Erin McElroy

Thinking of my friends and soul family in Mexico and sending love, strength, safety, and peace. Mi familia de Alma en Mexico, los mando amor, fuerza, seguridad, y paz. Los amo y extraño mucho.

If you want to experience abundance in your life, start with the most abundant gift there is…your breath. Give yourself a breath. And receive. What a gift! I’d love to share the gift of empowered, active breathwork with you. My calendar is open for 1:1s, partner, or private group Breathwork. Consider giving an experience as a gift these holidays. Or join me for VIRTUAL Breathwork: DEC 15th, 5:30-6:30pm MT - free! - sign up through @etc.hospitality DEC 16th, 3:00 - 4:30pm MT - sign up at the link in my profile or here: /breathwork #empowered #wellbeing #fullcircle #spiritualjourney #spiritualgrowth #transformation #breathwork #consciousness

March 2023 - Casa Serena, San Pancho, Mexico Welcome to Full Circle Wellbeing …all about going on the journey to remember and become your highest calling. I didn’t name my business, it named itself. The name just dropped in. And I held it for awhile and noticed all of the times someone would mention, coming full circle. It felt right. It’s about transformation on purpose, for purpose. It’s about empowered wellbeing. I did a little ceremony to accept the role as steward of this body of work that wants to come through me. And so much of the unfolding of it all took place in the pages of my journal. I have journaled most of my life. I love it, but I also NEED to do it. My thoughts and life come alive on the page. I learn, witness, receive, discover, intuit, intend, and create there. Magic happens. I love to teach journaling and I have all of my clients journal, in all of my offerings. (Bonus for journaling in color, it’s life-changing, trust me!) This weekend, I’m leading a journal workshop at True Nature Healing Arts in Carbondale, CO. Saturday, December 6, 4-6:00pm. You’re invited! Come! I’m also considering leading the 8 week journal program I led a few years ago, beginning in the new year. Stay tuned! Fun fact: the beach/sunset pictures here became the color palette for Full Circle Wellbeing And then, last pic: my papaya tree’s first fruiting 🧡

March 2023 - organic farm near San Pancho Mexico Meet Britta and this beautiful experience she created. This is her organic farm and she also travels around the country certifying organic farms. I am forever grateful for her organic veggie stand at the weekly farmers market when I was living there. You would get a bag, fill it with all sorts of greens and herbs and the most local, organic produce…weigh it, pay, enjoy, repeat. She offered this experience where we carpooled to the farm, harvested or own food, and then enjoyed a community meal together. EVERYONE, including the planet herself, benefits when we’re in conscious relationship with the land, the food we consume, and each other. I am part of a community called The Wellness Intelligence Collective (that is also the banner of the website, so look it up and join us!) who connects over kind food, kind people, and empathy economics… with the core value of ‘better together’. It is all about having an intimate relationship with all we consume and practice so that we’re empowered to thrive in health, vitality, and integrity. Find the best sourcing and care for everything related to your health and wellbeing. It matters. Community is so important. To learn together. To know better and do better. To connect. To witness each other. To express authentically. I am so grateful for those who value purity over profit (which don’t have to be mutually exclusive!) and who make meaningful contributions to the wellbeing of all. I am not sure I’d actually be alive without all of the healers, teachers, and kind humans who will not sacrifice integrity, in the name of aligning with true nature.

March 2023 - San Pancho The rose came into my life as a teacher and a way of being and I began to apprentice to her. I would buy a rose each week and sit with it, meditate on the spiral, the softness of her petals, her fragrance, the pierce of her thorns. I love that you can see her shadow here, as she has taught me as much about blossoming as she has about facing shadows. I would save the petals and use them as offerings to the ocean or Temazcal fires. These months were a very shadowy period in my life. I found an amazing, “out there”, unconventional, functional doctor (read the last post to understand why). He took a drop of blood and we looked at the live blood sample, amplified on the computer screen. It looked like an aquarium. He pointed out different types of parasites, heavy metals, hormone deficiency, inflammation…and one particular critter swimming around in my blood was a shock to him. He had never seen it before. He called his colleague and I heard him tell her to watch what she’s says because I understood Spanish. I’ve been on a long enough healing journey, that I know there is an emotional, mental, and spiritual component to everything physical. Time for shadow work… In what ways am I a parasite? (eek! Not a fun prompt to face) Why is it that they were there and thriving in me? What was the lesson? I could feel where I wasn’t taking up my space and sharing my voice and gifts and that this was destroying me, literally. I could feel the paradox between taking such good care of my physical health, but being lousy with emotional boundaries. So the parasites found a perfect home. And I began a great detox journey, including the detox of thoughts that make me small and actions that made me hide.

