Oct. 5, 2023

Reciprocity in the Transformation of Shame into Self-Love

Reciprocity in the Transformation of Shame into Self-Love

Today's guest Nancy Gordon shares about her chapter in the upcoming book, "Therapists Are Human Too: The Healing Journey of Reciprocity". In her chapter, Nancy shares the “un-sharable” by coming out of the closet of shame. When the metal of Nancy’s car collided with another, her path was forever changed. In both her personal and professional life journey, that life-defining moment of the car accident began a trail of other life-defining moments, some painful, some profoundly transformational. When Nancy shared her personal journey of living with and healing a traumatic brain injury with a new client, Jean, who also was grappling with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, Nancy experienced one of the most profound life-defining moments as a therapist and as a human being: the reciprocity of healing between healer and client. Through the authenticity of being a human while being a gifted healer, sharing shame transformed loss into love and grief into growth, and led us to a path of unconditional self-love. Join Julie Ann and Nancy as they chat about this topic in today's episode, from the book "Therapists Are Human Too: The Healing Journey of Reciprocity", which will be released on Nov 7th, 2023.

About Our Guest
Nancy M. Gordon, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Life Coach, is a #1 international best-selling author, consultant, speaker, and life-changing expert who knows first-hand what it’s like to deal with serious loss and grief after a devastating car accident. In her upcoming teaching memoirs, 7 Steps of Hope: Healing The Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Impacts of Chronic Illness and Disability, 7 Powerful Practices to Manage Your Mind and Heal Your Heart, and I Miss You Already: Bearing the Unbearable Loss of Your Pet, Nancy combines her professional expertise and personal experience with fibromyalgia and a mild traumatic brain injury to offers a unique perspective on how to transform loss into love and grief into growth through hope and healing with wit and wisdom. Her work is endorsed by Dr. Karen Becker, a leading veterinarian and a New York Times best-selling author.
As a well-known loss and transformational grief expert and educator, Nancy’s media presence includes television, radio/podcast interviews, magazines, and books. Nancy lives in San Diego, California, where she enjoys swimming, being in nature, and writing.

Links
Follow her on Instagram @nancy.gordon.global/
Website:  nancygordonglobal.com
Email: nancygordon7practices@gmail.com

About the Host
Julie Ann is the Founder of Influence Publishing Inc and a TEDx Speaker. In the last ten years she has published over 300 authors and made over 80% of those International Best Sellers. She claims to be the world only Dyslexic book publisher and her TEDx Talk on “The Gift of Dyslexia” has had almost 100,000 views. She has been featured on British and Canadian TV, The Daily Mail, International Radio and Podcasts and conducted many inspirational speeches. She has won many awards including The Golden Gavel Speech contest, International Toastmasters, Woman of Worth Success and Soul, Unlimited Woman of Creativity and The Canadian Business Excellence Awards, (Creative Book Publishing) in 2021.

She is the Best-Selling author of “Around the World in Seven Years – A Life Changing Journey” that catalogues her journey around the world from 1998-2005 by sailboat, train, bus, and plane. She is a member of the New York Circumnavigators club as the slowest circumnavigator, travelling from the UK to South Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salem, Zanzibar, Kenya, Seychelles, Maldives and the tiny remote archipelago of the uninhabited islands of Chagos (where she lived on a desert island for 3 months).  She crossed the Indian Ocean by sailboat to Thailand and Malaysia where she created a backpackers remote islands tour business for 2 years.  She then travelled alone to
Laos and Cambodia and then flew to Vancouver Canada, to join another boat and sail the Baja of Mexico, and the Sea of Cortez.  Her circumnavigation was complete when she flew the final leg from Mexico City back to the UK. She presently lives in Puerto Vallarta where she met her Mexican Fiancé who was a Salsa and Latin dance instructor.  She discovered unconditional love with him and lived live to the full, dancing Salsa, Cumbia, and the Cha Cha every week along with the live Cuban band in Bodeguita Cuban club in Puerto Vallarta. He recently passed and this inspired her to start this podcast show to inspire other people to live a life on purpose and in joy and with no regrets! The last 3 years in Puerto Vallarta have been the best years of her life, at a time when many where experiencing the opposite. She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada.

Links
Website: https://www.influencepublishing.com
Facebook: @Influencepub
Twitter: @Influencepub
LinkedIn: Julie Salisbury
Instagram: @InfluencePublishing
YouTube: Influence Publishing

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