Today we’d like to introduce you to Shannan Kym.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was brought up in a home that normalized addiction, mental illness, physical and mental abuse. As I grew into a young adult I started to slowly attract all this negativity and toxicity into my life as I was unaware of how my childhood upbringing plays such a huge impact in my life and shapes who I am into my adult years. As the years passed I became a people pleaser as I lacked self worth, low self esteem, I was lonely, depressed and I lived a life full of fear and struggle. As I grew older and years passed I suppressed my feelings so deeply that I eventually turned to alcohol. I was in a very unhappy marriage as I married a narcissist and I was confused as I thought his control over me was what love was.
August 2019 was when I had my spiritual awaking and I quit drinking. As I healed and I found my voice I knew that I was being directed to help others through sharing my story so I write a book, created a podcast, am a public speaker and a transformational mentor.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
As I healed and started to set healthy boundaries there were many challenges. As I had always been a people pleaser, worried about what others thought and lived in fear it was very difficult to break free from that cycle as this was my normal. I always did for others and not for me so to create a life of what I wanted was so foreign to me. I knew what I didn’t want in life as I had lived it my entire life but to create a life I wanted was difficult because I didn’t know what I wanted. This is where I had to sit in my stillness for months and ask myself the questions of “what do I want?” I started to become very in-tune with my feelings, thoughts and emotions and used this as my guide to my well-being. As I started to trust myself I found my strength of what I would accept and no longer accept in my life. This meant letting friends and family go as I soon quickly understood that many of them liked me being a people pleaser and the “old” me and didn’t like the person I was growing into as I was now sticking up for myself and no longer tolerating being disrespected in any way. I eventually learned that others come into your life for a reason, season or a lifetime but I have yet to have anyone be here for me for a lifetime. I have since left all of my relationships from my past and that includes my marriage and only have ones that are important to me which are my children. Environment played a huge part in my healing as I couldn’t heal being around negativity or toxic people, places or things. I knew that these things had a big impact on my thoughts and feelings so I quickly learned that if it didn’t “make me glow, grow or flow” I released it from my life completely. By releasing the past in all areas I have now created a life that is full of love and the people that have come to me are people that I know truly love and care about me and my children.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Transformational Mentor
I help empower women and teach them to discover what it is they really want in life and then creating it. By becoming aware of what they want they can create a dream life that they always desired without any sacrifices. Many women are leading such unhappy and unfulfilling lives because we instinctively care for others above ourselves and put our wants and needs last or don’t tend to them at all. We don’t realize that we can have it all because of the lack and limitations that we put upon ourselves and the belief systems that are instilled in each and every one of us. It is through my “10 Pathways Towards Self-Discovery” that I created and live each day that I empower women. These pathways, once they are learned and implemented daily, changed the lives of those that are willing to do the work and want a new life without sacrificing or suppressing their needs and wants.
Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
There are so many things that make me happy. I know that my thoughts do truly become my reality and I have limitless potential so I am always striving and become more of the best version of myself that I can be. I love that I am a mother to my four beautiful children and they can see me as someone that is very strong, knows what I want and I go for it. I want them to know they can have and be anything that they desire.
I am happy that I finally love myself and I can be myself and speak my truth and show others how to as well.
I am happy that I live my life the way I want and I know that I am the one in control of it all.
I am happy that I am a mentor to help others.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.shannankym.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannankym/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shannankymbiz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannan-kym/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@shannankym
