Shawn Mahshie

Shawn: I love the work you did in our session last night. Good to lose the old “love, appreciation, and approval” (LAA) story and find out that it’s YOUR job to give and receive it in those moments (first to yourself so you get that you didn’t need it from them after all!). How freeing … Read more

Last week I posted an article here in Happy Symmetry about a young woman who I met recently sharing that she was suffering from anxiety and pain from a bad breakup. She said that she could tell just by listening to me that I had something that could help her.  She reached out about a … Read more

Hi there… I just came out of a couple’s marriage session with me. What’s going on with them is very much like what’s going on with you guys right now. In some ways it was a tough session for them that actually became not only a window into a lot of clarity about their dynamics, … Read more

Pop in headphones and listen!   A young woman who I met recently shared that she was suffering from anxiety and pain from a bad breakup. She said that she could tell just by listening to me that I had something that could help her.  She reached out about a week later and set up … Read more

Client: I can’t deal with my husband.  He has no compassion at all.  He even admitted it.  Anytime I try to talk to him about my issues he just gets impatient with me and talks down to me.  I can’t believe I married someone so cold and unfeeling and I’m also allowing it to make … Read more

Here’s a text bite from my coaching to a divorced client in a new relationship who had lost herself in many ways in her marriage. It meant a lot to some folks who read it on FB, so I’m reposting it here tonight… plus the epilogue…. the new relationship “blessing” that took place next! “Awww, … Read more

“Enslave the liberties of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”  ~~William Lloyd Garrison What does freedom look like? It looks like me in a tiny, triangular park on this very very hot day in Boston. I was so engrossed in my writing that I was almost oblivious … Read more

20 years ago, I lost an important friend. I remember that day so clearly. She came to the door unannounced and let me know that she could no longer watch me be so fearful or so dependent on others’ opinions. She explained that she didn’t want to be part of me blaming my husband or my … Read more

Client: Good morning, Sweetie! Got a problem here. Your all-day event is going to be problematic for me. My son is going away and I have his kids for a week. Shawn: Thanks for letting me know.  And… let’s expore this a moment.  It is exactly the kind of thing you cited as the reason … Read more