When you’ve lived through enough storms, you start preparing for them before they even hit. You feel it in your chest the moment a system enters the Gulf. You watch the forecast like a hawk, refresh hotel availability, run through backup plans, and pray the seventy-year oaks that bridge across the street won’t fall.
I’ve evacuated with a toddler on my hip and another baby in my belly. I’ve watched the water rise—four, five, six feet through my home. I’ve lived through hurricanes, burst pipes, collapsed ceilings, and the endless chaos of trying to rebuild a life while pretending everything is okay.
And even now, years later, the moment a storm is mentioned, my nervous system reacts like it’s happening all over again. My stomach tightens. My heart races. My body braces. The damage may be long repaired, but the trauma stays stored until we teach it to let go. This story is for anyone who’s ever survived something hard, and still feels trapped in it. It’s about recognizing the ghosts we carry, learning how to calm the body that still thinks it’s in danger, and stepping fully into the life we’ve already rebuilt.
Key Takeaways:
✨ How to recognize the physical signs of stored trauma
✨ Small steps to tell your body it’s safe now
✨ Why we can’t create the future we want if we’re still stuck in the past
✨ Rewrite. Reclaim. Reinvent. ✨
Because the storm already passed. You survived. Now it’s time to live like it.
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