Eileen Walsh
Title: EVP Learning and Growth
Public Speaking/Storytelling
Education: Gonzaga University - University of San Francisco
Spokane, WA, USA
Biography
Hi! I’m Eileen Walsh—a compassionate Integration Facilitator, Leadership Coach, and the founder of Loved As You Are. I support individuals as they navigate profound thresholds—experiences like birth, loss, spiritual awakening, and psychedelic journeys—and guide them in spiraling those moments into meaningful growth and embodied change.
With a Master’s in Education and multiple decades of experience in technology and leadership development, I blend somatic wisdom, nervous system support, and creative ritual to help people and communities turn life’s initiations into lasting transformation. My signature Spiral Framework invites participants to move through four key stages—Descent, Source Memory, Emergence, and Communion—offering a grounded, cyclical path for integration, self-trust, and healing.
I’m the creator and host of From Here to Hope, a podcast and community rooted in co-creation and collective transformation. Through intimate interviews and reflective questions, the show explores what it means to live in alignment with vision, vulnerability, and belonging.
I’m also a certified Reiki Practitioner and trained Psychedelic Practitioner through the Synthesis Institute, currently completing certification with the Somatic Institute for Women. My work draws on body-centered healing, mindfulness, and archetypal wisdom to support resilience, empowerment, and emotional well-being.
Whether through speaking, ceremony, or conversation, I create nurturing spaces where people can come home to themselves, move forward with intention, and remember they are—always—loved as they are.
Passion
Deep dives into existential conversations light me up, especially the kind that unravel late at night with people who aren’t afraid to feel it all. I come alive when I’m ideating with others and witnessing their brilliance take shape. Those creative sparks of “what if” and “why not” always make me smile. I also have a soft spot for Star Wars lore, playing Roblox with my kids (they crush me every time), getting my hands in the soil in my garden, and dancing barefoot and bold in my burlesque class. Somewhere between the cosmic and the silly, that’s where I smile most.
Origin Story
In 2020, when the world slowed down, something in me did too.
My son, then a kindergartner, was suddenly learning from a screen, sitting at our kitchen table trying to make sense of a digital world that couldn’t possibly hold the weight of what children need. I watched him try to find his rhythm in that chaos, and something in me cracked open.
I started to look around at everything I had built: a career that looked impressive but felt uninspired, a marriage that had become a battlefield of disconnection, and a version of myself that I no longer recognized. I was exhausted, but more than that, I was lost.
So I wrote my eulogy.
Not because I was planning to die, but because I needed to see who I had become. I needed to ask myself the hardest question of all: If I left this world right now, what would my children say about me? What kind of legacy was I actually living?
The grief that came wasn’t small. It was massive. It hit me like a tidal wave. The ache of knowing I wasn’t on the path I was meant to walk. I sat in the tears, in the rawness of that truth. And then... I wrote a second eulogy.
This one wasn’t about who I had been. It was about who I wanted to be. The version of me I hoped others would speak of when I was gone. Not because I was perfect, but because I had shown up. Fully. Boldly. Human.
That moment marked the beginning of my descent. Not into despair, but into truth, and eventually into reclamation. It’s what birthed the spiral framework I now walk with and share. Because sometimes, the most important work we do in this life begins the moment we realize we’ve been living someone else’s story and decide, with courage and clarity, to write our own.
Example talks
Raising Whole Humans
Parenting isn’t a linear path—it’s a spiral of lessons, ruptures, repairs, and becoming. This talk helps caregivers let go of perfection and embrace parenting as a relationship-centered, ever-deepening journey. With compassion and clarity, we explore how to hold our children and ourselves through descent, emergence, and all the sacred mess in between.
The Descent Is Not a Breakdown: Redefining Empowerment for Women on the Edge
Too often, we treat exhaustion, grief, or uncertainty as problems to fix. But what if they’re invitations to spiral inward—to reclaim our power, not through striving, but through surrender? This talk reframes empowerment as a cyclical, embodied process and offers a new map for women navigating change, loss, or longing for more. Come ready to meet yourself at the threshold.
Thresholds & Integration: Walking the Spiral After the Ceremony
The ceremony is just the beginning. Whether through psychedelics, grief, birth, loss, or awakening, profound experiences crack us open—but what comes after is where the real spiral begins. This talk offers a grounded, compassionate framework for walking the spiral of integration: from descent and disorientation, to memory, emergence, and meaningful embodiment. Drawing from psychedelic studies, somatic healing, and your own sacred story, this talk helps participants turn peak experiences into lasting transformation—held in a rhythm that honors both mystery and integration. You are not meant to rush your return. You are meant to walk it.
From Here to Hope: Co-Creating the Future Through the Spiral of Becoming
What if hope isn’t a destination, but a practice we co-create—one spiral at a time? In this powerful and participatory talk, we explore how personal transformation ripples outward into collective change. Using the four foundational questions from From Here to Hope, we walk the spiral through Descent, Memory, Emergence, and Communion—inviting reflection, vision, and deep connection. This is not just a talk; it’s a call to remember your voice, your gift, and your role in what comes next. Because the future isn’t something we wait for—it’s something we build, together.
