There are weeks when the words just won’t come.
I spent half a week staring at a different post, and it refused to be written. So I stopped fighting it and decided to write this one instead. The one I probably should have written a long time ago.
This is about who I am, why I do this work, and why it is nothing like the career coaching you have probably encountered before.
I got my certification as a Trauma Recovery Coach in 2022. I had spent years in the corporate world, surviving it the way a lot of us do. White-knuckling it through the workweek. Wondering what was wrong with me. Trying to figure out why success felt so out of reach when I was working so hard to get there.
I know what it feels like to watch someone younger and less experienced move past you while you stay stuck. I know what it feels like to be passed over, hushed up, told to stay in your lane. I know the specific humiliation of having your idea stolen by your manager and presented as his own, and not being able to regulate your emotions well enough to respond the way you wanted to.
I know what it is like to train people who entered the scene knowing nothing, watch them earn more than you, and tell yourself that must mean something about your worth.
I know the armor. The kind you wear to protect yourself that ends up keeping everyone out, including the people who actually wanted to invest in you.
I lived all of it. And for a long time, I thought it was just me.
Here is the myth I want to bust right now.
The struggle you are experiencing at work is not a character flaw. It is not laziness, sensitivity, or a lack of ambition. It is the legacy of trauma showing up in the present. In the way you see yourself. In the way you respond under pressure. In the way you shrink when you should be stepping forward.
Traditional career coaching was not built with you in mind. It assumes a level playing field. It gives you frameworks and scripts and strategies that work beautifully if your nervous system is regulated and your sense of self is intact. For trauma survivors, those tools often fall flat. Not because something is wrong with you, but because the approach is wrong for you.
A trauma-informed approach creates workarounds for symptoms. That is a start. But it is not enough.
What I do is different. I take a trauma recovery approach, which means we work through the things that are holding you back rather than around them. We address the legacy effects of trauma that are quietly running your career decisions, your relationships at work, your sense of what you deserve.
It takes work. I will not pretend otherwise. But you do not have to do it alone, and you do not have to figure it out from scratch.
I want you to be able to look at everything you have survived and say: that happened, and it will not define what comes next.
You are not too far gone. You are not too damaged. You are not too much or not enough. You are a survivor who has been navigating a world that was not designed to support you, largely without a map.
That is what I am here to change.
If you are ready to stop white-knuckling it and start doing the actual work, I would love to talk. You can book a free discovery call and we can get to know each other.
If you are not ready yet, that is okay too. Stay on the list. Keep reading. The map will be here when you are.
When you're ready for more... The Resilient Career Academy offers deeper content, practical tools, and workshops designed specifically for trauma survivors navigating their careers.
Ready to go deeper? The Workplace Trigger Toolkit is a free resource to help you start identifying what’s happening in your nervous system at work and what to do about it.