She Is Kicking It!

By Anna Patterson


In Jan of 2005, life was perfect for ShaVonda Williams. She too her husband, Bryan, had but bought a big, beautiful solid on the E side of Louisville. But inwards June of that year, tragedy struck.


ShaVonda received a telephone vociferation upwardly that her cousin had died inwards a auto accident, leaving her 3 daughters parentless too homeless. ShaVonda wouldn’t hear of the girls existence dissever up, hence she too her married adult man took them into their domicile along amongst their ain 3 daughters. In an instant, their solid of 5 became a solid of eight.

For 3 years, ShaVonda too her married adult man did the best they could to settle the girls into their novel life. But their difficult times weren’t over. In 2008, ShaVonda too her married adult man flora themselves mixed upwardly inwards the national housing crisis too came domicile to a foreclosure uncovering on their door. Bryan’s cleaning work concern was also striking hard, losing xc per centum of his contracts every bit a upshot of the crisis. They lost non exclusively their home, but also their savings too origin of income. They were downwards to nothing.

ShaVonda too her married adult man flora a two-bedroom story for themselves too 6 children. Overwhelmed yesteryear her circumstances, ShaVonda permit herself sink into a consuming depression. She started to set on weight. In ii years, ShaVonda gained 147 pounds too at her heaviest weighed 315 pounds.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 brilliant topographic point glowed through her darkness when ShaVonda flora out she was pregnant. When she had her son, she idea to herself, “This is a build novel baby. There’s no agency you lot tin convey him upwardly amongst all this hurting too hurt. You are responsible for helping him write his story. You’re responsible for that.”

The solar daytime ShaVonda genuinely woke upwardly was when her boy started to crawl. He made his agency upwardly the stairs of their story too at that 2nd decided to endeavour too stand. ShaVonda was paralyzed amongst fright at the bottom of the staircase every bit she watched him teetering on his unstable legs. She was every bit good large to sew together the stairs to select grip of her son. No 1 else was roughly to help. “That was the solar daytime I woke up,” ShaVonda says. “It was every bit if individual wiped Vaseline from my eyes, too I could endure run into everything roughly me. I literally had a tempest inwards my hear that I permit swallow me. And instantly I had to fight.”

Shavonda's blood brother is her stylist too 1 of her large supporters.

ShaVonda started reading every motivational mass she could larn her hands on. Her weight started coming off. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 friend recommended she portion her story amongst the YMCA, which helped the identify unit of measurement yesteryear offering childcare too a risk for them to larn dorsum on their feet. She started using the YMCA’s facilities too lost to a greater extent than than 100 pounds.

The YMCA too hence asked ShaVonda to live a motivational speaker hence she could portion her story too encourage others to portion theirs. Her story became nationally known.

ShaVonda has also started her ain nonprofit organization, Socialite Society, which stands against social disconnection. The destination is to facilitate community unity through youth. She teaches Zumba, mentors immature girls inwards her community, too continues doing function for the YMCA.

“You’re going to select bad times inwards life,” ShaVonda says. “It’s going to happen. Life is life. But those bad times don’t build a bad life. You select the correct to alter your story.”



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