When Your Body Keeps the Score: How a Childhood Memory Was Running My Adult Life

Sometimes your logical mind says you're safe, but your body tells a completely different story.

I was standing in a room full of successful businesswomen, holding my coffee and catching up with colleagues in the Video Game Industry. This should have been my element—networking, connecting, sharing ideas. I'd done this hundreds of times before.

We were there to meet other like women and to share our experience in the industry. I was seated with my team, preparing for what I wanted to say. Then, without warning, my heart started racing. My palms became sweaty. My chest tightened. The unfamiliar wave of panic began to rise, and I couldn't understand why.