What if the thing you’re trying to “get over”… is actually trapped in your body? When the grief, the pain, the buried trauma starts showing up as inflammation, gut issues, and a nervous system that never feels fully safe? For 30 years, I lived high-functioning, smiling, “fine.” until Crohn’s made it impossible to keep pushing everything down. And in the middle of that storm, I finally understood: My body wasn’t broken. It was protecting me. That realization changed everything. It inspired me to