A 60-minute somatic coaching call for people living with chronic illness, chronic pain, chronic stress, or complex trauma who are done trying to think, push, pace, and plan their way into healing — and want a clear, grounded, body-based place to begin.
Feel safer, calmer, and more at home in your own body, without forcing yourself through another overwhelming plan, having to learn more information, or constantly trying to manage your chronic symptoms and stress levels.
Inside this personalized session, we will identify the survival patterns keeping your body on high alert or stuck in dissociation, practice helping your system access calm in real time, and map the next step that actually fits your capacity, symptoms, and life right now.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how your body is still actively responding to what you’ve been through, a few somatic practices you can use in real time, and a grounded next step towards feeling less controlled by symptoms, stress, and overwhelm.
“THANK YOU for teaching me how to work through the stress around my symptoms in the moment so that I don’t become stuck and frozen in it all the time anymore! It’s now much easier for me to pause, regulate, and then decide what I need throughout the day – and how much my body can do without over-exerting or crashing later.” - Anna
One-Time Call: From Overwhelm to Calm
You don't need another overwhelming plan...
You have probably been told to reduce your stress, pace better, rest more, set stronger boundaries, create a sustainable work schedule, and stop pushing yourself so hard.
And maybe you’ve tried so many things. You attempted to work less, or to create a schedule that’s more aligned with your chronic illness. You downloaded the worksheets and read all the books. You talked through the problem with professionals (maybe even for years). You tried all the stress management tools and techniques. You promised yourself you would rest. You tried to explain your needs more clearly to others. Maybe you even studied or took courses on nervous system work, trauma or mind/body healing, attachment patterns or parts work, etc.
But then despite everything you’ve tried, your body still seems to take over in a moment of stress… before you even realize what’s happening or can put any of what you’ve learned over the years into practice.
So you freeze when someone dismisses what you need or says something insensitive to what you’re going through.
You overexplain at the doctor’s office or shut down completely, and struggle to advocate for yourself as a result.
You try to rest, but guilt pulls you back into doing.
You try to pace, but stopping feels more threatening than pushing.
You try to pay better attention to your body, but your symptoms or bad flares send you into freeze or panic, which makes it so difficult to know how to take care of yourself.
Your thoughts and emotions overwhelm you and you can’t seem to shut them off.
You become stressed or confused around big and small decisions, and you have no idea where to go from here.
You know that you need more help and support, but you find it so difficult to lean on others and you’re used to being the emotional support to everyone around you instead.
You want your life to feel bigger again, and to focus on the things you love rather than symptom and stress management - but your body keeps bracing as if everything is still unsafe.
If this is where you are, I want you to know this: it makes sense.
You are not stuck because you need more discipline. You are stuck because your body has learned survival patterns that don’t shift just because you understand them intellectually. The work is not to force your way into calm, better boundaries, more rest, healthier relationships, thinking more positively, having a fuller life, etc. The work is to help your body experience enough safety to choose something different.
This call is for you if chronic symptoms and chronic stress are taking up so much space that there is not enough energy left for the life you actually want.
It’s for you if you keep landing in patterns like people-pleasing, caretaking, over-pushing and then crashing, freezing, shutting down, or feeling guilty every time you need rest.
It’s for you if medical appointments activate you, boundaries feel impossible in the moment, making decisions around your physical / emotional health feels so confusing, work feels hard to build around your body, or your world has become smaller than you ever wanted it to be.
It’s for you if you feel like your current friendships, relationships, community, etc. are not always supportive of, or are sometimes even hindering, your healing process – and you want to finally build loving, safe, secure attachments that add to your life and allow you to finally feel seen and known.
It’s for you if you have started to feel afraid of or overwhelmed by your own thoughts, emotions, and sensations – and want to start to learn how to help them move through with ease (so that they can release out before becoming SO big or out of control).
It’s for you if you’ve had to start to shift your life around your chronic illness but don’t know how to navigate the grief and fear that comes up or start to build something new and fulfilling in the midst of it.
And it's for you if you are not looking for another generic plan or stress management approach. You want to understand what is happening underneath these patterns, work with your body directly, and leave with one next step that fits the capacity you have right now.
“Erin helped me out tremendously in a season where I experienced so much anxiety and so much fear on a daily basis. We did many practical exercises in our sessions together that always felt safe and supportive. She is so welcoming and so present, and I felt so much comfort during my time with her. I would leave our meetings with great tools to help myself to be present with my body in times when my anxiety attacks or intense physical symptoms would come in and overwhelm me.”
