About Get Untrapped™
Get Untrapped™ is a weekly publication for people who are tired of second-guessing themselves and ready to rebuild trust with their own inner authority.
Here, we explore why smart, responsible people silence their intuition and stay stuck in misaligned careers, relationships, and routines—not because they lack clarity, ambition, or intelligence, but because conditioning taught them to doubt themselves.
This is where we name the patterns that quietly shape your choices, including:
the “be grateful” narrative that turns desire into guilt
the loyalty scripts that make staying small feel responsible
the pressure to appear stable instead of being honest
the survival logic that confuses fear with wisdom
No hype.
No pressure.
Just clarity, language, and grounded guidance to help you trust yourself again.
What We Teach
Get Untrapped™ helps you move from self-doubt to self-leadership through the lens of Shannon’s Self-Trust System™—a framework that helps you:
rebuild self-trust
stop working against yourself
make decisions you can stand behind
strengthen your inner authority
shift from self-doubt to self-leadership
Every post, experiment, and reflection points you back to one truth:
Self-trust is the foundation of every confident choice.
This isn’t about becoming fearless — it’s about becoming self-led.
👋🏽Meet the Creator
Hi, I’m Shannon D. Smith, a Certified Professional in Talent Development and the founder of Get Untrapped™ — a media platform exploring how self-trust shapes the choices people make in life, work, and relationships.
I hold dual graduate degrees: M.S. Instructional Design & Technology. M.S. Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
But I didn’t learn self-trust from textbooks.
I learned it through lived experience.
My Story
From age 18 to 33, I spent years ignoring my intuition and calling it maturity, sacrifice, obedience, or responsibility.
I stayed in roles and relationships that made sense to everyone but me.
I made choices to keep the peace.
I silenced myself to avoid disappointment, disapproval, or disruption.
Eventually, “fine” stopped being livable.
Leaving a toxic marriage and rebuilding life as a single mother forced me to learn this:
Self-trust is the foundation of every good decision — and you can rebuild it.
What began as personal survival became a framework:
The Self-Trust System™ — a blend of psychology, learning science, and lived experience that helps others rebuild clarity and authority from the inside out.
I know the patterns that keep you stuck.
I know the fear disguised as logic.
I know what it costs to work against yourself.
I know the subtle ways we betray ourselves in the name of stability or belonging.
Because I’ve been there.
So when I teach self-trust, I’m not teaching theory or generic mindset work.
I’m teaching the psychology of how we learn to abandon ourselves—and the process of undoing that pattern because I’ve done the long, messy version of getting untrapped.
Start Your Journey
You don’t have to keep circling the same loops.
Read a Trap of the Week
Try a Trust Lab experiment
Sit with a Decision Diary
Notice what resonates
This work meets you where you are — and walks with you from there.
Here are some of my most popular posts to help you get started:
Final Thought
You’re not starting over.
You’re coming back to what you knew before fear, conditioning, and expectation talked you out of it.
Welcome to Get Untrapped!
You’re in the right place at the right time.
— Shannon D. Smith, CPTD
Creator of Get Untrapped™ and The Self-Trust System™
