🪷 A Sacred Guide to Fascia, Trauma, Neurodivergent Burnout & Coming Home to Yourself
Written by Tré Taylor and Bleep the Tattoo
Category: Health & Wellness—Neurodiversity, Everyday Rituals for Sensitive Systems, Trauma Healing & Long-Term Recovery
✨ When the Body Finally Says “Enough.”
Two years ago, my body didn’t whisper—she—she collapsed.
Not in a dramatic medical episode, but in that slow, terrifying, soul-level shutdown that only neurodivergent people truly recognize.
This wasn’t “stress.” This wasn’t “burnout from work.” This was my nervous system slamming the emergency brakes after years of carrying far too much. The final trigger came on Mother’s Day 2024, when a man broke into my van while I was asleep. But the truth is, the breakdown started long before that.
I was already living with the weight of old trauma, the kind you think you’ve outrun until your body reminds you it’s still there. And because I’m neurodivergent — ADHD, dyslexic, highly intuitive, deeply empathic — the traditional medical and psychiatric systems never had tools that worked for me. The medications almost killed me from side effects alone. I had to build my healing path myself, brick by brick, modality by modality, intuition by intuition.
Then came the COVID-19 global pandemic, a collective trauma event like nothing we’d ever seen. The whole world turned germaphobic. Agoraphobic. Hypervigilant. Terrified of breath, touch, crowds, strangers… each other. And because I’m an empath, I didn’t just carry my fear — I carried everyone’s. The panic. The grief. The uncertainty. The psychic static of a world in survival mode.
It seeped into my fascia.
It rewired my nervous system.
It exhausted my soul.
I stopped recognizing myself. Depersonalization. Panic. A deep, unsettling sense that I was slipping out of my own life.
Turns out, I wasn’t dying.
I was awakening — painfully, honestly, necessarily.
My body wasn’t betraying me.
She was begging me to return.
And that’s where this blog, this fascia work, these somatic practices, and all the healing recommendations I share come in — because when trauma has enough time to settle into your tissues, you need gentle, consistent, loving ways to help it release.
✨ Why Neurodivergent Bodies Break Differently
The world wasn’t built for people like me—people like us:
Highly sensitive
Intuitive
Fast-brained
Pattern-oriented
Psychic
Creative
Energetically porous
We don’t just “think differently.”
We process reality differently.
And when you’re living in a world that constantly misreads you, misunderstands you, or demands you shrink your brilliance—the body eventually revolts.
Masking takes a toll.
People-pleasing takes a toll.
Carrying ancestral grief and unspoken trauma takes a toll.
Living in pain or hypervigilance takes a toll.
Eventually the fascia—that shimmering connective tissue beneath the skin—becomes the vault where everything gets stored.
Everything.
And when the vault gets full?
The entire system starts to shut down.
✨ Fascia: The Hidden Temple of Trauma & Healing
Fascia is not just tissue.
It’s memory.
It’s vibration.
It’s emotional storage.
It’s the spiritual interface between your soul and your physical form.
When Ashley Black talks about fascia as intelligent, alive, and responsive—it resonates because it feels true. Many of us can feel that truth in our bones.
Fascia holds:
Trauma you couldn’t process
Emotions you swallowed
Stress you survived
Shock you endured
Grief your family never faced
Pain your mind forgot but your body didn’t
When fascia is frozen, you feel frozen.
When fascia thaws, you come back to life.
Bleep: “Your fascia is like that junk drawer everyone has—but instead of old batteries and coupons, it’s full of your emotional baggage.”
✨ My Weight Journey: Losing 175 Pounds & Finding My Body Again
Food has always been my comfort, my art, my healing, and my joy.
I eat and cook like a French woman because it brings me pleasure, nourishment, and connection. And yes—sometimes—comfort from trauma, but also because Butter is love.
I lost 175 pounds slowly and intentionally.
I didn’t end up with dramatic loose skin, but I did end up with the soft ripples and texture that come from a body that has survived something.
Now, with about 25 pounds left that I want to lose in January, I’m not dieting.
I’m listening.
Listening to hunger.
Listening to fullness.
Listening to stress.
Listening to fascia.
Listening to the parts of me that once needed protection.
I’m working with my fascia naturally, using:
Water
Salt
Heat
Minerals
Movement
Breath
EMDR
Self-compassion
Before I ever consider surgery or tightening procedures, I want to give my body the gift of my presence—something she didn’t get for decades.
✨ How I Actually Came Home to My Body
Water
The ocean.
Volcanic hot springs.
Cold plunges.
Salt baths.
Water reorganizes my fascia.
It softens the freeze.
Breath & Stillness
Learning to breathe from the belly instead of fear.
Asking the body:
“What hurts?”
“What is this memory?”
“Is this mine, or inherited?”
EMDR & Trauma Therapy
Five days a week for 8 months —
reprocessing what my mind had buried.
Movement & Fascia Work
Gentle.
Loving.
Not punishing.
Not the gym-industrial complex version of “health.”
Spiritual Rooting
Staying connected to the Monad—the Source behind all sources.
The God-above-God.
The eternal spark in all of us.
Food as Devotion
Cooking with intention.
