Meet Shanna

Welcome! I am so excited you're here and would love to get to know you.  In the meantime I'd like to share a little about me.

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• I grew up in Cincinnati, OH

• I received my Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Speech Language Pathology at Miami University in Oxford, OH

• I've always loved children and serving others

• I've been married for over 20 years

• I have 4 wonderful children ranging from college to elementary school age

• I am Christ follower and let my faith lead my life

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I have had the privilege of working in a variety of settings and collaborating with a some of the most talented and amazing professionals during my career as a Speech Language Pathologist, however by far the most educating and rewarding has been doing home based early intervention with parents and children. I have walked alongside hundreds of first-time moms, foster moms, adoptive moms, and moms of many all while raising my four children. Each family, each mother, each child has taught me something about being a mom, a friend, a therapist, and a mentor. Through the  years,  I’ve come to realize that no matter our age, stage, education, or finances, one things remains the same, being a mom is hard for all of us sometimes.  The challenges of motherhood can feel even more daunting when you are navigating the unknown secondary to your child’s developmental differences or diagnosis. There are no manuals, no fool proof how too’s or one size fits all model for motherhood, and although we live in a world with endless resources at our fingertips, it seems that knowing what to do or where to start for our own children or family can’t be found in the sites we search or on the pages we wildly scroll during our sleepless nights. We begin to feel lost, alone, isolated, and paralyzed by too much information or no information. It seems like no one understands and we begin to wonder if anyone has walked a mile in our messy shoes.

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Many times through the years I have felt this same way, however  never as much as when one of my children presented with a host of medical and developmental differences that resulted in a list of diagnoses from allergies to ADHD and a few more along the way.  Instantly, just as the many  families I have worked with through the years,  I found myself climbing mountains for my child and entering the wilderness with no compass, no map, and no plan to navigate the greatest challenges and adventures ahead.

 

After much thought and reflection and a tug at my heart from the Lord, I knew I was being called to take my experiences and knowledge and use it to help other mother's walking in similiar shoes and that is how this program  was born.  

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