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MEET YOUR GROUNDED GUIDE
My Story
Welcome! Since you came here to know more about me, let me formally introduce myself, I am Erin 😊 It is a pleasure to meet you!
While I could go into my certifications, my love for spoons, or my dream (soon to be a reality) of owning a donkey, that wouldn’t really tell you what you came here to know: How and Why I help people transform from survivors to living their fullest lives.
To understand this, let’s start with my healing journey…
"I used to say I was a survivor—a survivor of sexual trauma, emotional abuse, growing up in a home with an addict, and suicidal thoughts that haunted me for 20 years and, at one point, I thought would eventually kill me."
What did surviving look like for me?
Debilitating perfectionism. Developing eating disorders. Overexercising. Morphing myself into someone I wasn't. Dissociating to the point I lost hours—sometimes weeks. Running away to different schools and states. Going to talk therapy on and off. Surviving kept me alive. At times, it felt like I was hanging by a thread. But I wasn't living. Like every Disney princess, I was waiting for a Prince to come save me—to fix me. My “savior” looked like reaching a certain GPA, hitting a number on the scale, finding a pill to get rid of my emotions, getting specific people to accept me, being successful by society's standards, or saving people. Because if I could accomplish those things, I’d finally feel enough—worthy and happy. I would constantly swing between severe depression and anxiety. I had a mountain of health issues, felt numb in my body, and kept looking for happiness outside of myself. I kept thinking, One day this will get better. This can’t be what life is… right? A couple of years ago, I decided that surviving wasn't enough. I wanted to actually live. That’s when I realized I am the author of my own story—and the hero was never going to be anyone or anything but me. Through my journey, I started exploring different modalities and approaches: somatic practices, neuroscience, and spirituality. Somatic practices helped me get into my body so I could feel safe enough to start actually feeling the emotions and events around my trauma. I had talked about those emotions and events at length—but I had never actually processed them in my body. Neuroscience techniques helped reprogram my brain around the self-limiting beliefs and stories that had been created from what had happened to me. Spirituality gave me a path to take radical responsibility for my life, understand my purpose, and find inner peace. Now, I’m no longer a survivor of what has happened to me—rather, I’m someone who has experienced those things. By finally feeling everything and confronting it all head-on, I was able to stop living in the past and start living in the present. It allowed me to step into my authentic self and start loving myself for the first time in my life. This is why I’m so f**king passionate about what I do—because I’ve been in it. But I also know what it’s like to be on the other side. We all deserve to love ourselves, to love our lives, and to be free from the prison our past may have trapped us in. My question to you now is: How will you write the rest of your story?
What is a Grounded Guide?
When I created my title, The Grounded Guide, I did it with intention so that it would encompass how I lead people through their own transformation.
Let’s Start With Why I Chose "Grounded":
A friend once described me as dirt—and while some people might have been offended, I felt honored. You know why?
Dirt, to me, represents the ground. And from the ground is where everything either starts, ends, or both: plants, animals, people, zombies (seriously, why are zombies always coming out of the ground?).
Just like the Earth, where there’s a constant cycle of birth, death, and rebirth—transformation works the same way.
I’ve changed a lot over the last 10 years, and every change came with a death: of a belief, a story, a resentment, a fear. And every time, it was followed by a rebirth: a new sense of self, a deeper awareness, a shift in mindset.
When I work with clients, it’s no different—which is why the work we do together runs so deep.
There’s no surface-level or performative healing here. We go to the places you’ve been avoiding—or maybe tried to go before, but it felt like too much. We can’t outrun what we’ve been through. It’ll wait for us until we stop, turn around, and face it.
And when we do? That’s where the magic happens.
Why I Call Myself a Guide:
I could’ve called myself a coach, mentor, or Queen of the Seven Kingdoms (any House of the Dragon fans?), but I chose “guide.” Why?
Let me ask you two questions:
Who knows what you’ve been through, how you feel, what you love, what you avoid, and why you are the way you are?
Who has to do the work to heal you?
Drumroll, please... it’s YOU.
I call myself a guide because I’m not here to heal you or tell you how to live. I’m here to teach you how to heal yourself.
I’ll assist, teach, and support you—but this is your path. How it goes is entirely up to you. If we work together for years and you’re still stuck in the same loops, I’m not doing my job.
My goal is for every client to leave feeling empowered and inspired—equipped with tools to support their continued growth and expansion. Or as the kids say, “leveling up!” (Not sure if the kids are still saying that, but someone is.)
You already have the answers. I’m just here to help you find them.
What's My Process?
My approach to healing is like planting a seed. You nurture it with water, sunlight, and care, patiently waiting as roots grow strong beneath the surface. Eventually, the plant emerges, blossoms, sheds old leaves, and reaches its full potential, ready to withstand any storm.
With that being said, I take a body (roots), mind (stem), and spirit (fully blossomed flower) approach.
Body
When we go through trauma, part of us stays stuck in the past while another part tries to push forward—leaving our present self almost nonexistent. We can’t heal in the past (it’s over), or in the future (it doesn’t exist yet). Healing can only happen in the now.
To be present, we have to get grounded in our bodies. Our bodies are our greatest teachers—they hold our emotions, felt experiences, and memories of pain. (And yes, those memories live in the nervous system too, not just the brain.)
But the body doesn’t speak in words. That’s why we can’t talk our way out of trauma—we have to feel it to heal it.
Somatic practices help us create safety within the body and nervous system, giving us the space to process unresolved experiences, build self-trust, and access deeper emotional freedom.
Mind
Once the body begins to feel safe, we can start pulling insights from it—stories, beliefs, and thought patterns shaped by what we’ve lived through.
That’s where neuroscience comes in. Using brain-based techniques, we shift the narratives that have kept us stuck and replace them with truths that actually support our healing and growth.
Most of us walk around thinking we’re not enough—not smart enough, attractive enough, worthy enough. Those thoughts are lies. And they’re exhausting.
But think about a newborn baby. We love them just for existing. They don’t need to prove anything to be worthy—and neither do you.
By strengthening the mind-body connection, we begin a cycle of safety: the body signals safety to the brain, and the brain signals calm back to the body. That’s how we begin to experience lasting inner peace.
Spirit
I weave spirituality throughout all my work, but I save it for last—because we don’t bypass the human. We came to Earth to live, to feel it all: joy, love, heartbreak, growth, expansion.
That’s why we start with the physical (body) and mental (mind), so we’re grounded before reaching for the soul.
So, why include the Spirit at all?
Because we’re both fully human and fully spiritual. And to truly come home to ourselves, we need both.
When we clear the noise—old stories, masks, and conditioning—we meet who we really are: a f**king unicorn of a human who came here to live an extraordinary, empowered life.
By stepping into spiritual awareness, we see the soul lessons behind our experiences, take radical responsibility for our lives, and align with our truth.
At that point, you’re not just raising your frequency—you’re straight-up levitating.