Come back to you

Helping Visionary Women Come Home to Themselves

You don’t have to choose between caring for others and staying true to yourself and your vision.

If you’re like so many of the women I work with, you’ve spent years showing up for everyone else— your family, your work, your community. Somewhere along the way, you lost touch with yourself.

I’m Shawn Mahshie, and I help purpose-driven women like you reconnect with the parts of yourself you left behind. Because the truth is, those lost parts hold the key to the peace, clarity, and confidence you’ve been craving.

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Practical tools for healing

Self-Love That Works in Real Life

My Living In Symmetry Approach was born from my own experience— and it has helped hundreds of women find lasting peace.

I’m a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, a published author, and the creator of The Wheel of Self-Love and the Living-in-Symmetry Approach. But more importantly, I’m someone who’s been where you are.

My own journey through chronic illness, divorce, and burnout showed me how essential it is to stop abandoning myself— and that’s exactly what my system teaches my clients to do.

Stand with, by, and for yourself

Turn Life’s Hard Moments into Your Strongest Self

Instead of trying to fix who you are, we’ll help you stand strong in your own corner.

My Living in Symmetry Approach gives you a reliable way to turn even your most challenging moments into fuel for growth. It’s not about avoiding your feelings or forcing yourself to think positively. It’s about learning how to work with your thoughts and reactions so you can move through life’s ups and downs with clarity, courage, and self-compassion.

I want you to have it all

My Own Struggles Led Me Here

The tools I teach are the ones that saved me from endless worry, chronic pain, and constant self-criticism.

I didn’t learn this work from a textbook. I learned it by living through the collapse of my health, my career, and my marriage all at once. For years, I thought the answer was fixing everything and everyone around me. What finally changed my life was learning to stand with myself — to show up for me, no matter what. That’s the gift I want to share with you.

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Peace, Confidence & Connection— No Matter What

Imagine trusting yourself fully, even when life gets messy.

When you build Self-Solidarity, everything changes. You make decisions with confidence. You speak up without fear. You show up for your dreams without burning yourself out. You become your own safe place — and that inner safety radiates out into everything you do, from your relationships to your work, to your own sense of purpose and joy.

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Models for Way of Life that Really Works!

Shawn is a model maker. The Wheel of Self-Forgiveness™ is a revolutionary approach poised to fill a crucial gap in the mental health and personal growth fields. With The Work of Byron Katie as its second pillar, Shawn’s NO-MATTER-WHAT Way (presented in depth with her Happiness Hacks as The Living-in-Symmetry Blueprint) offers a direct, practical path to peace and connection.

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The Wheel of Self-Forgiveness

Developer of a Model for Self-Forgiveness

Despite decades of inner work and "seeking," Shawn was never taught how to overcome the painful habit of regret, guilt, and self-criticism until she discovered these 3 simple steps. The WSF is the HOW: How to stop being yourself up for good.

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The No-Matter-What Way

Identified the Symmetry Principle as a Way of Life

Shawn's framework for personal and global peace is based on the Symmetry Principle she identified (whatever upsets us holds the key to our path to peace, freedom, and unconditional thriving). Addressing both blame and shame, her Living-in-Symmetry Blueprint outlines a way of life that reliably transforms our triggers.

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The Self-Solidarity Solution

Pointing People to a Sweet State of Self-Advocacy

When the Wheel of Self-Forgiveness let Shawn finally end her chronic self-abandonment and stand with, by, and for herself—in unshakeable self-love, trust, and confidence, no matter what—she named this newfound state of being "SELF-SOLIDARITY."

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Ready to Stop Beating Yourself Up or Drowning in Resentment?

Let’s figure out what’s keeping you stuck— and how to turn it around.

This isn’t about adding more to your to-do list. It’s about finally giving yourself the support you deserve.

Whether you’re curious about my retreats, the mastermind, or private coaching, it all starts with a warm, pressure-free conversation. Let’s talk about what’s on your heart and how I can help. You don’t have to figure this out alone.

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About Shawn

Shawn Mahshie, M.A., C.F.T.W., is an internationally published author, speaker, self-love coach, and leading expert in the field of Self-Solidarity: a sweet state of unshakable self-love and advocacy. She has helped thousands from every walk of life find peace, confidence, and unconditional thriving from her beautiful home and retreat space outside of Washington, D.C.

After becoming one of a handful worldwide of Certified Facilitators of “The Work of Byron Katie” in 2014, Shawn developed her “Wheel of Self-Forgiveness.” The two serve as pillars in her signature system, “The Living-in-Symmetry Approach”: a radical but reliable method to turn anger, anxiety, and self-criticism into self-love, connection, and empowered action.

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