Your Journey to Take Back Control of Your life and Become the Woman You Want to Be Starts Here
Even if you’ve hit rock bottom. Even if you don’t have a damn clue how to start and you’re afraid. Even if you’ve tried before and you’re still stuck living a life where no one cares about what YOU want.
For 22 years, I was married to a man I had fallen out of love with.
Instead of feeling confident in who I was, I married someone to feel safe.
I did everything you’re supposed to do to feel happy and fulfilled in life. Marriage? Check. Kids? Check. Successful job? Check.
You see, I’d grown up in a family where you were expected to be tough. Raised by a father who desperately wanted a boy and a narcissistic mother who was emotionally abusive, I was terrified I’d never find anyone to love me.
So I settled.
But inside, I realized it was all bullshit. This life I’d created wasn’t what I wanted.
And I began to question everything.
Denial is a sneaky thing. It creeps up on you, causing you to lie to yourself. Creating stories about how you should be grateful for what you have, even if it makes you unhappy. What should a successful entrepreneur and mother like you have to feel sad about anyway?
I’d put everyone else’s needs and desires above mine for years. I’d followed all the rules society dictated.
Wishing and hoping this would make me happy. But it didn’t.
Not only was I mentally drained, but the stress was making me physically ill too.
I felt like I was wasting my life. I wasn’t living up to my potential or my true purpose. But, as a therapist, I knew there was a way out of that state of mind. And, I grasped it. And I’m about to show you exactly how…
But first, maybe you’ve felt that too? Especially since COVID.
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You struggle to get out of bed in the morning - you sleep like shit, you’re unmotivated, and you need copious amounts of coffee just to get you and the kids out the door.
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You fell out of love with your career years ago - it’s unfulfilling, and you feel like you’re missing out on your true calling. Not that you even know what that is. You’re on autopilot, just going through the motions and longing for your next vacation.
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When you get home, you’re tired and stressed. Cooking is the last thing on your mind, but it falls to you yet again. You reach for the wine to unwind and distract yourself with the latest series on Netflix, shovelling crap in your mouth.
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You barely communicate with your partner other than arguing about whose turn it is to take the trash out or pick up the kids from soccer. You feel alone in your relationship - sometimes you think about leaving and starting again, but what would other people think? Letting people down makes you feel sick to your stomach.
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Lying awake at night, you wonder how you ever came to be in this situation - every day feels like Groundhog Day. When did life become like this? Sometimes when you’re staring at the ceiling while the rest of the house sleeps, you dream about what life could be like.

But it’s not your fault.
You’ve spent your life listening to people tell you how you’ve got to put other people first. Following archaic rules that just aren’t relevant anymore. It’s time to stop blaming yourself and let go of the guilt, denial and frustration at choices you made years ago.
And you’re certainly not alone.
‘Overcoming fear’ gives you almost 400 million results on Google. So many women, just like you, are struggling. And with so many options - from books to podcasts to life coaching - it can feel overwhelming to know where to begin - or what really works.
It’s impossible to sort the truth from the bullshit you see from unqualified life coaches on social media, telling you to ‘think positive’ to feel better. Convincing you the Cinderella life is worth pursuing - complete with the singing birds and Prince Charming.
Eff that!
You just want to feel happy, healthy and in control of your life.
Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? So why the hell can’t you do it?
What if you could start living the life you want and put yourself first without feeling guilty?
Now, I know you’ve probably heard this all before and are sick of the charlatans making it sound like you’re just not trying hard enough.
You just need strategies that work. Not toxic positivity that keeps you stuck where you are. Instead, authentic ways of healing from your trauma, establishing better boundaries and living a more authentic life, where you come first; that’s what you’re after.
And there is a way to start living the life you want.
Seriously.
Change is scary. I know that. I’ve been where you are now, and it’s overwhelming. But do you know what’s worse?
Regret.
Looking back in twenty years and wishing you’d done the things that made you happy.
