Susan's Blog
For much of my marriage, I occasionally suspected my husband had wanted a Barbie doll and was mildly disappointed to discover that his wife came with opinions, comfortable shoes and absolutely no interest in being dressed for someone else’s approval. He placed a great deal of emphasis on my appearance. He liked my hair a…
Most of us know Persephone as the young woman taken by Hades into the underworld. Once associated with innocence, flowers and spring, she became Queen of the Underworld, a woman capable of moving between darkness and light because she understood them both. Her story is often presented as one of innocence lost, yet I have…
After my niece was tragically killed in 2011, I started going home to Western New York more frequently to be with my family. It started with three weeks at a time and renting summer cottages, then evolved by 2021 into staying for several months as my mother’s dementia got worse. I became an expert at…
Closure is something I hear people searching for all the time, especially when a relationship or friendship ends without the conversation they desperately wanted or the answers they believed they deserved. There is something particularly difficult about an ending that does not feel finished. For many of us, closure has come to mean receiving…
Yesterday I received news that a friend from back home had passed away. I immediately was transported back to a time when he came to visit and several of us went to the Santa Monica Pier. Sadly, I realized that out of the five of us that were there that day, two are now in…
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Carl Jung Few psychologists have influenced my thinking more profoundly than Carl Jung, perhaps because he never asked us to become less human in order to become more whole. Instead, he invited us to stop running from the parts of…
I recently heard a medium on television confidently state that 80% of the population dreams in black and white. The comment immediately caught my attention, not because I considered it impossible, but because it seemed inconsistent with my own experience and with the thousands of conversations I have had over the years with clients, students,…
There are certain readings that will stay with me forever. Not because they were dramatic or filled with grand predictions, but because I was sitting with someone whose life had been permanently altered by loss, and yet somehow they were still standing. I’ve recently read for a few parents who have lost sons in their…
I’m not good with small talk and have often been told I am “too intense” because of this. If I am having a conversation with someone, within minutes we will be discussing topics like childhood traumas, crop circles, relationship patterns, aging parents, or death and dying. I simply am only wired for deep and meaningful…
Intense chemistry in a relationship is not always a sign of compatibility, and like many before me, I have learned this the hard way. Sometimes what we actually experience is an activation because something unresolved inside of us gets stirred awake by a person who feels emotionally difficult to fully reach. Then, because the feelings…
About the Author
Susan Schueler
Susan is a hardworking modern mystic who loves all things metaphysical. As an intuitive counselor, teacher and “speaker for the dead,” she loves helping others to heal and realize their potential as spiritual beings.
Living at the beach in Santa Monica, California with her loyal dogs Honey and Buddy and her magical cat Merkaba, Susan believes life is good. She is grateful for her amazing family, and loving friends scattered around the globe.