About Me (Kathy/Dragonwolf)…
My life as an artist, healer, intuitive reader, councilor, and trauma coach has been a life long journey that has led me to this moment to use my skills and talents to help heal others.
My life story is an amalgamation of artistic talent, creative endeavors, intuitive abilities, spiritual healings, trauma healings, nutrition improvements, and counselling for mind, body, and spirit.
My business under the main name of Kathy Shannon Design houses all of my creative artistic endeavors, while it encompasses my God given spiritual talents and activities under the name Dragonwolf.
Our complete wellness center focuses on the entire human because everything is connected. In many practices only one part of us is targeted, but that does not bring us into complete balance with ourselves. To fully return back to our authentic selves we need to dive into and heal the mind, the body, and the spirit.
My Intuitive & Clairvoyant Journey…
I have been seeing things and knowing things since I was around 5 years old. My dad was in the Navy so we moved around a lot. My first memories of the supernatural where when I lived in Lubbock, Texas. I saw and felt spirits. I could tell there were entities in the house and things would also move in the house, but not by any of my family.
In Norfolk, Virginia I was in Kindergarten and the 1st grade. I heard voices and saw supernatural things. I could feel entities around me often and many times I did get a bit scared. They did not always feel positive.
In Silver Spring, Maryland we moved there in the early part of my 5th grade year and I did not move away from Maryland until I was 26 years old. There are so many stories of noises in the house, weird energies, entities presences, voices, shadows, doors slamming, footsteps on the stairs, and supernatural experiences that is too many to state. It was so bad that I had started to sleep with a rosary under my pillow and I could never have my closet door closed cause there were things that lived in there.
My professional career as an intuitive reader and spiritual healer was when I was 21. I found out I had the ability to read cards, palms, and was clairvoyant when I got my tarot cards read for the very first time. The reader looked at me during the reading and said, "You can do this too. You have the ability to read anything and you should start on this path." That was the spark that lead me to buy my first tarot deck. Within 6 months I was a professional reader. I worked events, nightclubs, and also did a radio show in Washington D.C. I began to have regular clients and was well on my way to a lifelong career as a healer.
My Spiritual & Religious Journey…
My spiritual and religious journey through this world has lead me to many different places and paths. I was brought up as a Catholic where I had a strong connection with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. When the Church and their beliefs made me out to be wrong due to my God given abilities, I left the Church in the 8th grade. When I was 19 I found the pagan path, specifically following the Wiccan religion. This served me for a long time until I was called back to Jesus in 2017. Due to my fear of offending God, I threw everything out that I was lead to believe was wrong and that included my intuitive abilities. However, God allowed me to realize that I was an amalgam of both the Christian world and the Natural world with all the spiritual energies, beings, and my intuitive abilities. I know that I am a Jesus follower and God speaks to me. Therefore, I have found a peace in this world with my many sides, knowledge, experiences, and abilities. This fullness of understanding allows me to have love for all humans on their spiritual journey with their various beliefs and practices.
My Other Beings & Spiritual Warfare Journey…
As stated previously I have been have a lifelong existence with the other side. Beings began to show themselves, talk to me, and frankly scare me from the time I was young. Not all presences/entities had a scary vibe about them. There were many that felt warm, positive, and of the Light. These I would say come from the Light side of the other side. However, there is a Dark side to the other side. Those were very scary to me as I grew up. As I matured and began to research things so that I understood what these things were I realized that the spiritual world consisted of both Light and Dark beings. The Dark beings can be demons or something just pure evil. Their entire existence is to misguide us, cause us harm, and instill us with fear. They were created alongside Light beings to create a balance to this world. This realm is very dense and has a specific purpose to allow for certain types of experiences that our souls are not able to do elsewhere. This is the reason for this realm. Our souls journey here goes through some of the worst pains, difficulties, and traumas that do not match other places. God may have created other dense realms that house this type of darkness, but I have not been made aware as of that knowledge. I only speak to my own experiences and knowledge provided by God.
