Let’s be entirely real for a second. Have you ever found yourself staring at your bedroom ceiling at two in the morning, mind totally blank, while your heart pounds like you’re sprinting a marathon you never signed up for? Or maybe you know the exhausting glamour of "functional burnout"—that magical state where you brilliantly check off your entire to-do list, reply to every single email, and show up for everyone else, all while feeling completely hollowed out and detached on

By Daisy Smith, WHP, HHP, RGM Let’s drop the soft, timid language right now. When you have survived domestic abuse, chronic survival stress, or environments that systematically violated your perimeters, your mind did everything it could to keep you alive. But your body? Your body held onto every single receipt. Trauma splits a woman away from her core. It drives your awareness entirely up into your head, locks your nervous system into an exhausting loop of hyper-vigilance, an