
When nothing seems to work, maybe it’s time to listen differently.
A new kind of support for chronic illness—one that sees your symptoms as a guide, not a glitch.
You’ve tried everything, and yet…
You’ve taken the meds. Changed your diet. Seen the specialists. Maybe even tried acupuncture, energy work, or functional medicine.
And yet… your body keeps speaking. Symptoms persist. Fatigue lingers. Pain returns.
It’s not that you haven’t tried hard enough.
It’s that healing isn’t only about protocols—it’s about listening.
Deeply. Compassionately. Courageously.'
Because underneath the symptoms is a story your body is trying to tell.

What if your illness isn’t the problem… but the messenger?
What if your symptoms aren’t here to derail your life—but to redirect it?
What if they’re asking you to slow down, look inward, and begin again… not from fear or desperation, but from a place of truth?
Welcome to the Sacred Illness™ Community
A guided path for people living with chronic symptoms, mysterious health conditions, or burnout that won’t let up—especially those who sense there’s something deeper at play.
This isn’t a treatment plan or a to-do list.
It’s a remembering.
Of your inner knowing.
Of the self you left behind to survive.
Of the power and purpose woven into your symptoms.
Whether you’re brand new to mind-body healing or already walking that path, this space will meet you where you are—and walk with you as you explore what your body is really trying to say.
JR, Member
"It's giving me my life back."
Since joining Sacred Illness™ just a few months ago, I have seen major shifts in my anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. A few weeks into this program taught me more about myself and gave me more support than years and years of doctors ever did! I highly recommend this program to anyone who has been searching for help and coming up empty. It's giving me my life back."

What you’ll find inside
Inside the membership, you’ll find everything you need to start listening to your body with clarity, compassion, and curiosity:
A step-by-step journey through the Sacred Illness™ Blueprint—our signature framework for making meaning of your symptoms and restoring alignment.
Rooted in neuroscience, trauma theory, and depth psychology—and told through the lens of the hero’s journey—this 9-module course guides you step by step to uncover subconscious patterns, shift your nervous system, and move toward true healing.
Complete access to the Daily Practice resources.
Healing doesn’t happen in a single breakthrough—it happens in what you return to, day after day. This section gathers the core meditations, somatic tools, and nervous system resources designed to support your daily practice. Whether you're calming overwhelm, shifting a belief, or reconnecting with your vision, these practices are here to help you come home to yourself again and again.
The Q+A Vault. Have a question? Struggling with a pattern? Submit it to the Q+A Library and receive personalized, asynchronous coaching and insights directly from me.
A private community forum and “Tea Time”.
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation. Connect with others who get it inside our private, intentional space.
Optional side quests—short, powerful courses—on topics like intuitive eating, and the wounded healer, designed to deepen specific areas of the journey.
Free access to all live workshops and community-wide challenges that support you in implementing the work through daily practice and transformation.
Ready to begin?
Click the button below to start your journey!
Kimberly’s Story
About Me
Hi, I’m Dr. Erin Hayford—a Naturopathic Doctor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® who’s walked this path myself.
Years ago, I got sick—and nothing worked. The deeper I looked, the more I realized that my body wasn’t broken. It was brilliant. It was speaking the truth I had buried. And once I started listening, my healing began.
I created the Sacred Illness™ Community because I know how isolating this journey can be—and how powerful it is when we stop outsourcing our healing and start following the wisdom within.
Who this is for
This is for you if…
You’ve done the protocols, taken the pills, and seen the specialists—and still feel like something’s missing
You feel disconnected from your body, your purpose, or your sense of self—or feel like it’s time to up level but don’t know how
You’re exhausted from trying to “fix” yourself and want to find a different way
You sense that your illness might be asking something of you—but you’re not sure what
You’re ready to get honest with yourself, listen in, and heal from the inside out
ENROLL NOW
Ready to stop trying to fix yourself—and start listening to yourself?
You don’t need another supplement. You need support that honors the whole of who you are.
