Today we’d like to introduce you to Brooklyn Crawford.
Hi Brooklyn, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I grew up in a chaotic home, and the weight of that upbringing followed me for years. I experienced trauma across every dimension — mental, emotional, spiritual, sexual, and physical — and for a long time, I couldn’t find the language for what I’d been through, let alone a way forward.
I eventually sought out therapy, hoping someone could help me get my life on track. My first therapist spent our entire first session reading from a book to figure out how to help me. I moved on and tried again. When I told my second therapist that I couldn’t keep coming back just to cry and complain — that I needed real solutions — she told me that was exactly what therapy was supposed to look like. I walked out of her office that day and made a decision: I was going to figure out how to heal myself, no matter how long or hard the road was. That was fifteen years ago, and my life has never been the same.
I didn’t know where to start, so I started with what I did know — what wasn’t working. I began removing the people, environments, and experiences that were draining me and started making intentional choices that would build a better life for myself and the people I love. I went back to school and completed my degree at Seton Hall, and it was during that season that my healing really took root.
The turning point came in the most unexpected way. I picked up Think and Grow Rich at an airport bookstore at IAH. A sales associate recommended it, and I started reading the moment I boarded my flight — only to have to deplane and accidentally leave it behind. When I went back to buy another copy, the associate heard what happened and gave me a new one for free. I took that as a sign. That weekend, I sat on my living room floor and let that book completely rewire the way I saw my life. I finally understood that my reality was being shaped in my mind — and that was where my real work had to happen.
From there, I discovered Abraham Hicks and Brad Yates’ EFT tapping on YouTube and poured every spare moment into learning and applying what I was uncovering. I started eating cleaner, practicing yoga, working out, meditating, listening to frequencies, and watching my thoughts instead of being consumed by them. I was actively, deliberately reshaping my identity — building a life that felt like freedom from my past.
Over the years I’ve explored far beyond traditional talk therapy: cold plunging, somatic therapy, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, frequency healing, sound baths, and more. Every single one of those tools has contributed to who I am today.
Now, I channel all of that into the women I serve. I’ve coached women through healing from trauma, and today my focus has expanded to creating safe, intentional spaces where women can come together to heal, learn, and grow — and release what has been holding them back. I host wellness events throughout Houston, and I’m in the planning stages of building a spa that will bring together the very resources that helped save my life.
As a woman of color, I know firsthand how difficult it can be to find the right support outside of conventional methods. That’s exactly why this work matters to me. My dream is to be a guide along someone else’s path to healing — and to show other women what is truly possible.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Anything but smooth.
I grew up in an era when the internet was still a new concept and cell phones were barely a thing by the time I got to high school. But even if I’d had full access to every resource online, I wouldn’t have known what to search for. I just knew I was deeply hurting — and I had no roadmap for what to do with that pain.
As a Black woman, I was raised in a culture where what happens at home stays at home. Therapy was a foreign concept, let alone the other healing modalities I would eventually find my way to. When I started doing things differently, the people around me didn’t understand it. Friends assumed I thought I was better than them because I no longer wanted to spend my time partying and drinking. For a long stretch of time, I was largely alone in this — quietly trying to figure out how to become a new version of myself with no one around me who understood why.
And the journey itself was brutal. I would take three steps forward and ten steps back. I was holding onto a vision of a life I had absolutely no evidence I would ever have. I had spent the majority of my life in sadness, so happiness felt like something that existed for other people — and because of the things I’d been through, I wasn’t even sure I deserved the things I wanted.
The toll showed up in my mind and in my body. There were days I couldn’t get out of bed. There were moments I’d find myself on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably because a single thought had cracked something open. There were times I wanted to quit entirely — because I could feel myself changing on the inside while everything around me looked exactly the same.
I never had a normal childhood. I didn’t get to enjoy my twenties the way I watched others do. For a long time, I carried the belief that suffering was simply my portion — that the Universe had handed me a life that would always feel like punishment.
What kept me going wasn’t certainty. It was a stubborn, quiet refusal to accept that this was all there was for me.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I host wellness and social events for women in Houston — spaces designed to introduce new healing resources, build genuine community, and get women moving and reconnecting with their bodies. Alongside that, I’ve coached women one-on-one on healing from trauma, giving them access to the full toolkit it took me years to assemble on my own.
What I’m known for is helping women recognize the difference between surviving and actually living. So many of us have adapted so well to pain that we’ve mistaken functioning for thriving. My work is about closing that gap.
What I’m most proud of is simple: I took my worst experiences and built something beautiful from them anyway. I rebuilt myself into a woman I genuinely love and admire — and if I never accomplished another thing, I could rest knowing I did right by myself, loved the people in my life well, and changed the lives of hundreds of women along the way. Being able to light a path for another woman who wants what I once could only dream of — that is one of the greatest feelings I’ve ever known.
What sets me apart is my discernment and an almost fierce level of restraint. I have quietly witnessed people do terrible things — to me and around me — and I have never once lowered myself to meet them there. That’s not weakness. That’s integrity built through years of intentional inner work. One of my favorite reminders lately says it best: the truth shall set you free. I’ve lived that, and it shows in everything I do.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
YouTube has honestly been one of my greatest healing tools. I regularly return to Brad Yates’ EFT tapping videos, Irene Athanasiou’s frequency healing channels, Abraham Hicks, and Bashar. The subliminals by @RockstarAffirmations have also been a quiet but consistent part of my practice. These aren’t just things I discovered and moved on from — they’ve been woven into my life for years.
On the reading side, I’ve always used books as a way to give my mind a real escape. As a kid it was Harry Potter. Now it’s fantasy series like Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses. I’m currently deep into the Quicksilver series and it has been exactly what my brain needed — a full departure from everyday life. I think there’s real value in that. Healing is deep, intentional work, and sometimes the most restorative thing you can do is let your imagination go somewhere else entirely.
Pricing:
- I post about the wellness events I’m hosting in Houston on my socials and posh
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomingbrooklynnn
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@becomingbrooklynnn