I have been engaged in Spiritual Warfare since I was young, even though then I did not know that was what I was doing when I called on God and Jesus to save me from the entities that were scaring me. As a healer God has had me on a long several lifetimes journey to experience the pain of this world to teach and heal others. My encounters and many battles with the darkness of this world is part of that. I have assisted many with eradicating the dark beings that were haunting and/or possessing them. I have much experience with cleansing and blessing many objects, areas, buildings, and homes from such disturbances. I continue my Spiritual Warfare and other side education to help others navigate this world.
My Creative Journey…
My entire life I have been an artist and that has developed into a strong style that is unique. Whether it is in paint, pencil, ink, photography, graphic design, apparel, or crafts my spirit and personality shine through. My natural artistic talent emerged when I was in elementary school. I started drawing cartoon type figures for class projects and realized they were quite good. I then taught myself how to draw faces when in junior high school of my favorite music band members. In high school, I started doing drawings for the school newspaper and won a drawing contest when I drew a football player in pencil. This led me to want to do more. I won a coveted spot in a special art school during my junior and senior years of high school. I went half day to my normal school then spent the rest of day learning how to develop my talent. Even though I was accepted into the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, my parents were not able to afford this pricy endeavor. I was accepted into the University of Maryland at College Park. There I not only learned fine art, graphic design, and marketing, I found my passion for history.
My Education Journey…
After many years, I went back to school to gain my Bachelors and Master's degrees in History with minors in Psychology and Sociology. My research focused on Irish and early American history. I combined these two parts of history into one focus of the Irish that immigrated into the early American settlements, which then became the American colonies. From there my immigration studies branched into all the groups that were coming to the North American continent, including Canada. In addition to immigration, I also studied the transatlantic world of all the oceanic voyages and life of those crossing the ocean back and forth with trade, settlements, warfare, and piracy. I continued to study Irish immigration as well as other immigration groups up through the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras. I utilize my love of all things Irish, which includes all things Celtic, in my creative pursuits. As is evident in my two logos for the business.
My understanding of human behavior concerning trauma and how we interact with the world, ourselves, and each other comes from my Psychology and Sociology studies as well as life experiences of counseling others throughout my life.
My Physical & Nutritional Journey…
My physical journey has been very challenging since I had a car accident in 2006. My neck, back, and shoulders became harmed when i got a herniated disk in my neck. The pain I had was debilitating at times and I was put through a great deal of pain management with doctors. The result was many medications that harmed my body in many ways, even though they were assisting my pain from a 10 down to a 4 or 5. I spent many years working with doctors and physical healers without much success. I am finally off of the pain medications and I started to see a chiropractor, which changed everything. I am now able to live with minimal pain and resume my exercise program.
In 2021 my body went through a major change where I got sick every time I ate. After taking a sensitivity test it appeared that I needed to live a vegan lifestyle. This did improve my digestion and I stayed on that diet for 2 and a half years. However, I began to experience the same issues that I did previously with severe digestion issues. This lead me to seek out an intuitive digestion health expert in January 2024. I found out that my sensitivity test was not accurate and that I could resume the diet I had before I went vegan. I had developed a sensitivity with the highly processed vegan alternatives I was consuming. Since then, I have followed a “clean” diet where I consume mostly foods with minimal processing and few ingredients. This has allowed a healthier self. Why did things change so drastically with my digestion? God provided this answer for me. It was due to my trauma healing that I was undergoing. Reliving these past traumas and working to heal them took a toll on my body, thus my digestion suffered. Once my healing got more stabilized I was able to resume eating the way I had previously.
My Trauma Journey…
My trauma journey began with the desire to heal my various wounds from a life of abuse. I am a survivor of abuse by my family, friends, coworkers, bosses, boyfriends, and husbands. My entire life has been one of pain and suffering due to others harmful thoughts, words, and deeds. I went through intensive trauma healing for three years with a therapist that specialized in PTSD and abuse. and came out the other side healthier, happier, more capable of handling the world around me. Through my experience I also went through my own study of these types of abuses and traumas to then be able to coach others through it as well.