Hi, I’m Erin
I teach the visual somatic journaling tools I’ve created to steward myself through the fear, uncertainty, and excitement of major life transitions and personal reinventions.
In a world that is constantly asking us to disconnect from ourselves, perform, and over-give… we are often left exhausted and numb. We need a way to pause, reset, and recenter. We need to recover inner joy, inner hope, inner alignment.
I’ve learned that embodied, creative self-expression, through journaling, is what reunites me with my most vital energy. I’m passionate about sharing this practice to help you do the same.
Meet Your Instructor
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Meet Your Instructor 🎨
Artist, Teacher, Mystic, Storyteller, Designer.
I’m certified in facilitating expressive art therapy, shamanic healing, and story work.
But the thing I’m most well known for is my unique journaling practice. This is where I tie all of these modalities together to invite and witness personal transformations.
Expression is Magic
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Expression is Magic 🪫 → 🌈
How journaling brought me home to myself
“When was the last time you felt like yourself?" My doctor asked me. That moment, during a routine checkup in 2023, put words to the heaviness in my chest and my heart.
I’d spent 15 years in corporate tech. I had a resume with impressive company names. A salary that offered me financial stability. But I was feeling disconnected from my vitality. My spark was dimmed.
When something lands, I give it color.
A typical week was an endless stream of context-switching and performative meetings. Then couch-rotting until the Sunday Scaries set in, and it started all over again.
I thought about his question.
When was the last time I felt like myself?
It was when I expressed myself without performing.
It was in my journal.
“No one tells you this absurdity: sometimes you can fake it, somewhat make it, only to realize you don’t even want to be there.”
—Kat Koh, Be the Hollow Bone
When I don’t have words, I use doodles. Stickers. Collage.
My journal is where I go make the invisible visible. Through color, images, words, or usually a combination of all three.
I once satisfied my urge to express loathing of a banal meeting using pencil shavings and masking tape.
My pages don’t need to be profound.
They’re just for me.
They hold everything I've moved through as I found my way back home.
Things I’ve journaled about and learned over the last decade.
The shift from corporate tech to teaching started with a phone call.
A longtime friend was reading about how our attention is constantly being stolen from us. I realized that's exactly what my journal gave me back. She reminded me how much she loved my pages.
I thought about it.
Maybe this is something I could teach?
“If we don’t rev our creative engine regularly, something inside us withers.”
—Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling
Intuitive color palette paired with words and blind contour self portrait
Today, I teach people the expressive journaling practice I've developed over a lifetime of journaling. The one that brought me home to myself.
I do this slowly, intentionally. In small groups.
Because creative self-expression without being evaluated is the most healing thing I know.
What students are saying
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What students are saying ✨
Erin really opened my mind to thinking about my journal differently. Before I would just write and write and write. You have so many different exercises and tools and techniques, it’s like a tool belt for all of the different things that you might want to accomplish and process and understand and connect with.
This incredible course came at a critical time in my life. It is helping me to reconnect with myself in a way far beyond journaling with words or zoning out. I’m deeply grateful for the energy and care Erin puts into connecting and making a safe place to express and learn from and with others.
Thank you.... you have no idea what you have just said has been something I have longed to express and be seen for it. Your class has contributed to making a breakthrough for me. Thank you for empowering me and giving me courage to express myself in this way.
I want to do more doodles in my journal! I guess I've been SUCH a text person that all these visual elements are unlocking some child-like freedom in my head. It’s already helped pry open a tiny spark of me that’s been numb for years.
My soul needed that. I'm grateful that you're igniting all this creativity in us! This has been a game changing for my energy way to slow myself down even more and activate something different
I feel like a member of this special little group that we can be vulnerable and creative and thoughtful and silly all at once. I love the energy of that group right now. It feels safe, welcoming, energizing, supportive.