Addiction is Not Your Disease…
It’s a Symptom. A signal. A Doorway.
An Invitation Home to Your Purpose.
I help people shift their relationship with addiction, reconnect to their purpose, and transmute their pain into power.
As a psychedelic integration coach and transformational life coach, I support people in preparing for and integrating life-changing experiences - turning new-found wisdom into lasting change.
You are not broken, you are being initiated. You are the creator of your life and reality.
Let me show you the map.
This isn’t “Recovery” It’s not about “Getting Sober”.
It’s about waking up, remembering who you are, and finding your way back to balance.
It’s about actually living again -maybe for the very first time!
People hear the word “recovery” and picture a life of restriction. Sitting in circles, repeating stories of their lowest moments. White-knuckle sobriety.
Missing the party. Missing the celebration. Missing the fun.
But that’s not what this is!
This is a life of freedom. Of balance. Of more fun than you can imagine!
When you come back into alignment, you don’t need to escape anymore. You may even find you’ll be able to drink again someday - without losing yourself to it.
You can dance, celebrate, and explore. You can work with sacred medicines - safely and intentionally - as part of your conscious evolution.
You don’t have to give anything up.
You get to come home to yourself and your balance.
You’re not an alcoholic.
And you’re not powerless.
Unless you choose to adopt that identity.
You are not broken. You’re actually already whole.
Now you’re being called to remember and awaken.
On Your Path to Transformation we will:
Work intentionally with psilocybin and sacred plant medicines (in legal or personal context) to increase neuroplasticity, access deep inner wisdom, get to the root causes of your addiction, and reconnect to your truth.
Rewire your brain by identifying and releasing limiting beliefs and subconscious patterns rooted in trauma, fear, and outdated conditioning that keep you stuck in addiction patterns.
Understand and integrate your emotions - learn to feel them, ground them, and regulate them - rather than being controlled by them.
Explore a holistic approach to mind, body, and spirit — incorporate practices like movement, breathwork, adventure and nature therapy, fitness, sound healing, nutrition, and exploring your creativity.
Establish soul-aligned habits, build integrity, and live from intention, not compulsion.
Receive one-on-one coaching and support to prepare for, navigate, and integrate life-changing psychedelic experiences with presence and purpose.
Explore microdosing as a gentle tool for clarity, creativity, and emotional balance - to support grounded integration and lasting transformation.
Hi, I’m Erik Lowry
I know what it feels like to be stuck in a hole that I couldn’t manage to stop digging.
Drowning my loneliness and depression with bottle after bottle - trying to hide the pile of empties from my neighbors and family every recycling day. Trying to hide living a lie from everyone… and the shame in knowing the only person who truly saw me was the liquor store clerk on my daily visit.
Alcohol nearly killed me. At age 30 I began getting hospitalized for severe pancreatitis attacks. I had multiple doctors tell me it would kill me. And there were many times I wanted it to.
Throughout my 21-year drinking career, I tried everything - traditional 12-step rehabs, alternative programs, multiple rounds of AA - and was committed wholeheartedly. Nothing stuck for more than a few months. Then every time I “relapsed,” it only deepened the shame. I felt like a failure. I thought I was hopeless.
But eventually, I realized that the guilt and shame were the problem.
The thing that never sat right with me about AA was the first step: “I am powerless.”
That never felt true.
Yes, I was trapped in a deep mental, physical, and emotional dependence on alcohol;
But I was not powerless.
And I was not an alcoholic.
I refused to adopt the identity of a diseased alcoholic, because who I am is SO much more than that!
I believed there had to be another way.
Then I finally found it!
I’ll never forget the day it shifted for me. It wasn’t a dramatic rock bottom. No DUI. No hospital stay. It was a decision.
A decision to stop poisoning myself with alcohol. A decision to start living in my integrity. To believe that I deserved more in this life.
I deserved to be healthy. I deserved the kind of love, success, and purpose I always dreamed of. I deserved to give myself the chance to become the man I knew I could be.
And I knew that meant I needed to stop drinking. I poured everything down the drain that day. And just like that - I was done.
It wasn’t like all the other times. It was like flipping off a switch. There were no withdrawals. No cravings. I just didn’t want it anymore - I wanted that better life for myself.
That moment set me fully on the path of growth - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Then, when I discovered psychedelics, this growth exploded!
Plant medicines reconnected me to my soul - to my spirituality. Got me aligned with what I actually believe about God and the bigger meaning of all of this.
Plant medicines and spiritual practice taught me how to truly forgive myself. Taught me how to truly forgive others. They helped me recognize all of the trauma and unconscious programming I had been carrying around my whole life - fears and burdens I inherited from my parents - and they helped me realize these were never mine to carry. I could put it all down.
This path reawakened me to my purpose.
I learned how to actually feel my emotions, not bottle them and be controlled by them.
I learned how to love myself fully!
How to live fully and in alignment.
I found balance.
I realized - my drinking had always been a symptom. I was self medicating. Drinking was a way to numb the pain of being disconnected from my soul, disconnected from my truth, and disconnected from my purpose.
And I found my purpose: To guide others along this same path!
In 2023, I became certified through Being True to You as a Psychedelic Integration Coach. Since then, I’ve guided individuals through profoundly personal journeys - helping them transform their relationship with alcohol and other substances, reconnect with their truth, and reclaim a sense of purpose and alignment in their lives.
In addition to coaching, I’m a speaker, writer, and event facilitator. I lead workshops and gatherings focused on healing, embodiment, addiction recovery, men’s work, and spiritual awakening - offering people the tools and space to reconnect and return to their most authentic self.
I work one-on-one with clients and in group settings, including in partnership with licensed ketamine and psilocybin clinics here in Oregon.
I also collaborate with an Iboga retreat center in Costa Rica, where I help facilitate group experiences and offer ongoing support for clients working with that medicine in a legal and intentional setting.
Beyond those in-person offerings, I support clients across the country through preparation and integration coaching - whether or not they have access to legal retreat spaces or opportunities to travel. My focus is always to help people move out of survival mode and into lives rooted in presence, purpose, and deep alignment.
My work is grounded, heart-led, intuitive, and rooted in lived experience. I’ve spent years walking the path of transformation myself, and I bring that embodied wisdom to my work with clients.
My long-term vision is to create a retreat center in Bend, Oregon - a soul-rooted space for people to reset, reconnect, and return home to themselves. A new kind of recovery center, grounded in holistic healing and spiritual transformation — utilizing a range of modalities to help people remember who they are and springboard into a new life, free from the chains of addiction.
I’m also writing a book called Awakening Through Addiction - a roadmap for those ready to move beyond abstinence-based frameworks. My dharma is to shift the paradigm around how we understand and approach addiction in this country. Not as a disease - but as a disconnection. Not something to be medicated or managed with sobriety - but something to be alchemized into a life of freedom, connection, and embodied wholeness.
Because the truth is - we live in an addicted culture.
A culture designed to keep us disconnected.
Disconnected from our bodies.
Disconnected from one another.
Disconnected from our soul.
My mission is to help us all remember how to feel.
How to connect.
How to come home to our truth.
That is who I am. That is my work.
One conversation, one ceremony, one soul at a time.
Disclaimer:
I do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe substances. I am not a medical professional or licensed therapist. My work focuses on coaching, education, and integration support. I do not provide or facilitate access to any illegal substances. All references to plant medicines or entheogens are for harm reduction, spiritual exploration, and personal growth.
I work in partnership with legal, licensed clinics and retreat centers, including organizing and supporting legal journeys in those contexts. Any other journeys or ceremonies are undertaken independently by the client and are not organized, administered, or supervised by me.
