Prior to the first session I had with Shauna I was priding myself on accepting the challenge was going to be relinquishing control. Silly me. Shauna makes it feel easy and fun but what I was deeply unprepared for was, THE VULNERABILITY. The deep well of vulnerability hypnosis requires or Shauna asks, really knocked the wind out of me. It acts a bit like a defibrillator punch combo. Your heart kind of stops having to get real real with yourself and then it brings you back to life. You learn the truth won’t kill you, believing in big dreams you’ve clutched to yourself won’t do you in. I’ve done a lot shit, had a lot of therapy, partaken in a lot of healing modalities, hypnosis was one of the more powerful ones I’ve experienced (also high up there EMDR).
Hypnosis isn’t magic but I know without a doubt it played a huge role in breaking me out of some ruts and pulling some limiting self beliefs out by their roots. Thrilled Shauna spent some time talking with me about it.
xx. A
What Shauna’s into right now:
Right now I’m into time travel in an embodied way, having moved back to nyc after the pandemic living in a loft apartment very similar to my first apartment in nyc 18 years previous. It feels like a dejavu that won’t turn off but also like a second chance or a cosmic do over, I find myself in surreally similar environs but with more resources, experience and perceptive, asking myself can I pretend to be 26 again and do it better this time? Not really but it does seem to conjure up is a unique mix or gratitude and strangeness that makes you count your lucky stars but also question your life. And in a similar way thinking a lot about AI and the future of creativity, work and communing with robots, practicing being open to it and cautiously cynical. In the meantime I want to find a way to be off social media for awhile and return to reading many more books, hopefully novels. Aside from that I’m excited about summer, dance parties with friends, beach days and hopefully a little travel. I plan to research for my next book (get her first one here -AT) and hopefully have a good blueprint of it by fall.
rekindling my love affair with my middle aged youth nyc: a little guide to some of my favorite neighborhood spots and activities
Daytime dance parties for people born before 1985 nowadays in Brooklyn
Soul summit at the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn
Local honey wine and magical lecture series on Tuesday nights at Honeys
Le clubish sandwich at most delectable and hip French cafe in bushwick
Molasses Book for an ice coffee and an afternoon read
Favorite restaurant right now. A little on the spicy side for me but it’s also exciting everything is delicious and the vibe is perfection.
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