About Crowned & BECOMING

A faith-centered approach to emotional healing and nervous system restoration for women in perimenopause and menopause.

About Us

Rooted in Faith. Grounded in Evidence.

Crowned & BECOMING exists to support professional women navigating the emotional and neurological impact of perimenopause and menopause.

This is not surface-level wellness.

This work addresses the root of dysregulation — the chronic stress patterns, overachievement wiring, and nervous system overwhelm that intensify during midlife hormonal transition.

We believe women do not need fixing.

They need recalibration.

Through neuroscience-informed practices, trauma-informed care, and faith-centered integration, we help women restore calm, clarity, and confidence in this defining season

Shashondalyn “Shanay” Samuels is a Certified Counselor and Menopause Mind-Body Coach, and Co-Founder of Total Development Institute.

She created Crowned & BECOMING to offer women a space where emotional healing, identity, and faith are honored together during midlife transition.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Meet Shashondalyn “Shanay” Samuels

Certified Counselor & Menopause Mind-Body Coach

She is also Co-Founder of Total Development Institute and has spent decades helping individuals restore mental clarity, emotional stability, and identity alignment.

But Crowned & BECOMING began during a deeply personal season.

There came a time when Shanay herself felt emotionally reactive, mentally foggy, overstimulated, and disconnected from the grounded woman she had always known herself to be.

She was doing everything she taught others to do — and yet something felt off.

What she uncovered was the Dysregulated Mind–Body Loop™:

A nervous system conditioned by years of stress and over-responsibility that became increasingly sensitive as hormones fluctuated.

This discovery changed everything.

Crowned & BECOMING was created to give women a space where faith, neuroscience, and emotional healing meet — without shame, dismissal, or minimization.

Shanay’s work integrates:

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

• Trauma-Informed Counseling

• Nervous System Regulation

• Neuroscience-Based Stress Rewiring

• Faith-Based Identity Integration

Her approach is holistic, structured, and deeply compassionate.

With over 20 years of experience in counseling, behavioral health, wellness, and trauma-informed care, Shanay specializes in supporting professional women through the emotional and neurological impact of perimenopause and menopause. Her work is grounded in faith, neuroscience-informed practices, and mind-body integration.

You are not losing yourself.

You are becoming refined, strengthened, and awakened to a deeper alignment.

This season is sacred.

And you do not have to navigate it alone.