About Me, Your Empowerment & Connection Coach

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MY APPROACH

Welcome, dear human! I’m Erin.

I’m a homegrown Seattleite, people-loving introvert, nature bather, nonfiction bookworm, creative dreamer, truth teller, and old soul.

I love helping people access greater authenticity, release conditioned ways of being, and step into their intrinsic worth and natural brilliance through one-of-a-kind programs and coaching.

Nothing lights me up more than helping people experience new levels of well-being, fulfillment, connection, and joy—all by unlocking the inner freedom to simply be who they are.

The art of authentic, empowered living isn’t something we learned in school (and in fact, most of us internalized the opposite). We do our best to get by with what we picked up from role models along the way, but rarely does this give us the kind of nuanced, personalized guidance we’re truly seeking.

I’m passionate about illuminating everything we never learned about finding inner alignment and building genuine connection.

Most of us never learned:

• How to love and accept ourselves

• How to discern between our fear and our intuition, and trust the latter

• How to set healthy boundaries in a clear, kind way

• How to move through conflict, heartbreak, and pain without self-abandoning

• How to examine and unlearn our conditioning

• How to be courageous and vulnerable

Now more than ever, these skills are vital to our thriving.

They may not be simple or easy, but trust me, they can be learned—and we’re going to need them if we want to create a kinder, more beautiful world together.

Here’s what I want for us:

• To stop wasting time stuck in reactive patterns, drama, unhealthy relationship dynamics, unproductive conflicts, and stressful self-talk.

• To live with more intention, presence, and freedom.

• To be more grounded and compassionate; more connected, authentic, and resilient.

• To remember who we are, and open our hearts to each other.

• To seek and create joy so we can savor the everyday magic of being alive.

• To feel worthy, and whole.

MY TRAINING AND BACKGROUND

My coaching is informed first and foremost by my intuition and experiential wisdom, and bolstered by a wide variety of powerful approaches (see below). I have been studying empowerment, communication, spirituality, and personal and relational healing intensively since 2013. I’m genuinely passionate about learning new ways to support clients of all backgrounds, and always exploring new tools to enrich my coaching toolkit.

My tools include: the research of Brené Brown, the Internal Family Systems framework, Core Energetics, Mindfulness Meditation, the trauma healing teachings of Gabor Mate and Peter Levine, the antiracism teachings of Anna-Brown Griswold and Holistic Resistance, the thought leadership of Glennon Doyle, The Work of Byron Katie, the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Attachment Theory, The Pathwork, The MindBody Code, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), among many others.

Using this unique blend of modalities, I help my clients realize that there are important acts of well-being we all have the capacity for, when we are shown the way. Things like…

• How to feel our feelings. All of them.

• How to find our truth and speak it with love, again and again.

• How to accept ourselves even when others don’t, and accept others even when it’s hard.

• How to meet life with grace, grit, and an open heart.

• How to mourn, forgive, heal—and try again.

Here are a few guiding principles that make my work unique:

• I focus on unwinding your patterns from the root rather than treating the symptoms, because I believe our patterns don't need fixing, they need healing at the source.

• I emphasize settling your nervous system and cultivating self-compassion rather than engaging in heady dialogue, weighing pros and cons or brainstorming solutions, because I believe grounded self-compassion is the doorway to finding your most life-serving solutions.

• I focus on emotional attunement and surfacing your intuitive wisdom rather than using logic and mental gymnastics, because I believe the best answers come to us through our hearts, bodies, and souls.

• I prioritize helping you feel your feelings in your body vs. simply talking about them, because I believe our emotional experiences must be felt in order to truly be understood and transformed.

• I offer new paradigms for you to play with, rather than prescriptive rules for how to live or behave, because I believe the most aligned choices come from seeing our lives and relationships from a new angle, and experimenting freely.

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MORE ABOUT ME

I have a feeling you’re probably kind of curious about who I am as a person, not just a coach!

Here are a few more things to know about me, in no particular order:

• I love reality TV shows that document transformation—Queer Eye, Tidying Up, Dream Home Makeover, you name it… Call me cheesy, but I seriously love getting teary-eyed watching people gush about the positive changes in their lives!

• When I was little, my parents were distraught to find that I had cut open the comforter on my bed with a pair of scissors. When they asked me why I did it, I said matter-of-factly: “I wanted to see what was inside.” This pretty much sums up my approach to work and life, ha! I’ve always been fascinated by looking deeply into things and understanding their inner workings.

• I played cello competitively in a youth orchestra for most of my adolescence. In my early 20’s, I traded in my cello for a ukulele (way more portable) and have been composing my own songs on the uke ever since.

• My husband and I met in our 9th grade Language Arts class at Garfield High School in Seattle. He was voted best dancer, I was voted best facial expressions (both still accurate). We were just friends back then, but we reconnected in 2018 and fell in love. The rest is history!

• I’m a highly sensitive person. I used to be ashamed of how overwhelming life felt for me sometimes, but now that I’ve learned to understand my high sensitivity, I actually experience it as a superpower.

• When I was 18, I left a prestigious college and followed my heart to backpack solo through Latin America, knowing almost no Spanish. I journeyed through 13 countries in 8 months on a shoestring budget. I came home a brand new person, and a bona fide hispanohablante—I ended up minoring in Spanish, and even started my own Spanish tutoring business! I’ll always be grateful to myself for taking that adventure; it shaped me in more ways than I can express.

• I adore everything Brené Brown creates. Her work has spoken to me powerfully since I first read “The Gifts Of Imperfection” back in 2011 (still one of my faves), and I always look forward to her podcast.

• I secretly love pranks. Nothing actually cruel, just playful ones. I’m too chicken to really do them on people, but watching them on TikTok or America’s Funniest Home Videos is kind of my happy place.

• I lived in Hamburg, Germany for a couple of years in my mid-20’s. I taught English language pre-school by day and waitressed at an Irish pub by night. (Coincidentally, interacting with 3 year-olds and drunk people actually requires a very similar skill set, lol).

• When people first meet me they often think I’m soft-spoken and reserved. But the people who know me the best know that deep down I’m a huge goofball! I love being silly, finding humor in unexpected places, exchanging funny stories, and having a good belly laugh.