For generations, community healers have supported us through times of joy and times of grief by holding and teaching rest practices. And at Nexus, we are committed to supporting them.
Our ROOT (Reclaiming Our Own Time) team recently sat down with Rev. Shewon McGee, LMT, BS, to learn more about her work as a healer.
Shewon is an intuitive bodywork practitioner, death doula, and spiritual life coach who aims to bring her clients closer to self awareness. She seeks to share her wisdom and journey of attaining a stress-free existence through reflective healing and learning how to authentically check in with oneself. She is also an ordained, nondenominational minister.
What gaps in the healing space are you able to remedy?
Shewon fills a need in the healing community through being Black, non-religious, and having direct experience witnessing death. Particularly in the death doula space, there is a need for more Black representation: doulas who offer nondenominational support, and healers who have had first-hand experience with supporting someone’s transition to death.
How can we start listening to ourselves authentically?
Shewon emphasizes that listening to yourself isn’t difficult—but surrounded by the noise of the world and others’ voices, we convince ourselves that it is. If you try to make connection with yourself and it feels difficult, repeated practice can help this process feel more natural.
What is the goal of your work as a death doula?
As a death doula, Shewon does not seek to make death less scary. Death is scary, and there’s no way around that. However, she does seek to help others reclaim death as a community experience. As Shewon explains, “We used to be in contact with death more frequently than in contemporary times, and today, many of us are detached from it.”
To learn more about Rev. Shewon McGee and her work, visit her website.