Kathryn McCullough shares her personal story of being born into trauma; having parents who needed to keep secrets and having to define the line between love and liability. 

 
Episode 1 Description: Taking our experience and perceptions from childhood into our adult years can be damaging or empowering.  The choice is up to you.  Kathy is an extremely successful business woman who came from challenging beginnings, and with deep personal healing work she learned to understand what was hers and how to turn it all around so she could reach the heights that she did in her career.  She wasn’t without fear, but kept doing the work to experience all the benefits. A highly inspirational woman with amazing stories I am so happy to have her here with me today.
 
 

In this episode we meet Shannon's 90 year old father and get insight into how important communicating openly is especially intergenerationally.

Growing up suffering from allergies and digestion issues, and working as a physical therapist, Nancy saw first hand how we can greatly impact our own bodies ability to heal. She began to explore other possibilities of understanding the root of her allergies. She was triggered when she heard me talk about The Oath of Silence and wondered how it could all be related to losing her father as a baby.

 
Corinne and many women receive the calling to go deeper when they discover they are pregnant. This episdoe is about Corinne’s journey of surrendering to the Divine Plan given to her. We think we have to have it all together in pregnancy in motherhood, but if we trust our intuition and guidance from the Divine Mother, and follow her guidance, there are multidimensional and spiritual experiences we can have during childbirth. 

The Sacral Chakra is our power centre. It's where we stem from. It governs so much about how we feel and experience the world around us, and it's also about our relationships and predominantly the relationship we have with ourselves. 
It's about our emotional and sensual well being. 
We start to discover what being human is means for us, discovering who we are and how we experience life through our feelings.

This show is about birth, vaginas, bacteria, seeding and all things “taboo”. When is it right to trust the mainstream medical advice and when is it best to trust your intuition? What kind of birth do YOU want to have that is right for you?  How to uphold your authority in labour. Education is power! The journey into motherhood is perhaps one of the most sacred, misunderstood rites of passage a woman can experience. In this episode, Helen Shackleton shares her personal unfolding – from the power of birth and the shift in identity, to the deepening of love, the rise of intuition, and what it means to mother in a time of awakening and overwhelm.

This show is about how we are all connected to the animal kingdom all the time and why we’re not listening? Lorena shares fascinating examples of animal communication and how we can tune in and use it to help ourselves, as well as our animals heal.

How the presence of the eternal mother relates to our individual healing of the mother wound and our collective birth trauma.

Fertility requires abundant cellular energy.  It all starts from here. If we want to increase fertility health, prevent complications in pregnancy, and be healthy parents raising healthy children, we need to start thinking of preconception care more broadly.  Kindreth knows from personal experience that confronting infertility can be an exhausting and lonely journey.  She views health through the bio-psycho-social lens and supports women through acupuncture and coaching to increase their fertility health.

Because of birth trauma and subsequent abuse, Debra perceived she had to wear a Cloak of Invisibility. Having never been seen or heard she felt safest to be in the shadows.  Today she shares how that childhood perception and belief manifested in her life and what she had to overcome in order to feel at peace and succeed. 
Debra offers the opportunity for people to find their voices and share their message with the world especially for people who are not seen and heard and do not feel valued. 

In this episode Kay del Vallecito, one of the most resourceful women I know, shares with us how she came to live in Peru and utilise all of her lifeskills to create an ecological home and community while raising a special child with severe birth trauma. I mean get this woman a cape! She opens up about their journey together and what she has learned.

In this episode I'm going to re-introduce myself and my story incase you are just tuning in now and talk about why having a balanced root chakra is so important to our early imprints around safety, belonging and stabiltiy.
 
My story: Mom as 3 months pregnant with me and started to hemmorage...her uterus was tipped. We're pretty certain she miscarried my twin sister at that point, although that information came out many many years later!
 
She had to lay in bed for therest of her pregnancy and stand on herheadevery hour on the hour to tip it back in place, so htat she wouldn't miscarry me.
 
So me, the baby, felt trapped. My spirit didn;t think it was a great idea to stay, and knowing what I know now about losing a twin, I was also grieving, which later explained a lifetime of deep sadness and loss that "technicnally" didn't really make sense.
 
When I finally decided to come out, a nurse panciked and tried to hold me in not permitting me to be born!  So I swallowed a lot of gunk and was very ill the first six months of my life not being able to digest anything.  It also created chronic neck problems.
 
