We recently connected with Shontwell Wells and have shared our conversation below.
Shontwell, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
Growing up I sometimes felt separate or different than everyone else. I had this unexplainable love for people and animals that I couldn’t put into words, I had this deep desire to help people but not necessarily always be engaged with people. I had this strong desire to always be of service and of assistance in any way that I could. In the beginning I realized early on that I adored being around the elders I seemed to share a special bond with them, they understood and embraced me, I understood and embraced them, but the simple truth was they felt like love to me.
In the very beginnings as a child I don’t think I saw myself as different because I just assumed that everyone was able to do the same things as I did, which was having the ability to speak and engage with spirits. I had this inner knowing of who to share with and who would receive me and who wouldn’t. So in my very young ages maybe 4 to 7 years old, I spent a lot of time with my elder next door neighbor, Mrs. Josie O. Lee, around that time she was closer to 90 years young than 80 years young. But I would sit at her kitchen table and she would share stories with me about her deceased husband that I’d seen quite often. I recall the first time I saw him, she lived in a duplex house and had access to both sides and one day as clear as day the door opened and I saw this tall slender black man, with a tan hat and at first I was a bit startled, he looked at me, I looked at him and as he sat down I could see the indentions in the seat cushion. After a bit I worked up the nerve to tell her what I saw and she just smiled and said “oh that’s my husband, Mr. Such and such and things just seemed to unfold from there.
There were other moments when I’d be at my grandparents and spirits would just walk in and take a seat and my grandmother, would acknowledge their presence and would explain that’s Mr. So and So or Mrs. Such and Such, or maybe someone’s child from the neighborhood that had possibly transitioned, but I was surrounded by elders who all seemed to know and understand spirits. It wasn’t until I was older 12/13 maybe that I realized I was different and all of my friends didn’t share the same experiences that I did.
I would sometimes share experiences with close friends, some would believe me, others not so much and I’ve even had friends be with me when unexplainable events would take place but overall I just learned to keep it to myself. I recall knowing the exact time someone that was close to me would transition, or knowing when people were ill and what was happening with them long before they shared this information. I’d know things about random strangers and it just seemed normal to me but in the same breath I felt unclear sometimes on when, what, or how to share.
As time went on and as I grew I noticed my abilities grew as well. I knew I had an ability to move energy in the body, speak to plants and they would move in response to me, I always had a strong pull to large body’s of water and I would then and do know feel like I was at home when I am in the ocean or at the beach and I’ve always just had this comfortable knowing around animals. But I also learned to feel shame and fear around my abilities as well because let’s be honest not many people believe that people are capable of having such gifts so there was no one there to foster or teach me how to develop my gifts so I kept them hidden until rare moments that I was able to assist.
Several years ago it felt as if my life was falling apart and it seemed my biggest desires were to be secluded out in nature under the moonlight or laying out in the sunshine away from everything and everyone, except my children. My desire to be secluded from people existed because I always felt I had to wear a mask and not share my true self and this hurt and confusion and fear, slowly bled over into other aspects of my life yet, I still had this huge desire to assist people, which honestly was a bit confusing for me. My knowledge of things that I shouldn’t know about total strangers, friends and family grew. But I just felt lost and alone most of the time. I didn’t know how to find people like me, I’d visit psychic fairs looking for people to connect to, to no avail and one day my cousin asked me to attend a Reiki event with her. I had no idea what Reiki was until I got there and realized this is what I’d been looking for. I was already more than capable of doing some of the things being taught. But I also saw a group of people just like me, that were searching for some place to belong. So I decided to get my certification so that I could actually start living the life I was sent here to live. I decided to learn and study as much as I could to have a firm and true foundation and understanding of what it is I do and who it is that I am so that I could become someone who is probably able and prepared to assist the healers who are coming behind me. So that people don’t have to feel so lost and so alone while learning and healing themselves.
Shontwell, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
My name is Shontwell Wells, I am a mother of 4, grandmother (Nana) of 3. I’ve been married and divorced twice. I am a writer and published author of a poetry book entitled, “My Hearts’ Song,” which can be purchased on Barnes & Noble.com, Amazon.com & Xlibris.com. I am also a certified and active practitioner in Shamanic Tantra, Heartwork Intergration, Womb-space Healing, Kemetic Reiki, Spring Forest Qigong, and Tantric Body Work. I am also an Oracle, Spiritual Coach, and Certified Tantra Teacher. I also share that I specialize in Pleasure, meaning that I understand that the body has the natural ability to heal itself and it does so very innately when it is in a state of euphoria (pleasure) and I am a vessel to bring in different states and experiences of pleasure in order for the body to begin its own state of self healing. I like to remind those of whom I serve, that I, Shontwell, am not the healer. I am simply the vessel that holds space for your body to begin the process of healing itself.
As I shared in the previous questions, I began this journey because it felt that my life was falling apart but I realized that I was in peace within the chaos and I honestly, didn’t understand why that was. Although my mind had not accepted my reality, my body had began the process of surrending to who I was naturally to become. So one day about maybe 10 years ago I was lead to set up an Ancestor Altar and I began praying to the Ancestors that I knew and that I found comfort in and they slowly began to bring in other deities and other entities.
