Transforming Mental Health with Compassionate Care with Erin Meyer
In this episode, we delve into the inspiring journey of Erin Meyer, the founder of Mindful Healing Works. Erin shares her personal story of overcoming anxiety, body image struggles, and addiction and how these experiences fueled her passion for creating a mental health agency focused on compassionate care. Discover how Mindful Healing Works is revolutionizing how people receive therapy, offering a nurturing and relaxing environment that promotes healing from trauma.
Gain insights into Erin's mission to provide individualized care and create a space where clients feel truly seen and supported. Tune in to learn how Mindful Healing Works is transforming mental health one client at a time.
More on Erin Meyer
Website: https://mhwwc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHWWC/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-meyer-lcpc-988b68128/
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Quotes:
I genuinely thought that people who were thin had no problems. I really believed that at one point in my life! I don't anymore. But I did at one point. - Erin Meyer
Even though there is an overwhelming amount of people that need care, it does not mean that the care should be less just because we need a lot of it. - Erin Meyer
Each person is a unique individual, and that gets lost. The mental health industry seems to be a never-ending cycle of individuals seeking help. - Erin Meyer
Show Notes:
Erin Meyer: Mindful Healing Works is a mental health agency, and we do therapy. We do psychiatry and we do PRP, which is a psychiatric rehabilitation program.
Erin Meyer: What I wanted to do is give people an experience where it doesn't matter who you are, what your socioeconomic status is, that you deserve top notch mental health care, being the therapist, the practitioners, the providers, everyone that works, you know, with you as well as the space that you're walking into. To me, it seems very kind of common sense that a space would matter with how you feel.
Erin Meyer: In the field, people are like, I've never seen an office like this and I've never had an experience like this.
Erin Meyer: Each person is an individual for us. That is another thing that I think it's really lost in the mental health space is just this almost assembly line of people that are walking in because it is an overwhelming amount of people that need care. But even though there is an overwhelming amount of people that need care, it does not mean that the care should be less just because we need a lot of it.
Erin Meyer: I definitely had the very strong exterior of I don't care and nothing hurts me. And I was always very funny, you know, which is typical of people that are really, you know, hurting.
Erin Meyer: I was killing myself with food and I was overeating. Erin Meyer: I didn't know how to stop. I really got away from my family during this time. My parents, my sister, my extended family really just got away from them and just completely isolated myself.
Erin Meyer: My solution at that time was, well, if I lose weight, everything is going to be great because I really did genuinely think that people that were thin had no problems in their life.
Erin Meyer: I was anxious and nervous. And I would go out and I would get a drink and I would get a shot. Erin Meyer: Then I could breathe. Then I could, like, interact with people. I had no idea the countertransference or like of addiction.
Erin Meyer: I kind of knew in my gut that I was going to get a DUI at some point.
Erin Meyer: That was the moment where I'm like, okay, I'm never going to drink and drive again. But I did not think I'm never going to drink again, which is very indicative of this is a problem because you were just in jail and you're already thinking about, I can't wait till tonight because I'm going to go out again. I'm just not going to drive because that's where I was mentally.
Erin Meyer: Fast forward a year, I finally am at a point where I didn't hear a voice, but I heard I had an intuitive sense and I really did hear it was either I was going to get sober and stop drinking alcohol or I was going to die and it was going to be from alcohol related kind of thing.
Erin Meyer: My sobriety date is January 13th, 2013.
Erin Meyer: I say all this to explain how mindful healing works is because AA was my gateway to the opening of my, like, spiritual self.
Erin Meyer: The 12 steps for me forced me to look into myself and look into why I wanted or needed to drink. And I also very much related that back to food as well, because food was my first drug of choice.
Erin Meyer: Most of my life felt so much pain inside, but always had to put on, you know, kind of put on a show and was everybody's kind of go to. And I was always everybody's therapist and I always was like a really good friend and like everybody's kind of like go to person when they needed something.
Erin Meyer: They could be so comfortable that they could fall asleep in our waiting room, which is like the biggest compliment that I feel like you could ever, especially people that are just so hyper vigilant. They come, they have trauma, that they are so safe and comfortable here that they can actually fall asleep. I wanted to create this sensory experience. I wanted to create a beautiful space. I wanted to build people up
Erin Meyer: I had been down so, so, so much and I really didn't ever tell anybody how I felt because I didn't know how I felt. I didn't know there was help for me. I didn't know that even existed. I wanted to create a place that I needed that didn't exist. That was kind of the driving force.