Feeding myself with reverence, not self-punishment.
Community & Boundaries
Keep close only those who feel like oxygen, not obligation.
Bleep: “If your self-care doesn’t include joy, laughter, and at least one ridiculous dance move, you’re doing it wrong.”
✨ This Is Not Just Wellness. This Is Coming Home.
When fascia releases, everything releases:
Anxiety
Trauma
Creativity
Intuition
Psychic perception
Weight
Pain
Tension
Self-hatred
Shame
You don’t just feel better—you feel more like yourself.
Your connection to Source strengthens.
Your ability to trust your body returns.
Your inner compass wakes up.
This is why I write about this.
Because people like us are not broken, lazy, dramatic, or “too sensitive.”
We are wired for depth.
We are wired for intuition.
We are wired for truth.
And our healing…?
It has to be as deep, intuitive, and personal as we are.
May this be a doorway back into your own light.
🌟 7 Recommended Teachers & Books for Fascia + Trauma Healing
1. Ashley Black
Book: The Cellulite Myth: It’s Not Fat, It’s Fascia
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cellulite-Myth-Fat-Fascia/dp/0997626008
Website: https://ashleyblackguru.com
Ashley is the trailblazer who made fascia mainstream, blending science with lived experience and real-world tools.
2. Thomas W. Myers
Book: Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Trains-Myofascial-Therapists-Elsevier/dp/0702078131
Website: https://www.anatomytrains.com
The gold standard for understanding fascial lines, body mapping, and movement-based healing.
3. Peter A. Levine, PhD
Book: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Tiger-Healing-Peter-Levine/dp/155643233X
Website (Somatic Experiencing): https://traumahealing.org
The founder of Somatic Experiencing—one of the most respected trauma-healing modalities in the world.
4. Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Book: The Body Keeps the Score
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748
Website: https://besselvanderkolk.com
A groundbreaking look at how trauma reshapes the brain and body and how we heal through somatic pathways.
5. Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Book: The Complex PTSD Workbook
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Complex-PTSD-Workbook-Mind-Body-Regaining/dp/1683730755
Website: https://drarielleschwartz.com
A compassionate guide weaving trauma science, fascia awareness, vagus nerve healing, and somatic practices.
6. Gabor Maté, MD
Book: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/When-Body-Says-Stress-Disease/dp/0470923350
Website: https://drgabormate.com
A powerful exploration of how emotional suppression manifests as physical illness, pain, and chronic tension.
7. Resmaa Menakem
Book: My Grandmother’s Hands
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Trauma/dp/1942094477
Website: https://www.resmaa.com
A somatic approach to ancestral and racialized trauma stored in the body—deeply relevant to fascia release.
✨ Closing Note
My loves, I want you to know this straight from the heart: I am still very much a work in progress. A beautiful, chaotic laboratory of healing, humor, and holy stubbornness. I stay on the cutting edge not because I’m fancy, but because I’m desperate enough and brave enough to try nearly anything that might relieve suffering—mine or yours. If it whispers of freedom, if it smells like truth, if it feels even a little bit like coming home, I’m willing to roll up my sleeves and experiment.
Fascia work has been one of the great revelations of my life. As a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman with a spirit louder than a brass band, I carried decades of pain in my tissues—emotional, ancestral, physical, cosmic, you name it. And learning that I could literally lay my own hands on my healing… that I could change my body, change my pain, change my trajectory… that humble truth cracked me open in the best way.
I’m still learning. Still stretching. Still shaking loose old stories and old scars. Still trying to feel good naked at any age—because why not? We came here to shine, not shrink.
And listen, if you’re neurodivergent like me—if your mind is a wildfire and your heart a thunder drum—then please be gentle with yourself. Radical self-acceptance isn’t a cute slogan. It’s a survival strategy. A sacred devotion. A doorway to real freedom.
I would genuinely love your thoughts, your stories, your questions, and your recommendations. Comment below. Share your experience. Or sign up for my monthly newsletter, where I gather the best of what I’m studying, testing, breaking, fixing, and celebrating—all focused on relieving suffering, expanding joy, and helping you live a fuller, more balanced, more meaningful life. We’re here for such a brief, messy, miraculous moment… we might as well live it awake, alive, in flow, and in deep connection.
Life’s too short to suffer in silence. And far too precious to do alone.
With love, music, food, art, and a whole lot of fun,
— Tré Taylor & Bleep the Tattoo (“May your fascia be soft, your heart be open, and your cellulite mind its damn business.”)
✨ Video Insight: Ashley Black’s Story & Fascia Wisdom
I stumbled upon this conversation with Ashley Black, and let me tell you — her story, her breakthroughs, and her way of explaining fascia lit something up in me. I find her work profoundly helpful, and I’ve already started exploring some of her concepts in my own healing. I’ll report back as I learn more, because you know I love experimenting on myself first before recommending anything.
For now, if you want a clearer understanding of this fascia magic we’ve been talking about — the emotional layers, the physical healing, the whole beautiful mystery — please watch this powerful video below. It’s an eye-opening introduction to her journey and the science-meets-spirit brilliance behind her work. https://ashleyblackguru.com
