Hey there Beautiful Soul!
I am a passionate advocate for your inner + outer freedom. Supporting anything that brings you to the resting place inside where you can open. Open your mind to a space of awe + wonder, open your heart to expand as wide as the world, and open your body to breathe the deepest of breaths.
My Quest to Find How We Truly Heal
I have been on a journey for two decades exploring the ways that we grow and heal more deeply. When I think back, it started like a Dora the Explorer type of journey that quickly started feeling more like Outlander or Harry Potter! And I stayed on the safe paths as I followed the supposed-to's to all the graduations that lead me to a Master's in Counseling. I quickly knew I wanted more than what academia could give me as I questioned the limited way we were learning and really exploring healing on all levels (it seemed too surface level to me). So, I went on a search for how did people heal before Freud and those who wrote my counseling theories books?
Some of the major stops on this journey have been asking things like...
"How did people in ancient cultures heal?"
"When did we start bypassing and intellectualizing our emotions?"
"What is the mind-body connection?" (As I learned nothing about the body in college.)
"And can someone please tell me...If we are made of energy, and everything is energy, then where does our energy body fit into all of this healing?!?" (Crickets...)
Long story short, what I found is we grow and heal through "experiences", not through theory. That our Ego, personality, and patterning is made up of what the world handed to us as children and now we get the opportunity to revamp who we are. I learned that our body is one of our biggest teachers and must be included in our awakening. And that we are multi-layered, multi-dimensional humans, so when people say healing looks like an onion- that is a great image for our bodies, life- long stories, and armoring...But I also think of a huge Oak tree...Winding deep down into the earth, branches to sky, connected to all the trees. We are complex and we are simple...Both/And.
Some of the major stops on this journey have been asking things like...
"How did people in ancient cultures heal?"
"When did we start bypassing and intellectualizing our emotions?"
"What is the mind-body connection?" (As I learned nothing about the body in college.)
"And can someone please tell me...If we are made of energy, and everything is energy, then where does our energy body fit into all of this healing?!?" (Crickets...)
Long story short, what I found is we grow and heal through "experiences", not through theory. That our Ego, personality, and patterning is made up of what the world handed to us as children and now we get the opportunity to revamp who we are. I learned that our body is one of our biggest teachers and must be included in our awakening. And that we are multi-layered, multi-dimensional humans, so when people say healing looks like an onion- that is a great image for our bodies, life- long stories, and armoring...But I also think of a huge Oak tree...Winding deep down into the earth, branches to sky, connected to all the trees. We are complex and we are simple...Both/And.
We Go First
We need to be better because when we are healing ourselves, we are healing everyone and everything around us. Those of us that are here to create change on the planet- we came in as advocates, visionaries, healers + helpers - We have this beautifully tough opportunity the change the frequency of our families, workplaces, and the world. Say it with me...WE GO FIRST. We must ground ourselves to the earth and free up anywhere we do not feel free inside. You can see my learning obsession and all my gold stars below, but they are such a small part of what I needed to grow into myself.
The women who work with me get results in connecting to a larger life + opening their hearts to deeper acceptance of what it means to be on a path that feels like TRUTH. Helping you reconnect + embrace your authenticity is my JAM, because I wholeheartedly believe that your uniqueness holds the key to your brilliance.
I want to end as I normally do...hand on heart and by expressing gratitude. I am so honored to be a witness to the people that have crossed my path. I don't think there are mistakes when we cross paths or meet along this journey. This awakening work is such a sacred journey and to be a part of your unfolding is my greatest gift.
I want to end as I normally do...hand on heart and by expressing gratitude. I am so honored to be a witness to the people that have crossed my path. I don't think there are mistakes when we cross paths or meet along this journey. This awakening work is such a sacred journey and to be a part of your unfolding is my greatest gift.
Gold Stars:
- I am a registered therapist on Dr. Elaine Aron's Highly Sensitive Person website.
- LCPC- Kansas Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
- Licensed Kansas School Counselor Pre K-12
- Internal Family Systems Inspired Life Coach
- Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling
- Master's Degree in School Counseling
- Bachelor's Degree in Rehabilitation Education
- Advanced Clinical Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist from The Wellness Institute
- Therapeutic Breathwork Coach- Level 2 (Currently in Level 3)
- Certified with HeatherAsh Amara as a Warrior Goddess Training Facilitator + Warrior Heart Facilitator
- Trained Educator for The Gottman Institute
- Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider (CMHIMP)
- Heart Math Certified
- Trim Life Hypnosis Facilitator
- Meditation + Yoga Nidra Teacher
- Certified Medical Intuitive
- Certified in Play Therapy, KC Play Therapy Institute
- Energy Healing Facilitator trained in in Access Consciousness, Vibrational Healing, & Reiki Level 1 + 2
- Licensed Cosmetologist (since I was 19!)
"Highly sensitive beings suffer more, but they also love harder, dream wider, and experience deeper horizons + bliss. When you’re sensitive, you’re alive in every sense of this word in this wildly beautiful world. Sensitivity is your strength. Keep soaking in the light and spreading it to others.”
— Victoria Erickson
— Victoria Erickson
My Personal Awakening
I had my first cosmic 2x4/wake up call in 2008 while in grad school. I was knee deep in theories class when Eckart Tolle's book A New Earth came into my life (Thank You Oprah!). It opened me to theses bigger questions...What if all the things I believe about who I am are not true? What if there was a different way?
