Shannon Stuart, Healing Guide & Coach

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Since a very early age, Shannon has experienced the ability to intuitively see and connect to spirit on a deep level. Shannon began her interest in alternative & holistic modalities in her late teens. Since the mid-1990s Shannon has worked in various areas of the medical, functional medicine and holistic-spiritual wellness fields. Shannon holds several certifications along with years of training, studies and mentorships. Through this time of deep practice and initiation Shannon found and connected to her Celtic ancestral roots. These deep medicine practices she uses today in her personal path and in many of her teachings. 

Shannon has always felt called to a life of Purpose and Service. Through coaching or teaching, Shannon guides individuals in creating a safe space for deep healing and transformation. Guiding her clients on the sacred path to self-awareness-healing, wholeheartedness and connection to their inherent ancient knowing.

My story is one of overcoming… My story is a reminder that healing is an ongoing process where we can learn to find ourselves over and over again. My story has become about my path and my purpose. 

For years, I had attempted to keep certain parts of my story, let’s say more like parts of myself hidden away. Even some of my closest friends, family and co-workers had no idea what I endured. Part of this was due to the amazing way I could shove, compartmentalize and hide these experiences. I was the one who always pressed forward in attempt to create the life that I had so desired, even if meant self-sacrifice along the way. I had learned to live and even normalize not just the poor behaviors of my partners but also the shame, pain, abandonment and guilt I carried inside. 

Throughout a period of 11 years I experienced and endured all types of abuse within my partnerships. I was broken… I felt isolated and defeated even with others around me. I was in consistent survival mode moving from and to things like people, spiritual practices, jobs, homes and self-sabotaging behaviors. Avoiding the many horrific and traumatic details of this time in my life, what I will say there are no words to describe what it was like to look into a mirror not even recognizing who I was anymore. I felt a deep sense of self-hatred, a sense of drowning. I had dismissed the most powerful pieces of my spirit. I knew that I had to call my spirit back for myself and for my young children and that is what I did.

There I was on what I refer to as “Magic Mountain” with just myself, nature and the creator. This is where I had to stay until I could decide if I was going to live authentically or leave that mountain living the way I entered. This sacred place is where I called my spirit back and felt the deep love of the creator restored within. Over the next many years, I worked with different healers, mentors and dove into self-taught healing practices and modalities. I went back to school, I studied and apprenticed. I stepped through each lesson or initiation coming out with more knowledge than before. 

In this deep work I learned about the spiral walk of trauma and how it’s something we don’t just “get over”. I had to and at times still go back to my roots where some of my story began and look at some of my unconscious beliefs. Years later, I am still learning to accept, heal and adapt to chronic conditions inter-related to my years of trauma and chronic stress. I have had to learn to cope with the many after-effects of trauma and abuse not just for myself but also the way that this has impacted my children. 

My story is mine but like my mother and many others this story happens far too often. I was born with intuitive gifts, I am smart, kind and capable. I have been asked things like Why did you stay? Why didn’t you just leave? What I would say is that when you are in this place, these ideas don’t feel possible, in fact it’s the opposite. Fear, internalized self-hatred and attempt to do things right for your children are all ever-present. 

In 2020, I experienced something that again would change my life in ways I never saw coming. I found myself in and out of consciousness in the ICU with Covid-19. This illness was at a depth of nothing I had ever experienced before. It’s has left its reminders and invitations for ongoing presence in my mind, body and spirit. A reminder that trauma leaves its mark, but we can use this as a catalyst to become more of who we are meant to be. This has opened my eyes into deeper levels of compassion, healing and understanding. 

As I walk this walk of healing and knowledge, I was shown that supporting others who live with PTSD/CPTSD was to be part of my expression, purpose and path on this planet. Through my ongoing healing, spiritual beliefs and practices I have learned to hold a deep sacred space for others. I love sharing tools and guiding others in their own healing walk and journeys of self-reclamation. This is the path of Sacred Alchemy. 

Shannon would like to acknowledge the indigenous ancestral lands of the Shoshone, Paiute, and Ute peoples, where she performs much of her work.