What Happens When Trauma Steals Our Words — and How We Take Them Back
Reading and writing after trauma isn’t about perfection. It’s about reclaiming joy, one messy page at a time.
If you’re reading this now, and you’re someone who has struggled — perhaps you’ve been told you were “slow,” “lazy,” “unfocused” — I want you to know: you are none of those things. You are someone whose brain learned to survive. Sometimes that survival came at the cost of sitting still long enough to lose yourself in a story.
But it’s never too late.
Writing and reading can be reclaimed. Slowly. Messily. Joyfully. Not by demanding brilliance or stamina from ourselves, but by allowing tiny steps. A paragraph scribbled in a notebook. A page half-read and then re-read. A story started, abandoned, started again.