Join us inside the Sacred Illness™ Community today and let the deeper journey begin.
We offer two options for enrollment.
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
$55/mo
Enroll for $55 USD per month, cancel any time.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
$550/yr
Recommended.* Enroll for 1 year and save $110.
*Why consider an annual membership?
Healing is a journey, not a quick fix. The Annual Membership is designed to offer you the time, tools, and support needed to create meaningful shifts in your mind, body, and nervous system.
An annual commitment ensures you have the space to fully engage with the resources, integrate new practices, and experience the transformative power of consistent support and community connection.
We know that it takes at least 30-90 days to rewire neural pathways and shift the nervous system out of survival and into healing mode.
For this reason, we recommend anyone who is committed to this work and ready to see a deep change in their life and health consider an annual membership. True healing takes time, and this structure is here to honor and support that process!
FAQs
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The Sacred Illness™ Membership is a self-paced, guided experience with ongoing support—designed to meet you wherever you are in your healing journey.
Here’s what you can expect inside:
The Sacred Illness™ Blueprint
A 9-part framework that guides you through the deeper layers of illness—from the moment symptoms began to the transformation they’re calling you into. This is your core path and you can move through it at your own pace.Daily Practice Library
A growing collection of tools to help you stay grounded and connected—like EFT tapping, self-hypnosis, and somatic-focused meditations.Q+A Library for Asynchronous Coaching
A growing archive of previously answered questions, with in-depth video responses that offer coaching, clarity, and guidance. You can also submit your own questions anytime.Mini Courses + Side Quests
Short, potent teachings on themes like grief, surrender, intuitive eating, and receiving. These help you explore the emotional and spiritual roots of illness in more depth.Supportive Community Space
A private online forum (off social media) where you can share your journey, ask questions, and connect with others who truly get it.
This isn’t about overwhelming you with content—it’s about giving you what you need to listen inward, make meaning of your symptoms, and find your own pace of healing.
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This program is for people with chronic symptoms or illnesses and truly anyone who wants to approach illness more holistically by exploring the deeper why to their illness through mind-body medicine practices.
It is also a space for Wounded Healers: those of us in a holistic health role or for those wanting to begin in a holistic health role who also have chronic symptoms or illnesses who want to learn how illness is the way to your most potent work, rather than in the way, and how to bring this knowledge and medicine to your clients or future clients.
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Understanding the foundational why to your illness through a mind-body lens is literally the best thing you can do when you are early in your healing journey.
This program will help you get to the essential cause of illness and work from the ground up without having to wade through years of other modalities and therapies that might help on a surface level, but do not address the root of why you are sick.
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How is your body feeling right now?
Do you feel like you are progressing along on your healing journey at a pace and with the results you expect?
Is your energy growing while your symptoms diminish month over month?
Do you feel deeply connected to your body, authentic, and aligned?
Are you not just managing symptoms but creating a deep and meaningful relationship with your body and how it communicates with you?
Do you feel like you are fully mindful and embodied on a daily basis?
Do you feel fully confident in your healing work, knowing that you are embodying the fullest expression of your medicine without hesitation or fear?
Could you use more insights, inspiration, and motivation on-demand?
If any of the following questions had you thinking, “Damn, that’s a good point…” this is for you!
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Yes! I support members through our Q+A platform which provides direct, asynchronous coaching.
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This is somewhat up to you.
The Blueprint is designed to be completed over time, with regular revisiting of the material after that to continue reinforcing the materials and to fully and completely reprogram traumatic conditioning that is keeping you stuck and sick. Most folks find 3 months to be a sufficient amount of time to get spend with the materials to start seeing shifts.
It takes time and repetition to reprogram neural pathways, so we recommend all new members try to commit to an initial 3-month membership, ideally 6 months or beyond. It is suggested that participants engage in the Blueprint materials no less than 3x a week for 20-30 minutes each time.
There is also a also brief (10 minutes) daily practices that participants are encouraged to participate in daily for best results.
