134. Special Mom Story- Amanda Shanks

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>When you hear someone share their hard circumstances, do you know how to offer empathy? Would you say you know how to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and really enter into the pain with them?</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>I am so excited to talk about this today on the podcast with Amanda Shanks. She is the mother of Taylor, and her daughter has a rare diagnosis called Pura Syndrome. I love that Amanda and I are having this conversation because I think sometimes when we don’t know what to say, we think it is better to say nothing. So, Amanda is going to talk to us about what is looks like to offer empathy without pity as well as what does it look like to enter into someone else’s hard circumstances and put yourself in their shoes. She is going to help us with that language, and I know you are going to learn so much from her!</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Book Recommendations:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --></p> <ul> <li>*<a href="https://amzn.to/3wVvcpP">I Will Push You: A Journey of 500 miles, Two Best Friends and One Wheelchair</a> by Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck</li> <li>*<a href="https://amzn.to/3lM1wGf">Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved</a> by Kate Bowler</li> <li>*<a href="https://amzn.to/3GphbFd">Run to the Light</a> by Laura King Edwards</li> <li>Books by Dietrich Bonhoeffer</li> </ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Podcast Recommendations:</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://jodirosser.com/depth-podcast-episode-52-scribbles-chris-simning/"> Depth Podcast Episode 52</a> with Chris Simning</li> <li><a href= "https://jodirosser.com/depth-podcast-episode-86-suffer-strong-katherine-wolf/"> Depth Podcast Episode 86</a> with Katherine Wolf</li> </ul> <p><!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Amanda Shanks is a passionate writer, speaker, teacher, and advocate.  She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Thera