6th May 2013 10:45
She has just returned from the USA where warm-weather training was mixed with a 200m personal best and a fine relay performance.
And with it an underlying self-belief which she took from Sweden and that could be with her for the rest of her career.
What did Shakes-Drayton learn most when she reflects on her double gold in Göteborg? 'To really believe in myself,' she said.
She was speaking on Thursday where she spent the morning in Manchester as part of the promotion for the BT Great CityGames which take place in the city on May 25.
It is an annual event on a special track made in the city centre where fans can watch athletes compete at different distances.
Shakes-Drayton, for instance, is running in the 200m hurdles.
The Briton is plotting her way towards a busy summer, with the European Athletics Team Championships in June and the World Championships in August, determined to build on her brilliant indoor season.
A 400m hurdler by trade, Shakes-Drayton won the flat 400m title at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 50.85 and was then part of the British team which won the 4 x 400m relay.
It was the perfect base to take to the USA.
In Gainesville, Florida, she ran 23.27, a personal best, and then rejoined the quartet of women who won gold in Göteborg - Eilidh Child, Shana Cox and Christine Ohuruogu - to finish second in the Penn Relays.
Now it is full steam ahead for the summer, 12 months on from Shakes-Drayton being one of the big British hopes at the Olympic Games in London and not reaching the final.
She was the East London athlete who lived closest to the Olympic Park and it hurt not making a greater impression.
It was why the European Athletics Indoor Championships became so important to her.
She said on Thursday: 'I had a good training camp and with the way I ran.
'I was absolutely delighted to win what I did at the Europeans because I viewed what happened in London as my motivation for those Championships. I have now put it out my system. Last year is in the past.
'I really want to make the final at the World Championships and it is every athlete's aim to win a medal.'
Even with her medal glory in Sweden, the 400m hurdles remains her main event and it is likely to be either Child or her for the individual spot at the European Athletics Team Championships in Gateshead next month. They will both be in the relay - no doubt along with Cox with Ohuruogu - when the glory of Göteborg will be revisited once more.
And for Shakes-Drayton, the knowledge that she really can believe in herself.