That scared the shit out of my ego-mind and army of inner protectors that love to remind me that we ONLY do things that fell SAFE. So I stayed on the linear life path and did all the "supposed to" things = Master's degrees, Marriage, and Micro-Managing Myself to look like I have it all together! Until one day I just broke. It got to heavy and too exhausting!!! And I realized the world was not made for people like me. It is too fast, too fake, + to egocentric. So I quit the "supposed to" life.
I used my last paycheck to go to a 6-day intensive training (imagine it like signing up for trauma-recovery bootcamp!) I craved a life I knew had to exist and I was ready to fight for it. Those 6-days cracked me wide open and what it shined light on were ALL of the UNEXPRESSED emotions of my entire life, years of "holding" it all together led to chronic pain (I thought I had Lupus)...here I was looking through the glass window of my frozen life. I made a commitment to do my inner work and I quickly started softening + defrosting - it was tough stuff and it was the MOST FREEING thing I had EVER experienced! I gave up a life of things that I thought I could not live without for a life most people could not understand. I knew that for me to move forward I had to let my old self or my "supposed-to self" identity be laid to rest and I had to remember who I really was before the world got ahold of me.
In 2016, I flew out to Sedona, Arizona to attend a Warrior Goddess Training. I spent 5 days in a container with HeatherAsh Amara and 55 other women. She was an apprentice to Don Miguel Ruiz who wrote The Four Agreements and was blending her magic with Toltec Shamanism that continued to open my mind to a larger horizon.
Little by little, I showed up to work with the wounded layers within. With every skin shed there was more space. And the space offered me a new set of eyes when looking at what my body needs. I created a new life where I let my nervous system have space and set firm boundaries around what I have room for. I worked to feel all of the spectrum of feelings and to stop intellectualizing them. I had to learn to sit in silence, open to my breath, and reconnected with life-force energy. I learned how to come home to myself. And that is what I want to help everyone do. As the layers release I had this room for more mystical experiences and a true remembering of aspects of myself that were buried underneath my frozen, survival energy.
I have the best teachers! I say that with so much enthusiasm because they are my lifelines. Being part of conscious groups are being in webs of love + truth telling that support me to stay awake to what I don't see. I will always have my own supports because I walk the path of truth and liberation. Who would I be as a conscious leader if I didn't know in my own body what freedom feels like?
To all of you that are going first, feeling first, and awakening first- I see you, I know you, and I am you.
That scared the shit out of my ego-mind and army of inner protectors that love to remind me that we ONLY do things that fell SAFE. So I stayed on the linear life path and did all the "supposed to" things = Master's degrees, Marriage, and Micro-Managing Myself to look like I have it all together! Until one day I just broke. It got to heavy and too exhausting!!! And I realized the world was not made for people like me. It is too fast, too fake, + to egocentric. So I quit the "supposed to" life.
I used my last paycheck to go to a 6-day intensive training (imagine it like signing up for trauma-recovery bootcamp!) I craved a life I knew had to exist and I was ready to fight for it. Those 6-days cracked me wide open and what it shined light on were ALL of the UNEXPRESSED emotions of my entire life, years of "holding" it all together led to chronic pain (I thought I had Lupus)...here I was looking through the glass window of my frozen life. I made a commitment to do my inner work and I quickly started softening + defrosting - it was tough stuff and it was the MOST FREEING thing I had EVER experienced! I gave up a life of things that I thought I could not live without for a life most people could not understand. I knew that for me to move forward I had to let my old self or my "supposed-to self" identity be laid to rest and I had to remember who I really was before the world got ahold of me.
In 2016, I flew out to Sedona, Arizona to attend a Warrior Goddess Training. I spent 5 days in a container with HeatherAsh Amara and 55 other women. She was an apprentice to Don Miguel Ruiz who wrote The Four Agreements and was blending her magic with Toltec Shamanism that continued to open my mind to a larger horizon.
Little by little, I showed up to work with the wounded layers within. With every skin shed there was more space. And the space offered me a new set of eyes when looking at what my body needs. I created a new life where I let my nervous system have space and set firm boundaries around what I have room for. I worked to feel all of the spectrum of feelings and to stop intellectualizing them. I had to learn to sit in silence, open to my breath, and reconnected with life-force energy. I learned how to come home to myself. And that is what I want to help everyone do. As the layers release I had this room for more mystical experiences and a true remembering of aspects of myself that were buried underneath my frozen, survival energy.
I have the best teachers! I say that with so much enthusiasm because they are my lifelines. Being part of conscious groups are being in webs of love + truth telling that support me to stay awake to what I don't see. I will always have my own supports because I walk the path of truth and liberation. Who would I be as a conscious leader if I didn't know in my own body what freedom feels like?
To all of you that are going first, feeling first, and awakening first- I see you, I know you, and I am you.
Other recent weavings of work that I bring in:
- The Journey Intensive with Brandon Bays
- Moving through the Pandemic: Collective Grief Work
- Family Constellations Work
- Healing Your Attachment Wounds: Dare 1 with Diane Poole Heller
- Vibrational Healing + Medical Intuitive Certification with CJ Martes
- Dance, Trauma, & Transformation
- Subtle Energy Training with Yvonne Christman
- Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS): Certificate Training
- Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider (CMHIMP) Training Course: Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals with Leslie Korn
- Herbalism with Good Earth Gatherings
"We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time. When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy. It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.”
-Mark Nepo
-Mark Nepo