Probably in year five (5) after beginning my altar and beginning to read different books about metaphysic’s, and other world known psychics I’d learned or heard about growing up, praying more, being in meditation and nature more, trusting my intuition more, things started to pick up for me energetically/spiritually and I was also I believe, going through a divorce (sometimes so much happens so fast in life time just runs together for me) but I literally felt like I was losing myself, so I sought out a therapist. My first two experiences it seemed I spent more time telling the therapist about their lives than they did assisting me with mine. One of my therapist explained that she looked forward to our sessions because she always felt so light and airy afterwards and that’s when I decided I needed a new therapist. My next therapist was a younger white woman who was actually quite amazing at her job, but she simply didn’t have experiences that could help her to relate to a spiritual black woman with whom she could find nothing in common. My life experience had mostly been a feeling that the world was against me and life it seemed came at me in a continual flow from every angle all the time. But after our 2nd or 3rd visit she diagnosed me as being “manic bipolar”. Although I understood that I was in fact not manic bipolar, I think there were parts of me that were happy to have an excuse to avoid my gifts for awhile. For about 3 years I was on and off all forms of anxiety meds, we tried one at a time, different mixtures, just all sorts of things and nothing quieted this sense of “knowing” that I had, and one day I just decided to stop talking all of the meds and stop attending therapy and stop running from myself. I decided to just study me.
This continual self study is what led me to be open when I began to learn of other healing modalities such as Reiki and Tantra which I’d never heard of, but once I found them or they found me, I knew I’d found my spaces in which to belong. And like any other spaces my newly found spaces began to show the ugly heads of having and carrying their own sets of unhealed wounds. And I slowly realized that although as wonderful and amazing as some of the spaces were I was not always healing in the ways in which I required. So I birthed, “Shontwel’s Circle Of Healing,” and decided to deepen my own studies of different healing modalities in order to some day create spaces that are totally safe and healthy in all ways for the entire mind, body, spirit, and soul.
I’ve always had such a strong desire for healing but not just of myself but those around me. As a child my mother always thought I’d grow up to become a doctor and although I’m not a doctor I am a vessel of healing for all of those of whom I encounter. As a people we have so much to heal from, and so many of us don’t even realize it and it just becomes more and more apparent that there is a true need for more safe spaces for us all, both men and women. So I began teaching myself better discipline, better prayer habits, better meditation habits, better eating habits so that I can eventually become the thing for others I so desperately seek for myself, a focused and disciplined teacher, healer, and mentor. This is not to say that I have not come in contact and or studied with some amazing healers, it’s just to say that as I peel back the layers of my own wounds I’ve found that I need something more.
As a conduit of healing modalities I offer an array of healing services such as Shamanic Tantra, which allows me the pathway to speak and engage with spirit on my clients behalf during a tantra session, Kemetic Reiki, which provides a lot of deep energetic cleansing to take place, Heartwork Integration, our hearts and bodies have its own intelligence and this allows me an opportunity to speak and work directly in the clients heart space in order to find ways to better assist in my clients healing journey, just to name a few of my services being offered to assist with spiritual and energetic blockages that can arise from childhood or past life traumas, adult traumas, erectile dysfunction, womb-space healing from rape, abortion, even energy left behind from past sexual partners, etc.
I feel that thing that sets me apart from others in my field is my ability to love. I love every person I encounter from a space of unconditional love within my heart from day one. I continually try to intentionally move in a space of no exceptions of anything in return other than the persons authenticity to themselves. My truest desire is simply to love and be of service in a healing aspect. And almost every client I’ve serviced from gang members to the elderly and everyone in between has expressed that by the end of our session they felt engulfed in love.
The things I’m most proud of is that my heart never changes when it comes to the work that I do. I have as much passion for it today as I did when I began my studies in 2020. My desire to learn continues to grow by the day. The more I learn and experience the greater my desire to continue on grows. I feel that each client that I’m able to assist is my blessing for this life and nothing gives me greater joy than to know that when I am able to assist not only am I blessed but those who came before me as well. I pray daily that my work speaks for itself, I pray that I am always in a space to be of service in a healthy and safe space from the overflows of my own life and existence. But my greatest prayer is that I always honor God, my Ancestors and myself in all of the works that I do.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I’ve had to unlearn attachment. I believed that in order for me to truly feel a thing I had to be attached to it, be it an emotion, a person, or a thing, I felt there needed to be some form of an attachment formed, yet all at the same time my greatest desire was to be detached from almost everyone and everything. I was born into this plain under the zodiac sign of Cancer and we truly enjoy our alone time, lol. So for me, I don’t need to have a thing in order to give a thing, meaning I don’t need a person to love me in order for me to love them, yet I always felt I needed to have a certain level of attachment to them, but not them to me. So in falling in love truly for what I realized was the very first time, I realized just how suffocating attachment was. I’d been so accustomed to being the one in love and not being the recipient of the other persons affection in quite the same ways, that when I finally had someone who shared in my affections as deeply as I, it quickly became suffocating for me. I was suffocating because I realized I was attached and slowly became every emotion I encountered in our short lived loved affair. I was so attached to the emotions at times it felt paralyzing, so I slowly had to learn to release the desires to be attached to things and people and emotions and had to begin the process of learning an emotional intelligence that I hadn’t previously realized that I was lacking.
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
I met my current healing partner at a Grand Trine Tantra class with Grand Master Yao Morris. I was there as a table model for another student and we just briefly met. We didn’t instantly form a bond or form any form of friendship, as a matter of fact it was a few years later, that we actually began to form a friendship, but I do recall the moment I met her I knew there would be something very great and special between us, although I didn’t know in the moment that it would be a healing partnership. And although not perfect our healing partnership has been one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.shontwelscircleofhealing.com
- Instagram: shontwelcircleofhealing
- Facebook: Shontwel Wright
