Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 55 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today I have with me Megan Parocha and

we are going to be talking about parenting.

Parenting children who have been traumatized

by divorce and abuse and other related things,

as well as what it's like as a parent who is dealing with your own trauma to be parenting

children who have their trauma and all the different triggers that this involves.

So Megan is the perfect person to talk to about this

because she has a master's in clinical social work.

She's got a certificates in trauma focused CBT, understanding addiction, school social work,

and mediation.

Megan wrote most of her graduate level papers on the dynamics of abuse and she received an award in social justice in graduate school for her protection order case changing Colorado state law to protect survivors.

Megan is also on the board of directors for Give Her Wings,

one of my favorite non-profits, which provides financial scholarships to women and children who have left an abuser.

Megan volunteers and policy meetings with Violence Free Colorado to continue working on changing

state law to protect survivors of IPV.

Megan recently started her own nonprofit, which we're going to talk about towards the end of the show,

called Survivors United Network, which aims to provide free community-based peer support group meetings

for survivors of domestic violence. Megan is a proud mother of a wonderful and brave daughter and enjoys distance running and

playing with her dog. Let's meet Megan.

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