About Erin
I climbed the whole ladder. Then my body said no.
Pro sports. Advertising. Consulting. Tech. I climbed to leadership at Microsoft and quit one month after my last promotion. Not because I had something better lined up. Because I'd stopped recognizing the person showing up to the meetings.
Where I've been
The longer version
How I actually got here.
I spent two decades climbing. Pro sports first — the Mariners, then the Seahawks. Then advertising. Then consulting. Then tech, where I made 2nd-level Director at Microsoft. On paper, I was winning.
In my body, I was disappearing.
One month after my final promotion, I quit. Not impulsively. I sat down with my financial advisor and ran the actual numbers — how long I could go without a paycheck, what I needed to cut, what runway I'd built. I reduced my monthly burn. I made the leap legible to the part of me that needed a spreadsheet to feel safe.
Then I did the harder math. I went back through every reason I'd stayed when I was miserable. I met the parts of me that had been running the show — the achiever, the people-pleaser, the one who equated rest with failure — through IFS work. Not to silence them. To understand what they'd been protecting me from, and to give them a different job.
Underneath all of it: 15+ years of my own therapy. A long relationship with Buddhism, Stoicism, neuropsychology, and somatics. A 200-hour yoga teaching certification. A somatic mind-body practitioner certification. Currently in ICF-accredited training toward my PCC (Professional Certified Coach).
I also write. I founded Rebels Who Write in Bend because I believe the page is one of the fastest ways to find out what's actually in your head and heart — and most of us never give it the chance.
The tools I use with clients come from all of that study — and from the part I lived myself. I won't ask you to go anywhere I haven't already gone.
What informs my work
The lineage behind every session.
None of this is theory I read in a manual. These are the rooms I've spent years in, the practices I run my own life on, and the lens I bring to yours.
Somatics
The body keeps the receipts. We work with sensation, breath, and impulse as honest data — not metaphor.
Internal Family Systems
The 'parts' of you that kept you in a job you hated aren't enemies. They're protectors. We meet them, not override them.
Buddhism
Impermanence, attachment, presence. The seat I sit in as a coach is steady because of years on the cushion.
Stoicism
What's yours to control, what isn't. A practical philosophy for people who used to manage everyone else's reality.
Neuropsychology
Why your nervous system runs the show, and how to actually shift it — not just talk about shifting it.
Mindfulness
The capacity to sit with what is, without flinching or fixing. The foundation everything else is built on.
Writing as practice
I founded Rebels Who Write in Bend because the page is one of the most honest mirrors we have.
15+ years of my own therapy
I won't ask you to go anywhere I haven't already gone — usually twice.
My philosophy
The body remembers what the mind forgets.
Real change happens when we include the body in the conversation. Your shoulders know if you're lying to yourself. Your breath knows if you're safe. Your gut has been voting for a while. Somatic awareness and mindfulness aren't fluffy add-ons — they're the fastest path to knowing yourself clearly enough to choose differently.
We use every channel available — breath, movement, parts work, writing, stillness, and the kind of conversation that doesn't flinch from what's actually true.
My coaching tenets
The ground I stand on.
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I'm here to help you see the best parts of yourself and what sets you apart.
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We're all doing the best we can with what we have in any given moment.
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You have all of your own answers. I'm here to help you find them.
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You can't go somewhere you've never been doing the same things you've always done.
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I won't coach you past a point I haven't gone myself.
My promise as a coach
What you can count on.
I will always lead with kindness and always be honest with you.
Your life is unique. I'll treat you with a customized approach.
You'll leave every session with a tool, practice, or go-do.
Everything we talk about is confidential.
If I don't know the answer, I'll find someone who does.
I won't keep you here longer than you need to be.
I'm always open to feedback.
What clients say
In their words.
Erin is a great mix of empathy, empowerment and accountability. She helped me see a clear path through something I never thought I would get through.
I don't think I've ever met anyone I can say really changed my life the way Erin did. I trust myself again and can honestly say I'm thriving.
The combination Erin brings of corporate leadership experience combined with nervous system and mindset work is not something I thought I would ever find. She saw our team in a whole new light and taught all of us how to work better together.
Erin taught me how to find myself and stop living for what other people wanted from me. I have confidence now and love myself for who I am — I'm making decisions I never thought I'd have the courage to make.
What I believe
Your job is something you did. Not someone you are.
Burnout is information, not a personal failing.
Rest is a strategy, not a reward.
The body is wise. It remembers what your calendar made you forget.
The next right thing is almost never the obvious thing.
You can build a life that doesn't require you to leave yourself.
Stillness is not empty. It's where the real answers live.
