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 | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, self-image, transformative storytelling, trauma, walks with grief
I like to call it metaphoritis. Artists of all disciplines see metaphors in literally everything. It’s a great opportunity to see the world in this way, to connect up seemingly disparate thoughts or events, to divine meaning in a found penny from a meaningful...
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 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 | Nov 30, 2018 | authenticity, Blog, change, grief, vulnerability, walks with grief
I was a clumsy child. Even broke my arm once standing on a rope that was lying on the ground. We moved a lot. I host a fair amount of events and people both in my house and elsewhere. I say all this to convey…I try not to put too much stock into stuff. As such,...
