Guest Profile
Shannon O'Flaherty
Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in a beautiful suburb of Manhatten, I then had two of my formative years in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This foreign experience dramatically impacted on who I would become as an adult. I married a beautiful British man and relocated to the UK when I was 26. Together we birthed two gorgeous sons who are now awesome men.
After experiencing Dark Night of the Soul when I was 37, I went back to school to study Clinical Transactional Analysis. On the first day they asked us to write down what our mothers felt when they were pregnant with us. My mom happened to be visiting me at the time so when I went home I asked her how she had felt when she was pregnant with me. She said exactly what I had written on my piece of paper! It was then that I heard the second part of my birth story and it answered so many unasked questions in my life and greatly explained much of my relationship with my mother.
Over the following years I went on to study Organisational Transactional Analysis, (which led to a career in corporate training), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Psychic Development and Transpersonal Psychology. I attended many self-development retreats and workshops. Finally I landed with The Four Winds studying shamanic energy medicine with Dr. Alberto Villoldo. With his group I travelled back to South America for the first time since I had left when I was 11. There I became aware of Theta Healing and studied with Vianna Stibal to become one of the first 4 teachers in the UK. I also continued my shamanic studies with Jose Luis Herrera and other well known shamans in Peru.
My marriage ended and I moved to Spain, started my healing practice and regained my use of the Spanish language. That led me to taking small groups to Peru on spiritual healing trips. After two years in Spain I moved back into our marital home so my ex and I could raise our sons together. This is when we really did the deep personal work together to heal. Although we are no longer married, we remain each other's confidante and are a very close and united family.
I am living proof that if you follow your gut instincts and go within to face your demons and do the work necessary to heal, it can radically change your life and the lives of your loved ones. I couldn't imagine how important that original birth question was at the time! Over the years working with over a thousand clients and the stories I've heard has demonstrated to me the cellular imprints and repetitive patterns from child birth that keep people stuck for a life time!
Whether your own birth was traumatic, or birthing your child was challenging, these experiences go beyond this lifetime often with patterns carrying down from our ancestors.
