Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown

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Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown

✨Healing Complex Trauma ✨
•Author & Asst. Adjunct Prof at NYU 📚
•IFS ~ EMDR ~ YTT200 🧘‍♀️
•Ft in Vogue, HuffPost, Marie Claire ✍️

12/31/2025

As we step into the new year, we’re invited to move differently.
Not faster, but truer.

This is a season of conscious momentum.
Of letting clarity lead instead of urgency.
Of allowing what no longer aligns to gently burn away so what’s real can rise.

The Year of the Fire Horse reminds us that transformation doesn’t come from chaos it comes from choice.
When your vision is clear, your path reveals itself.

Move with intention.
Choose with integrity.
Trust the fire within you to light the way forward. 🔥🐎

What are you ready to leave behind… and what are you choosing to carry into the new year?

12/17/2025

Individuals who understand the importance of boundaries are self-healers. Akin to alchemists, they hold the remarkable ability to transform wounds into wisdom, pain into purpose, and mistreatment into opportunities for assertive self-advocacy. ⁠
Boundaries aren’t walls, they’re clarity.�They protect your peace, honor your needs, and create space for healthier relationships.⁠
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Save this for later and reflect on where you might need more support, permission, or reinforcement in your own life.⁠
Healing begins with knowing what you deserve and choosing to honor it. 💛⁠
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12/16/2025

Your energy is sacred and the way you care for it shapes every connection, every choice, and every version of yourself you grow into.

This is a reminder that self-compassion isn’t just a feeling… it’s a practice.
It’s in the boundaries you set, the limits you enforce, and the way you choose to protect your emotional well-being.

As you move through these quotes, notice what resonates:
Who expands your joy, creativity, and confidence?
Who drains your energy, leaving you feeling smaller or insecure?

Awareness is the first shift.
Boundaries are the second.
Healing is what follows.

You deserve relationships and environments that nourish you, support you, and honor the force within you.

May these words guide you back to yourself gently, powerfully, intentionally. 💛

12/12/2025

In psychology, the Pygmalion effect refers to the idea that people often rise—or shrink—to meet the expectations placed on them. When we treat someone with care, compassion, and respect, they begin to internalize those messages and embody qualities of worthiness and lovability. 💛⁠
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The effect is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who fell so deeply in love with the statue he carved that the statue eventually came to life. It’s a symbolic reminder that our beliefs and intentions can shape the world around us and the people in it.⁠
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Every action we take reflects a conscious or subconscious gesture.⁠
And once we take that action, we begin a behavioral cycle that reinforces the thoughts or patterns behind it.⁠
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In other words:⁠
What we expect, we invite. What we nurture, we grow.⁠
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12/11/2025

When you focus on what you want with clarity and intention, you’re training your nervous system to recognize safety, possibility, and aligned action.
 Your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are constantly shaping your neural pathways and over time, those pathways shape your reality.

This is the real work of manifestation: awareness, belief, and action working together to reprogram your mind toward what you’re ready to receive.
🧠 It’s not magic …it’s neuroscience.
 💫 And it’s available to you, one thought and one choice at a time.

11/26/2025

Trauma touches every layer of our being: mind, body, heart, and spirit. ⁠
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It can reshape how we think, feel, connect, and see ourselves. But these shifts are not signs of brokenness; they are echoes of the ways your system learned to survive. As you begin to witness these changes with curiosity rather than judgment, healing unfolds. The mind softens, the body begins to trust safety again, and the spirit remembers its wholeness. Each moment of awareness is a step toward reintegration, a homecoming to your truest self.⁠
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11/21/2025

‘The Strange Face Illusion’ was an experiment run by Caputo, 2010. When individuals gazed into the mirror for 10 minutes a Strange Face illusion would appear - this universal experience is a fascinating psychological phenomenon! When you gaze into a mirror for an extended period, your brain can start to distort your reflection. Particpants reported seeing distorted versions of their own faces, unfamiliar faces, or fleeting images that evoke feelings of unease and anxiety. Here’s what happens:

1. Visual Adaptation Your eyes adapt to the features in the mirror, causing them to start blending and morphing. This can create the illusion of strange or unfamiliar faces.

2. Emotional Response: As you continue to look, you might feel a range of emotions—from eeriness to curiosity—as your brain plays tricks on you.

3. Self-Reflection: This exercise can lead to deep self-reflection, making you confront aspects of your identity that you might not usually consider.

It’s a captivating way to explore how our minds interpret familiar images in unexpected ways! Have you ever tried it?Mirrors reveal more than appearance—they reflect the living dialogue between mind, body, and soul. And when we look closely enough, we might discover the face of our childhood, our lost loved ones, our fears or even our ancestral guides. If you are curious enough to undertake this experiment meet what you see with peaceful surrenders and simple say - ‘hmmm isn’t that interesting? - your unconscious mind will unravel the mystery for you in time.

11/20/2025

Love is best understood not in what we receive, but in what we give.

To help is to hold space, to listen, to let love flow through you.

Which one of these actions resonetes most with you?

11/19/2025

With the holiday season upon us, this can be a particularly triggering time of year for food cravings. Food centered holidays and sweet treats surround us - sometimes we feel we have no self-control.⁠
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Take coming home from a long day of work or feeling the holiday overwhelm… and all you want are some chips or pretzels. That gnashing of your jaw as you chomp down on the crispy, salty treat dispels feelings of anger and frustration. There is always a deeper emotional need behind the craving.⁠
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While this goes for all times a year, pay particular attention to your cravings these next few weeks… not judging yourself, but meeting your relationship to food with both curiosity and compassion. Behind every food craving is an emotional need. Perhaps your holiday indulgences are trying to soothe deeper emotional cravings? Ritualistic compulsive comfort seeking through food and binge eating can all serve as a source of temporary respite from painful emotions - see them as symptoms or clues rather than problems and you will be on your way to healing the deeper wounds and getting to the heart of what you need. ⁠

11/17/2025

What if manifestation isn’t about trying harder, it’s about feeling safer? 💫

EMDR helps you release the emotional charge behind fear and scarcity so your energy naturally rises.
When your nervous system calms, your frequency shifts… and life starts matching your new vibration.

✨ Heal → Align → Receive

11/12/2025

The holidays can be a time of joy, gratitude, and reflection. But for many of us, they can also bring up feelings of anxiety, grief, and stress, especially when dealing with difficult family dynamics. If you grew up in a family that lacked safety or a sense of belonging, the holidays can magnify those old wounds and memories of past trauma.
Take care of yourself through it all. You deserve a holiday that feels safe and gentle, no matter what that looks like for you.💛⁠

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