- Victoria
This call is for you if your life has started to feel smaller and more limited than you want it to.
What we will focus on together:
Inside this 60-minute call, we are not trying to fix your entire life in one session. That would not be realistic, nor would it be supportive to your nervous system.
Instead, we will identify the pattern creating the most stress, urgency, or stuckness right now, and we will work with it in a way your body can actually take in.
We may look at why rest still feels unsafe, why boundaries feel threatening, why your body keeps driving you into over-exertion, why speaking up in medical or relational settings feels so hard, or why your healing efforts have started to feel like another full-time job.
Then we will practice. Not just talk about the problem. Not just analyze why it exists. We will notice how stress, overwhelm, shutdown, or anxiety show up in your body and start helping your system access more regulation, safety, and choice in real time.
After our 1 hour call:
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of the survival state or states you tend to move into, and why your body keeps responding this way.
You’ll have simple body-based tools you can use when anxiety, shutdown, guilt, urgency, or overwhelm start taking over.
You’ll know what to focus on first, so you are not trying to overhaul everything at once, burning yourself out, and wondering what is actually working.
You’ll have stronger language for the experiences making it hard to rest, set boundaries, ask for what you need, take up space, show up consistently, or feel connected to yourself and others.
You’ll have a better understanding of what can help you to build a fuller life around your body’s real capacity, symptoms, and recovery process.
Most importantly, you will leave with a felt experience of what it can be like to shift from survival mode into more calm and presence in real time.
Not because everything is solved in one hour. Because you finally have a starting point that works with your body instead of fighting against it.
“When activated, I am able to orient myself to my space, body, and emotions. I can name what I am feeling which helps me to know how to better take care of myself. This helps me feel more confident in walking through situations moment-by-moment.
The tools that I learned… have helped me hugely in being able to speak from the heart, stay more calm while sharing, and start forming respectful and supportive relationships with people. Something I didn’t think I could do before because I couldn’t stay connected and aware of what was happening in my body.”
– Linda
Why this call is different:
A lot of chronic illness and trauma healing support tells you what to do from the outside and stays focused on behavior and mindset alone.
Pace better. Rest more. Reduce stress. Set boundaries. Manage your schedule. Think differently. Talk it through. Try another tool.
Those things can help, but they often do not reach the part of your body that has been living with chronic symptoms, chronic emotional stress, medical trauma, relational stress, and years of pushing through things that felt impossible.
Somatic nervous system work is different because it brings your body into the process.
Instead of only naming why you are overwhelmed, we track how overwhelm shows up inside your body and what your system needs to feel safer now.
Instead of handing you a long list of assignments or healing modalities to “study,” we focus on the pattern that matters most today.
Instead of assuming one method works for everyone, we pay attention to your history, physiology, capacity, symptoms, and what your body is communicating in the present moment.
What happens inside the 60 minutes?
First, we clarify what feels hardest or most urgent in your life and body right now. This might be the push-crash cycle, chronic symptoms, work, rest, relationships, medical appointments, grief, fear, anxiety, shutdown, or the feeling that you do not know where to begin anymore.
Next, we identify the nervous system pattern underneath it. We connect the dots without forcing you to relive everything or move faster than your body can handle.
Then, we practice body-based nervous system work together in real time. This may include gentle noticing, orienting, grounding, tracking sensations, or other somatic practices that help your system access more presence and regulation in the moment.
Finally, we choose your next step. You will leave knowing what to focus on first and how to use the practice in your real life, with your specific energy levels, symptoms, and capacity in mind.
What this call can help with:
This call can support you if you want to start shifting patterns like over-pushing and crashing, feeling guilty when you rest, freezing or fawning around other people, struggling to speak up for yourself, disconnecting from your body, or not knowing how to build a life that honors your chronic illness without making your world feel painfully small.
It can also help if you have tried a lot of mental / emotional healing approaches and still feel like something deeper keeps pulling you back into the same exhausting patterns.
This is not a promise that one call will resolve chronic illness, trauma, or every survival strategy you have carried. It is a supportive place to begin with more clarity, more regulation, and a more compassionate understanding of what your body has been trying to do for you.
This 60 minute call is a really good fit if:
You want a gentle, personalized place to begin and you are open to body-based nervous system work.
