Beyond Birth Trauma with Shannon O'Flaherty: From Burden to Brilliance
"I Pulled A Woman's Dead Father Out of Her and Her Physical Symptoms Vanished" And Other Cool Stuff
My guest was a no-show tonight (she's a midwife — probably off catching a baby, which is the best excuse in the world ?). So instead of hitting pause, I went live solo and just... talked. Unscripted. Guided. All the stuff that's usually swirling in my head. We covered a lot: ✨ What 3 years of long Covid taught me about pushing through vs. actually listening to my body (spoiler: it took shingles to finally stop me) ✨ Why I don't take medication for almost anything, and how I use energy patches, meditation, and sound frequencies to keep myself functioning instead ✨ The difference between physical pain and energetic pain — including stories from my 25 years of shamanic work where clients were literally carrying a loved one's soul, or an old trauma "stuck" in their body like a splinter ✨ Why ancestral patterns (yes — actual inherited weight, illness, and belief systems) might be running your life without you knowing it, and how one ayahuasca ceremony helped me release 30-40 lbs of "my ancestors' stuff" ✨ My own scare with a breast lump, and why I refused to spend three weeks in fear waiting for an appointment — and did the subconscious belief work instead ✨ Why isolation is my personal pattern when life gets hard (and probably one I inherited from my mom), and how I catch myself doing it now ✨ Two guided downloads at the end, because every episode deserves one This is the real, messy, human side of doing this work — even the "expert" gets knocked off balance sometimes. The goal is always the same: noticing your patterns, understanding what's actually running the show underneath, and coming back into alignment.
