Shannon D. South, LPC, Th.D., is an award winning therapist, an amazon best-selling author, a professional speaker, and an expert in the field of spirituality and healing trauma for over 20 years. She is also a mother, writer and avid meditator, having completed her doctorate studying meditation and its effects on depression, anxiety, dopamine and other neurotransmitters.
Dr. South grew up in the mountains of NC. Her passions are speaking, writing and helping people “heal the split” associated with trauma so that wholeness and joy can occur naturally. Dr. South knows how to assist people in reconnecting to their wisest-highest, most sacred nature.
When there is pain in our lives, we often survive by disconnecting from our authentic nature. At some point, our system needs updating and we need to discover how to rewire these survival patterns and embody more true joy, abundance, love, peace and inner strength instead of reacting to our lives from the past. Our system attempts to “handle these events, beliefs or experiences the best way it knows how. These less healthy ways of coping hold us together until we can develop new ways of being with ourselves, our pain and others.
In 1994, during graduate school, Shannon had a spiritual experience during meditation that healed her debilitating anxiety and panic disorder. Since this transformative experience, Shannon’s focus changed from one of traditional psychotherapy to a holistic, transpersonal nature. She began intense studies in meditation, mind-body-spirit healing and MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. Shannon obtained her doctorate in spiritual psychology studying with Dr. Norman Shealy and Dr. Carolyn Myss.
In this retreat, you will experience and learn the most effective, life-changing approach she was taught in her 4 year doctorate program studying spiritual psychology. This approach got her voted Best Therapist of WNC (Western NC) several years in a row because it works so well in helping others heal.
