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Episode Summary:
In this week’s episode of What Happens In Between, I sit down with Shavon Swain, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with over 10 years of experience working in the mental health field. Shavon helps us understand that the layers of curiosity, imagination, and possibility are cultivating your innate wisdom. What does it mean — and feel like — to have the freedom and the expansiveness to try on all different parts of yourself? Join us on today’s episode as we explore what it means to be both a Black Woman and a Free Spirit.
Question of the Week: Why do parents put gift bows on household appliances in their homes?
Show Notes:
We get to choose how the layers of curiosity, imagination, and possibility integrate into some (or all) aspects of our lives. As a Black Woman x Free Spirit, Shavon utilizes human design, astrology, and inner child work as a permission slip to deepen her therapy practice while staying true to herself. But Shavon’s intent isn’t to make her work her sole identity. It’s a layered evolution, textures upon textures of the Self.
Shavon’s somatic-centered therapy practice helps her clients understand how emotions and feelings show up in the body. How can you become your own tool for self-compassion?
To embody self-awareness and understanding is to understand aspects of the Self. What does life look like when you believe clarity + embodiment = authenticity?
Shavon reminds us that there is freedom and expansiveness when we try on all different parts of ourselves. All the possibilities exist. Join us on today’s episode as we explore what it means to be both — a Black woman and a free spirit.
Seedling Round:
Shavon answers a few rapid-fire questions about her chart, how she experiences the world — and perhaps most importantly, why she hates the original Star Trek.
Shavon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with over 10 years of experience working in the mental health field. She had worked with both families and individuals dealing with a wide range of challenges such as: depression, anxiety, maternal mental health, life transitions, parenting issues, abuse, low self-esteem, and lack of boundaries.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Topics Covered:
- Questions around being a free spirit, imagination, and possibility
- How Human Design highlighted Shavon’s innate wisdom
- Permission to shift and change within career/identity
- Shavon’s formula for clarity + embodiment = authenticity
- Using somatics to sit with and understand emotion
- How Shavon channeled her intuitive gifts into a career
- How increased neurodivergence accessibility impacts therapy
- Four questions for our Seedling Round
Guest Info:
Connect with Shavon Swain on Instagram, The Healing Lounge Website, her personal Website, and Therapy For Black Girls Website. Check out Shavon’s NEW! Guided Journaling Cards here.
