About Shannon: 

I’m not here to fix you, because you’re not broken. I’m not here to hand you a formula or promise certainty. I’m here to help you build right-relationship with your own clarity: your energy, capacity, values, and your truth. Not what’s expected. Not what appeases. What’s real. Because you are not meant to stay fixed. You are meant to feel. To evolve.To become more You over time. 

When change is condemned as inconsistency, I am here to reflect: it’s also aliveness. Alignment. Authenticity.
That preference, desire, and rhythm aren’t flaws to fix, but frequencies to honor.

You’re allowed to outgrow what once fit. To wake up to your muchness, and as many times as needed. 
To remember that love, creativity, relating, and presence aren’t formulas— they’re resonant. They’re specific.
They’re felt.

I’m here to stand with you while you learn to stand in yourself. I’m Shannon: Ontological coach. Strategic feeler. Neurodivergent thinker. Business owner. Creative who works in patterns, systems, and soul. 

I spent years performing perfection to earn respect, until I chose to trust myself instead. But choosing authenticity over a pull to please didn’t come easily.  It took learning to see life as a relationship and choosing to meet it with integrity, not performance.

The Braid Framework isn’t something I “teach” at you. It’s a space of permission: a rhythm that helps you align with the Being beneath pleasing, producing, and performing.

I’m not the center of your process. I’m a mirror. A space-holder. A witness. A seer. 
I ask the questions that help you notice when you’re performing instead of being. 

I don’t offer perfection. I offer presence. I know what it’s like to override your body. To chase clarity and still feel untethered. I lived there longer than I liked, which is why I no longer dissolve to belong. Instead, I choose to stay with myself. I choose alignment over appeasement. I choose to trust the rhythm that’s actually mine.

That’s what The Braid Framework is here for: to support a relationship with yourSelf, life, and community that is honest, respectful, and Real. Rooted in your rhythm. Aligned with your capacity. Not shaped by performance.

Who you are has never been a problem.
You are lovable. You are worthy.
Your wisdom belongs.
Your birth was your receipt, proof that the Universe already said yes.

The Braid is NOT about earning space.
It IS about taking up the space that’s always been yours. 
Not just to be seen, but to be held.  Not just to survive, but to enjoy Being. 
To embody yourself with esteem and to live your expression of essence out loud. Whole. Alive.

Because what if your bigness wasn’t the burden—but the brilliance?

What if your muchness was never too much—just uniquely yours to hold?

The Braid Framework is where you stop pathologizing and apologizing for your presence and instead, choose to start honoring it. Here you stop resisting your brilliance and start romancing it. Not to perform. To love. To live. To savor the beautiful, brutal experience of being fully alive—because you still can.

It's an honor to Be Here with You. 

How The Guides Came to Be: 

I didn’t plan to build a framework. I set out not to disappear. I spent years physically present, but emotionally gone. I played the part. I did the thing. But I wasn’t in it. I was showing up in body, but not in personal truths. I was managing perception, people, pain, and energy at the expense of my presence, peace, and honesty.  And it was costing me… me.

Change didn’t come from a breakthrough. It came from burnout. From the quiet truth that I hadn’t just been distracted, I’d been disconnected. Dissociated. And when that kind of self-relational distance catches up to you, it finds its way into everything.

For me, infertility forced the reckoning I could no longer outrun. I had to stop forcing my body to do what it couldn’t and stop punishing myself for it. I had to stop performing a life that wasn’t mine and face the truth: I was still choosing it. And if I wanted different, I had to choose differently. Not just in action, but in allegiance. I had to align with the truth of me—relate with the charm of me.

What came next wasn’t strategy. It was rhythm. A self-paced reckoning that began the moment I admitted: I wasn’t actually in my life. I wasn’t present. But I wanted to be. That’s where The Braid begins with presence.

Presence revealed the need for values, ones I could stand in, not just name. Those values led me to emotional regulation, because alignment isn’t possible without nervous system truth. That clarity deepened into perspective: how I was seeing, relating, and interpreting what life brought to me. And through it all, I realized: reality isn’t fixed. It’s relational. It reflects the rhythm of our relationship to life itself, whether we’re romancing it, resisting it, or renegotiating it, the choice is ours. It’s a living rhythm between presence and resonance.

The Braid Framework is how I turned pain into a path where authenticity stopped being an idea and started being embodied. These guides didn’t help me become someone new. They helped me recognize that right-relationship is resonance. That I don’t have to perform wholeness, I can live congruent with it. Now, I offer this non-framework, framework to you. Not as a fix, but as a reckoning with your unique rhythm.

The Braid Framework isn’t a prescription. It’s a practice. A place to build relationship with rhythm, capacity, and presence. A relationship to yourself that doesn’t ask you to shrink—only to show up.