It might sound impossible now, but there are 100s of women out there who were once in your shoes…
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Trawling through Instagram, looking at women who’ve got it all together, showing off their tits and ass. Telling you to say positive affirmations and manifest the life you want … just by thinking about it. You have to take the action steps to create the life you want, thought alone isn’t enough.
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Spending money on coaches and memberships that don’t work, never making the progress they promise you’ll make. You feel just as crap as you did at the start. Transformation? New woman? Yeah, right! You wanted actual strategies to use in real life and received none.
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Listening to experts telling you how relationships take work - but you’ve tried it all, and things are still the way they were. You’re getting about as much action between the sheets as a nun at Christmas, and you barely communicate anymore. Those passionate first few years are a distant memory. You’d love the confidence to put yourself first helps you build a relationship where you feel heard and have your needs met - both inside and outside the bedroom.

Take Krista, for example:
She was tired of feeling like crap and wanted to jumpstart her health. She knew something needed to change but didn’t know what or how.
Within a month of using the techniques I’m about to share, she’d made a few simple changes to her diet and immediately lost 30 pounds. Exercise felt easier, and she had more energy and began sleeping better. She felt more empowered and in control of her health and happiness. And that was just the start of a huge transformation.
And she’s no exception. There is a simple, step-by-step way to make significant changes in your life without overwhelm and fear. Without feeling guilty that you’re putting yourself first for once. You can reconnect to what makes you happy and live an authentic life where you feel in total control.
Life is too damn short to settle, so let’s do something about it. Together.
And that’s where this membership comes in.
Introducing
Expand
Membership for Women
Expand is a monthly membership that gives you the confidence to make the changes you want to make in all aspects of your life - mind, body and spirit. To take back control, put yourself first, and live life connected to your truest self.
It’s a holistic approach backed by science that helps you become the powerful woman you’re meant to be. The one you long to be.
The Transformation Path of Expand
AWARENESS
You’ll develop an awareness of the patterns that prevent you from moving forward. These are often behaviors or habits that keep your life on autopilot. By recognizing the triggers, you’re able to start to make changes. But you also become aware of your strengths so you can begin to identify what to do more of.
We’ll explore what psychologists believe is keeping you stuck and living within the expectations of others, which will help you move forward in alignment with who you want to become.
CONNECTION
No doubt you’re feeling disconnected from yourself and those around you. This pillar looks at the behavior patterns of the past and triggers connected to pain and trauma. We’ll also examine your fears due to failed relationships or your career.
Once you can identify these, you’ll discover how to re-connect with yourself, to your inner voice. How the stories you believe about yourself are connected to your childhood and aren’t true. You’ll get to know who you really are and connect to your intuition - including the little-known direct link between your gut and your brain, which leads to a greater sense of self-trust so you feel confident to make difficult decisions in the future.
INTEGRATION
Fear stops us from taking action towards a better future. Here we’ll look at ways to challenge your fears so you can face your past and integrate it into your present. Being in the present helps your mind/body/spiritual connection and moves you forward holistically.
When you understand how energy works, you’ll have a newfound confidence in your strengths and capabilities. New job? Oh yes! A relationship that makes you happy? Hell, yeah! You’ll even learn the small change a client made to her diet that helped her lose 30lbs and have more energy throughout the day.
MOVEMENT
Now’s the time to put everything together to make those important choices. They don’t have to be giant leaps; they can be small steps. One thing at a time. You’ll also discover the secret to keeping the momentum going rather than giving up again.
We’ll work through your first steps, including:
- Physical health changes - including eating and movement
- Being your authentic self
- Making choices for yourself and no one else
- Stepping into your personal power
- Living as a sovereign being
- Practices to stay connected to yourself
- Making changes to relationships
- Pursuing new dreams, particularly in your career
- Setting boundaries
Once you’ve taken action in at least one part of your life - be it relationships, career, setting boundaries etc. you can repeat the entire process. It’s not about trying to change everything all at once, it’s about taking meaningful steps to change one area of your life before moving on to another. Goodbye, overwhelm!
