Erica Hepperle

Last night I hung out with my most impactful mentor (we didn’t take photos)

A coffee shop work date turned into us actually never even pulling out our computers because the conversation just kept flowing.

While we aren’t in a mentorship container at the moment and over the years we’ve built a beautiful friendship…there’s something I admire so deeply about the relationship we’ve built!

There’s a s**t ton of humanness in it!

While she is one of the most brilliant and embodied souls I have legit ever met, she always reminds me that it’s okay to be human!

We exchanged vulnerable shares about this wild time we are living in and the challenges and shifts we’re both moving through!

And I shared.
And she shared.

and we were just wild, open and vulnerable!

And by the end of the evening, I wanted to hire her again!

Because she reflects something so beautiful back to me through her vulnerability & embodiment!

Mentors aren’t super humans!
We go through s**t!

And just because she shared her current season of shifts & challenges didn’t make her any less qualified to lead!

Why?
Because I don’t want a mentor who always has it all together!

Because when s**t gets hard… how will they know how to guide me?

I don’t want a mentor who is always happy.

Why?
Because then that would mean there’s some spiritual & emotional bypassing happening!

I want a mentor that can hold herself through the challenging and trying times!

Because that’s courage & that’s where the wisdom flows from.

There’s something so beautiful about a mentor who is going through her own s**t and has the raw lessons to share with you as her wound closes.

There’s something so magical about a mentor who can go through tough seasons and still hold her clients through enormous breakthroughs!

There’s something so empowering about a mentor who is raw & real because she is leading from her heart!

And as I have shifted into being a leadership mentor, I feel that’s the piece I have stepped sharing.

The side of me that struggles.
The ups & downs I experience as a business owner.
The misalignment that happens.

And although it’s vulnerable AF… I know I MUST share it!

So stay tuned for the ride 🙊

Yes, there’s no doubt that doing the inner work changes you internally…

But not a lot of people talk about how crazy the external transformation can be!

It’s still so crazy to me to think both of these are me 🤯

When I first embarked on this journey it started with my body!

Deep into bodybuilding, I had crazy body dysmorphia and an eating disorder.

Which later lead me to losing my cycle for 3 years and spun me into wild hormonal dysfunction.

Through the help of acupuncture, essential oils, Chinese herbs and a whole entire lifestyle change…. I was able to get my cycle back the natural way!

& This is where I fell in love with holistic health!

Simultaneously, it was suggested by my naturopathic practitioner to really soften into everything I was doing!

I had only known a life of hard work.

I had only known to be strong through the repression of my emotions!

If something was “wrong” with me…I had to figure out how to “fix” it & if I couldn’t do that…I would ignore it.

Operating deep in my masculine was what I was taught!

It was my survival mechanism which was contributing to the dysfunction in my body!

Your body keeps score of every repressed emotion, every unhealed wound, every traumic experience you turn your head away from.

Those live in your body!

So I dove deeper into somatic experiencing and sexological body work!

That is where everything really started to heal!

My eating disorder went away completely.

My relationship with myself as a woman grew immensely.

I was LIBERATED from things that had NOTHING to do with my body!

Passion.
Love.
Self Intimacy started to become my new norm!

& this is the work I do with my clients.

It changes the trajectory of their whole life.

It cultivates deep self intimacy!

And this weekend, I was reminded to share this when I had the gift of facilitating this work with a few of the amazing soul’s in ceremony!

This is big work!

No amount of “mindset” or personal development or even subconscious reprogramming have the power to heal the way you can when you work with the body!

I’m so excited to birth this new opportunity to do this work in a year long experience!

Something big is coming for the whole woman!

If it doesn’t turn you on…it definitely won’t do anything for your audience.

My social media break illuminated a significant disconnect for me.

I was outsourcing my pleasure to the dopamine hits Instagram was providing me.
Checking my phone… ten, fifteen & even twenty times a day.

While simultaneously, frustrated that I was feeling creatively blocked.

The more blocked I was… the more pressure I would put on myself to show up.
Which is one of the huge reasons I was intuitively nudged to take the break.

I didn’t know it at the time but my feminine was yearning to be the source of her own pleasure again.
To call back her unfiltered expression.
To remember the magic that she is without all of the external noise.

My creativity was feeling like a dried up, wilted rose with a tight bu****le.

Why?
Because I wasn’t prioritizing pleasure as my main source of creation.

Unconsciously putting all of these rules and “shoulds” on how I was supposed to show up.
The pressure of my growing “To-Do List” being the driver instead of my pleasure.

So in comes the sacred pause.

My feminine was yearning to be expressed through a fuller and deeper intimacy.

Don’t get me wrong… she has had time for expression everyday but she yearned for more.
Not just in ritual or ceremony but weaved in and threaded through everything I do.

“Follow your turn on”
“If it’s not a f**k yes. It’s a no babygirl”

And then the flood gates of pleasure opened and then so did my creativity.

That’s the beauty of pleasure.
When you allow yourself to experience pleasure in everything you do…
Your heart softens.
Your womb opens.
Your pelvic floor relaxes.

And you suddenly feel full of ideas ready to be birthed through you.
You move through life in overflow

It is here that “LACK” has no place.

And your creativity opens again.

Put your logical mind in the back seat and let your turn on take the drivers seat!

I’m backkkk my loves!
Are you ready to go on this ride with my deeper expression?

3 more days to enroll in Liberated Legacy!
I feel 2-3 more of you sitting on the edge of your “YES”

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