23/03/2026
There are three things I notice consistently when trauma comes up in a clinical context.
The first is how often I am the first person a woman has spoken to about it since it happened. Not the first clinician. The first person. That has never stopped being something I sit with.
The second is the gap between the original event and what is showing up now. In the body, the hormones, the mood, the energy.
Women are rarely given the framework to connect those things.
When we do it together, the relief is immediate and visible.
The third is the ceiling. There is always one.
Beyond it lies the health and ease and alignment that feels out of reach. We cannot move through it without first understanding what it is and feeling safe enough to look.
Last week I ran a workshop on releasing trauma and moving beyond survival mode with and James Simson.
For those who joined, thank you.
If this resonates and you are navigating this territory, trauma-informed specialist support is not a separate conversation from your health. It is central to it.