So who am I to help you, exactly?
I'M SHANNON
Therapist and health coach with a degree in Psychology. I’m also certified in hormone health and personal training.
I’ve spent twenty years working with children, families, and victims of physical, sexual, domestic and emotional abuse, which means I’m in a great position to help you understand what’s holding you back and support you to move forward and make changes.
You see, it’s not only my clients who’ve been through traumatic experiences. I’ve been through them too. Raised in a strict Catholic family by an emotionally abusive mother and a father who didn’t want me, I know how past trauma can affect our future lives and the stories we tell ourselves.

But I’ve been through a recent trauma, too, living through the most painful year of my life when my relationship with my husband of 22 years fell apart. I experienced panic attacks as my anxiety went through the roof, and I developed hypothyroidism, which gave me muscle cramps and fatigue and affected my mental health.
So I’ve been where you are — going from a planned and familiar life to not having a damn clue where I was going. Forced to take it day by day, step by step. Just to survive.
I know how terrifying that is.
And it’s what drives me to help people like you. I don’t just talk the talk. I’m as real as it gets with this stuff. No B.S. So, if you'd rather be wrapped in cotton wool and told you're always right, this might not be for you.
But you’re not that kind of woman, right?
“Shannon is a daily dose of fresh air. I love how she normalizes subjects like trauma and makes them seem more digestible and relatable. The dots connect when I hear Shannon talk, I can feel she truly knows her subjects deeply and I instinctively trust her. I love how her content is broad from trauma to health to nutrition. She has become my daily dose of feel-good and I’d miss her terribly should she suddenly disappear.”
-Rowena Fernando
It sounds great, but what does it look like in reality?
Now you know the four stages of the Transformation Path, let’s look at precisely what you’ll get as part of your monthly membership:
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Monthly coaching calls
Surround yourself with women who feel just like you but are ready to kick some ass and change their lives. Like you, they’re open to learning alternative ways of healing and looking at the root causes of why they’re blocked by fear.
Each group coaching session will be led by me, Shannon Swanson, a qualified therapist with twenty years of experience, specializing in trauma. I’m also a certified health coach and offer a comprehensive approach to what it means to ‘heal’.
From my own experience, I understand trauma and how it impacts people. I also understand the mind/body connection and how each influence the other.
So instead of feeling stuck, unfulfilled and full of regrets, you’ll have the support you need to set meaningful, realistic goals and progress towards becoming the confident woman you want to become.
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Resources for the mind and body
Healing yourself from trauma and learning to find your purpose in life isn’t just about having the right mindset or trying to look for the positives all the time. It goes much deeper than that. It’s about improving your physical health and your mental well-being.
Expand helps you do this. And this isn't the woo stuff you've tried in the past. This is based on both energy and science. I'm not one of those charlatans who wants to promise you a new life by dreaming it into existence.
This is about real-life shit for real people who want to make a difference in their life. So you’ll have access to tools used by therapists and psychologists around the world, including:
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Human Design to help you learn your innate gifts and traits - you don’t have to be stuck in a job you hate anymore. Instead, you can find your strengths and explore the options they give you.
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Enneagram - a test which uses nine interconnected personality types to describe you, each with its own motivations, fears, and internal dynamics. You’ll know yourself in a way like never before, no longer feeling disconnected from your true self. You’ll notice your stress triggers more easily and build better ways of managing them, helping you sleep better and feel less anxious.
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Meyers Briggs - helping you understand how you perceive the world, take in information, make decisions and deal with others. Not only will you know yourself better, but you’ll understand others better, too, building stronger relationships with your family and friends.
You’ll also have access to recipes, so you can begin to heal your body through healthier food choices. No more evenings on the sofa mindlessly stuffing yourself with chips, wine and chocolate. Instead, you’ll improve your relationship with food and exercise and see how it transforms your mental health. You’ll also know exactly what you need to eat with my simple recipes, so you don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen trying to get it right.
