About – LáYínká Sánní

SalaaM, I’m LáYínká !

Award-Winning Transformation Coach & Change Facilitator

We’re all master storytellers. We carry stories within us about ourselves, about the world, about what’s possible for us, and also how we believe Allah sees us.

These stories shape how you show up in your actions, your words, your choices, your work, and your relationships. Some stories honour who Allah created you to be, while others lead you to shrink, exhaust you, and distance you from your Lord.

Ask me how I know.

(And it’s not just through my training in Islamic Psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Rapid Transformation Therapy and hynotherapy — oh no. I share my story below.)

My backStory

It was one day in 2012, when I was shocked by the woman I saw in my reflection. After a meltdown with my children, I stood in the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror — drained, empty, overwhelmed, frustrated, and lost.

I hated the woman I saw. I couldn’t recognise her, and yet I knew, saw, and deeply felt how I was bringing misery, tension, and anger in my home and projecting that onto my family.

It was ugly. And it was tiring.

Staring hard at myself in the mirror, I cried because I didn’t know how I’d allowed myself to get there. I looked at myself and asked a single question that set my heart in motion:

“LáYínká, if you died today, what would your children have to say about you?”

The answers hit hard. Negative. Harsh. Always shouting. I knew I couldn’t let that be my legacy. I couldn’t carry on on that trajectory. I knew something had to change before I lost the people who were important to me and before I lost everything I loved.

That moment set me on a journey — not just of healing, but of becoming. I stopped pretending things were okay and made a decision: I had to change from the inside out.

So I embarked on to journey to know myself, understand myself, forgive myself, embrace myself, love myself, and become the next best version of myself. I held on to the verse in the Qur’an that says:

“Indeed, God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”

– Quran: Chapter 13, Verse 11

By working inwards, I transformed from surviving on autopilot to living with more softness, presence, and intention. And along the way I’ve become clearer about my heart, kinder to myself, and more open to who Allah is and who He created me to be.

Now, I walk alongside Muslim women like you to gently uncover the stories living in your heart, understand how they’re impacting your life, and soften into the truth of who you really are and the truth of Who Allah is.

If your heart feels tired, guarded, or unsure of its next step, I’m here to offer a grounded space for you to move into a clearer, calmer, more truthful way of being — with yourself, with others, and with Allah.

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