Beyond Birth Trauma with Shannon O'Flaherty: From Burden to Brilliance

Jen Kalawur grew up as the oldest of five in an Irish Catholic family in New Jersey — highly sensitive, always knowing things she wasn't supposed to know, and getting backlash every time she said them out loud. From a teenage pregnancy that catalysed her parents' divorce, to a corporate career she quietly outgrew, to a breakthrough moment in a yoga class that brought her to her knees (and her inne...

        Dr. Michele Perron is a licensed counsellor who spent half her career in abstinence-based addiction treatment — and the other half watching it fail. In this episode, she reveals why the 100-year-old 12-step model may be keeping people stuck in shame, how intentional drinking and amino acid therapy are creating breakthroughs science can back up, and why the bravest thing you can do is stop...

What if the symptoms you've been trying to fix your whole life were actually your greatest teacher? Colleen McCann spent years trying to stop her hands from sweating - and the quest led her straight into energy healing, empath discovery, and a life of genuine magic. In this episode, Shannon and Colleen explore what it really means to be a sensitive child in a family that doesn't know what to do wi...

You've done the work. The therapy, the courses, the healing sessions. So why do you still find yourself caught in the same emotional charge, the same reactive spiral, the same patterns? In this episode I’m is joined by psychic meditation teacher Sally Di Cesare, who specialises in helping women who have done a lot of deep work finally get free from the hooks that keep pulling them back in. Drawing...

Money stress doesn't begin at the checkout. For many new and expectant parents, financial anxiety is one of the most invisible but powerful forces shaping the birth experience and early parenting journey. In this episode, Shannon O'Flaherty sits down with Ted McLyman, behavioral finance expert and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, to explore why so many people feel irrational, ashamed, or stuck wh...

   In this conversation, Dr. Helen Orombi shares a systems-based approach to understanding money and income growth. Rather than focusing on strategy or mindset alone, she introduces the concept of the Internal Protection System, the internal network of identity, nervous system conditioning, and protective parts that shape how much money, success, and visibility feel safe. This episode explores why...

What if the "disconnected" chapters of your life, were actually the precise blueprints for your greatest work? In this episode of  Beyond Birth Trauma - From Burden to Brilliance  we sit down with  Bree Dellerson , an expert in inner alchemy who bridges the gap between the mechanistic body and the living light field and discuss with here how to  Consciously Create Your Vibrational  Health  . Bree...

In this episode of  Beyond Birth Trauma , we sit down with  Devora Segall , a mother of ten, therapist, and author, to explore the invisible threads that connect our own birth stories to the way we parent today. Devora shares the touching history of her own mother’s isolated and traumatic hospital birth, an experience that sparked a generational mission to find deeper, more biological connections...

  What if the "stuck" feeling you’re experiencing today didn’t actually start with you? In this powerful solo episode of Beyond Birth Trauma , Shannon O’Flaherty dives deep into the invisible threads of our lineage, exploring how we carry up to seven generations of cellular memory and ancestral "oaths" in our bodies. When a guest's technical issues left Shannon to "wing it," she delivered a master...

 In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Janet shares her journey from being the sixth child in a large Catholic family to becoming a nurse, educator, and coach navigating burnout, boundaries, and a profound spiritual re-remembering. Together, we explore how birth order, early medical experiences, religious conditioning, and people-pleasing quietly shape our nervous systems, our self-wor...

Born with spina bifida and shaped by early medical trauma, displacement, and nervous-system shock, Claudine Marchand’s life began at the intersection of vulnerability and resilience. In this powerful episode, Claudine traces her journey from an unconventional conception and birth in Morocco, through childhood surgeries and physical limitation, to a world-class scientific career—and eventually, a p...

Waking Up to Spirit in a Very Human Life is an intimate conversation about what happens when your inner knowing begins to speak louder than logic. In this episode, we explore Eliza Wai’s journey from engineer to energy healer — the moment spirit breaks through a busy, overworked life, how intuition awakens, and what it means to live between worlds without losing your grounding. We talk about forgo...

 Why do so many women feel stressed, unworthy, or “not enough” when it comes to money — no matter how hard they work? In this powerful episode of Beyond Birth Trauma: From Burden to Brilliance , I am joined once again by the remarkable Dr. Helen Orombi, whose journey from Ugandan village life to earning three master’s degrees and a doctorate reveals the hidden truth about money, identity, and inte...

Birth isn’t broken. The system is. And women are paying the price. In this episode, Jo Dunn, professional Doula, pulls back the curtain on the industrial maternity system and reveals what women are never told about their bodies, their power, and their births. She shares her unfiltered perspective about what’s really happening inside modern maternity care—coercion, fear-based protocols, and the ero...

When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved to a rural plot of land in 1973, she thought of herself as simply a young mother seeking an affordable and safe place in which to raise her child. By the time she left the land nearly a decade later, she had written two books and a weekly newspaper column, served as contributing editor to a national magazine, a college instructor, and a sought-after pub...

    In this episode, Steve Parker unveils the Magnetic Heart Activation, a powerful process to heal faster, release victim patterns, and reconnect to Source.. Learn how your heart’s energy field holds the key to emotional healing, spiritual awakening, and lasting transformation.

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...

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 w...

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 ou...

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 wom...

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.