Faith. Purpose. Becoming.
I’m Shani Atkinson — speaker, author, Christian life coach, and host of Praise & The Plan.
My story has taught me that life can change without warning, but change does not get the final word. Through faith, healing, and intentional growth, we can learn to recognize ourselves again and walk forward into what God is building next.
Read My Story
I Know What It Means to Have Life Change Without Warning.
I didn’t arrive at this work because life went according to plan.
I arrived here through living.
Through love. Through responsibility. Through seasons of accomplishment and seasons that required me to rely on faith in ways I never expected.
And through becoming a widow.
Losing my husband changed more than my marital status. It changed the rhythm of everyday life, the future I had imagined, and the way I understood myself in a world that suddenly looked different.
Grief taught me that you can love God and still hurt. You can have faith and still have questions. You can be strong and still need somewhere safe to put down the weight.
But I also began to understand something else: being brokenhearted did not mean I was broken.
God was not finished with me.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Psalm 147:3
My Loss Is Part of My Story. It Is Not the End of My Story.
Healing did not mean forgetting the life I had. It meant learning how to honor what was, while allowing God to show me what could still be.
I began asking different questions.
Who am I now?
What remains when a familiar role changes?
What has God placed in me that grief cannot take away?
What might obedience look like in this new season?
Those questions became part of my own journey of remembering, reclaiming, rebuilding, and becoming.
My Story Became an Assignment.
Today, I use my voice, experience, faith, and gifts across several expressions of the same purpose: helping people move forward with faith and intention.
Coaching
Creating space for women navigating loss, transition, identity, and the question of what comes next.
Explore Coaching →Speaking
Sharing messages rooted in testimony, faith, identity, resilience, growth, and becoming.
Invite Shani to Speak →Writing
Turning lived experience and biblical reflection into words that remind readers they are still loved, still becoming, and still called.
Explore My Books →Praise & The Plan
Bringing faith and practical purpose together through conversations designed to encourage intentional living.
Discover the Show →Not Broken but Beloved
A Journey of Healing, Identity, and Hope
Not Broken but Beloved is an extension of my testimony and the message that has taken root in my own life:
Brokenhearted does not mean broken.
The book explores loss, faith, healing, identity, and the journey of discovering that even when life changes, God’s love and purpose remain.
Learn About the BookYou Are Allowed to Become.
You don’t have to erase yesterday to embrace tomorrow. You don’t have to have every answer before taking the next faithful step.
And you don’t have to believe that what happened to you is the only thing that gets to define you.
There is still more to your story.