What's It Like To Reconnect With Yourself: Shavon

Speaker: Shavon

Shavon: The deciding factor for me to seek out additional support was when I went on my uh plant medicine journey. And I had already been in traditional therapy and a lot of things were revealed to me um via my plant medicine journey that I knew I couldn't lend to a traditional therapist to help me understand and decode and to also make those connections. I even tried to. After I did my plant medicine retreat, I had a traditional therapy session with my therapist and I think both my therapist and I could see like, okay, it's time for you to kind of move on to an additional level of support. So for me, that was really the leading factor that was like, okay, traditional therapy has gotten you to this point. I think that's great. It's amazing. It was definitely necessary, but I knew traditional therapy wasn't going to help take me to uh like a new level of healing and evolving that I needed. And I could feel so that led me to seek out other um other ways for support.

Shavon: I chose to work with Frantzces because Frantzces is amazing, first of all, but I have been following Frantzces' journey for a couple of years. Now, started when Frantzces was doing her podcast chronicles abroad. I fell in love with her Nubia and really was just kind of hooked on her energy. And when I saw that Frantzces started to do the plant medicine retreats, healing retreats. I was like, I think this might be something I'm interested in. And that was an amazing experience for me, a very life changing experience. So I am honored that Frantzces was a part of that journey for me. And then even after that experience, I reached out to Frantzces to be like, hey, do you also offer like additional support, you know, in this way? And I was so so so so happy that Frantzces was like, why? Yes, I do offer some additional life coaching that might benefit you. Like, let's kind of see if this would be a really good fit. And I'm really happy that it was a good fit. It felt really good for me because I knew I was able to connect with Frantzces through a journey a life changing journey that I had just gone through that like Frantzces was already integrated into that and a part of that. So it made the life coaching sessions so much easier for me because I was able to pinpoint, oh, I remember this particular experience and Frantzces knew exactly what I was talking about. Like I didn't have to spend a lot of our sessions giving background to say, okay, well, there was this one time Frantzces already knew and that was important to me. I've been in traditional theater. People would have had to spend a lot of time trying to explain or take people back to a point. So it was important that I was, I connected with someone who had seen me through a large part of my healing process in that way and could continue to support me afterwards. So I'm really blessed that we were able to align that way.

Shavon: How would I compare the person I was before being coached by Francis and who I am now? That's a really great question I would say before being coached by Frantzces, I could tell I was on the cusp of opening up, but still had a lot of walls up, really nervous about opening my heart. Um And then honestly, not even just that before coaching with Frantzces, I was still focused on like my healing with other people and throughout my coaching sessions with Frantzces and realizing who I am afterwards, I'm like, damn, my healing was always tied to the relationship I have with myself. And so a lot of our coaching sessions were very much focused around me, reconnecting with me. And I didn't realize how pivotal that was in my healing journey or just my next phase in life to be like, goodness gracious. I really needed time to connect with who I am and, and ask myself in this phase of my life. What do I love? What do I like? I didn't realize how far I had gotten from being so connected to myself. I rediscovered who I am. Um I'm discovering so many amazing things about myself and I now have better habits and different skills that I can choose from to really kind of help me cope with situations. And as life happens, I can utilize those skills as this person as I am today, instead of approaching a lot of issues or when things come up and life happens, approaching it as to who I was, you know, a couple of years ago or even a year ago. So I'm way more in tune with myself. I'm asking myself questions like, what brings me joy or, you know, like, what am I grateful for what I like to do? And man, oh, man, have I been able to reconnect with my inner child in a way that I did not know I was smothering her. So I would say after coaching with Frantzces, my inner child and I, we have a great relationship and it's so beautiful to be able to tap into, you know, that person and, and those joys even at this age in life.