OUR STORY
Shop of the Heart was born from the shared vision of Juelz and Cristhal—partners in life, spirit, and creative devotion. After decades of walking parallel paths in healing, sacred design, spiritual guidance, and ritual arts, this is their first unified offering to the world.
Together, they offer more than services or products—they offer a field of remembrance. A return to what matters most: connection, presence, beauty, and love in action.
Their work now flows through CJ Coalescence, their shared practice, and through Shop of the Heart, the tangible home for that practice. Here, they bring forward sacred objects, soul-rooted experiences, and personalized rituals to support those in transition, in longing, or in quiet becoming.
This is not just a story of a couple.
It’s a story of what happens when two lives converge — and choose to build something sacred in the everyday.
Meet Rev. Cristhal Bennett
Ordained Minister. Licensed Hypnotherapist. Visionary Designer. Seer. Healer. Guide.
Cristhal is not just a spiritual guide—she is a multidimensional healer rooted in lineage, trained in theology, and devoted to grounded transformation. Her work doesn’t float in abstraction; it touches what matters most: the breakdown of connection, the crisis of meaning, and the urgent need for healing at the level of spirit, body, and home.
For over 40 years, Cristhal has supported individuals, couples, and families across cultures to reconnect with their soul’s wisdom and remember who they are—especially in the face of grief, disorientation, trauma, or transition. She brings forward honest, loving insight through her clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient abilities—gifts entrusted to her through generations of spiritual women before her.
As a licensed hypnotherapist and interfaith minister with a Master of Divinity from the Graduate Theological Union, she combines rigorous training with sacred inheritance. Her sessions—whether through intuitive readings, spiritual coaching, or energy work—are precise, personalized, and directed toward real transformation
Cristhal’s approach is holistic, yet deeply practical. She works in collaboration with her clients’ own sense of truth and reality. Whether supporting a woman through aging, guiding a family through intergenerational trauma, or helping a young Black or Asian adult rediscover life after suicidal despair—her work confronts today’s most pressing emotional and spiritual wounds, not with bypass or platitude, but with presence, clarity, and spiritual intelligence.
Over the last six years, Cristhal has also quietly been changing people’s lives by changing their homes. She has guided her clients in selecting clothing, reshaping interiors, and renewing the energy of spaces with a deep intuitive eye. Her design sensibility is intimate, ancestral, and full of vision—grounded in beauty as a source of healing.
Meet Juelz
Juelz brings a rare synthesis of soulful vision, ritual sensitivity, and lifelong design wisdom into everything he touches. At the heart of his work is the belief that beauty is not an accessory—it’s a form of truth, an act of protest, and a means of healing.
With decades of experience in design, construction, ecological restoration, and somatic inquiry across several continents, Juelz has cultivated an approach that honors both place and presence. His work speaks to the intelligence of water, the language of soil, and the spirit of land. He has spoken nationally on the future of ecology and the spiritual potential of design—from New York and Philadelphia to Alaska, California, Seattle, and Hawaii. His work has earned national awards for projects that fuse natural systems with human environments.
His original design method, developed over many years and now braided with Cristhal’s unique vision, is more than a tool—it is a philosophy of integration. Together, they explore the weaving of form, function, and the unseen forces that make a space feel whole.
Juelz has also taught grief work and self-defense, studied trauma resolution, and developed both personal and communal rituals of resilience. His work is as much about healing as it is about building.
Beyond his professional life, Juelz is a lifelong percussionist who once performed with the University of Washington Percussion Ensemble—a rhythmic sensibility that continues to shape his design flow and creative presence. From a young age, he was drawn to inner disciplines and subtle energy—curious about the link between body, mind, and spirit. That early spark still informs the depth and awareness he brings to every project.
As co-creator of CJ Coalescence, Juelz brings all of this into living partnership with Cristhal—artist, oracle, and spiritual guide. Together, they are forging a path that unites intuition and embodiment, landscape and soulscape, personal memory and collective longing.