You are tired of forcing yourself into strategies that do not match your capacity, and you want support that considers your history, symptoms, stress patterns, and real life.
You feel like spending years learning and talking about healing has not brought the emotional or physical relief you’ve been trying to work towards.
You are willing to slow down, notice what is happening in your body, and take one grounded next step instead of trying to do everything all at once.
This call might not be the right fit if:
You are looking for a quick fix, a diagnosis, medical advice, or someone to tell you exactly what to do in every area of your life.
You want to bypass the body and only talk through the problem intellectually.
You do not have a history of chronic stress or chronic symptoms of any kind.
You are not open to more holistic and nervous system-based ways of supporting your healing.
You do not have any specific healing goals or areas of your life that you'd like to work on during our time together.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can one call really help? One call is not meant to resolve everything you have been carrying. It is meant to give you a clear, supportive starting point. You can leave with a better understanding of why your body has been responding the way it has, a real-time experience of regulation, and a next step that feels doable instead of overwhelming. If you want continued support after the call, I can also share the options that may make sense for you going forward.
What if I do not have much energy right now? That is completely okay. This call is designed to meet you where you are. We will not move faster than your body can tolerate, and the practices we explore are simple, gentle, and low-energy. Many of the people I’ve worked with have done this call from their bed or couch with the camera supported so it’s easier to just relax and take it in.
Is this therapy? This is coaching and somatic nervous system support (based in Somatic Experiencing, one of the leading modalities for trauma resolution – visit traumahealing.org for more information on this type of healing modality), not therapy or medical treatment. We may discuss trauma, chronic illness, stress patterns, and your body’s responses, but the focus is on helping you understand your nervous system and practice body-based regulation in a safe and accessible way.
What if I have tried therapy, pacing, or stress management tools before and it didn’t help? That is exactly why this work may feel different. We are not just talking about the issue or giving you another strategy to manage your stress, symptoms, etc. We are looking at how your body learned to survive and what it needs in order to begin feeling safer and thriving now.
What will I leave with? You will leave with a clearer understanding of your nervous system patterns, insight into what may be keeping you stuck, simple body-based tools to practice, two foundational worksheets on your nervous system states to continue to reference and use throughout the day on your own, and a grounded next step for your recovery journey.
What clients often notice afterwards:
Clients often come into this work blaming themselves for not being able to rest, set boundaries, or stop pushing.
As we slow down and listen to what the body is communicating, they start to see that these patterns are not personal failures. They are nervous system responses that once made sense.
That shift can create more compassion, more clarity, and more space to choose something different.
“THANK YOU for teaching me how to work through the stress around my symptoms in the moment so that I don’t become stuck and frozen in it all the time anymore! It’s now much easier for me to pause, regulate, and then decide what I need throughout the day – and how much my body can do without over-exerting or crashing later.”
- Anna
A gentle, first step back towards yourself.
You deserve support that does not make your body the problem.
You deserve a space where your symptoms, stress, grief, fear, hope, and desire for an abundant life are all taken seriously.
And you deserve a way forward that honors what your body has survived while helping it experience something different now.
If you are ready to stop forcing your way into calm and begin practicing what safety can feel like from the inside out, I would love to support you.
Hi there, I'm Erin
I am a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Complex Trauma & Chronic Illness Coach, and I help people with a history of illness and trauma feel safer, calmer, and more present in their minds and bodies through somatic practices and nervous system regulation.
I know this work personally because I have lived it. After a 32-year journey with severe chronic illness, chronic pain, and complex trauma, I know what it’s like to feel constantly anxious and then shut down, overwhelmed by symptoms, and exhausted from trying approach after approach without any lasting relief or progress.
I also know how much can change when your body finally becomes part of the healing process. Through consistent nervous system regulation, trauma resolution, and support that went deeper than surface-level stress management, I began creating meaningful, lasting shifts in my symptoms, stress levels, quality of life, and sense of possibility.
Somatic (body-based) nervous system work helped me build an extremely fulfilling life, career, and community around what my mind and body actually need. It has also helped me to significantly improve my once debilitating chronic symptoms (in addition to working with brilliant practitioners and doctors).
As someone who is intimately familiar with the long journey of coming home to yourself after an extensive history of illness, stress, and trauma - I hold this work with humility, care, and respect for each person’s unique pace and healing path.
That is why I am so passionate about helping people with chronic illness and trauma find a clearer, gentler roadmap — one that does not ask you to abandon your body or override it in order to heal it.