What if the root cause isn’t just physical… but unresolved Complex Trauma?

Autoimmunity. Anxiety. Burnout.

What if the root cause isn’t just physical… but unresolved Complex Trauma?

Complex trauma isn’t about one single shocking event. It’s a series of repetitive, prolonged experiences that are deeply distressing and destabilizing. It’s the experience of being overwhelmed, unseen, or alone, again and again… until your system learns to shut down just to cope. For so many of us, the wounds we carry didn’t come from natural disasters or big, obvious crises. They often happened right at home, with the people who were meant to keep us safe.

We tend to think of trauma as something dramatic or catastrophic. But the truth is, most of us actually lived with acts of omission: we didn’t feel safe, and our emotional or physical needs weren’t met.

It often doesn’t even feel like trauma, because we’ve never been taught to see it that way. Yet this is the hidden reality so many women are quietly navigating every day. If something overwhelms your ability to cope, if it leaves you feeling alone, unsafe, or like you have to shut down just to survive, by definition, that is trauma.

We’ve learned to minimize it.

To cope.

To carry on.

But now our bodies are speaking through symptoms that don’t make sense to most doctors.

Through fatigue we can’t explain. Through anxiety, disconnection, burnout, and autoimmune flare-ups that no lab can fully capture.

If you’ve ever felt like something is wrong but no one’s listening, this is for you.

Let me gently offer a few truths that may feel like pieces of your puzzle.

• There’s a difference between trauma and Complex Trauma, and it matters.

Complex trauma isn’t just about what happened, but what didn’t happen. It’s about the slow ache of needs unmet, not just pain inflicted. Healing requires a deeper, more compassionate approach.

• Flatlined energy and high cortisol aren’t “just stress.”

If your body feels like it’s in survival mode 24/7, wired but tired, your nervous system may be stuck in a trauma loop. No amount of willpower can override biology.

• Emotional neglect and autoimmune issues are deeply connected.

As your system learned early on that love wasn’t safe or consistent, it began to turn against itself. Unable to fully relax or trust, it stayed locked in a low-level stress state, while your immune system became overly reactive. Over time, this chronic stress and hypervigilance confused the body. 

Instead of simply fighting off external threats, it started mistakenly attacking itself. Your body was trying to protect you by staying hyper-alert because your early environment didn’t feel consistently safe.

• Your HRV, reverse T3, and white blood cell count hold wisdom.

Your labs may look “normal,” but deeper markers often reveal what your intuition already knows : something’s not right. Your body is asking to be heard, not dismissed.

• Many women feel dismissed or misdiagnosed, over and over again.

You are not “too sensitive”, “overreacting.” or “dramatic”. You are not imagining it. Your pain is real, and you deserve practitioners who listen, believe you, and understand the full picture, including your emotional and trauma history.

• Somatic tools can help you feel safe in your body again.

Healing doesn’t always start in the mind. Sometimes, it begins with breath. With sensation. With learning that it’s okay to feel again, slowly, gently, on your own terms.

• The nervous system plays a powerful role in fertility, thyroid health, and chronic fatigue. 

Your hormones aren’t broken, they are responding to a system that never got to fully rest. Healing these deeper layers is often the missing piece.

• Your body is always whispering its story.

Your posture, how you hold your shoulders, your jaw,  or the way you settle into bed at night can reveal stored trauma. The body remembers what the mind had to forget. And that memory shows up in ways most of us overlook, until we start paying attention.

• Talk therapy can be helpful, but often falls short for Complex Trauma.

We need tools that speak to the body. To the breath. To the deep subconscious patterns wired in childhood. Healing requires more than words :  it asks for feeling safely.

• Complex trauma can fuel perfectionism, binge eating, and weight struggles.

These aren’t character flaws. They’re protective responses. Your system learned to soothe, achieve, or numb, not because you're broken, but because you survived

• “Normal” labs don’t mean you’re okay.

If everything looks fine on paper but your body is screaming otherwise, trust yourself. Numbers don’t always reflect lived experience.

• There are tools that work, and they begin with your nervous system.

From somatic practices to trauma-informed coaching, there are gentle, powerful ways to reconnect, regulate, and truly begin to heal. You don’t have to keep doing it alone.

Your symptoms are not random.

You are not “too sensitive” or “overreacting.”

You just haven’t been told the whole story, until now.

If this resonates with you, know that I’m here. And you don’t have to carry it all alone anymore.