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BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTAIN

BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTAIN

Your True Self was never lost. It’s time to live from her.

THE BLOSSOMING™

with Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.

Psychology. Poetry. Wisdom. Transformation.

A living path from the self you learned to be to the True Self you came here to become.

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The Blossoming™

Four Paths. One True Self.

Individual Work
The True Self Cultivator™

Cultivating the conditions for your True Self to emerge — clarity, courage, creativity, alignment. A deeper you. A wider life. Still becoming.

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Women Together
The True Self Spiral

We revisit. We deepen. We rise — together, through belonging, perspective, insight and expansion. Real conversations. Deeper connections. A brighter world.

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Leadership & Business
The Cornerstone

Build from what matters most — purpose, people, culture, integrity, sustainability, legacy. Conscious leadership creates a brighter tomorrow.

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Organizations & Momentum
The Rainmaker

Create the conditions. Move people. Make a difference — for visionaries, leaders and organizations ready for real, sustainable change.

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What do Malala Yousafzai, Simone Biles, Michelle Yeoh, and Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D. actually have in common?

None of them became someone new the instant the world finally noticed her. What changed was the conditions, not the woman.

Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D., has spent thirty years learning how to change those conditions on purpose. “They had to come up with a safe self in order to survive childhood,” she says. Not a flaw. A survival strategy — and it doesn’t have to run the rest of your life. She’s been in here all along. She just needs to be coaxed.

Six in ten women are burned out right now. Nearly 850,000 left the U.S. workforce this year alone. That’s not a thousand separate stories. It’s one pattern, arriving at a thousand different addresses — and there’s a way through it.

Meet Dr. Susan

A Psychologist. A Poet. A Woman Who Spent Twenty-Five Years Being Ahead Of Her Time.

Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D., has spent more than three decades helping people put themselves back together — as a psychologist, a Random House author, a Reiki master, a shamanic practitioner, and, increasingly, as a songwriter whose material arrives less like craft and more like transmission. Three to five years ago, the universe told her to stop. This is what she built after she finally listened.

  • Thirty years as a psychologist
  • PhD in Transpersonal Psychology
  • Random House author, Reiki Master, and shamanic practitioner
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In their words.

What clients say about working with Dr. Susan.

 

 

 

 

“I have worked with Susan for eight years; she has assisted me in every part of my life, including the ending of relationships and the beginning of others.”

B.D.

“The deepest healing occurs when we listen to what our bodies, minds and spirits tell us they need. Empowered Healer, teaches us how to listen and follow the guidance of our inner voice, to heal ourselves, others and the world.”

Barbara DeAngelis, Ph.D.
New York Times Best Selling Author

Root. Grow. Bloom.

Root. Grow. Bloom.

Blossom into Your True Self.

This isn’t a staircase you climb once and call finished. It’s a garden. Something is seeded, it roots in the dark before anyone can see it, it’s tended through seasons that don’t look like progress, and it blooms. What withers along the way isn’t waste — it composts into what grows next.

THE BLOSSOMING™ SPIRAL APPROACH

Four steps in a real order, every time through, but never walked once and filed away.

Step 1) Recognition

Step 2) Opportunities

Step 3) Ownership

Step 4) Traction

The Blossoming spiral: roots of growth, four stages

THE VALUE PROPOSITION – G.R.O.W.T.H.™

GRACE · RESILIENCE · OPTIMISM · WISDOM · TRANSFORMATION · HEART

Not a certificate earned once. Six qualities assessed fresh at every ROOT™ phase, not fixed pairings assigned to a step.

GROWTH — Grace, Resilience, Optimism, Wisdom, Transformation, Heart: six nature scenes illustrating a fuller, more authentic you

THE VISION OF EMPOWERING WOMEN IN RELATIONSHIP TRAUMA

THE VISION OF EMPOWERING WOMEN IN RELATIONSHIP TRAUMA

FROM BROKEN TO BREAKTHROUGH TO YOUR TRUE POWERFUL SELF

BADASS DIVORCE™

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CONSCIOUS DIVORCE™

She Said It Could End with Grace. Some Said It Would Never Sell.

In 2001, Random House gave Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D. a $50,000 advance for a book with a premise the industry called unsellable: that a marriage could end with integrity instead of war. It sold. More than that, it worked — she’s helped thousands of people leave marriages with their dignity intact, using a framework she built before there was a name for it. A few years later, a far more famous phrase entered the mainstream wearing the shape of her own idea. She let it go. Conscious Divorce™ turns twenty-five this year, the same year an entire generation started narrating their own divorces in public and calling it, in their own words, exactly what she called it first.

  • Published by Random House in 2001
  • Turns twenty-five in 2026, the same year as Divorce-TikTok
  • Thousands helped to leave with their dignity intact

THE BLOSSOMING™ ARCHETYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

8∞ Forms The True Self Cultivator™ Takes in a Room

Each one arrives at the exact moment you need her — a situational guide, not a fixed type. Get to know all 8∞ below.

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THE BLOSSOMING™ SHOW

Real Conversations On The Way To Who You Truly Are

Every episode of The Blossoming™ Show is built around one honest question: who are you underneath the self you learned to be? No scripts, no performing wellness — just Dr. Susan and a guest, talking about what it actually takes to come home to your True Self. A video podcast on The Transformation Network.

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Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.Her Body of Work.

Published author of five books of non-fiction and poetry, with hundreds of articles and poems in print and many awards for her writing.
Cover of Conscious Divorce™: Ending a Marriage with Integrity by Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.
Three Rivers Press / Random HouseConscious Divorce™Ending a Marriage with Integrity
Cover of Breathing Room: The Leaving of a Marriage, Selected Poems by Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.
Park Place PublicationsBreathing RoomThe Leaving of a Marriage, Selected Poems
Cover of Empowered Healer: Gain the Confidence, Power and Ability to Heal Yourself by Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.
Balboa PressEmpowered HealerGain the Confidence, Power and Ability to Heal Yourself
Cover of Our Spirits Dance: Poetry of Soul Mates
Many Names PressOur Spirits DancePoetry of Soul Mates
Cover of You Don’t Have to Die to Go to Heaven: How to Find Guidance and Healing in the Spirit Realms by Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.
Red Wheel / WeiserYou Don’t Have to Die to Go to HeavenHow to Find Guidance and Healing in the Spirit Realms
Cover of the We Carry the Light music CD by Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.
MusicWe Carry the LightDr. Susan’s music CD.
On the RadioWe Carry the Light with Dr. Susan Allison, Ph.D.Dr. Susan’s radio show.