Meet Dr. Cox

Long before I had the language for survival patterns, I was living from them.

As a child, I experienced trauma which silently taught me that I couldn’t depend on anyone else to keep me safe but myself. I learned how to be strong, responsible, accomplished, and dependable. I grew up believing that if I just kept it moving and appeared composed, then no one would take advantage of how shattered I was inside. 

The more I achieved, the more I felt secure. Independence helped me feel protected. Staying strong helped me avoid acknowledging just how tired I had become.

From the outside, those patterns looked like strengths and in many ways, they were. They helped me persevere, build a meaningful career, care for the people I loved, and become the woman I needed to be during difficult seasons. But eventually, my mind and body began revealing what my accomplishments could no longer conceal, I was carrying more than I was created to hold.

My healing journey taught me that I did not need to reject the high achieving woman I had become. I needed to understand her, care for the wounds beneath her strength, and show her that she no longer had to live as though everything depended on her.

That realization became deeply personal and eventually, it became the foundation of my professional work.

Today, I do this work not only because I have studied healing, but because I understand what it means to discover the version of yourselves that everyone admires may also be the place where you have learned to hide.