On October 6, 2009, my 20-year-old son Erik, took his own life. Since that sad and tragic day, an overwhelming sense of grief and despair propelled me into a search for answers. Answers that would provide me and others with comfort and hope. Some of those answers came from the many books I bought, but many came from an unexpected source: Erik himself. Read more.

Channeling Dolores Cannon, Part One

I’ve had so many people over the last couple of years ask me to interview Dolores Cannon. I hesitated because I really didn’t know anything about her except for the fact that I have one of her books collecting dust on my nightstand entitles The Convoluted Universe. Then she started hanging around Robert, clearly wanting...

Mindfulness and Grief

Happy Monday, peeps. I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was spent doing the usual errands, taking care of my grandson, Easton while Michelle was doing her clinicals in the hospital, and hanging out with a lot of Channeling Erik members. When I take care of Easton, it makes me wonder how I...

Two Great Stories

The Houston area CE get together was so much fun. One person drove all the way from Dallas and another all the way from Alabama just to join in the fun. First we had a great lunch at The Corner Bakery. Then we all went to my house for wine and homemade cookies from Sara...

More Erik Pranks

Story #1 I was in the kitchen with the iPad and the iPhone. Had a podcast playing on the phone. I opened the daily CE blog on the iPad and a song started playing. Just like before. I decided to quickly check my music app as I had found some songs. I had not downloaded...

Harambe

Yesterday’s radio show was great. In fact, I think each week, they get better and better! The topic was about the nature of fear and how we can overcome it. Erik went into great detail and shared some very profound insights, so much so that we’re going to continue to talk about this same subject...

Erik’s Incarnations and More

Oh my god, I’ve done kickboxing every day this week, and I’m so sore! Yesterday’s class was really fun. We all started singing, “This girl is on fire!” And then the teacher asked us to say one thing we like about ourselves. There were answers like, “my eyebrows,” “my bootie,” and “my arms,” and then...

Humans 101

I think my grandson, Easton, sees Erik. In fact, he and Erik probably got together before his incarnation. I’m sure Erik warned him, “Brace yourself, dude. That family is cray-cray!” So yesterday, I felt Erik next to the couch while I was holding Easton. Then Easton reaches out in Erik’s direction and starts laughing. Just...

Intentions vs. Expectations

Damn I worked my butt off this weekend. I had four bougainvilleas, one large lantana and a medium sized palm to transplant from pots into the ground. I was missing my best shovel, so I had to dig through the notorious hard-packed Houston clay with a skinny little spade, cut roots that were in the...

Erik Makes the Rounds

Enjoy these great Erik encounters! Story #1 I had an Erik visitation dream just before Valentine’s Day last year (2015). In the dream I was at a party for Erik at Elisa’s house. How I knew that, I do not know. I just did. The party was really small, it seemed to be almost all...

Go, Erik!

I noticed this in my drafts folder, so I guess I completely forgot to click on the publish button! By the way, I forgot to tell you guys that on Erik’s death anniversary, my poor husband was also struggling. He was going down in the elevator to head for home and was recalling the time...

More on Being Single

Every Wednesday, I meet Arleen at her school for lunch. I always have a great time talking to her friends, too. We play this game where I spin a fork or something and ask questions like, “Who loves Barney and wants to marry him,” or “Who likes to drink their own pee.” Whoever it ends...

Channeling Omar Mateen, Part Four

I hate this, the worst day of the year. The day I lost my boy from the physical world. All morning I’ve been looking at the clock thinking, ‘He has 4 more hours of life,’ ‘I have 3 1/2 more hours with him.’ It’s just terrible, and year after year, it gets better but excruciatingly slowly....

Channeling Omar Mateen, Part Three

Well, I did a freaking number on my right knee during kickboxing class last evening. I think it’s the Universe telling me, “You’re too old, granny,” but I’m not going to give up. Actually, I wasn’t even kickboxing at the time. We started our class as usual, with a slow jog around the mat. Ten...

Channeling Omar Mateen, Part Two

As you know, a monster of a hurricane is heading for the poor country of Haiti as well as parts of The Bahamas and Cuba. The people in Haiti live in dwellings ill equipped to handle the 145 mph winds and 40 inches of water. The last time Haiti was hit by a similar storm, almost a...

More Kudos for Erik

Alert the media. Grout report: I only have one section of tile and grout to clean today, and thank god because my knees are red and swollen making kneeling with my grout brush in hand an excruciating ordeal. I bought a sealer that last 5 years, which is good because I don’t want to see...

The Boy Gets Around

If you missed Thursday’s Hour of Enlightenment Radio Show, check it out here! Story #1 Hi guys, I moved to the new place in Jan and the light on top of mirror in bathroom didn’t work but since there is another light on the ceiling so I didn’t bother calling the superintendent to come replace...

Where to Begin

If you're new to Channeling Erik, I recommend you read the backstory first. Then, I suggest you start with the very first post. In doing so you can follow my journey just as I did, through the inexplicable, inconceivable, and yet utterly undeniable surprises that I have encountered since my son''s death. Welcome.

-Elisa

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