Walking on Eggshells

Shannon O'Flaherty
4 min readJun 14, 2022

Because of my mother’s childhood and her psychological make-up and response to the world, followed by the circumstances of my birth, and my psychological make-up and perception of the world, I was always walking on eggshells around her.

She taught me this “natural” way of being which actually made my BEING fundamentally unsure of myself. If I could not be my natural free child around her for fear of incurring her wrath, how…

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Shannon O'Flaherty

Shamanic practitioner, therapist, coach, writer, speaker,educator & group leader on trips to Peru. https://shannonoflaherty.com