🔥 THIS IS A CONTROLLED BURN
Because healing shouldn’t require silence —
and rebuilding requires fire.
Trauma teaches us to disappear:
be quiet, stay small, don’t make people uncomfortable.
Silence keeps us alive —
but it also keeps us erased.
I don’t do polite trauma.
I teach people to speak, rage, and rebuild —
to name what happened, dismantle the systems that allowed it,
and discover the one truth every survivor needs:
You were never the problem.
And you were never alone.
Hi, I’m Meg Shike —
trauma survivor, rare disease advocate, writer, speaker,
and cultural arsonist with humor as my accelerant.
🔥 WHY I DO THIS
I’m Meg Shike — trauma thriver, rare disease survivor, writer, speaker, and the inconvenient narrator systems wish would stay quiet.
I was diagnosed with CIDP when I was 10.
Doctors didn’t know what to do.
Adults didn’t know what to say.
So I learned the foundational trauma survival skill:
Silence.
Silence kept me alive —
but it also erased me.
For years, my body was screaming
while I was trained to whisper.
Real healing didn’t start until I stopped being compliant
and started being loud.
Not performative.
Not polite.
Not “tell your story to inspire others.”
LOUD —
as in:
“This happened to me.
It mattered.
It changed everything.
And I refuse to disappear.”
You don’t have to bleed publicly.
You don’t owe strangers the play-by-play.
But if you want your life back,
you do have to speak —
somewhere, with someone, in your truth.
Because trauma isn’t just emotional —
it colonizes your:
nervous system
sleep
relationships
decision making
identity
sense of safety
You learn to scan rooms like prey.
You sleep like something is hunting you.
Your brain replays scenes like its only job is surveillance.
When we talk —
really talk —
we learn:
✔ we weren’t overreacting
✔ we weren’t “too sensitive”
✔ our bodies were accurate
✔ our silence was training, not choice
✔ we are not alone, crazy, or broken
Talking about trauma isn’t catharsis
—it’s reclamation.
This isn’t self-help.
It’s a controlled burn.
🔥 WHY THIS EXISTS
I got a rare neurological disease (CIDP) at 10.
Doctors didn’t know what to do.
Adults didn’t know what to say.
So I learned silence —
and silence cost me years of my life.
Real healing began when I finally spoke —
not politely, not performatively,
but truthfully.
You don’t have to tell the internet everything.
You don’t need to trauma-dump or bleed publicly.
But you DO need to speak — somewhere —
if you want to reclaim your life.
Because trauma isn’t emotional —
it’s systemic.
It rewires your brain, your body, your relationships,
your nervous system, and your identity.
When we talk, we learn:
✔ Why we act the way we act
✔ Why our bodies respond like alarms
✔ Why we sleep like we’re being hunted
✔ Why our brains rerun the past like surveillance footage
✔ That we’re not crazy
✔ That we were conditioned
✔ That we were silenced
✔ That we are not alone, and never were
Talking about trauma isn’t catharsis —
it’s an act of reconstruction.
Welcome to This Is a Controlled Burn™.
We’re burning the scripts that harmed us
and building something worth living in.
🔥 THE PODCAST
This Is a Controlled Burn
Truth with teeth. No-bullshit trauma stories. Cultural combustion.
You don’t heal by pretending it didn’t happen.
You heal when your story lands somewhere that can hold it —
without minimizing, spiritual bypassing, or gaslighting.
This Is a Controlled Burn™ is a podcast where:
survivors stop whispering
systems get called out
dark humor is allowed
voices get their oxygen back
This isn’t trauma tourism.
It’s revolt with empathy.
We talk to:
✔ trauma survivors and thrivers
✔ rare disease and chronic illness warriors
✔ people living with PTSD & CPTSD
✔ mental health professionals
✔ medical trauma survivors
✔ humans who survived what they never should have had to
We expose:
🔥 how trauma hijacks your daily life
🔥 why your body reacts like it does
🔥 the invisible ways systems fail you
🔥 why silence protects the abuser, not the wounded
🔥 how dark humor is actually resistance
🔥 the exact moment someone realized they weren’t alone
It’s honest.
It’s raw.
It’s sometimes funny.
It’s always trauma-literate.
And it exists so you don’t disappear inside your own story.
Launching soon — want the first spark?
👇 Get notified when the debut drops.
Available on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere you burn shit down while healing.