There’s a good chance that, as you’re reading this, Erin is sleeping. After getting up “at the crack of stupid” for most of her adult life, she now lives with husband Rob on Vancouver Island, after leaving the CHFI morning show in December 2016.
Erin’s retirement from morning radio came approximately 18 months after their only child, beloved 24-year-old daughter Lauren, died in her sleep of unknown causes in May 2015, one day after celebrating her first Mother’s Day. Erin returned to work one month later, and continued to host the CHFI morning show until December of 2016.
After being approached by HarperCollins to write a book telling of her experience with grief, Erin spent much of the next two years at her laptop.
Her memoir, Mourning Has Broken: Love, Loss & Reclaiming Joy, was released in February of 2019 to critical acclaim and became a bestseller, finishing the year in the Top 10 for non-fiction.
In 2020, Erin was named to the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. Erin appears regularly at various public events across the country, both as M.C. and delivering her Keynote address “Reclaiming Joy.”