Stories and honest conversations about loss, responsibility, belonging, and what we build from what remains.
Some losses stay with us. Some questions take time. Here, lived experience meets psychology, recovery traditions, philosophy, and faith—making room for an honest life, even while it remains unfinished.
▶ 33:13Grief, joy, and a meaningful life alongside what remains missing.
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▶ 10:54Achievement, appearances, and the cost of making usefulness the measure of worth.
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▶ 13:21Making room for what happened begins changing what can happen next.
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▶ 17:17Responsibility, shame, and an identity large enough to include the past.
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▶ 7:39Turning reflection into daily practice and building from what remains.
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▶ 1:56An invitation into The Builder’s Workshop. A place to begin.
Watch the film ↗Explore The Architecture of Scars, The Weight of Shared Humanity, and When Hiding Becomes a Life.
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Conversations about trauma, grief, addiction, relationships, and rebuilding after loss. Lived experience, the teachers who have shaped the work, and a little dry humor.
Healing may leave some losses unresolved. There is still room to build a life worth inhabiting.
After years designing homes and leading a company, Eric enters a Saint Paul shelter with a walker, his dog, and a box of journals. A story of responsibility, belonging, and learning to accept help.
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The Architecture of Coming Home. Seven Doors and eleven Possibilities explore worth, responsibility, bodily limits, choices, and belonging.
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An exploration of the parts of life people hide while trying to remain capable, acceptable, or easy to love. One person taking a place beside another.
Seeking literary representation and traditional publication for Paper Prayers on Broken Pavement and Reignite 711. All cover artwork is conceptual.
Eric J. Harmon is an author, speaker, documentary creator, and podcast host based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
His work draws on a career in home design, design engineering, and executive leadership—and a life changed by illness, addiction, homelessness, grief, and starting again.
The questions at the center of the workshop are human ones: What gives us worth? How do we take responsibility without disappearing into shame? How do we find belonging in a changed life?
Explore the media kit ↗Speaking engagements, podcast interviews, moderated conversations, documentary collaborations, and literary inquiries.