Connecting us back to ourselves — and to the human in each other.
Christa brings nervous system science, embodiment, and hard-won experience from over a decade of anti-human trafficking work to conversations about lasting change, belonging, and what it really takes to stay whole while doing meaningful work.
Christa Mayfield spent nearly a decade building educational programs, advocacy services, and community partnerships inside Houston's anti-human trafficking sector — first as Director of Educational Programs at Unbound Houston, then as the founder of Good Sustained, a wellness organization she created specifically for helping professionals impacted by the trauma they intercepted.
What she learned in those years became the foundation of everything she teaches now: that lasting change starts at the root, that our worst habits are nervous system stories, and that the distance we feel from people different from us is a problem the body can help solve.
Today, Christa coaches clients, produces community events, speaks on stages and podcasts, and is completing her B.S. in Sociology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. She is a certified health coach, trained in motivational interviewing, complex trauma recovery, cultural competence, and ethical storytelling.
Christa excels in long-form, interview-format conversations. She comes prepared, stays present, and leans into dynamic connection over static talking points. Every topic below connects to lived experience, not just frameworks.
How our nervous system shapes every relationship, habit, and decision — and what it means to work with it instead of against it. Accessible, embodied, and grounded in real-world experience.
Why willpower fails and what actually works: getting underneath the habits we can't break to address what's driving them. Practical, soulful, and deeply human.
How we distance ourselves from people we can't relate to — and how to build the kind of real, embodied connection that leads to justice and healing, not just tolerance.
Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and nonprofit burnout — what no one tells you before you spend years caring for others. For helping professionals, coaches, and leaders in service.
Links to additional episodes and clips available on request. One-sheet and audio samples available for podcast hosts.
Individual and group programs empowering clients to carve out a life that aligns with who they truly are — not the identity their circumstances handed them. Nervous system–informed, embodied, and deeply personal.
In-person gatherings and recorded conversations designed to put people in the same room who otherwise might never meet, tending to the love of our neighbors through shared stories.
A salon and laboratory for soul-centered leaders — a space to think, create, and build from the inside out, together.
Launching soonChrista is available for podcast interviews, speaking engagements, and panel conversations. She is based in Houston, Texas, and available for remote and in-person opportunities.
She responds to every inquiry personally.