Annie Wright - Relational Trauma Specialist
For ambitious women whose lives look good but don't feel that good
There she sits at her granite kitchen counter at 9:42 PM, the blue glow of her phone casting harsh shadows across her exhausted face. The cold surface beneath her forearms contrasts sharply with the warmth of the mug of chamomile tea growing cold beside her—a failed attempt at winding down. Her color-coded calendar app glows…
At my core, I’m a writer. A licensed psychotherapist, yes—but long before the titles and credentials, writing has been the throughline of my life. Since 2015, this blog has served as a quiet corner of the internet for women healing the effects of early relational trauma—offering essays on everything from perfectionism and boundaries to grief, burnout, and parenting with a trauma history.
Over the years, these words have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. This archive now holds more than 260 essays: a kind of digital library for the ambitious woman trying to feel as solid on the inside as her life looks on the outside.
If you’ve landed here searching for support, insight, or simply language for what you’ve been carrying, you’ve landed exactly where you need to be.
Going forward, all of my new writing lives in one space:
Strong and Stable on Substack – a nervous system-informed weekly newsletter about healing the foundation beneath achievement.
If you’ve found comfort or clarity in this archive, I hope you’ll join me there. There’s room for your pace, whatever it may be.
Warmly,
