Why a Therapist With Lived Experience Helps You Heal
You Deserve a Therapist Who Understands Medical Trauma and Chronic Illness When you are carrying the weight of medical trauma, chronic illness, or a crisis of faith brought on by suffering, it can feel like you are speaking a language that so few truly understand. You...
When Your Body Feels Like a Stranger: Medical Trauma, Dissociation, and the Long Road Back to Yourself
You know that feeling when someone asks, “How’s your body doing?” and you genuinely have no idea how to answer? Not because you haven’t thought about it. But because somewhere along the way, between the emergency room visits and the appointments that went nowhere and...
It’s Not All in Your Head: Understanding Medical Gaslighting vs. Medical Trauma for BIPOC Women of Faith
You know the drill. You’ve been rehearsing your symptoms in the car on the way to the appointment. You’ve trimmed the details, chosen your words carefully, decided which parts of your pain feel “credible” enough to say out loud. You sit in that...

