Turning Your Trauma Into Superpower With Stephanie Chandler

Post Traumatic Parenting

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Post-Traumatic Parenting podcast! In today’s podcast episode, I’m joined by Stephanie Chandler, the founder of the Nonfiction Authors Association. I recently attended her conference and when I heard her unique post-traumatic parenting story I knew I had to share it with you all because I love bringing post-traumatic parents on the podcast so that we can hear real-life Post-Traumatic stories. Stephanie is someone I admire a lot, she turned her trauma into a superpower, while remaining a conscious, present parent. Tune in as we talk about Stephanie’s story, how she suddenly lost her husband and became a single parent, how to process grief when you lose a loved one, what is grief hijack, different ways to process your trauma, and managing trauma while parenting a traumatized child.

In this episode, we chat about:

• Stephanie shares how she suddenly lost her husband
• The difference between being a single parent and an only parent
• A missing male figure in Stephanie's son's life
• When should you seek professional help with processing your grief
• What is a grief hijack
• Stephanie’s journey of starting the Nonfiction Authors Association
• How did Stephanie hack her trauma and turned into a superpower
• Different ways to process your trauma
• How to supercharge your therapy
• What motivated me to become a psychologist
• Suicide is not selfish, and depression is not only in your head
• Stephanie's son's reaction to his dad passing
• What they don’t teach you in school about business
• Stephanie shares how she started her first writers' conference
• Tips on writing a book, building a platform, and finding an agent
• Turning your fear into a helpful friend
• Why post-traumatic parents are the world's natural entrepreneurs

Connect with me on Instagram @dr.koslowitzpsychology and for full show notes and more resources visit www.drrobynkoslowitz.com/turning-your-trauma-into-superpower-with-stephanie-chandler