The Full You

06/06/2026

What if the things you’ve been told to fix about yourself were never random?

What if they were clues?

The sensitivity.
The overthinking.
The intensity.
The way you notice what others miss.
The way your body reacts before your mind has language for it.

Maybe these things are not signs that something is wrong with you.

Maybe they are signs that something inside you has been trying to get your attention.

I wrote about this in my latest Substack piece — how the parts of you that have been misunderstood, criticized, or labeled “too much” may actually be pointing you back to yourself.

Not so you can fix yourself.

So you can finally understand yourself.

Read the full piece on Substack here: https://susanshier.substack.com/p/what-if-the-things-youve-been-told

06/05/2026

https://susanshier.substack.com/p/what-if-the-things-youve-been-told

How many times have you described yourself as “too much”, “too sensitive”, “too intense”, “too distracted”, “too scattered”, “too hard to understand” and then you simply accepted it as truth?

05/29/2026

If you are an overthinker, I'm creating a deep dive guide on this subject.

I was overthinking it but then I got myself out of the loop. 🤪

If you'd like a copy, sign up in my first comment below to be notified when it is published.

05/22/2026

05/18/2026

With Floret Flower Farm – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/11/2026

There's a version of you is not built from survival, proving, or bracing for the next threat.

A version of you that can still remember what happened, but no longer has to live from there.

Maybe that is what healing really is.

Not becoming untouched.
Becoming more fully yours.

01/30/2026

Something unexpected happened this week.

I noticed that people aren’t just downloading my books on Amazon — they’re actually reading them.

That matters more than numbers for me.

Because real change doesn’t come from skimming ideas.

It comes from staying with them long enough to see your own patterns clearly.

To mark that (and to welcome the new followers here), I’m running a short free Kindle promo on The Orange Arc from Jan 30–Feb 1.

If you’ve ever felt stuck doing all the “right” things while repeating the same internal loops, this book was written for that moment.

No pressure.
Just an open door.

Link in comments.

01/23/2026

The Orange Arc ebook — book two in my Rainbow of Self-Awareness series — is now available on Amazon.

I’ve been working on this project since June, and it feels really good to have it across the finish line.

The Orange Arc is about noticing patterns before you try to tame them, fix them, or outgrow them.

Because change doesn’t happen through force.
It happens when you can see clearly what’s actually happening.

Growth doesn’t start with action.
It starts with awareness.

This book lives in the in-between space:
not stuck in reactivity,
not yet choosing differently,
but seeing with new eyes.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the “right” things and still repeating the same cycles, this work is for you.

I’ll share the link in the comments for anyone curious.