it unexamined. This is an invitation to understand the roots of your own relationship with your body, and consider what becomes possible when those roots are finally upended.
Dr. Chrissy Stachl
Dr. Chrissy Stachl is a somatic empowerment coach, trauma-informed practitioner, and organizational change consultant based in Oakland, CA. She holds a PhD in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, a background in neuroscience and medicine, and 600+ hours of somatic coaching training—a combination that lets her bridge intellectual rigor with body-based, emotionally attuned support for her clients in a unique way. Through her coaching practice, Chrissy works 1:1 with high-achieving adults who look successful on paper but feel quietly disconnected, overextended, or unfulfilled inside. Together with her clients, she unwinds patterns of over-functioning and self-abandonment, rebuilds the capacity to feel joy and desire, and supports a return to internal authority rather than external validation. Through Reflecting Equity, her organizational consulting practice, Chrissy supports STEM organizations in creating cultures that can actually hold the discomfort that real culture change requires—integrating nervous system literacy and relational safety into equity and culture work. Her career has never been linear. Every pivot—from pre-med to chemistry, from academia to consulting, from consulting to coaching—has been an integrity-driven recalibration toward work that honors both the body and the mind. She brings all of it into the room.
Coaching: www.chrissystachl.com
Consulting: www.reflectingequity.com