Episode 063: Post Traumatic Super Growth with Shannon Moroney

<p dir="ltr">Brenda Agnew, your host, welcomes Shannon Moroney to the podcast. Shannon is the author of  <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Through-Glass-Shannon-Moroney-ebook/dp/B004LGTSFC?ref_=ast_author_dp">Through the Glass</a>, her own journey following the violent crimes and incarcera­tion of her first husband., <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-Memoir-Timea-Nagy/dp/0385692587"> Out of The Shadow</a>, and her newest book, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Heal-Real-Forgiving-Others_and-Yourself/dp/1774580993/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Ea6Gi&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=146-2665074-5644803&pd_rd_wg=u5BIm&pd_rd_r=c1048ab8-77f7-4dd7-bbd8-eb3d4c787544&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk"> Heal For Real: A Guided Journal to Forgiving Others―and Yourself</a> by exploring what she calls the new f word: forgiveness.  </p> <p dir="ltr">Shannon is also an internationally recognized advocate of restorative justice, a powerful keynote speaker, one of the “world’s 50 most resilient people” (Global Resilience Project), a New York Times “Women in the World” recommended writer (2016), and is featured by the international Forgiveness Project. She travels extensively to lead transformative forgiveness and healing retreats for people and communities overcoming trauma. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Key Takeaways:</p> <p dir="ltr">[6:18] Brenda discusses a trauma-informed seminar she recently took.</p> <p dir="ltr">[8:21] Shannon explains why we don’t want to become a society in which we cannot speak.</p> <p dir="ltr">[8:57] We live in a ‘trigger world’.</p> <p dir="ltr">[9:26] There is a distinction between big T trauma and little t trauma.</p> <p dir="ltr">[11:56] Recounting means reliving; Shannon explains how Trauma Therapy approaches patients who have lived traumatic experiences.</p> <p dir="ltr">[12:30] Shannon gives an example of how trauma affects our psychology.</p> <p dir="ltr">[17:52] Shannon assures there is no chance of living in a