The worst part was that I was not put onto my mother, but instead whisked away all ten pounds of me, jaundiced and put in an incubator for three days.  So me, the baby, felt after being trapped, then I wasn't allowed out, and then I wasn't wanted because I wasn't held and separate from my mother. And she also chose not to breastfeed me, so again lost out on that essential bonding.
 
This unfolding of events manifested in my central nervous system being affected, the doctors were concerned to see how that would play out. I'm fine, and only my mother would notice the ever so slight tremor I get when I'm overdoing things. It also manifested with me not trusting authority, disliking small enclosed spaces, and always wanting to be first, never feeling I could ever get enough holding. Digestive issues, until they discovered goats milk, and always extreme sensitivity to cold.
 
And boy did I ever walk on eggshells around my mother.  
 
I didn't find out about the being held in and being in an incubator part until I was 37.  I went to my first Transactional Analysis class and we had to write down what our mothers were feeling when they were pregnant with us.  I wrote down something like, "Trapped, frustrated and totally alone." I had other reasons for thinking those things but Mom happened to be visiting me in England at that point and I asked her what she felt and she said the exact thing I had written on my paper.  She explained her feelings at the time.  And then she told me the rest of my birth story and I cried in her arms until I had salt trails on my face.  It explained so much about our relationship.
 
It's essential to ask yourslf and your mother how your birth went?  How did your entry into this world shape your sense of security?  Do you feel supported by life, or are you always on guard?
 
I have a pdf of birth questions to ask your mother, father, grandparents, spirit!  You can have access to this on my website: shannonbtb.com or shannonoflaherty.com
 
After the break I'll talk about the root chakra which is all about our Foundations of Safety.
 
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Chakras are energy vortexes shaped like spinning funnels of bioenergetic activity in 7 key areas of our bodies. We also have many secondary or mini- chakras too. The term chakra originates in India but many different cultures work with this fascinating field where physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energies all come together.  Chakras don’t just interact with each other, they also have the potential to connect us to the energetic interaction of our world and universe, connecting spirit and matter, mind and body.
 
Each chakra influences the organs associated with it,...

In this episode, we dive deep into the transformative power of ritual and how it serves as a pathway to reclaiming personal sovereignty, reconnecting with nature, and realigning with our natural rhythms. Ritual is more than just a practice—it is a remembering, a way to root back into our own inner authority and intuition. Whether through daily sacred moments or full ceremonial experiences, rituals help us break free from societal conditioning, honor the wisdom of the earth, and cultivate a more intentional, empowered life. We’ll explore how integrating ritual into your life can support deep healing, self-trust, and a profound sense of belonging.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/1bOsfSHvcPY
 

In this episode of Beyond Birth Trauma, I'm joined by Raminyah Ingram to explore how our earliest developmental stages — from conception to childhood, and especially through the rite of passage marked by the first menstrual cycle — shape our cellular memory, beliefs, and adult behaviors. Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern understanding, Raminyah explains how everything learned in the womb and early years is called forth by the hypothalamus and expressed through the body’s hormonal systems. We also delve into how siblings raised in the same household can emerge with entirely different perceptions, due to unique maternal experiences and imprinting. This powerful conversation will change how you view childhood, womanhood, and the ancestral wisdom encoded in your very blood.
 
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As a birthing doula, Sophie Kirkham talks about Healing the Vital Cycles of Birth and the impact of separation. We delve into her own journey of birthing and healing, an ongoing generational journey and experience an M-Braining tecnique for centering.
 
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In this episode, we explore how past experiences, generational conditioning, and societal influences shape our identity and impact our healing journey. Helen Orombi, an empowerment and transformational coach, shares insights on how survival-based patterns and ancestral influences can block us from stepping into our highest potential. Together, we dive into Ubuntu—“I am because we are”—as a powerful framework for transformation. Helen also shares practical tools, including EFT tapping, to release stored trauma, rewire subconscious conditioning, and step into self-mastery.
To tune in live or on demand to watch Shannon and Helen's amazing conversation: http://www.transformationtalkradio.com/watch.html 

According to Dr. Claire Zammit of Woman’ Centered Coaching, the three main patterns that particularly women across the globe experience are not being good enough, fear of being alone, and being invisible.
 
 
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The energy around your birth from what was going on with your ancestors - your familial baseline, your parents, when you were in utero, and actually being born followed by what environment you were born into sets up your energy blueprint.
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Shannon and Dr. Pat discuss how Shannon was awakened to the healing path and how it led to her helping people uncover the mystery of their own birth trauma imprint and how it affects their lives.

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