About Get Untrapped™
Get Untrapped™ is for people who are done outsourcing their decisions and finally ready to build self-trust.
When you don’t trust yourself to choose, every decision feels dangerous.
You stall.
You spin.
You replay the same possibilities until your energy is gone.
Not because you’re indecisive, but because your nervous system doesn’t feel safe enough to tell the truth.
This is where so many mid-career professionals find themselves:
experienced enough to see the misalignment,
exhausted from performing stability,
and quietly afraid of what their honest answer will cost them.
If that’s you, you’re in the right place. This space exists for that quiet turning point — the moment you stop abandoning yourself.
What You Can Expect
Every post is designed to feel like someone finally named what you’ve been carrying — without judgment, pressure, or performance.
Trap Therapy™
Weekly insights that decode the habits, beliefs, and protective patterns behind overthinking, people-pleasing, and perfectionism.
Self-Trust Sessions
Simple, science-backed practices to rebuild clarity, calm, and emotional safety — so you can hear yourself again.
Decision Diaries
Real, honest stories of choosing differently, told through the lens of identity, nervous-system capacity, and self-trust.
Playbooks
Step-by-step guides that help you make aligned decisions you can stand behind — without abandoning your values or your truth.
This is not content for entertainment.
It’s content for reclamation.
Meet the Creator.👋🏽
I’m Shannon D. Smith — Certified Professional in Talent Development, Self-Trust Strategist, and creator of Get Untrapped™.
I teach the real architecture of self-trust: the psychology, nervous-system patterns, and inherited survival codes that shape how you choose, how you protect yourself, and how you show up under pressure.
My work blends behavioral economics, organizational psychology, lived experience, and the deeper wisdom we carry in our bodies but were never taught to trust.
I hold dual graduate degrees —
M.S. Instructional Design & Technology and
M.S. Industrial-Organizational Psychology —
but I didn’t learn self-trust in a classroom.
I learned it the hard…long way.
Through the years I spent silencing myself to survive.
Through the roles I performed to avoid conflict.
Through the decisions I made for safety instead of truth.
My education helped me understand the psychology behind those patterns.
My lived experience helped me break them.
Together, they became the framework I now teach.
When I talk about self-trust, I’m not talking about confidence or positive thinking.
I’m talking about the internal architecture that makes honest decisions possible.
Start Here
If you’re new to this work, begin with the Trapped Archetype Assessment — a free tool that helps you identify your most practiced self-distrust pattern.
Then subscribe to Get Untrapped™ to receive weekly guidance, practices, and grounded support as you rebuild trust with yourself, one decision at a time.
Your clarity isn’t missing.
Your courage is waking up.
Then subscribe to Get Untrapped™ to receive weekly guidance, practices, and grounded support as you rebuild trust with yourself, one decision at a time.
Your clarity isn’t missing.
Your courage is waking up.
Welcome to Get Untrapped!
— Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
Creator of Get Untrapped™ and The Self-Trust System™
