DEEP HARBOR
Make a Different Choice
How Is Your Life Now?
Do you feel like life is just an endless to-do list?
Are you satisfied with your life as it is today?
Imagine becoming your own best supporter!
Coaching with Eric
“For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea
My approach is client-centered, keeping your needs, goals, and values at the forefront. Together we will create a space in which asking hard questions - the ones we work so diligently to avoid - can be asked.
We will work just as hard at finding those hard answers as well, and growth though exciting, is often challenging to those various sacred cows you may knowingly or unknowingly hold.
But sacred cows are for tipping*
With the understanding that all power is in the present moment, I will work with just about anyone that is ready to do the work.
By whose values and rules are you living? Yours, or ones you just inherited and work so hard to maintain, yet you never chose them. What is holding you back? What is silencing your voice? What is constraining your choice?
*Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. This is an urban legend. I grew up on a farm, and learned to not disturb cows while they are sleeping.
you may stop and simply be
“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
The Starfish of Resilience
The Starfish of Resilience is a journey of awareness into your life and where you are spending your attention. In the process, you will remove that which is not serving you and add back in time, space, and awareness to create your best life.
Happiness is a Habit
Research shows that happiness is often a choice—a habit that people cultivate. Those who are truly happy have learned to maintain their power to choose how they react to life’s events. This resilience gives them the energy to navigate life with awareness and confidence.
Make Room for Happiness
Small, intentional changes can open the door to a happier, more fulfilling life. By shifting your perspective and making different choices, you can infuse your life with new energy.
Leashed to Your Devices?
Technology is supposed to make life easier, but instead it often adds more tasks to our day. Micro-moments of time throughout the day - burning up your precious attention.
The Myth of Multitasking
For years, we’ve been sold the idea that multitasking makes us more efficient—juggling texts, emails, instant messages, chat apps, and even phone calls all at once. But the truth is, multitasking is a lie. Our attention is fragmented, making it harder to focus on anything fully.
Where Is Your Attention?
The Tech Industry has mastered the art of capturing our attention using human psychology against us. Devices, Apps, Ads, Email, Social Media, the 24-hour news cycle AND now the endless short-form video content further addicting us to quick hits of dopamine.
Make a Different Choice
Starfish Map
The Starfish Personal Map is the tool we will work with together to create. When we meet, I work with pen, ink and watercolor paints to capture what we uncover together.
Chatting comfortably, we work through each step in the process in a relaxed and curious manner. Utilizing a tool called a Personal Reading using common playing cards, we will uncover hidden insights and map out the 5 arms.
At the end of our time together, your current Starfish Map will be completed. I will let the Map dry and then pop it in the mail. Some clients stick it on their fridge to remind them of the course they have plotted, others place it on a home altar. Some fold it up and carry it in their pocket to have with them as a reminder of what they have chosen and to have it handy to make edits and additions as they get more insight.
Make a Different Choice
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd, “Salt from My Attic” 1928
I am a Certified Professional Coach (CPC). I completed my training locally at the ICF accredited Invite Change with their 16 month CPC program in Transformational Coaching.
I current hold a current credential of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
This reflects my dedication to providing high-quality, ethical coaching that creates a safe, supportive environment for clients.
With 10 years as a professional landscaper and 25 years of experience in the tech industry, including time at Microsoft (10 years), Amazon (5 years) , Groupon (4 years) and Apple, I incorporate tools like Needs-Based Awareness (NBA), Emotional Intelligence, and elements of Nonviolent Communication aka Collaborative Communication (NVC) to empower you beyond our sessions, ensuring growth and clarity throughout your journey.
Transitioning from blue-collar work to the tech industry in my 30s taught me invaluable lessons about imposter syndrome, boundaries and saying “no” gracefully.
I learned about servant leadership in high school youth group of all places, and find the echoes of what I learned there in the secular business version of servant leadership.
As my professional career grew in the tech industry as a Quality Assurance Analyst, from Microsoft to Amazon, I became aware of the massive push for people to judge their lives by how “productive” they are. Having watched “productivity” devolve into just being “busy” I began to look into redefining productivity for myself. I encourage all my clients to so the same. “Being busy” is not the same as being productive.
After a year of working 6 day weeks early in my career at Microsoft, and realizing my early-career mistake of missing all that family time, I learned the lesson that the corporation will take whatever you give (time management and work-life balance are yours to define),
With the advent of AI, and the massive push by almost all tech companies to blindly run down this path, and as I was working to wedge more AI into Siri at Apple in 2025, I realized I would no longer work in the tech industry, severely limit my personal use of AI online where possible, and moved to the education of humans.
Currently, in the mornings, I am a paraeducator at local school district working with special needs students in a vocational program and I am currently pursuing my Master in Teaching, Special Education degree (2026,27). In the afternoons and evenings I am a professional coach.
(AI-free zone: All rambling sentences, misspellings, and poor grammar are my own.)
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
-K.Gibran, The Prophet 1923
What is Coaching?
“Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.
We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfillment.” - ICF
ICF Code of Ethics
I am an ICF trained and PCC credentialed professional coach. I take seriously and work by the code of ethics developed by our professional organization and find all of them are required in setting a clear coaching agreement between coach and the person being coached. This agreement creates the safe “container” for the coaching process to work its magic and enables the session to go deeper faster.
The current Code of Ethics pulled March 1st, 2021 are below and the pdf can be found here.