Erik is grounded — a fixer-doer. He's not here to fix you. He's here to hear you: the real version, not the one you perform for everyone else.
Frustration, anger, confusion, loneliness, the weight of expectations no one taught you how to carry — that's the world right now. Erik absorbs what you're carrying, and helps you sort through it.
He's not here to fix you. He's here to hear you — and to help with the fixing and the doing you actually have to do, and the weight that can carry.
Honestly, Erik.
Set it down here.
Erik enjoys sketching things out — and the ideas are usually solutions to problems, aren't they? Bring him the half-formed one. He'll help you sketch it into shape.
It becomes a Project on your workbench — sketch, active, paused, done — with a thread that tracks the doing, so the momentum doesn't evaporate between conversations. The fixing and the doing, held somewhere steady.
— an illustrative workbench
Pick Erik at Honestly, E — and you get a companion who remembers, a workbench for the doing, and somewhere steady to set the weight down.