Between Trauma & Light

A living body of work on recovery, integrity, and becoming.

A Letter to You

If you’ve found your way here, welcome.

For more than twenty-five years, I worked as a psychologist — much of that time alongside emergency service workers navigating trauma, moral injury, and loss. It was an honour to sit with people in their most vulnerable moments.

Last year, I surrendered my registration.

Not because I stopped caring.

Not because I stopped believing in the work.

But because my own body and nervous system asked me to listen.

PTSD.

Moral injury.

Functional Neurological Disorder.

At some point, I moved from clinician to client. From holding others through crisis to learning, slowly and humbly, how to hold myself.

This space marks that transition.

It is no longer a clinical practice.

It is not therapy.

It is not treatment or health advice.

It is reflection.

A living body of work emerging between trauma and light.

A place where recovery is documented from the inside.

Where identity is rebuilt when the old scaffolding falls away.

Where integrity becomes something felt in the nervous system, not just spoken about.

Over time, you’ll find:

– reflections and essays from my recovery
– art and neuro-aesthetic explorations
– gentle practices and resources
– conversations about moral injury, suicide prevention, and systemic rupture
– design and environment, and their impact on psychological and physical health

I no longer stand here in a professional role.

I stand here as a human being walking her own restoration — documenting, questioning, rebuilding.

If you are navigating trauma, illness, identity shift, or quiet reinvention…

You are welcome here.

With integrity,

Krista

These are the spaces where this work unfolds.

Reflections

Essays, letters, and lived-experience writing emerging from the space between collapse and reintegration.

Art & Neuro-Aesthetics

Exploring beauty, design, and environment as part of nervous system restoration.

Practices & Resources

Gentle practices and curated resources that have accompanied the process of recovery.

Witness & Advocacy

Reflections on moral injury, systems, and the lived realities of trauma in helping professions.

There is a space after collapse
and before reintegration

and if you find yourself somewhere
in the in-between,
you are not alone.

© Krista Hawke