The Susan Sheehan Podcast

Morwenna Buck joins us on The Susan Sheehan Podcast this week. Wenna brings a human, practical and positive light to the face of MS, multiple sclerosis. She choose to make immediate changes to her life, her diet and stress when she was diagnosed. However it was her emotional and spiritual journey that has brought her the greatest impact. She talks us through the scary diagnosis of MS, an auto immu...

Actively choosing another way of living has been part of Anna Knapik’s life. Our guest this week, Anna joins The Susan Sheehan Podcast. She had a moment in her teenage years that brought her clarity and a clear message to tune into her inner knowing. This is an inspiring story of a woman turning her life upside down, leaving a relationship and a steady job for a whole new life. Links Anna Knapik w...

Maria Diehn shares her experience of late pregnancy loss with an openness that is powerful. This is a deeply personal and devastating experience and one that while unique to Maria is more common than we hear about. At least 1 in 4 women experience pregnancy loss, Maria's is less heard about as it is a late loss. Maria is offering us the opportunity to understand what this is like to go through thi...

Why do we feel better when we have daily practices, when we move, breathe, do yoga, go out in nature or meditate. Or even when we do one or two of these? In this episode I share with you about the five layers or koshas that we all have and how they work. This episode will change your mind about how you view your daily routines, habits and rituals. - The Five Koshas - Daily habits and routines

Fear freezes us, it weighs us down and makes us stay in our head with so much stories, our own ans other people’s expectations. This weeks episode I discuss how to recognise fear, how it can catch you unexpectedly, what to avoid and how to live in your heart (in the main!). Welcome to 2025! I hope it’s a great one and a kind one for you. Love, Susan How cold impacts us over time. Cold and freezing...

In this final episode of 2024 I share different ways to reflect and round up the year, to listen to people around you, the angels that are dropping nuggets of wisdom. All so you can start to sow the seeds as we step into a new calendar year while staying in wintering mode. A big thank you from me for all the love, support, listens and sharing. And wishing you and yours a healthy, lots of joy fille...

From the age of 11 Norma O’Kelly lived with undiagnosed endometriosis. In this week’s episode Norma tells her story and journey with endometriosis through the decades. She shares navigating grief, acceptance, and finding new purpose outside of motherhood. Thank you Norma for sharing this tender ongoing journey. You can message Norma on instagram https://www.instagram.com/normaokellysystemiccoach

Claire O'Neill is the first woman to share her story on The Susan Sheehan Podcast. At 16 weeks pregnant Claire decided that she needed another alternative to birthing in a hospital. It set her on a mission to become the first woman in her trust to birth at home as a first time home. This is a story of inner strength, preparation, trusting your body, hypnobirthing and a mother birthing herself and...

I have some exciting news for you The Susan Sheehan Podcast is evolving! After an amazing 33 episodes flying solo, with the exception of one wonderful guest, I am inviting ordinary women to share their stories. We will hear personal lived experiences that are shaping women lives. Women like you and me. You will hear from women who have gone through life changes and who have changed how they are li...

As humans we have three fundamental emotional needs. In this weeks episode I ponder our way through our need; To Be Seen To Be Heard To Belong And importantly how we can meet our own needs while accepting that in no one area of our life can they all be met. Enjoy! Susan

Do you want to feel better, make better choices, respond rather than react and feel empowered by yourself and your choices. This week we discuss fundamental daily habits that allow us to feel good, even when the chips are down. Otherwise DinaCharya - Day Activities or Daily Habits and practices set the scene each morning. And we get to choice those scenes every day. I share great tips to create th...

One of the key causes of dis-ease is our emotions and our ability to express and release them. When they get stuck, fester or are stuffed down we create pain, illness and recurring symptoms. We know this but often life gets so frantic or it is too scary to slow down and face them. In this week episode I talk about this, how we need to normalise correlating our physical health with speaking and exp...

