Liz Moody

I'm trying to put myself in your shoes at that moment.

And I feel like I would be angry if somebody said that to me.

I would be like, these are things happening to me.

This is not in my control.

Why are you putting the blame on me here?

Yeah.

I have so many reactions to this.

Are we victim blaming?

And what is our power in these things?

And what is the mechanism by which trauma can impact our bodies in these ways?

And we're gonna get into all of that.

But I wanna hear about when you started to make the connection between some specific moments in your childhood and what was happening in your adult body.

And so you saw essentially that you would have these traumatic life events and then that would be shortly followed by some sort of flare up of illness in your body.

So you're sitting there in this white room with the walls covered in post-it notes.

Is that when you began to formulate this hypothesis?

Yes.

And many who just feel terrible and don't have a diagnosis.

That's right.

Well, and I think you have this very specific lens through which you're viewing this problem.

You have the lived experience, but also you, again, you have this storyboarding.