About
I am a woman
set free.
Twenty years sober. Wife of 18 years. Mother of four. Business owner, missionary, homesteader — and a woman who has walked two radically different lives.
I am a woman who is still on her way.
I’m Lauren Eriksen — wife of eighteen years, mother to four, business owner, missionary, speaker, and a woman set free. For more than twenty years I’ve been sober, but that one line doesn’t begin to tell the story. What happened in the valley between the woman I was and the woman I’ve become is the reason this site exists.
I grew up in addiction’s long shadow. I knew its grip in my own body and mind before I ever knew what the word liberation could mean. I have been the woman who was told to be small and silent. I have been the woman who believed the shame. And then, by a grace I did not earn and cannot explain, I was met in that place and given a different life.
Beauty for ashes
This is what I have come to know: no one is too far gone, and nothing is impossible with God. Not the marriage you were sure had ended. Not the body you thought you’d destroyed. Not the name you thought you’d ruined. The quiet, patient work of the Divine in an honest human heart still turns nothing into something. Every time.
My story is not unique. That is exactly why I tell it. Because there is a woman reading this who thinks she is the only one who has done what she has done — and she is wrong. There is a woman reading this who thinks the door has closed on her for good — and she is wrong. A warrior lives within her, anointed by God Himself. I have seen her come back to life. I was her.
What I do now
I wrote The Liberated Woman for her. It is a memoir, but it is also a hand reached out across a room. Alongside the book I speak to women’s groups, recovery ministries, retreat gatherings, and faith communities who want testimony that doesn’t flinch. I’m working on a companion devotional called 100 Days to Liberation — a guided journey for the woman who is ready but doesn’t yet know where to begin.
If any part of this sounds like your story — or the story of someone you love — please keep reading. You are exactly the reason I am here.
With you on the way,
Lauren
Marriage & family
Eighteen years, four kids,
one homestead.
Andrew and I have been married 18 years. We’ve built a life in Northern California with our four children — homesteading, homeschooling, raising horses, and practicing the kind of daily presence that comes when your past has taught you what matters.
Marriage through addiction is its own hard thing. Marriage on the other side of it — where both people have chosen healing — is one of the most beautiful things I know. Andrew is my husband, my partner in ministry, and my first witness. Every liberated day I live, he has walked with me into.
What I stand for
Real life over perfect life.
- Testimony without performance. The story told plainly, the way a friend would tell it.
- Faith without church-speak. Jesus, surrender, honesty — not buzzwords or platforms.
- Freedom that lasts. Not sobriety alone, but the liberated life on the other side of it.
- Nothing wasted. Every hard thing — addiction, trauma, inheritance, fear — redeemed into something useful.
Come walk it with me.
Read the book. Text for the devotional. Invite me to speak. Or just read along.