“I am a successful female in the male dominated engineering field working with Erin to continue staying in a positive and self-supporting space.  There are not enough words to express my gratitude for finding Erin to work with, thank you Jessica – my old trauma therapist.  Erin is an amazing therapist of many modes (DMT, Reiki, Etc.) who is so far out of the box there are no clients that she would have trouble connecting with and helping them to help themselves by achieving their best authentic self.  

Highlighting a few of Erin’s skills would have to include her ability to draw out emotions that have been locked inside the body for years.  She knows how to work with clients at their pace, unlocking and slowly or quickly identifying the issues keeping us from moving forward in our lives.  Having worked with Erin since 2017, I have learned a method for drawing out these emotions through dance, art, music, or other modes of movement.  Where it has taken years to advance in self-identification, I can now say I confidently understand exactly where I am, what I need to continue working on, and how to navigate challenging situations in work, life, and relationships.  I would not hesitate to recommend working with Erin to discover your best self by releasing old non-supportive patterns, learning ways to communicate with others, and how to create / carve out time for the needs of your body that have needed attention for years.”

"When I think about how those pictures and the movements within the pictures make me think about what I would not only tell my younger self, but maybe what my older self, words of wisdom from her as well. So what I would say is in in the photo where I'm kind of like in my power pose, what that makes me think of is wanting to to tell my younger self that the answers are always within me, that they're In my body, that I am always connected to myself and to the earth, and that, you know, whenever I'm scared or uncertain or worried or start to spiral, the truth and the answers actually just exist in me, and I don't need to look further. Sometimes it does require feeling that connection to the ground. And so that's what I would tell my younger self, is move and know that groundedness is just inherently in me and that is okay, and that moving that body and energy around, sometimes the answers come from within.

I guess the other thing that I would want to tell my younger self is that regardless of where I'm at, that it is okay to turn off my thinking brain and give her a rest and a break and sometimes knowledge or answers or just a realization of like, what a true statement is to me that I never realized before, that that answer can come from my body and that I don't have to overthink and overanalyze and and use that cerebral part of me that sometimes almost confuses me more, that like the most satisfying truth, actually comes from my body and just by moving, by moving my arms, without thinking, by moving my hips and my legs and my neck and my head, that sometimes a truth is uncovered. The kind of messages I feel like I get from my older, my crone self has a lot to do with not sweating the small stuff, understanding that I'm okay, and that when I'm not only physically in a circle of women, of friends, of support, but I can also harness that within myself too, and that I can dip into that whenever I need to access it. That all is truly well and that the truth is here.​

I think that [going on] the retreats allows for me to get out of the the intensity of my life, but also to just have nothing else to focus on but myself and my thoughts and my movements, and it's the novelty of it is also really important to me, I think, because it's just, there's nothing like it, it just kind of stirs up Magic in me, and that's why I am so happy I did not only [go on] the first but then the second retreat."

“I’m standing at the stove waiting for water to boil and I realize it’s a moment I’ll never have again, that I need to mark the moment just until the water boils. Stretch my arms, turn in a circle and peer into the pot to see the bubbles. I’m alive in the moment, feeling more alive because I’ve moved, just a little bit. 

And then, there are the ideas and suggestions that have been accumulating over the past few months of 52 Weeks of Movement. Week 43: falls and missteps, or even the fear of missteps. I moved my body to try out falls, to feel the fear of falling or failing, or, instead to feel solid.  Or, in week 21, exploring pleasure, fun, and feeling good when I was barely a month into healing from a serious accident. Through movement I discovered ‘feeling good’ by taking the time I needed to care for what felt vulnerable and hurt. It meant moving cautiously and carefully, but moving, nonetheless. 

Breakthroughs in how I understand myself and my relationships are not the intent, but they happen because I’ve given myself time in short moments, such as the one by the stove, to just move. They happen in longer stretches of time when I let ideas filter and settle, when I feel and understand them by moving my body.”