When I first began eating disorder recovery, I thought it would be about food. About adding things back in. About not skipping meals. About “getting healthy again.”

But what it really became was a mirror. A mirror that showed me how much of my life I had been spending trying to be small—not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

June is PTSD Awareness Month, and at Inner Revolution, we want to gently remind you that trauma doesn't always look the way it's portrayed in the media. PTSD isn't just combat-related or tied to one-time catastrophic events—it can stem from ongoing experiences of shame, neglect, abuse, fatphobia, medical trauma, and the chronic stress of living in a world that doesn't always feel safe.