The gift of forgiveness can be yours. From bestselling author, mental health expert, restorative justice advocate, and trauma survivor Shannon Moroney comes a powerful tool to guide and support you along the life-changing journey to forgiveness. Informed by over a decade of work providing individual therapy and facilitating forgiveness retreats and workshops across a wide spectrum of settings—from large city conferences to tiny fly-in Arctic communities—Heal For Real walks you through a proven curriculum that has helped thousands to make peace with the past, and achieve post-traumatic growth. Through hands-on activities, reflections, and inspirational stories and quotes, Moroney takes you through the steps of defining what forgiveness means—and doesn’t mean—to you, and provides practical strategies that will help you achieve it. Along the way, you’ll also gain insight from the forgiveness journeys of incredible individuals—including Shannon’s own path toward forgiveness, following violent crimes committed by her first husband. Above all, you’ll be supported in a highly personal, individualized journey of healing. Whether what happened was Big T trauma or little t trauma, whether you were hurt or did the hurting, Heal For Real will guide you to understand and bring forgiveness into your life—in a way that’s right for you. About the Author: Shannon Moroney, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., R.S.W., is the author of two bestselling memoirs: Through the Glass (2011), her own story following the violent crimes of her first husband; and Out of the Shadows (2019), the story of human trafficking survivor Timea Nagy. Both are published worldwide. Shannon is also an internationally recognized advocate of restorative justice, a powerful speaker, one of the “world’s 50 most resilient people” (Global Resilience Project), a New York Times “Woman in the World” recommended writer, and is featured by the International Forgiveness Project. She travels extensively to lead transformative forgiveness and healing retreats for people and communities overcoming trauma, and to keynote justice and mental health conferences. Shannon is a registered social worker and trauma therapist specialized in treating survivors of sexual assault and trafficking, as well as family members of sex offenders. She has provided expert testimony in court, consultation on crime bills, and she supports attorneys and journalists to pursue trauma-informed practices to survivors of sex crimes. In 2019, Shannon launched a line of empathy-building greeting cards called #FindTheWords. See them here . Proceeds from these cards go to support her on-the-land healing programs for survivors. Shannon Moroney lives in Toronto, Canada. She is the founder and clinical director of Shannon Moroney & Associates, Inc., “Supporting your journey to post-traumatic growth”. Discover more at www.shannonmoroneyassociates.com and visit Shannon at www.shannonmoroney.com
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