You know that feeling when you leave a doctor’s office feeling smaller, more confused, and somehow less sure about your own body than when you walked in after yet another round of medical gaslighting examples playing out in real time? When you’re convinced something’s wrong, but the person in the white coat just made you…
I spent most of my life wondering if I was losing my mind. Not in the dramatic, cinematic way. In the quiet, insidious way that happens when every doctor you see tells you there’s nothing wrong, while your body is literally falling apart. When you…
Spoonie goal setting can feel damn near impossible when you’re three days into a flare and can barely manage a shower. January arrives every year with the same bloody energy, New Year, New Me, and if you’re chronically ill, neurodivergent, or just burnt out from…
Let’s be honest. Nobody tells you that healing trauma while parenting feels like trying to rebuild a house whilst living in it during a bloody cyclone. You’re already running on empty. You’re touched out, overwhelmed, and questioning every parenting decision whilst trying to process your…
There’s a special kind of pain that comes from feeling like you’re meant for something, but you have no idea what that “something” is anymore. Finding peace without purpose can feel elusive. Maybe life didn’t turn out how you expected. Maybe chronic illness stole futures…
Nobody tells you this part when it comes to joy after trauma. After years of trauma, survival mode becomes your normal. And when you’ve lived in survival for too long, joy becomes something your body doesn’t quite know how to feel anymore. Not because you’re…
Trauma doesn’t disappear just because you survived it. It doesn’t pack its bags and walk out of your body once the danger is over. These are the silent signs of trauma that you might be ignoring. Most of the time, trauma shows up in quiet,…