The Susan Sheehan Podcast

Denise Mc Morrow joins us this week from Pennsylvania, her father Denis McMorrow hailed from Ireland so she shares a deep connection with Ireland which is where we start. Denise is very tuned into the other realms, the feminine and communes freely with herself and other beings. This is a journey of living a creative life, healing, shamanism, sovereignty, the goddess and the divine feminine. I have...

Mamta Gera joins us this week to share her journey of being gay in an Indian community, first generation of emigrants and navigating her way through that 40 year journey with her family and her now wife Randeep. She has such incredible heart, an ability to forgive and allow people to change while loving them and living her own life. In a world that seeks to divide, Mamta is a bridge of love and jo...

Caroline Kane joins us this week to tell her story of leaving an abusive and violent marriage. She has been piecing herself back together, from feeling like nothing (Caroline’s words), taking responsibility for herself, standing up for herself and her daughters in the courts while maintaining energetic sovereignty. This is a raw and vulnerable conversation, it’s the first time Caroline has spoken...

This week I’m flying solo and sharing with you my thoughts and others on midlife, embracing the feminine and the female body and encouraging us all to not miss the point of midlife. This is the allow change and transformation. I spiral back to Sharon Blackie, talk about Carl Jung and starting my Masters in Art, Psyche and Creative Imagination. I also honour Jane Goodall and Manchán Magan. Thank yo...

Orla Donoghue joins us this week to talk about unexpectedly becoming single and co-parenting her child. Dealing with both is a blow and while Orla felt this, she made a decision to live with this new situation in a positive and intentional way. She has navigated each step herself, with her co-parent and supported by her family and friends. As she says herself, you can spiral and let it drag you do...

Sinead Connell joins us this week to share her story about being in a coercive controlling relationship for 11 years. We do not go into detail, this is about her journey and the impact it had on her life. It is a story of reclaiming her life, rebuilding it one day at a time and healing herself. Sinead’s determination is incredible and she hopes that sharing her story will bring hope to others. She...

Eileen Bray moved country, found a new career, her voice and a whole new community all at the same time. And today she has come to share with us what that is like, to share that age is not a limiting factor, our soul is ageless and don’t buy into the narrative that we have a sell by date. Finding our voice as women is one of the most challenging in a world that is loud, full of noise and is uncons...

Hello gorgeous, I was reminded about the morning pages recently and so I am showing about how it can help to stop all the mind spinning, making choices that aren’t even for me and you, to empty the body of the stories on loop and allow the creative juices to flow. I share what has been going on for me and why I needed the reminder to find gratitude again. Why oh why do we need the same reminders o...

Helen Colgan joins The Susan Sheehan Podcast this week to talk about her journey from 16 years working at a bank to healing herself and now guiding others. She had numerous signs along the way that project management and data were not her path. Health issues, messages from her Granny Eileen who had passed over when she was four years old and other messages that change was needed. Luckily for Helen...

Urmi Dutta-Roy joins us this week in a loving conversation about her sister Arundhuti Dutta-Roy. This is about a sisters love, sibling loss, in this case Arun died of cancer in 2021, the sisterhood that gathered around Urmi as she cared for her, and how it changed her own life. Urmi shares with us how she is living through that grief, she knows that loss can crush you or clarify things and she cho...

Saraswati Hancock is talking to us about midlife, aka around the time of menopause, the change, or the pause as I like to refer to it. I invited Saraswati to offer us a balanced perspective of this time when we are changing. As much as we may not want to move into the next stage of life, we may resist it, and now the story is to “fix” it, but none of these work. They just cause more angst in our l...

Vicky Etherington joins us this week to share with us life a a military wife, how they moved 12 times in 11 years, raising kids sometimes solo parenting for long periods and how incredibly supportive the military community is to each other. Vicky was fortunate enough to run her own business throughout which also had its own challenges. She has continued conservation work for over 20 years which is...

