Creating Space Where Healing Can Breathe
Brittanie Wooten is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the founder of Positive InnerG & Healing, a practice created to make space in rooms that were never built with Black women and mothers in mind.
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Brittanie supports women who appear high-functioning on the outside but feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and disconnected on the inside.
Through therapy and community-based support, she works with women navigating postpartum challenges, identity loss, emotional overload, and grief that often goes unnamed.
Her clients are carrying a lot: households, careers, expectations, and invisible emotional labor.
Brittanie’s work goes beyond listening. She helps women understand their patterns, protect their energy, set boundaries and build coping skills they can actually use in real life.
Her approach is trauma-informed, but it is also honest and grounded.
She supports, challenges, and gently shifts perspectives so women can move out of survival mode and into lives that feel more intentional, steady, and self-directed.
At the core of her work is a powerful reminder: even when life feels heavy, women still have agency in how they see themselves and how they move through the world.
Building the Space She Once Needed
Positive InnerG & Healing was born from what Brittanie kept seeing again and again.
Women doing everything “right,” yet still feeling depleted, invisible, and far from themselves.
As a Black woman, a mother of five, and a therapist, this experience was not theoretical.
It was personal.
She knew what it felt like to carry the weight of caregiving, work, emotional responsibility, and expectation, all while quietly running on empty.
She created Positive InnerG & Healing to be the space she once needed herself: a space that honors resilience without glorifying exhaustion and that makes room for rest, honesty, and real healing.
This was never just about starting a business.
It was about creating something necessary, intentional, and rooted in purpose.
Building Without Burning Out
One of the hardest parts of Brittanie’s journey has been trusting that she could build this work as a mother of five, while working full-time, without sacrificing herself in the process.
She didn’t have endless time, quiet mornings, or a clear runway.
She built in pockets, between parenting, work, exhaustion, and real life.
The challenge wasn’t the work itself. It was the mindset shift.
Unlearning the belief that success only counts if it is fast, effortless, or all-consuming.
Choosing to believe that she could be a present mother and a successful business owner, without burning out, disappearing, or proving herself through constant over-functioning.
There were moments when she questioned whether wanting more was selfish, or whether building something of her own meant taking time or presence away from her children.
She carried the mental load of motherhood all day, held space for others professionally, and stepped into CEO mode after hours.
Eventually, she stopped asking for permission to want more and started building in a way that protected both her energy and her children’s peace.
Building this business has been an ongoing act of trust: trusting her capacity, her boundaries, and her timing.
Choosing Alignment Over Survival Mode
Today, Brittanie’s biggest challenge is balance.
The work is growing.
The demand is there.
The vision is clear.
What matters most is continuing to grow without recreating survival mode in another form.
As a mother of five working full-time while building a business, protecting her energy is not optional.
It is essential.
The tension she navigates is not between clarity and confusion but between ambition and capacity.
She is capable and resilient, which means it is easy to slip into doing too much without noticing.
This season is asking her to slow down, accept support, and trust that doing less can still move the vision forward.
What holds her back is not a lack of discipline or motivation.
It is the ongoing work of unlearning the belief that she has to do everything at once, by herself, to deserve growth.
That work is deeply familiar.
It is the same work she invites the women she serves to practice every day: honoring capacity, protecting energy, and choosing alignment over survival.
At Reignelle, we continue to center stories like Brittanie’s: stories of women building lives and businesses that honor their capacity, protect their energy, and refuse survival as the cost of success.
We believe growth does not have to come at the expense of peace, and that alignment is not a luxury, but a foundation.
These conversations exist to remind us that healing, ambition and rest can coexist and that choosing yourself is not only possible, it is powerful.