Hi, I’m Erin
I guide people who've lost their spark to reclaim themselves through expressive journaling in community. Here, your journal becomes a passport to your next evolution.
Meet Your Instructor
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Meet Your Instructor 🎨
Artist, Teacher, Mystic, Storyteller, Designer.
I’m certified in 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 use creative expression as a catalyzing life force, and teach others to do the same.
My journaling practice has transformed me from someone who once dimmed my light, to someone who protects my light by shining.
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.