What the session with Shawn did for me goes so far beyond enhancing my professional
performance. I wish you could speak to my husband, the members of my church, the
leader of my writing group...they would all tell you what an amazing positive change
has come over me.
I am ridiculously more productive. Before my session with Shawn, I had trouble in all of
the following areas. My troubles manifested in procrastination, feelings of guilt, feelings
of inadequacy and a sort of action-paralysis that kept me from beginning tasks due to an
overwhelming feeling that even if I did begin, I would never finish. Some of the areas
where these manifestations took hold include,
eating (my relationship to food)
keeping a clean house
working steadily on larger projects such as my novel
beginning, finishing and submitting potential magazine articles
saying no to a potential client when time prohibited me from serving them or serving
them in a timely manner
scheduling myself without setting myself up to fail
remembering my commitments
These aren't even all the areas where I've experienced positive changes. I also used to
restrict myself from watching horror movies as, even at 29 years old, I found them so
disconcerting that I would often lose sleep over them. Now I have the choice to
experience the thrill and then release the emotion and sleep soundly the same night.
As far as eating goes, I used to use food very much as a drug. when I wanted to
enhance or change my mood I would reach for food. I would often overeat as food held
a strong emotional response and ceasing to eat once I'd latched on to a flavor caused
sadness at the loss of that flavor. then, having feelings of guilt almost no matter how
little or much I'd eaten.
now I eat only when I'm hungry and only until I'm full. There's no sadness about
ceasing to eat and no guilt about eating
On keeping my house clean, I would procrastinate, because I dreaded beginning
whatever task was at hand. Consequently, tasks piled up until they were much more
difficult to manage and, again, I felt guilty about failing to keep a clean house for my
husband.
Now I begin housework as soon as I notice and have time to do so. On the occasion that
I don't have time and a task sits for a while or becomes larger, I still have no fear about
starting it and no guilt about any part of the process. I know that I'm doing the very
best I can with the time I have.
When it comes now to projects like my novel, I KNOW that I will complete them now. I
used to worry that I would never finish them, and while Timeline Therapy can't do
anything to increase the number of available hours in the day ;-) it has given me the
reassurance that I will one day finish these items. It has also unblocked whatever was
holding me back from writing out a schedule and sticking to it. The only time I've
missed sticking to my schedule is when I have truly given myself too much to do and I'm
learning to be better about that as well.
As far as magazine articles go, I wrote and submitted another just this last Saturday
night. Where before I might not have even started writing and certainly wouldn't have
had the guts to send it off to Slate an online publication that I really admire, that's
exactly what I did Saturday night.
The last three items on the list above all kind of run together. I used to feel very guilty
about saying no if someone asked me to commit to a project that I really didn't have
time for (even volunteering!). Now I experience no guilt if I have to say no to someone
for time/sanity reasons. I'm still learning about how much I can handle, but I no longer
worry about saying no or asking for help. Consequently, I've spent much less time being
late, apologizing for circumstances beyond my control and feeling guilt-ridden.
Perspective is a very valuable benefit that I've gained from this as well.
So I didn't even really get into how working with Shawn has finally released all the
sadness and anger over my grandmother's death 17 years ago or how all the little things
I'd had bottled up at my parents over the last 29 years are now resolved, but this e-mail is
already fairly long and I think you're probably beginning to get the picture.
Shawn's sessions are worth any amount of money, because they give you the richest,
fullest life you can experience. By releasing the negative, you become so clear-headed,
you feel like you're seeing situations and relationships for what they really are for the
first time in your life.
-Juliet Meredith, Grants Pass, OR
"You changed my life!"
- D. S., Las Vegas, NV
"You are truly a wonderful coach. Thank you!"
- A. M., Ashland, OR
"I have been suffering from menstrual migraine headaches for 3 years. Within 5 minutes,
Shawn eliminated my headache!!! Along with this, I no longer have cramps, bloating
and irritability associated with my cycle! (Yeah!) THANK YOU Shawn!"
- D. H., Grants Pass, OR
"I can finally be 'in the zone' whenever I approach the [pool] table. Thank you!"
- S. C., Grants Pass, OR
Success
Many of the results shown in
the Testimonials on this page
were achieved in a single
session (3 hours).