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My Journey

Ciao, I’m Erica.

My work is rooted in a deep care for how we live, relate, and grow — both as individuals and within our families. 

I have seen with my own eyes what the absence of mental health and emotional connection can do to a family. I have felt in my own life what disconnection can fracture, how it ripples through relationships and leaves lasting marks. And I have also witnessed the profound healing that becomes possible when families turn toward presence, love, and repair.

 

This is why I care so deeply. Because when parents are supported — when they heal old wounds, reconnect to themselves, and find the confidence to parent from the heart — their children thrive. Families become more united. Love becomes the ground they stand on.

 

And this matters. Because we are our children’s best bet. When we parent with awareness and authenticity, we are not just raising children — we are raising the next generation of humans who will carry love, resilience, and wholeness into the world.

 

This is the work I have devoted myself to: guiding parents and women back home to themselves, offering both the inner journey of self-awareness and the practical tools of child development, so they can raise connected kids and create thriving families. 

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Over time, my understanding of healing expanded beyond the individual.
I began to see how much of what we carry is relational, systemic, and often unseen — shaped by the stories, patterns, and experiences that live within our families and beyond us.

This is what gradually led me to integrate a more contemplative and systemic approach into my work.

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My Journey Home

I was born in 1985, raised in the hills by the Italian sea, in a home full of love. I was a joyful, curious child — empathic, sensitive, creative — always wondering about life’s deeper layers.

 

But my path into healing didn’t begin with books or training. It began with heartbreak. At 13, life shifted abruptly. My beloved grandmother died of cancer within months. My family fell into sudden financial instability. And someone I loved dearly began to disappear into their own pain.

 

It was the kind of pain that reshapes a person from the inside — silent, invisible, yet all-consuming. The kind that hides behind a smile, or takes form through food, control, or withdrawal. Those who have witnessed a loved one’s struggle with an eating disorder will understand: it carries its own kind of grief. A slow, quiet unraveling that leaves everyone around aching, questioning, trying to hold something that cannot be held.

 

There were days when the weight in the air was too much for words. I watched the adults around me struggle, and I quietly stepped into the role of helper, listener, the one who stays strong. Not because I had to, but because it felt like I was the only one who could.

 

Those years made me grow up fast. They marked the beginning of my awakening — through sorrow, through silence, through a deep longing to bring light where everything felt dark.

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From Seeking to Becoming

In my early twenties, exhausted by the role of caretaker and people-pleaser I had created for myself, I set out in search of me. I began listening to the whisper of my inner voice — my true desires, dreams, and needs. I tended to myself as a mother tends to her child, offering what I had long needed, and creating space for Erica to emerge.

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I pursued the world. I studied internationally, worked in Asia, built a successful career. Yet beneath the accomplishments was a quiet knowing: something essential was still missing. That knowing deepened when I became a mother.It wasn’t a collapse of identity — it was an awakening of truth.

 

Motherhood drew me closer to who I truly am. It invited me to question everything I had assumed “normal,” and to listen to a deeper truth within.

 

It was not easy. It required presence, courage, and the willingness to begin again and again. Motherhood became the ground of my intuitive, raw, and honest way of living and leading.It’s where I found my roar.

 

I left the career I had built and chose another: raising my children with presence, while returning to myself. This became my second awakening — the deepest mirror I’ve ever met.

 

It brought me home to the sacred feminine, to emotional truth, to the rhythms of intuition, embodiment, and conscious parenting.

 

Alongside my lived experience, I immersed myself in studies across the healing arts: Transformative Coaching, Contemplative Psychotherapy, Family Constellations, Embodiment, Hypnosis, NLP, Qi Gong, HeartMath, Meditation, and more.

 

Yet what shaped me most was learning how to soften. To listen. To lead from love instead of fear.

And Now

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Today I live in Switzerland with my husband and our two children — not in a perfect family, but in a deeply connected one. We grow together. We repair. We laugh a lot.

 

My work is not about fixing people.

It is about remembering wholeness.

I guide women and parents who long to live and lead from within — to raise connected children, nurture relationships, and root their lives in authenticity.

 

Whether in a coaching session, a women’s circle, or a retreat, what I offer is always the same: A sacred pause. A mirror. A way home. You already carry the wisdom. My work is simply to help you hear it.

© 2026 Erica Saltarelli — All rights reserved

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