Meet Naianna
MY STORY
Let’s begin where most stories don’t: at rock bottom.
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After the birth of my first child, I spiraled into sleep deprivation and depression. But let me be clear - it wasn’t becoming a mother that broke me. It was everything that had gone unfelt, unhealed, and unspoken before I even held my baby. The trauma I had buried. The self-worth I had tied to achievement. The coping mechanisms that once protected me - but now left me alone with a screaming infant and a nervous system in collapse.
I wasn’t just tired - I was fractured. My body kept functioning, but my mind began to unravel. I started hallucinating from exhaustion. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t feel joy. I felt like I was vanishing.
And while everyone around me said, “This is just motherhood,” I knew it was something else.
​It was profound disconnection - from myself, from others, from nature, from unprocessed trauma and from meaning.
Depression is not an inexplicable chemical imbalance - it’s a response to a life where the fundamental human needs of the brain are unmet. And I had lost nearly all of them.
I had no community.
No daily connection to nature.
No space to process the emotional weight I had carried since childhood.
With no family support and no energy left to keep “coping,” I turned inward - and back to the brain.
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I had spent years studying psychology, neuroscience, and neuroanatomy. But suddenly, it wasn’t about research anymore. It was about survival. I began applying what I knew not from a place of performance - but from a deep need to rebuild myself, from the inside out.
I stopped trying to fix myself and started understanding myself, through the lens of brain chemistry, emotional regulation, and nervous system safety.
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I also began reclaiming the basic, biological ingredients for human healing:
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Connection (the real kind, not scrolling-based)
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Purpose (even if just to heal one small piece at a time)
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Ritual and rhythm
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Time in nature
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Embodiment - actually feeling instead of intellectualizing
Slowly, I began to experience what the science had always shown me:
That the brain is not fixed. It’s relational. Rhythmic. Always listening.
And healing doesn’t need to be perfect - it needs to be consistent, compassionate, and intentional.
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So no, motherhood didn’t break me.
It revealed what was already fractured.
And for that, I’m forever grateful - because it brought me back to myself, one breath, one practice, one neural pathway at a time.
Why Soulful Neuroscience Exists
Because too many of us are suffering in silence - overwhelmed, under-supported, and disconnected from our own bodies.
Because healing can’t just live in theory - it needs to be felt, practiced, embodied.
Because when you understand your brain, you stop blaming yourself.
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Soulful Neuroscience is where science meets soul.
Where we use neuroscience not to fix you, but to free you.
Where we move from survival into safety - through slow rituals, deep awareness, and gentle rewiring.
This work is for you who:​​​
- Crave space to reconnect with yourself, your rhythm, your breath
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Are done with “pushing through” and ready to soften into healing.
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Feel like you're holding everything together but falling apart inside
Here, we don’t chase perfection. We rewire imperfectly.
We don’t shame our symptoms - we decode them and listen to what they've been trying to tell us..
And we don’t numb out. We tune in.
Through my 1:1 neuro-coaching, guided audio series, retreats and workshops, I help you reshape your nervous system, rewrite the stress patterns you didn’t choose, and restore the sense of self you thought you lost.
Because healing isn’t a destination with an end goal.
It's an nonlinear journey of self-discovery.
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Professional Credentials​
BSc Hons in Psychology - (2009 - 2013) Kingston University
MSc Hons in Neuroscience - (2013-2014) King's College London
MPhil Hons in Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging - (2014 - 2015) King's College London
Doctoral Research in Clinical and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy - (2015 - 2020) King’s College London
Meditation & Mindfulness CTAA Certification (2018)
More importantly, I’ve lived the science I teach.
I’ve been the dysregulated mother trying to breathe through the storm.
I’ve been the high-achiever who didn’t realize her nervous system had collapsed.
I’ve been the woman who needed more than advice - I needed integration.
Now, I blend my scientific expertise with years of personal practice in meditation, mindfulness, and somatic awareness to guide others through that same journey - navigating the silent weight of stress, burnout, and emotional overwhelm.