Year: 2025

• The Morning Everything Changed

  

  One night, she drifted off — a child spun from stardust and backyard laughter, dreaming of bigger bikes, summer rains, and birthday candles burning too fast. One night, the world was still simple. And then — somewhere between one breath and the next — the earth shifted. She woke up and the world was heavier,…

  jessicawoodville

  April 25, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Chronic Illness, Personal Essays, Poetry

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, healing, resilience, survival

• This Is What It Cost Me: Five Years, One Body, and a System That Still Won’t Listen

  

  I’ve written about this before—maybe two, three times now. Chronic illness. Storms. Parenting through it. The trauma it leaves behind. But the truth is, every time I write, I hold a piece back. Because reliving it costs energy I barely have. Because writing about being dismissed starts to feel like shouting into a void. But…

  jessicawoodville

  April 22, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Advocacy, Chronic Illness, Personal Essays, Survival and Healing

  Chronic Illness, cptsd, Dysautonomia, healing, health, HRV tracking, Invisible illness, Mayo Clinic experience, medical gaslighting, memoir, nervous system regulation, patient advocacy, ptsd, resilience, secondary adrenal insufficiency, survival, trauma, trauma and the body, trauma recovery