For most of my life, I didn't know what it felt like to feel safe in my own body. What I didn't know was that my nervous system had been in survival mode since childhood. This is my honest story of complex trauma, leaving an unhappy marriage, finding safe love, navigating a cancer diagnosis — and slowly, painstakingly, beautifully — coming home to myself.

Today’s date has reminded me of a time when I was in utter despair, hurt and saddened by a situation. I was beside myself and wished that...