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 - (2015 - 2015) King's College London
Doctoral Research in Clinical and Evolutionary Neuroanatomy - (2015 - 2020) King’s College London
Meditation & Mindfulness CTAA Certification (2021)
But 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.