My journey with ERT began in 2019. I learned about it and tried a session. I remember feeling a ton of sensation in my arms and my hands locked into claws as I laid face down, enduring the pain. It wasn't until the fall of 2025 that I did a 4 day ERT workshop with Pat Jackman. At that point, I was ready. After years of working jobs that I hated and feeling generally miserable, my life was just beginning to move forward out of a place of depression, directionlessness, and isolation. My father had also just passed from suicide. This workshop was so needed. I broke down, I learned to trust people a little more, and I took the deep dive into my body and emotions that had felt so stuck for so long. I knew for a long time that I would enter a healing journey at some point, and that I would learn a modality so that I could be of service to others. It was just a matter of timing and finding the right modality. There was nothing quite like ERT. It is raw, deep, real, vulnerable, and powerful. I didn't want to leave a healer wondering if anything really happened. With ERT, you can feel it. The energy moving through your body, the emotions you get to fully immerse in, and the freedom to express what you're feeling in any form it comes is unlike anything I've ever done. Not to mention the RELIEF that is felt after a session. ERT creates a space where everything is okay. It's not about self-improvement. It's about entering into what is already inside of us, waiting to be seen and felt.