— ABOUT TIFFANY

I built this because
I couldn't not.

"I only teach what I've embodied. I only share what has moved through me first."

I've lived the chaos. The loss. The relationship that broke me open. The season where I couldn't recognize myself. Multiple divorces. Seven years in a narcissistic and abusive relationship. Losing custody of my daughter. And somewhere inside all of that — a knowing.

That this life is supposed to be beautiful. That we are not our stories. That everything we need is already within us.

I am not the most credentialed person in this space. But I am the most committed to making this work real, accessible, and felt — by every person who is ready to receive it.

— MY STORY

I grew up watching the adults around me and feeling something I didn't have words for. Chaos. Unsettledness. A restlessness that nobody was talking about but everyone was living inside of. Multiple divorces. Chaos surrounding my youth. And so I did what a lot of children in chaotic homes do — I became a people pleaser. I tried to help everyone find their way. I thought if I could just show them what I saw — maybe things would settle.

That was my nervous system trying to regulate an environment it could not control. And I carried those patterns into every relationship I had. Into a seven year relationship that was narcissistic and abusive. Into co-parenting and marriage and showing up every day — still in it, still choosing. And I kept asking — why does this keep happening to me? It wasn't happening to me. It was happening through me.

After my divorce I found myself so deeply unsettled that no amount of knowing made me feel okay. I took to breathing. Intentionally. Slowly. Then I found more tools — breathwork with Patrick McKeown and Wim Hof, energy healing, Reiki, astrology, numerology. Every cobblestone on the path. And then I found the missing piece.

Two days after losing custody of my daughter Lucy, I found a waterfall. And there was a branch soaring over the water — arms outstretched — and I called it my becoming. That is why this Substack is called Trauma Brought Me Here. Not trauma held me back. Brought me here. To you. To this work. To the most honest and alive version of myself I have ever known.

I still do this work every single day. I still show up in my marriage — no matter what — knowing that if something is activating me, the work is in me. Not in changing my partner. In changing how I see myself. In choosing again and again to come back to love. To regulation. To knowing.

Trauma brought me here.
And here is exactly where the becoming begins.

A scenic view of a small waterfall flowing through rocks in a lush green forest with a wooden bridge above.
A woman with long curly hair wearing a pink sweater, standing indoors with a blurred background and overhead lights.
A woman with dark hair and tattoos on her face taking a selfie, with a table behind her covered with a black cloth with a white lotus flower design, various objects including a mug, stones, and a candle on a shelf behind her, with a window letting in light.

WHAT I STAND FOR

Non-negotiables.
Always.

— CREDENTIALS + TRAINING

You are not alone
in this work.

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