Six years ago, the life I had imagined ended. The dream I had clung to for so long, the one of being a mum, was over. Not because I chose it to be, but because life chose otherwise. After a long and painful journey, we lost the two daughters we were meant to adopt. And with them, I lost the future I thought I was building.

The truth is, trauma isn’t always what happened, but how our system responded when it did. And when the brain and body can’t fully process what happened during a trauma, that memory can stay stuck.