Book Meg Shike to Speak

Trauma conversations — honest, human, trauma-informed, and actually comfortable.

You don’t heal from trauma by being quiet.
You heal when your story has somewhere safe to land.

I’m a trauma thriver, rare disease advocate, and speaker who helps people understand trauma in a way that’s real, relatable, and sometimes even funny — because if we don’t laugh a little, trauma just gets louder.

My keynote dives into why silence keeps survivors stuck, why speaking is the first step toward healing, and how connection turns “I’m the only one” into “me too.”

What I Speak About

My talks explore:

• Why you can’t heal in silence

• How trauma changes your brain, body, sleep, and behavior — even if you think you’re “fine”

• How to find your voice again after trauma

• Why humor and storytelling are powerful coping tools

• Medical trauma and rare disease: the trauma nobody talks about

• PTSD, CPTSD, and childhood trauma

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on adults

• Survival strategies that helped us live — but now hold us back (people-pleasing, hypervigilance, perfectionism)

• Why “me too” is one of the most healing sentences on earth

It’s trauma, but without the clinical jargon, the shame, or the painful silence.

Who I Speak To

I speak to groups in the United States and Europe, including:

• High schools & colleges

• Corporations

• Women’s groups

• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), DEI, LGBTQ+ & Pride groups

• Healthcare & rare disease communities

• Nonprofits & advocacy organizations

• Conferences & leadership events

Whether trauma came from illness, medical harm, childhood, abuse, grief, violence, family trauma, chronic illness, or something no one else ever saw — survivors deserve connection, not isolation.

What Audiences Walk Away With

After my keynote, audiences:

• Understand why they’re not “broken” — their brain adapted to survive

• Learn how trauma shows up in everyday life (sleep, relationships, overthinking, perfectionism, chronic illness, anxiety)

• Recognize unhealthy survival strategies — and how to change them

• Have language for what happened to them

• Feel seen, validated, and not alone

• Leave with real tools and real hope

This talk is for survivors, supporters, leaders, teachers, parents, executives, and anyone who wants to build trauma-informed communities where people can be human without shame.

And yes — there will be moments of humor. Because healing doesn’t have to be sterile and serious 100% of the time.