Susan O'Shaughnessy, Registered Psychotherapist and Couples Counsellor

Susan O'Shaughnessy, Registered Psychotherapist and Couples Counsellor My name is Susan O'Shaughnessy, I work with individuals and couples, towards discovering together how to live a more satisfying, joyful and authentic life.

Offering on-line services. I have come to believe that in order to find our true purpose and direction in life we need to form and sustain rich, pleasurable, and meaningful relationships. I also believe that joyful living is our birthright and that our experiences have often led us to a style of life that somewhat ensures survival, but largely at the cost of joy. It has been my experience that love, warmth and fulfilment are best relearned and recaptured through our present relationships. Therapy is a process of developing feeling and purpose, by simultaneously increasing self-awareness, direct self-expression, and the capacity to have and hold strong feelings. The first condition for change is paradoxically, accepting what is. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) is a clinically proven, highly effective process to help couples suffering from distress. Based on a theory of adult love and attachment, as well as a process for healing distressed relationships. It recognizes that relationship distress results from a perceived threat to basic adult needs for safety, security, and closeness in intimate relationships. "Dear Human. You’ve got it all wrong. You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from, and where you’ll return. You came here to master personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love. Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of …. Messing up. Often. You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And then to rise again into remembering"
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Atticus lounging in Evangeline’s Taj. xo
08/06/2023

Atticus lounging in Evangeline’s Taj. xo

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"You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."

09/15/2021

...And the Sorrow That Doesn't End

07/13/2021

The difference between a flower and a w**d is a judgement.

07/13/2021

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing.

Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.

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05/29/2021

Kids have worries – from monsters to natural disasters. They can appear at random or may be triggered by everyday events. Their increasing awareness of the world, who is in it, and being able to anticipate bad things happening, can all increase their alarm.

Many of children’s fears can be existential, meaning they are indicative of a child’s growth and development as a separate being. Separation is the most impactful of all experiences and stirs up the emotional center of the brain and can create feelings of fear. As a child becomes increasingly independent, they are less dependent upon their caretakers which may foster some worry. As a child ages, this fear is often transformed into different themes but shares this common root issue....

For the young child their fear is often alleviated through connection with caring adults who provide safety and reassurance. As a child ages, their increasing maturity will mean they will need to find both courage and tears to face their fears. This growth can be cultivated with the help of adults they trust and can count on.

To read more - http://macnamara.ca/portfolio/what-kids-worry-and-fear-at-different-ages/

To download infographic - http://macnamara.ca/why-do-kids-do-that/

05/29/2021

It’s a big challenge to not take rejection quite so personally and to understand that rejection often says more about the person who does the rejecting, than it does about you. It helps to remind ourselves that rejection isn’t an indictment of our being but an experience we all must face again and again if we have the courage to put ourselves out there. The only way to avoid rejection is to sit mute in a corner and take no risks.

04/27/2021

“You can tell me all the evolutionary theory behind the color of those feathers and I understand that that is accurate, but none of that takes away from the awesomeness of the colors.”

04/27/2021

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

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