Your Past Does Not Have to Become Your Permanent Identity
Dr. Shauna Rossington draws on decades of experience in mental health, addiction recovery, and behavioral therapy to help people move beyond past patterns and build healthier ways of thinking, coping, and living.
Upward Spiral to Sobriety
Creating New Neural Habits through the Power of I AM Statements
A practical 31-day recovery workbook for people looking for a different approach to sobriety.
Rather than defining someone by addiction or focusing solely on what they need to stop doing, Upward Spiral to Sobriety focuses on who they are becoming.
Through daily I AM statements, prescribed thoughts, reflection, mindfulness, breathing, and repetition, readers practice replacing unhealthy thought patterns and coping mechanisms with healthier ones.
What Dr. Shauna Believes
Change the thought.
Change the pattern.
Change what comes next.
Dr. Shauna’s work is grounded in a simple belief: your past behavior does not have to become your permanent identity.
Recovery and personal change are about more than stopping an unwanted behavior. They are also about examining the thoughts, beliefs, coping mechanisms, and identity underneath the unwanted behavior.
Through intentional self-talk, mindfulness, repetition, reflection, and practical behavioral tools, we can begin practicing new responses and creating healthier patterns. We can rewire how our brains think and learn to choose positive thoughts and feelings.
Where you have been does not have to determine where you go next, because there is not only one path forward.
Meet Dr. Shauna L. Rossington, LMFT, DBA
Dr. Shauna Rossington is a licensed therapist, author, and mental health professional whose career has been shaped by both professional experience and a deeply personal connection to addiction and recovery.
After beginning her career working in drug rehabilitation, Dr. Shauna spent nearly three decades working in foster care therapy before returning to addiction treatment, including work with military veterans.
Throughout that work, Dr. Shauna became increasingly interested in a simple question:
What if recovery was not only about what someone needed to stop doing, but also about who they can become? Who they can change to without a past identity, an identity they can shed. An identity they can change.
That question eventually became the foundation of her work with I AM statements, intentional thought patterns, practical coping tools, and her book, Upward Spiral to Sobriety.
If you are interested in working with Dr. Shauna and learn more about her private practice. Visit her Private Practice here to explore and check her availability.
Personalized Therapy for Meaningful Change
Drawing from decades of experience in mental health, trauma, and addiction recovery, Dr. Shauna Rossington offers a compassionate, goal-oriented approach to therapy. Through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Narrative Therapy, she helps individuals overcome negative thought patterns, develop healthier coping skills, and rewrite the stories that may be holding them back. Her private practice focuses on helping clients find clarity, build resilience, and create lasting, positive change.
Explore Dr. Shauna’s Work
Recovery & Identity
Recovery does not have to mean carrying the same label for the rest of your life. Explore a different way of thinking about addiction, behavior, identity, and who you want to become with a permanent change.
I AM Statements
What comes after I AM matters. Learn how intentional language and repetition can become part of a daily practice for changing the conversation you have with yourself.
Mindfulness & Practical Tools
From Even Count Breathing to journaling, reflection, and mala-bead meditative practice, discover simple tools designed to help turn a negative thought into a positive thought through daily practice.
Behavioral Change
Lasting change rarely happens from information alone. Dr. Shauna’s work explores how repeated thoughts, healthier coping mechanisms, and intentional daily practices can help support meaningful behavioral change and new thought patterns.
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Start Your Upward Spiral
Change does not have to begin with a complete overhaul.
It can begin with one thought.
Transform your inner dialogue with this 2-day sample guide. You will receive two inspirational mantras and a companion worksheet to help you build powerful “I AM” statements and practice intentional self-talk.
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The 2-Day Upward Spiral
2 I AM Statements to Begin Changing the Way You See Yourself