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Every January, the air fills with talk of resolutions: lose weight, quit bad habits, get fit, become a new person. The message is clear — the body is something to conquer, discipline, or punish into shape. For trauma survivors, that message can feel like yet another demand layered on top of all the others the body has already endured. Each January, the world seems to circle back to the same refrain: resolutions. Lose the weight. Quit the habits. Run farther, faster, harder. R

So many people who come to Thriving the Spiral Way arrive carrying layers of pain that were never held with enough care. They come with the weight of CPTSD, PTSD, or wounds shaped by religion, wondering if something in them has been permanently damaged. This piece is offered as a soft place to land. It’s meant to remind you that your adaptations were acts of survival, that your tenderness isn’t a flaw, and that the light inside you has never gone out—no matter what you were t