We need to go beyond the symptoms to break patterns of disease. In this episode I dive into ancestral patterns of disease, karma from past lives, epigenetic and more. I am defiantly curious about my health, mental, physical and spiritual. I know you are also, and do not accept that it is just genetic or that you are lucky or unlucky. You have choices. Thank you for listening as always. With Love,...

This week I explore contradicting truths, our need for certainty and whether we need to choose. Do you find yourself not wanting to choose amongst all the opinions and yet another part of you wants to. Can we live with all the colour in between the light and dark? Is there any answer, does there need to be? Enjoy! With Love, Ssuan

Welcome to this special episode with our first guest Amber Sawyer talking about birth and the story we all need to hear, but rarely do. Amber is a mother, partner, birth assistant and doula, prenatal and postpartum yoga teacher and pregnancy yoga retreat leader. She is also an amazing and light hearted human.  Amber informs, inspires and empowers us in this conversation about birth, what are body...

Trends come and go. They are not trends for some but ways of living and for others they are part of an ongoing journey. In this weeks episode I discuss veganism and vegetarian in a balanced way and especially how it is more women that appear to adopt veganism. I hope you enjoy! With Love, Susan The Dirty Dozen was the top 15 I referred to but which my brain couldn't remember. https://www.ewg.org/f...

Our intuition is our power. It is how we make decisions that we knowing without thinking or analysing what is right for us. But our society values thinking and analysing more than trusting ourselves. I invite you to listen to your intuition, to trust yourself, your body (ass and all, you will know what I mean when you listen to this weeks episode :-) ) Enjoy and thank you for listening. With Love,...

Contentment and consciousness is a state of mind, known as Sattva. Rajas and Tamas disrupt that state of being, how do we balance that state of inner peace with taking action in the world but not getting burnt out of becoming heavy and stuck. I think you will love this episode and the incredible wisdom of Ayurveda. Dr David Frawley is the name of the Ayurvedic Dr and Author I mentioned. His books...

Know Thyself. How do we get to know ourselves? Why do we want to even want to know ourselves? I discuss five key ways to get to know ourselves in this episode. All gleamed from my own experience. And I also offer a word to the wise - to discern, to ensure you know you have sovereignty to choose, to dive in, be curious, embody it and then discern again what is for you. I hope this offers you some k...

In this weeks episode I merge science, my own experience and the detrimental effect that alcohol has on our brain and hormonal health. It is without judgement, information so that you can know. I talk about what it does to the brain, how we have memory gaps, more stress, poor sleep and disrupted endocrine system. Which of course shows up in our menstrual cycle, and fertility. I hope you enjoy this...

Why is Mary Magdalene rising now? The Gospel of Mary was hidden for centuries. What does it significance mean to all of us, knowing that Mary was an equal discipline. Its huge to all of us, how women are viewed, how we view ourselves and our bodies. I explore this and more in this weeks episode. With love, Susan Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson. https://www.megganwatterson.com Anna, Gra...

The need and desire to be heard and express ourselves as women is deeply desired and can seem insurmountable. It is possible to find your unique voice with integrity and authenticity. In this weeks episode I share how chanting, Bhakti yoga, sound healing and singing all helped open my Throat chakra and allowed me express myself. As usual there is lots of useful knowledge, experience and stories al...

We are all looking for a place to feel loved, to hear kindness and often for certainty and belonging. It can be difficult then when we stand back and see the same dogma that we were moving away from. How do you navigate that? What do you trust? And how to you keep from getting lost again in another system or fixed way of living while also not wanting to go "back" to the old way.

Every single cell and tissue receives it nourishment from the Rasa Dhatu, the first of 7 tissues in every human. Rasa is responsible for menstruation, lactation and the top layer of our skin. The seven dhatus are nourished one by one, the seventh being our reproductive tissue! This is a fascinating topic! And if you have an interest or love of your body and Ayurveda then you will love this weeks e...

Your menstrual cycle will influence what you read, listen to, eat, how you exercise, your appetite for sex, choice of clothes. Everything. And this week I go round the cycle as you change in each season over and over. Listen in to see if you recognise the shifting energies and your own pattern. Have fun listening! With Love, Susan