You’re Not Defective

What if what’s wrong with you is what’s right with you?

What if you’re exhaustion, digestive issues, chronic sickness, or anger are not evidence that something is wrong with you, but signs that your body learned how to survive something wrong around you?

This chapter separates injury from identity and replaces shame with a more compassionate story about adaptation. Grounding readers in the medical and somatic truth that trauma responses are not personal failures by drawing from Dr. Gabor Mate’s work on stress, illness and recovery