Shortly after getting over the shock of losing her job as managing director of the electra company, morgan started to actively search for a new job. at this point in time, morgan had passed through the stage and is now in the stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

The answer to this question is alarm and resistance. Hans Selye described three stages -- alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages -- which the body goes through when under stress called general adaptation syndrome (GAS). The first stage, the alarm stage, provides the body with a burst of energy while the second, the resistance stage, the body attempts to resist or adapt to the stressor; and the energy gets depleted in the final stage. The phrase "getting over the shock" in the first line seems to suggest "fight-or-flight” response, which is a physiological response to stress. And then she "actively search for a new job" which seems to imply that the body has resisted/gotten over the stress and has begun to repair itself.