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From Breakdown to Breakthrough The Radical Power of Self-Solidarity with Shawn Mahshie | 031
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The marriage unraveled. Her body gave out. Her big-deal career fell apart. And somehow… she got happier.
Here's how Shawn Mahshie flipped her rock-bottom into a life of peace, purpose, and pretty unbelievable healing.
Shawn Mahshie doesn’t just talk about transformation – she embodies it. After her health, marriage, and career all collapsed like a row of sad dominoes, she found herself sobbing in a clawfoot tub, realizing she’d abandoned herself one small compromise at a time. That moment cracked her wide open – and kicked off a two-decade journey into energy medicine, nervous system healing, and self-forgiveness work that now helps thousands find peace with themselves and the people who triggered the hell out of them.
In this soul-nourishing, brain-expanding episode, Shawn shares the origins of her “Symmetry Principle” – the radical idea that what triggers or hurts you actually holds your path out of pain. She walks us through the science, the spiritual shifts, and the deeply human process of learning how to stop turning against yourself, even when life is coming at you like a batting cage of curveballs.
Quote
“You can’t be in fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest at the same time. One has to go.”
Guest Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThriveThisTime
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnmahshie
Website: https://shawnmahshie.com
Free flipbook: Escape the Prison of Your Thoughts
Chapters
1. When life throws all the curveballs – and what to do next (00:00:00)
2. The childhood moment that rewired her coping (00:02:20)
3. Health scares, career collapse, and the marriage that couldn’t hold (00:03:17)
4. The clawfoot tub breakdown (and breakthrough) (00:05:18)
5. Self-solidarity: becoming your own source of safety (00:06:44)
6. What the Symmetry Principle actually is (00:07:57)
7. Why “just let it go” doesn’t work on deep wounds (00:10:12)
8. Coping when you can’t be tender with yourself (00:13:20)
9. Triggered? Good. Start there. (00:14:56)
10. How our own harsh inner voice creates external conflict (00:17:23)
11. Trauma, hiding, and why we stay on the sidelines (00:20:40)
12. Letting go vs. affirming over your fear (00:22:12)
13. Regret hell and the Wheel of Self-Forgiveness (00:25:34)
14. You didn’t create the thought – here’s what that means (00:28:37)
15. Owning your part without self-blame (00:31:45)
16. Letting go of trauma that's lived in your body for decades (00:34:51)
17. The fear of what your pain may have caused (00:37:05)
18. The one thought behind all emotional pain (00:38:57)
19. Final words – the gift of not resisting now (00:40:30)
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