FOR WOMEN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

You did not become
a chiropractor to

miss every dinner.

EmpowHER helps women healthcare professionals build part-time practices that actually pay — without the hustle, without the guilt, and without choosing between your patients and your family.

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You are great at your craft.
The model is what is failing you.

The traditional chiropractic practice model was not designed with your family in mind. It rewards volume over alignment, hours over intention, and presence in the clinic over presence at home.

You did not get into healthcare to live like this. And you do not have to keep proving your worth by how exhausted you are at the end of the day.

  • You carry the work brain home every night and call it dedication when really it is a system problem

  • Daily tasks become weekly, weekly becomes monthly, monthly never gets done — and the overwhelm grows

  • You do not believe you can be financially stable without seeing more patients and working more hours

  • You know something needs to change but cannot afford to slow down long enough to figure out what

“The profession did not make space for my grief. So I decided to make space for my life instead.”
— Dr. Ericka Lupardus

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FIGURE PRACTICE
PART TIME

I was you before
loss taught me

what actually matters.

I was working 50-plus hours a week, doing everything the model said I was supposed to do. Then I miscarried while away for national boards, and I was expected to come back like nothing had happened.

Something big had happened. I opened my perinatal and pediatric practice on my own terms — and found out I was pregnant with my rainbow baby one month later. I built a six-figure practice while nursing, through COVID, through a second baby twenty months after the first.

When I discovered Human Design, I realized my part-time schedule and deep listening were not liabilities. They were my design. And EmpowHER exists because that map should not have taken me so long to find.

  • Doctor of Chiropractic, Parker University 2018

  • Webster Certified and ICPA Perinatal Certified

  • Human Design Projector, Enneagram 9

  • Creator of the Aligned Practice Method

  • President, Guiding Mama Bear 501(c)(3)

THE FOUNDER

I'm not here to make you hustle harder.

I'm a Human Design Projector. I lead by invitation - not urgency. I've spent years in the rooms where women healthcare professionals get told to do more, earn more, push through. I think most of them already know what they need. They just haven't been given the space to say it out loud.

My work is to hold that space — and then help you build a practice that honors what you said.

Part-time chiropractor traveling to Split, Croatia because her practice allows her to travel without the worry of business and financials

What happens when alignment
replaces hustle

★★★★★

"I kept thinking I needed to see more patients to make more money. Ericka showed me that was the exact belief keeping me stuck. Six months later I am working fewer hours and making more than I ever have."

★★★★★

"I was drowning in admin every evening. Now I have systems that run without me and I actually eat dinner with my kids. This is the thing I wish someone had told me when I opened my practice."

★★★★★

"Learning my Human Design through Ericka's lens changed how I see my schedule, my energy, and my worth. I stopped apologizing for needing rest and started building a practice that actually honors that."

The Aligned Practice Method

Three steps to a practice
that works for your life

This is not a cookie-cutter coaching program. Every step is built around your Human Design, your schedule, and the life you are building — not the one someone told you to want.

Ready to talk?

A free, unhurried call. No pitch.

Thirty minutes. We talk about where you are, what you want, and whether we're a fit. That's it.