by Shannon Turner | Oct 20, 2020 | authenticity, Blog, self-image, self-worth, vulnerability
I would never buy a bottle of water.
Many people who know and love me recognize that I have this kind of extreme hangup about environmental waste, carry my own water bottle pretty much everywhere. Given that water in this country is often free and clean, I always wonder why more people don’t insist on doing the same. The answer, of course, is that we’ve been marketed out of understanding and believing it.
by Shannon Turner | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, nostalgia, vulnerability, walks with grief
I’m pleased to share that I had a story recently published in an online journal called gutwrench. This is by far one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve ever written. I’m hoping to include it in my upcoming book, Walks with Grief. Click here to read...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 19, 2019 | authenticity, Blog, change, happy stories, transformative storytelling, vulnerability, walks with grief
Around this time two years ago, I set off to tell some happy stories. I had just gone through a cycle of work involving grief, helping people tell some of their hardest stories, including the Virginia Tech residency and Trigger Warning. Coming out of that cycle, I was...
by Shannon Turner | May 14, 2019 | Blog, empathy, life maps, vulnerability, workshops
Young African Leaders Initiative – Georgia State University – July 2018 ...
by Shannon Turner | May 12, 2019 | Blog, vulnerability, walks with grief
Dear Kids, I was 14. Bored in biology class, I started making lists of the names of my children. Just like the book I’d been reading, Flowers in the Attic, I would have a girl, and then a boy, and then a set of fraternal twins. Their names would be Catherine,...
by Shannon Turner | Dec 17, 2018 | authenticity, Blog, grief, vulnerability
There are certain things in this life we consider to be markers of identity. The parts, whether self-selected or put upon us by others, even assigned by government definition, feel like the ingredients of a recipe that make up our selves. Our essences. I am white. I...
