Lizette Bodenstein

For a lot of people, the word trauma feels like a diagnosis, a life sentence, or some shadow they’d rather not talk about. It’s whispered about, buried deep, or dismissed as “something you should just get over.” But let’s clear something up: trauma is not an infectious disease. It’s not something shameful that needs to […]

For years, I searched for something that would actually work — something that could help me heal, move forward, and stop feeling like life was happening to me. I tried talk therapy. I tried pushing myself harder, ignoring the pain, distracting myself with work, and telling myself to “just get over it.” None of it