My name is Bianca and I am the human being behind Mindfully Me. I am a trauma therapist passionate about normalizing the human experience and neurobiology in regards to toxic stress, adversity and trauma. For years of my life I struggled with multiple diagnosis' with no relief. I went through talk therapy and was put on medication. I was very aware of my faulty thinking but I could not FEEL differently, despite what my brain was telling me. I struggled with a massive disconnect from my body and brain. I was even labelled "treatment resistant" and told I was not trying hard enough for change. This, along with my past plagued with me toxic shame. 

 When I went into my career in mental health, I started to notice the same in my clients and populations I served. I realized there was a lot more to this then a label from the DSM-5. Clients had so much more to them then just their presenting behaviours. Their past played the largest role imaginable in their current functioning but we didn't always have time to explore that. 

I fell down the rabbit hole of truly understanding toxic stress, adversity and trauma and the impacts it has on our emotional, mental, physical, financial, sexual and spiritual health. I realized that childhood is the most significant building blocks for who we are today, even if we didn't have big events that caused distress and more people deserved to know about this in a light hearted, compassionate way.