Meet Shanita
I know what it means to find your way back to yourself.
I’m Shanita Brown—a writer, certified coach, Reiki Master Teacher, and the woman behind Balanced Well Woman. Before any of those titles belonged to me, I was simply a woman trying to make sense of her own life.
Before the title
The work began with my own becoming.
I didn’t arrive at wholeness by avoiding the hard parts. I learned how to meet myself inside them.
I have healed through disappointment, grief, unhealthy relationships, abandonment wounds, identity shifts, motherhood, starting over, and the difficult realization that strength and wholeness are not always the same thing.
For a long time, I thought being balanced meant holding everything together. Now I understand that balance has much more to do with knowing how to return to yourself when life pulls you away. That understanding became the foundation of Balanced Well Woman.
Long before I called myself a coach, I was writing. I used words to process my experiences, tell myself the truth, and make meaning from the things I had survived. Writing gave me a place to meet the parts of myself I had ignored, protected, questioned, and sometimes fought against.
As I shared those reflections, other women began to recognize themselves in them. What started as my personal healing became a deeper calling: to create spaces where women could feel seen, ask honest questions, reconnect with themselves, and receive support without being treated as though they were broken.
I began coaching in 2018 after earning my certification through the CaPP Institute. In 2022, I completed my Reiki Master Teacher training through Core Empowerment. Those credentials strengthened my ability to serve, but the heart of my work has always remained the same: helping women come home to themselves.
How I support women
Wholeness is not becoming someone else. It’s returning to yourself.
I offer compassionate support, meaningful questions, practical tools, and a place where you can tell the truth about the life you are actually living.
Coaching
Thoughtful, personalized support for navigating change, strengthening boundaries, rebuilding self-trust, and choosing a gentler next step.
Reiki
Intentional space for rest, grounding, energetic reconnection, and tending to what your mind and body have been carrying.
Writing
Honest reflections that help women recognize themselves, ask better questions, and feel less alone in the complicated work of becoming.
My words were making room for women before the work had a name.
Each book holds a different chapter of the journey—healing, perspective, purposeful living, and learning to see ourselves clearly.
Mending After the Break
One decision can change your life if you let it—a reflection on healing, rebuilding, and choosing yourself again.
View on Amazon →Through Our Eyes
The way we see ourselves shapes the lives we live—and changing the lens can change what becomes possible.
View on Amazon →Nothing New Under the Sun
A quick guide to purposeful and intentional living for the woman ready to meet her life with greater clarity.
View on Amazon →The Way We View Ourselves
The journey to changing your mind can often free your soul. An earlier work that helped begin the path.
View the Book →You’re welcome here
You do not have to have everything figured out before asking for support.
You do not need perfect words to explain where you are. And you do not have to become someone else to create a life that feels honest, grounded, and whole.
Come as you are. We’ll begin there.