The nurse who became her own patient.
A registered nurse and certified trauma recovery coach who builds methods from her own recovery, not just her training.
I learned to read a room for danger before I learned to read a book.
I grew up in a house where the adults needed someone to hold things together. I was six. I got good at it fast. I learned to track the energy in a doorway, the shift in someone's breathing, the exact moment a situation was about to turn. That hypervigilance made me an exceptional nurse. It cost me my own life.
For two years I worked on a cardiac and oncology floor, reading vital signs before the monitors caught them. I was good at my job because I had been doing a version of it since childhood. I held everything together on the outside while something old kept running the show underneath.
Then came the day I became the patient in the white hallway who could not remember her own name.
I have a BSPH and a BSN from Duke. I am a registered nurse and a certified trauma recovery coach. I am the author of Addicted to Trauma, releasing in 2026. I have done the somatic work, the parts work, the EMDR, the ketamine therapy, the rooms of AA, the outpatient program. I have been the nurse reading the chart and the patient inside the chart.
I do not coach from a podium. I coach from the floor I once found myself on, now standing.
You are not broken. You are patterned. What looks like a character flaw is a nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do, until you give it new evidence.
The Conscious Creation Method™. Five steps. Nervous system regulation meets creative healing. Creativity is the opposite of stuck.
You cannot think your way out. You have to feel your way home.
My work is LGBTQ+ affirming and inclusive of all identities and relationship structures.
"The soul is the point. Some things were never meant to be automated."
— Carrie Davidson