June is PTSD Awareness Month. And while most people think of PTSD as something dramatic or distant, I want to talk about what it can look like up close—when it’s living in your body, quietly, every day.
I didn’t know I was holding trauma. And yes, I’m using the word trauma—because part of healing is recognizing that we carry it.
Some people carry more than others. But mine wasn’t the kind that gets labeled or seen. It was the kind that builds slowly, over time:
→ From working through exhaustion
→ From never having space to feel
→ From being praised for “powering through” when I was breaking down
I am strong. But I was stuck in survival. And eventually, that survival turned into burnout.
Here’s what I wish I had known sooner: Sometimes PTSD doesn’t look like flashbacks. It looks like digestive issues. Chronic tension. Shallow sleep. Startling easily. Losing patience fast. Feeling tired but wired all the time. Waking up in the middle of the night wondering if there’s a work problem you forgot to solve.
Why? Because when your body is in survival mode, it gets stuck in high alert. And it stays there—long after the danger has passed.
And it’s not just a mindset. Sometimes the mind doesn’t remember. But the body does. Your nervous system does. It never got the signal that it’s safe now.
So while you keep pushing forward, everything else starts to fall apart. You leave behind good habits. You stop going to the gym. You eat whatever’s easiest. You isolate just to get a break. You overthink. You stop feeling like yourself.
The good news? You don’t have to live like that forever.
You can train your body to come back down. To feel safe again. To build strength without staying in fight mode.
It’s not woo woo. It’s not magical. It’s real. It’s what we do through holistic health that centers relief—not restriction: Food that grounds you. Movement that regulates you. Rest that restores you. Stress support that doesn’t demand perfection.
Not because the past didn’t happen, but because your body deserves something better now.
You don’t need a diagnosis to deserve support. You just need to stop surviving and start healing—for real.
To your thriving,