The Spiral and the Self: Returning to Your Center After Someone Else’s Storm
When you’ve been caught in someone else’s chaos—whether addiction, abuse, or emotional entanglement—you often lose your center. This talk explores how to come back to yourself, gently and powerfully, using the spiral framework. With stories and tools, it offers healing, permission, and a new path forward for those who are ready to stop orbiting others and reclaim their inner ground.
From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Spiral Path to Sustainable Innovation
In fast-moving environments, we’re taught to push through, scale up, and always move forward. But true innovation requires descent—pausing, listening, shedding, and reimagining. This talk offers a radical reframe of creativity and leadership using the spiral as a model for long-term, soul-aligned innovation that doesn’t require burnout as a precondition for breakthrough.
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Origin Story
In 2020, when the world slowed down, something in me did too.
My son, then a kindergartner, was suddenly learning from a screen, sitting at our kitchen table trying to make sense of a digital world that couldn’t possibly hold the weight of what children need. I watched him try to find his rhythm in that chaos, and something in me cracked open.
I started to look around at everything I had built: a career that looked impressive but felt uninspired, a marriage that had become a battlefield of disconnection, and a version of myself that I no longer recognized. I was exhausted, but more than that, I was lost.
So I wrote my eulogy.
Not because I was planning to die, but because I needed to see who I had become. I needed to ask myself the hardest question of all: If I left this world right now, what would my children say about me? What kind of legacy was I actually living?
The grief that came wasn’t small. It was massive. It hit me like a tidal wave. The ache of knowing I wasn’t on the path I was meant to walk. I sat in the tears, in the rawness of that truth. And then... I wrote a second eulogy.
This one wasn’t about who I had been. It was about who I wanted to be. The version of me I hoped others would speak of when I was gone. Not because I was perfect, but because I had shown up. Fully. Boldly. Human.
That moment marked the beginning of my descent. Not into despair, but into truth, and eventually into reclamation. It’s what birthed the spiral framework I now walk with and share. Because sometimes, the most important work we do in this life begins the moment we realize we’ve been living someone else’s story and decide, with courage and clarity, to write our own.
Example talks
Raising Whole Humans
Parenting isn’t a linear path—it’s a spiral of lessons, ruptures, repairs, and becoming. This talk helps caregivers let go of perfection and embrace parenting as a relationship-centered, ever-deepening journey. With compassion and clarity, we explore how to hold our children and ourselves through descent, emergence, and all the sacred mess in between.
The Descent Is Not a Breakdown: Redefining Empowerment for Women on the Edge
Too often, we treat exhaustion, grief, or uncertainty as problems to fix. But what if they’re invitations to spiral inward—to reclaim our power, not through striving, but through surrender? This talk reframes empowerment as a cyclical, embodied process and offers a new map for women navigating change, loss, or longing for more. Come ready to meet yourself at the threshold.
Thresholds & Integration: Walking the Spiral After the Ceremony
The ceremony is just the beginning. Whether through psychedelics, grief, birth, loss, or awakening, profound experiences crack us open—but what comes after is where the real spiral begins. This talk offers a grounded, compassionate framework for walking the spiral of integration: from descent and disorientation, to memory, emergence, and meaningful embodiment. Drawing from psychedelic studies, somatic healing, and your own sacred story, this talk helps participants turn peak experiences into lasting transformation—held in a rhythm that honors both mystery and integration. You are not meant to rush your return. You are meant to walk it.
From Here to Hope: Co-Creating the Future Through the Spiral of Becoming
What if hope isn’t a destination, but a practice we co-create—one spiral at a time? In this powerful and participatory talk, we explore how personal transformation ripples outward into collective change. Using the four foundational questions from From Here to Hope, we walk the spiral through Descent, Memory, Emergence, and Communion—inviting reflection, vision, and deep connection. This is not just a talk; it’s a call to remember your voice, your gift, and your role in what comes next. Because the future isn’t something we wait for—it’s something we build, together.
The Spiral and the Self: Returning to Your Center After Someone Else’s Storm
When you’ve been caught in someone else’s chaos—whether addiction, abuse, or emotional entanglement—you often lose your center. This talk explores how to come back to yourself, gently and powerfully, using the spiral framework. With stories and tools, it offers healing, permission, and a new path forward for those who are ready to stop orbiting others and reclaim their inner ground.
From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Spiral Path to Sustainable Innovation
In fast-moving environments, we’re taught to push through, scale up, and always move forward. But true innovation requires descent—pausing, listening, shedding, and reimagining. This talk offers a radical reframe of creativity and leadership using the spiral as a model for long-term, soul-aligned innovation that doesn’t require burnout as a precondition for breakthrough.