you kept going. i see you.
You haven’t lost yourself. You’ve lost access to yourself.
I work with people whose lives have been quietly shattered—often while remaining highly competent. They know what they value. They still can’t follow through. I help them stop abandoning themselves and come back home to their bodies, their knowing, and their lives.
The path from Shattered to Sovereign™isn’t about bouncing back.
It’s about coming home—to your body, your knowing, your life.
Prosper On Your Own Terms
Welcome, Lovable!
I’m Dr. Shenell
I’m a licensed clinical psychologist, speaker, coach, and creator of the Shattered to Sovereign™ framework. I work with people whose lives have been disrupted, overloaded, or quietly shattered— sometimes without obvious trauma, and often while remaining highly competent.
I don’t approach healing as merely self-improvement or symptom elimination. Distress is not a personal failure—it’s a signal. A telegram arriving at the door of your body. My work is about restoring access to your own knowing through radical self-loyalty…the practice of choosing yourself instead of abandoning yourself. Slowly. Honestly. Without performance.
the work
This is not about bouncing back. It’s about coming home.
Most people I work with know what they value. They understand what should help. And they still can’t follow through. That’s not a failure of willpower. That’s what happens when you’ve been overloaded for too long— when loyalty to everyone else replaced loyalty to yourself, and nobody noticed because you were still performing.
I teach emotional signal literacy—how to read what your body and emotions are actually telling you, instead of overriding, panicking, or going numb. I help people build the capacity to stay present. And when enough access returns, authorship becomes possible.
Hey, magical Women of Color and Culture, are you feeling:
Like a public success but a private failure?
Unenthused with life & yearning for a change?
Burned out from prioritizing work or others over yourself?
Ready to rediscover your own magic?
✦ Replenish Your Strength ✦
Does this sound familiar?
Something shattered. Maybe loudly. Maybe so quietly no one noticed.
And you kept going anyway.
You’re so competent that everyone assumes you’re fine — and your actual needs keep getting buried. By others. By you.
You know what you value but can’t seem to act on it.
You’re exhausted in ways that rest doesn’t fix.
You’ve been the strong one for so long you forgot what it feels like to be held.
That’s not strength. That’s a cost. And it doesn’t have to keep compounding.
✦ Come sit down ✦
"Working with Dr. Shenell is like having a wise auntie who knows exactly what you need and doesn’t shame you about it. She helped me find patience and really take care of myself. It's not just the work. It's the way she holds the room."
"I came in knowing something was wrong, but I couldn’t name it. She helped me actually read what my body was trying to tell me for years. I'm not just coping anymore. I'm listening."
"When I think of this work, the words that come up are grace and honesty. Dr. Shenell doesn't rush you. She helps me see when I’m being hard on myself. She just stays with you until you can stay with yourself."
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Your emotions are telegrams. I teach you how to answer the door.
Whether you’re in the aftermath of shattering, learning to taste your life again, or stepping into authorship… there’s a room for you. The blog, the videos, the gatherings are all ways in. No performance required. Just presence.
I see you.
You haven’t lost your way.
You’ve been carrying too much for too long.
And the path forward isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about radical self-loyalty—the daily, unglamorous practice of choosing yourself when everything around you asks you to disappear. Coming home to yourself, layer by layer. There’s a room for you. Whenever you’re ready.