We were lucky to catch up with Kezia Shine recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Kezia, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
In hindsight, I guess I have always known my purpose from when I was very little. Intuitively, I have always felt different. If I follow the breadcrumbs backward, it all begins to make sense. Back when cassette tapes were a thing, I would listen to Tracy Chapman, Phil Collins – another day in paradise, etc. Always wondering why humanity was so broken and mean. I was always in tune with others’ feelings and energy, although back in the day, I didn’t realize it was a superpower.
In high school, I was nominated to be in a peer-to-peer counseling/support group called natural helpers. Then I decided to go to college and become a nurse. I loved the aspect of being able to help others, but when I got to the point of bodily fluids, I was out! I dropped out of college and traveled around on a Greyhound bus, trying to find my place when I wound up in Kansas City in 1998.
While I was being a gypsy, I had started my healing journey from a dark childhood filled with living in fear every single day that I would be injured. Along my journey, I always found the light, which helped me push further and transform. I went from being a crazy drunk 20-year-old to a healing sober woman in my 30s.
In my late 20s, I was working in sales when I was introduced to Chiropractic care. I had an incredible headache that had been on-going for 3 months when my 1st adjustment made it instantly disappear. I thought immediately, this is what I need to do. However, I was making amazing money at the time as a 20-something, and there was no way I was going to go back to living on student loans. When I was traveling on the Greyhound bus, and in Milwaukee for a stint, I was homeless, and living out of a friend’s car. That fear of living on student loans and going back to those homeless days kept me in the Corporate America grind. I guess God knew what she was doing because it was about a year after I had that thought of becoming a chiropractor when I was laid off in the Sprint Nextel merger. I immediately started slinging drinks at a local bar when I was on my way home after a 14-hour shift. I was t-boned by a drunk driver, and had to be cut out of my car with a fractured pelvis. I felt like the universe was saying, “hey lady, it’s time.” I heard that message loud and clear. In January of 2006, I started school and never looked back.
Over the years as my practice has evolved, and based upon my own childhood experience and doing the healing work, I have found that most of our chronic pain is due to stuck unhealed emotion in the body. When I first started dabbling in somatic work and understanding that I could communicated with the body, playing with crystals, essential oils, etc., I was nervous because it was something that a traditional chiropractor just didn’t do. Little by little, patient by patient that I felt comfortable being “weird” with, I started seeing the results in my practice of people healing from traumatic childhood events while at the same time healing their bodies. It was far beyond a miracle. My confidence was boosted, I sold my huge practice of the quick in and out adjustments, and now I am practicing solo, working my magic every day and helping people shed their tears of freedom. My patients today call me a combination of a chiropractor, bodyworker, massage therapist, energy healer, and life coach. My appointments are definitely a healing experience. Through this journey, I’ve come to understand that my purpose lies in helping others heal not only their bodies but their emotional wounds, and in doing so, I’ve found my true calling.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I have an incredible solo practice where I get to help people heal every day. Whether it be from their divorces, family of origin trauma, the challenge of losing yourself when you become a parent, marital challenges etc. When my clients come in it is like getting a big energetic hug, and they instantly know that they are in a safe space.
My personal specialty is having the ability of adjusting the body and working the soft tissues with myofascial release to get the body physically aligned, then being an energy healer, I can then get the energy flowing, while at the same time doing some life coaching to bring out that stuck trauma in the body all at the same time. It is powerful and so healing when you can do all of it at the same time.
I do my session in 20, 40, 60, and 90 minute session depending on the needs of each client. There is nothing cookie cutter about what happens in my office because every person and every trauma is different. My soul loves that my clients are never a number, but they have all become friends. They are healing me as much as I am healing them. I view it as we are all just walking each other home.
I have started hosting healing circles and sound baths this year, and intend on having some online courses starting early 2024.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Looking back the most important skills that I have acquired have been intentional listening to the body. I started this training by first learning cranial sacral therapy and being able to feel the subtle changes in the rhythm of breathing and body movement with breath. As I advanced and honed my skill, it’s almost like a princess and pea situation where I can feel what’s happening beneath the tissues from stuck energy quicker than the client can feel it.
Learning to trust my intuition has been the hardest part. When you lean into the energy and vibration that everything is connected, it is easy to see where it is not. But our heads, want to logic out everything first and go through a specialized process of checked boxes to make sure we are on track instead of trusting ourselves.
Shadow work and the ability to heal within myself, has probably helped me the most. Once we can own what we do not like inside of ourselves, the world is our oyster. This work is probably my most favorite, because it is so simple but so incredibly challenging at the same time. I never stop the healing journey, I am constantly reading, and evolving in different ways to heal myself which in turn makes me a better practitioner to guide others on how to heal. Because I have walked the walk, and I am authentic with where I am all the time in my journey, it helps lead my patients into that same journey of love and authenticity.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Michael Singers- Untethered Soul, is one of my ultimate favorite books on where to start for some soul healing. It was in his book that I truly learned about the ego and how it can effect so much of our lives. When I would think about the ego I would think of a “look at me” chest bolstered concept, but when I read his book, he also showed the ego as the less than, the meek, the fearful that had no boundaries. I was shocked, because at the time this is where I was living. He also talked about how to just let it go. Holding onto things just creates turmoil in your body, just like rapids in your river of life. If you can remove the stones (aka triggers) that are creating the rapids, just by simply feeling the feelings and letting them go without a story, then the rapids in your life start to lessen. It is my ultimate dream to take a vacation and go see him in person in Florida.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.drshinekc.com
- Instagram: drkeziashine
- Facebook: Kezia Shine
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Trish Elting