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Monthly masterclasses
Most memberships only deal with one aspect of healing and rebuilding your life. It’s why you’ve probably only been successful for a few weeks or months when you’ve tried them.
But in Expand, you’ll have access to masterclasses on mind, body and spirit, so you feel happier, healthier and more confident for the rest of your life.
Even in the face of fear.
To do this, you’ll need practical strategies that work. And this membership is full of them. I know they work because, as a therapist, I’ve used them with hundreds of women to change their lives over the last 20 years.
Strategies such as:
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Guided meditations - you may have tried meditation before and hated it. But it’s not about having no thoughts at all! It’s about letting thoughts come and go and calming your busy mind. If you’ve struggled to meditate, I’ve got you covered. I’ll guide you through it step-by-step, so you can build a meditation practice that works for you. You won’t have to find an hour a day either! A few minutes can be just as effective.
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Breathwork - so you understand how your breath anchors you and calms your mind in times of stress. You’ll discover techniques to use when you’re anxious or worried so you feel calm and ready to face any challenges that come your way. Breathwork also gives you a deeper sleep, so you’ll wake up feeling refreshed rather than lethargic. It releases stress hormones from your body and balances your blood pressure, too, so you’ll have a technique to use when your heart is racing.
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Awareness - in just a few days, you’ll notice a change in your perspective. I’ll help you look at every situation from a place of neutrality. Instead of labelling everything ‘good’ or ‘bad’, you’ll be able to see it just ‘is’. This slight shift is the beginning of seeing patterns of reactions you commonly have every damn day. And with that awareness comes control. You no longer react to an argument with your partner or your boss at work in the same way.
All the strategies give you deeper insight into the patterns, behaviors and habits you’ve established over the years and how they affect your life and choices.
"With Shannon’s support and guidance, I have really felt the growth within myself to really start to bloom. Since I started lisening to Shannon I’ve started to grow and level up. What I appreciate the most is her clear message, her directness, compassion and generosity…I feel less chained to what I once was and feel more liberated. I attribute it to what Shannon has gifted me, I’m very grateful.”
-Jessica Wicks Hughes
This sounds like it’s for me, but how much does this membership cost?
Investing in a therapist would set you back at least $100 - $200 dollars a month. But Expand is just $26 per month.
So for the same price as a cup of coffee twice a week, you can access this private members community that’ll help you take back control of your life.
You’ve seen the other membership groups out there, costing hundreds of dollars per month for a fraction of the value. Promising things they can’t deliver because the person running it lacks the expertise or qualifications to give you the desired results.
But EXPAND is different.

It offers you access to a qualified coach and therapist with twenty years of experience working with women like you. Someone who’s done it and got the t-shirt for going through trauma and making changes.
You get to meet like-minded women too. Those experiencing the same anxiety, overwhelm and frustration with life as you are. And there’s nothing more powerful than a group of women ready to make their own rules and live by them, right?
Women who know they’re meant for more and are tired of living by other people’s rules and expectations.
You get the coaching, the community and the resources for just $26 per month. And if you want to cancel? It’s simple and easy to do - at any time. No questions asked.
"What I appreciate so much about Shannon’s coaching is that she has the clinical training and background that she’s able to leverage with her own personal life experience. She shares strategies and techniques that she’s personally used for herself. Her recommendations come from a place of true authenticity!”
-Morgan Adams
It’s time for you to leave the bullshit behind and live the life you deserve
So are you ready?
Ready to invest in yourself and see actual results?
I know it’s scary to make this decision.
I know you feel like you’re not good enough and worry about what other people will think of this new you.
I know you’ve been let down before by coaches who’ve promised everything and delivered nothing.
But EXPAND is built from a place of understanding. A place of experience, using strategies I’ve used myself and with hundreds of other women.
JOIN NOW