March 2023 reflections - I love the sun’s reflections here! Some days after my parents left, I got incredibly sick. I remember lying in bed, unable to move my body. Pain, fever, panic, the edge of psychosis, aching desperation…repeating the word love, love, love, love, love in my mind to stay alive. That’s how it felt. I had a profound lucid dream during that time of initial illness. I wrote about it in my Substack, ‘Full Circle’ a while ago, called Life is but a dream. erinmcelroy.substack.com I still think about the dream and reference it a lot in my life. Dream states show us deep truths. The rest of my time in Mexico was spent healing from parasites, rebuilding my immune system and microbiome, long covid, and more. Truthfully, I’m still in the healing process although very far along from the initial fright. It’s made starting a business a bit more challenging than it already would be, but it has also been a tremendous teacher. We only have the capacity to hold space for what we’ve been through ourselves. Through is the key word! It’s a journey and the only way out is through. Spoiler alert: you don’t get “out”, you just go deeper into yourself and why you’re here. If you’re going through an intense initiation, a chronic healing journey…pay attention. It is your soul that’s on fire and communicating with you. It’s worth it to go on the journey and it’s the only option. And know there’s a good chance someone you know is going through more than you’ll ever know. I’ll share more here in the future. It helps to know you’re not alone if you’re going through a dark night of the soul. I will say that my tools (meditation, breathwork, yoga Nidra, temazcal, etc), chosen belief systems, and close community, saved me. For those who continue to see me and support my journey, thank you, thank you, thank you.

March 2023 - Mexico I’m really missing my terrace in Mexico. I feel so alive when I’m abroad. I love living in Colorado too, but I can feel the longing in my heart and my body to be by the water again.

Married for 50 years this year! That’s golden ✨ I’m grateful that many, many of those years has included teaching me about love and adventure and then traveling around the world to visit me. Maybe with 50 more years we’ll all be able to dance salsa like the pros. @colonelpoppy @nonnijo

Happy Father’s Day! @colonelpoppy So this is quite late, but here we go again with picking up where I left off. This past Father’s Day was significant because it was also my birthday and I was born on Father’s Day, so it’s fun when it comes around. And randomly, I was just writing about breath and intuition over at @acalltoadventure . We had a lot of conversations about intuition during this visit and fun fact, we’re currently in an advanced intuition course together…another fun thing to be able to share with your dad.

March 2023 We went to see the whales with La Orca, which is actually a company of scientists, so your trip is funding research and has the utmost respect for the whales. It was so special! They knew the journeys of these animals over the years, like old friends. We had the opportunity to hear the whale song too, which really sends a vibration through you that is profound. We shared that we had adopted a whale decades ago, Ishtar, and our guide was able to look her up and tell us all about her life. She was quite the fertile grandmother/ matriarchy! Through tears our guide/ lead scientist, thanked us for supporting whale research for so long. Whale medicine came up during my Breathwork training last week too…so much to learn from these magnificent beings.

Happy Birthday Mom! @nonnijo

Photos from Mexico - March 2023 I’ve been feeling a nudge again and again to pick up where I left off with sharing photos here. It feels a bit silly, but I’m committed to listening to my intuition and it’s gotten pretty loud on this. It was always my gratitude journal in a way. I got behind in posting when I was still in corporate and felt like I was living a double life…doing my best at work but trying to create my dream life as much as possible to transition to and wanting to be somewhat discreet with photos. I had many people tell me I was nuts for leaving that job that gave me flexibility and the means to travel, go on retreat, live in Telluride… I’ve just learned too much to know that you can’t ignore the feeling inside that is life wanting to be even more alive through you. Anyway, I never caught up with photos and gave up when I got super sick. But I miss the connections that have come about when we share our stories. And I love the heart-centered feeling I get when I honor the people and places I’ve been with. I was just listening to a Hay House webinar on publishing your book and there was a whole section on sharing your truth that stirred something in me. So here I am posting again about living in Mexico and also writing again. It might just be time for that book to be birthed…