I welcomed Penny Moyses to our community of women this week . Penny shared with us the pivot she made post covid in how she was mothering her first child. She challenges the definition of balance, and what that means every day, how she lives and works cyclically not in the linear fashion that society is mainly built on but in a way that works for her children, herself and her business.  We talked...

The current conversation about menopause is lopsided. While it’s great it is finally getting air time and we are all getting more information about it - there is too much fear around it. For the women that are entering or in this time please listen to this weeks episode and choose for yourself how your want your journey to be.  It isn’t all symptoms and doom and gloom. Far from it, it offers so mu...

Welcome to this week's conversation with Nilema Bhakta-Jones. Nilema shares with us her addition to overworking for year's, missing out on the younger years of her two girls and family and how she course corrected after the loss of her parents. She reset her life once she hit the invitation around 50 to pause and reassess what she really wanted to prioritise. All her life she has given back and se...

Rosemarie Bennis joins us this week to talk about living and managing rheumatoid arthritis. Rosemarie has a lightness and playfulness about her while also being candid about how rheumatoid shows up in her life every day. We talk about how difficult it was to accept RA especially being deeply embedded in holistic health and all things natural. We explored cold water therapy, asking for help, pilate...

This is a re-release of our conversation with Claire O’Neill back in November. Claire shares her journey of her fear of hospitals and needing to find another way when she was pregnant with her first child. She was the first woman in her local trust (UKs NHS structure) to home birth. She takes us on a journey of hypnobirthing, finding her voice and enjoying birth. It is a pure joy to listen to. So...

Laura Phillips joins us in conversation today. She shares with us a marriage betrayal that brought her to her knees. But that ultimately brought her to now living life in full colour. We discuss living in a blended family, divorce, a spiritual awakening, destiny, sliding doors, learning gaeilge, tarot and much more. Laura is the creator and curator of The Barley Moon. She is an artist, reiki and t...

Marina Kesso takes us on an incredible journey during this weeks episode. She discusses being held by the natural world, and always feeling safe, exploring the spiritual connection of plants, friendships and how to let go of them, being comfortable with yourself and letting go of others expectations. I loved this conversation with Marina. As you will hear I had soooo many reframes and aha moments....

Lucia Guerin joins us this week to share her fertility journey that she went through ten years. Lucia reflects back on her journey with the gift of hindsight which we often don't hear. It is also her first time sharing this story which is at times emotional, of course how could it not be, and is very gently unfolded. This is for all the women who have been through this, are going through this and...

You can change your world with one step. This week I am flying solo to share and reflect back on the past year of The Susan Sheehan Podcast and how one step leads to another and another when it comes to changing your life. Marian Keyes - Back Yourself Danielle La Porte.

Patricia Fitzgerald joins us this week to share her dance with life, so far. She doesn’t go into the detail of her cancer, Patricia owns her story of learning to accept support, she helps us understand how tough the time is after the treatment ends and what questions we can ask when supporting someone with an illness and grief. We talk about the magic of mandalas, consciousness and Artificial Inte...

Ciara O'Malley encourages us all to recognise the magic within. After losing her partner to a drowning accident in 2017, Ciara discusses the importance of allowing identities to loosen and shift, to listen to your soul, the power of manifestation, and the significance of grounding yourself in the physical body. Ciara is a ray of sunshine and I know you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did...

Mary Jo Meehan joins us this week to talk about how she walks through life against the backdrop of being adopted as a baby, and being dyslexic and not learning to read until she was 12. Both wrapped with shame and stigma and how she has worked through that, aided by being a psychotherapist, hard work and most of all love. Mary Jo shares her moving poetry with us throughout the podcast. If you wish...

Welcome back to The Susan Sheehan Podcast, after a brief break, I am delighted to be back and discussing regrets. As anyone who has been through big transformations or grief, and everyone who is living on this planet, we all have regrets. They may be significant regrets, or you may have too many small regrets. In this episode I discuss how they will cast a shadow over our life if we don't let...