I’m a holistic psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and lifelong student of the healing arts.
Attuned presence is medicine.
Shawn Parell, LMHC, E-RYT 500, is a psychotherapist, yoga & meditation guide, and writer who lives with her family at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Shawn works with individuals & couples, teaches, designs retreats & educational programs, and writes The Guest House, a commonweal meditation on the central questions of our lives. Her work has emerged from nearly thirty years of embodiment studies, weaving together contemplative and clinical practice while inviting people to the honest ground and creative potential of being human.
Shawn holds a B.A. in English and Religious Studies from Georgetown University with studies at Oxford University, an M.A. in Eastern Classics and Sanskrit from St. John’s College, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Southwestern College. She completed her clinical training at The Sky Center, whose mission is to prevent suicide in youth through family systems counseling. She is a graduate of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s distinguished two-year mindfulness meditation teacher training, and is currently immersed in a yearlong program in depth psychology at the Salome Institute of Jungian Studies.
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In this interview, I share the ways we lose and return to ourselves: the subtle acts of self-abandonment that separate us from our creative core, and the slow, embodied practices that bring us back. I speak to the daily work of authenticity—the courage of vulnerability, the discipline of practice, and the possibility of growth that comes when we inhabit our full selves.
Reclaiming the Creative Self
my own experience
In this revealing interview, I share the ways we lose and return to ourselves: the subtle acts of self-abandonment that separate us from our creative core, and the slow, embodied practices that bring us back. As a therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, and creative practitioner, I speak to the daily work of authenticity—the courage of vulnerability, the discipline of practice, and the possibility of growth that comes with inhabiting our full selves.