Beyond that, side courses, other daily practice resources, and community participation are all up to you—these are all additional supportive elements meant to deepen your engagement and success with the materials.
However, there is no "right" way to move through this material and once you get the hang of it you will find the combination and timing of all aspects of the program are best suited for you.
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Great question! I define mind-body/somatic medicine as the indisputable, two-way connection that exists between mind and body—where the mind influences the body, and the body influences the mind—all through the nervous system.
Because of the mind-body connection, this means that our physical symptoms are deeply connected to our emotions, stress responses, trauma history, and inner beliefs—even if we’re not consciously aware of it.
When we’ve spent years overriding our needs, adapting to stay safe, or living out of alignment with who we truly are, the body often becomes the messenger.
Symptoms arise not because the body is broken—but because it's trying to get our attention.
Mind-body medicine helps you learn how to listen to those messages. It brings together nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and body-based awareness to support true, lasting healing—not just symptom management.
In this approach, we don’t try to “fix” the body. We learn how to work with it—gently uncovering what it’s trying to say and addressing the deeper layers that often go unspoken in conventional care.
This is the foundation of the Sacred Illness™ work. Your body is not your enemy—it’s your ally in becoming who you were always meant to be.
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Most programs focus on how to fix your symptoms—through protocols, supplements, mindset hacks, or even spiritual bypassing.
The Sacred Illness™ Membership is different because it’s not about fixing.
It’s about listening.
It invites you to go beneath the surface—to explore what your symptoms are trying to say about your life, your truth, and the ways you’ve had to adapt in order to survive.
This is not a program that treats illness like a problem to solve.
It treats illness as a messenger, a mirror, and a portal—one that can guide you back to who you truly are.
You won’t find quick fixes or rigid rules here.
What you will find is a gentle, profound path inward—combining nervous system education, somatic practices, emotional processing, and soul-level reflection, all within a community that honors your pace.
It’s not just about getting better.
It’s about becoming more fully you—and letting that be the medicine.
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For as long as you are enrolled in the membership, you will have unlimited access to all program content!
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There is no catch!
I created this program after years of providing only 1:1 care. After seeing the same patterns and roadblocks over and over again in my chronically ill patients—the same roadblocks I recognized from my own healing journey—I decided there needed to be a better way to reach a broader audience with this medicine.
I also know that those of us with chronic illnesses have spent or are spending a lot of time and money on the various practitioners and alternative modalities/ testing/ supplements etc. as part of our healing work. So in order to meet my goal of getting this work into as many hands as possible, I created this platform with these two thing in mind:
Make it affordable
Make it accessible from anywhere
My secret third mission is to grow a community so big that we become a movement in and of itself, revolutionizing healthcare and permanently changing the paradigm on what it means to be sick, and what healing is really about...
But like I said, that's a secret ;)
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Members enrolled in the month-to-month membership can cancel at any time. Members enrolled in the annual membership pay a one-time, non-refundable fee at the time of enrollment for 12-months of access.
Please see the full Membership Terms and Conditions for all the details!
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Month-to-month members will be billed automatically every 30 days from the day you enroll in the Membership.
Annual members will be billed once at the time of enrollment.
Our billing system is automated and we do not have the ability to freeze, skip, or adjust payments for any of our members.
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We are not able to add time to or edit your monthly membership fee. There are no exceptions made to this policy.
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Yes, if you are enrolled in the monthly membership, your membership automatically renews until/ unless you cancel.
If you are enrolled in the annual membership, your enrollment will automatically end after 12 months and does not auto-renew.
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All purchases are final sale and refunds are not provided regardless of whether a member is logging in to view content and participating in the courses and events or not.
See our complete Membership Terms and Conditions for more details.
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Reach out to hello@aurorasomatic.comwith any other questions!
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If you have a pre-existing mental health condition, we do not recommend you start this work without the supervision of a doctor or mental healthcare provider as this work can be emotionally intense.
We do provide resources for further support if needed as you begin this work, including 1:1 sessions with Dr. Erin.
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