Nightbird: Shavaun Scott on Trauma, Religion & Escaping the Darkness
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this deeply personal and emotionally gripping episode of Murder in the Morning, Tony Brueski and Stacy Cole are joined by returning guest, psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott, for a raw conversation about her powerful new memoir, Nightbird.
Known for her expert psychological insight on high-profile criminal cases, Shavaun steps into the spotlight to share her own story—one marked by religious indoctrination, generational trauma, abusive relationships, and ultimately, survival. With unflinching honesty and dark wit, she opens up about growing up in a strict Pentecostal household, navigating a controlling marriage marked by rage and personality disorder, and the haunting aftermath of a partner’s staged suicide meant to emotionally destroy her.
This episode explores:
- The trauma of religious extremism and its lifelong psychological imprint
- Why smart, capable people stay in abusive relationships—and how to break free
- The harsh truth about Cluster B personality disorders and the limits of therapy
- How writing a memoir became the ultimate act of therapy and healing
- Why helping others requires first confronting your own darkness
Whether you've lived through emotional abuse, questioned your religious past, or simply want to understand the psychological roots of pain and recovery, this episode offers profound perspective, compassion, and a roadmap for healing.
Nightbird is available now wherever books and audiobooks are sold. You’ll laugh, cry, and most of all—feel seen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Murder in the Morning with Tony Bruske and Stacey Cole. |
| 0:05.9 | Yes, it is indeed. |
| 0:08.0 | And today we are talking with Chavon Scott, psychotherapist and author. |
| 0:13.9 | And I want to get this off the back of the screen. |
| 0:15.5 | Yeah, Karen Reid is. |
| 0:17.1 | We are not talking about her today. |
| 0:19.1 | I've had enough of her. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm going to put the graphic up in a moment here, but Nightbird is the book. |
| 0:23.7 | This is Chavon's new memoir. |
| 0:25.9 | Shavon, welcome to the program. |
| 0:28.6 | Of course, everybody knows Chavon. |
| 0:30.0 | She comes on quite a bit and talks about our cases. |
| 0:33.5 | But yeah, you got the new memoir out. |
| 0:36.5 | Nightbird, like I said, available wherever books are sold, or your favorite small bookstore, they can get it too. |
| 0:42.3 | And, yeah, there's so much to this. |
| 0:44.5 | I had a chance to sit down and I did the audiobook, which you did a lovely reading of. |
| 0:50.8 | Stacey, you just appeared to disappear from our camera. |
| 0:54.5 | Shavon, tell me... |
| 0:55.0 | I did. I have an audio problem. Keep going. I'll be back in in a second. |
| 0:58.2 | Okay. Shavon, I'm going to jump to you. And what, I mean, obviously, there's a lot in this book. |
| 1:03.8 | I don't even know where to begin. What gave you the idea to tell your story, to get it out there in the way that you are in this book? How did that |
| 1:12.3 | all come about? I have been told for years by people who get to know me well. A lot of people |
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