Trauma-Informed Me
A Memoir of Healing, Resilience, and Choosing Wholeness
by Chantel Morin

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Chantel Morin grew up shaped by her own preterm birth, maternal illness and loss, silence, and caregiving. Through a life of nursing, advocacy, and burnout, she discovered the quiet ways survival can disguise itself as competence. Her memoir is about making meaning of a life shaped by grief, care, and survival—and about what becomes possible when trauma-informed understanding finally makes room for truth, grief, regulation, and becoming. Trauma-Informed Me is a reflective, emotionally honest story about nervous systems, hyper-functioning, love, identity, and the cost of living too long in survival mode. Written in a lyrical but accessible voice, the book explores how early experiences shape the body, how women learn to be “fine,” and how healing often looks less like arrival and more like a slow unfolding. Many readers will recognize themselves in the patterns this book names, giving language to grief, caregiving, advocacy, burnout, and healing — and making them feel less alone in their experiences.

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Chantel Morin is a master’s-prepared nurse educator and trauma-informed developmental care specialist with experience in neonatal, maternal-child, and clinical education settings. Her clinical work gave her the language to see how early trauma, loss, caregiving, and survival patterns were woven throughout her life in ways she had not fully understood. She wrote her first book to tell the truth about what survival can look like in real life, and to offer language, recognition, and hope to others. Chantel lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and their sons.

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