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Some of the content shared on this blog includes lived experiences, advocacy, and reflections rooted in real life — including trauma, medical harm, chronic illness, and systemic failures that impact families and children.
This page exists so you can choose how and when you engage.
Your safety matters here.
A Gentle Content & Trauma Warning
Some posts on this blog may include discussions of:
- Medical trauma or medical gaslighting
- Childhood illness, chronic conditions, and disability
- Autoimmune disease (including Celiac Disease)
- Parenting through trauma or crisis
- Nervous system dysregulation and burnout
- Infidelity and relational betrayal
- Caregiving, grief, and identity loss
- Advocacy for children and vulnerable family members
- Mentions of abuse, assault, or violations of trust (non-graphic)
While nothing here is written to shock or sensationalize, these topics can still be activating — especially for survivors, caregivers, and those currently navigating similar experiences.
Please read at the pace that feels safest for you.
Why This Blog Includes Hard Topics
This space exists because silence helps no one.
Many of the stories shared here come from lived experience — from walking through trauma, advocating for children, navigating chronic illness, rebuilding family systems, and choosing healing even when it’s inconvenient or costly.
These stories are shared not to relive pain, but to:
- Reduce isolation
- Offer language for experiences many can’t name yet
- Normalize intuition, advocacy, and boundary-setting
- Remind readers they are NOT “Too much,” broken, or imagining things
Truth can be tender. Truth can also be freeing. Both are welcome here.
How to Care for Yourself While Reading
If you notice your body responding while reading — tight chest, shallow breath, racing thoughts, tears, or dissociation — that doesn’t mean something is wrong with you.
It means your nervous system is doing its job.
You’re invited to:
- Pause and take a breath
- Step away and come back later
- Read selectively or skip posts that don’t feel supportive right now
- Ground yourself before and after reading
You never owe this content your endurance.
This Is Not Medical or Therapeutic Care
While this blog shares education, personal insight, and advocacy, it is NOT a substitute for medical, psychological, or therapeutic support.
Nicole Burch is not a licensed medical provider or therapist. Everything shared here reflects personal experience, personal research, and lived wisdom — not prescriptions, diagnoses, promises of an outcome or treatment for a diagnosis you already have from your medical care providers.
If you are in crisis or need immediate support, please reach out to a qualified professional or trusted support system.
National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
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If not, CALL or TEXT 988 Available 24/7/365 Free & Confidential
Additional Support 988lifeline.org
Childhelp: National Child Abuse Hotline
If you believe a child is in immediate danger call 911
If not, CALL or TEXT 800-422-4453
Live Chat & Other Support childhelphotline.org
Veterans Crisis Line
If you believe you or another veteran are in immediate danger, call 911
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Available 24/7/365 Confidential Live Support for Veterans & their families
Information & Support veteranscrisisline.net
A Note on Boundaries & Respect
Comments, messages, and shared spaces connected to this blog are expected to remain respectful and trauma-aware.
This is not a space for:
- Minimizing lived experiences
- Debating the validity of medical conditions
- Dismissing parental intuition
- Offering unsolicited “fixes”
- Questioning boundaries set for safety
This space exists to SUPPORT HEALING, NOT to prove pain.
You Are Welcome Here
Whether you are:
- A survivor
- A caregiver
- A parent advocating for your child
- Someone quietly questioning what they’ve been told is “normal”
- OR simply learning to listen to your instincts, intuition and body more closely
You belong here.
Read gently.
Honor your limits.
Take what serves you.
Leave the rest. And know — you are not alone.
WELLNESS THAT WITHSTANDS
Rooted. Resilient. Restored.
Nicole Burch is a CertifiedTrim Healthy Lifestyle Coach, author, and holistic family life mentor who helps women and families rebuild from the inside out. Through her work, she guides others toward resilience, restoration, and peace—teaching that true healing begins at home. As the owner of Life in the Treehouse, Nicole helps women and families overcome burnout, find food freedom, and create sustainable wellness that lasts. Her work weaves together the practical and the profound—showing that peace is possible even in the busiest, most complicated seasons of life.
Whether she’s helping clients balance blood sugar, restore energy, or reconnect with joy, Nicole’s mission remains the same:
to help women and families live Rooted in Rhythm—anchored in peace, balanced in body, and guided by grace.
If you’re seeking nourishment for body and soul—gluten-free living, Trim Healthy knowledge and support, or peace amid the chaos—welcome home.
This is where resilience takes root.
Disclosure, Privacy Policy and Terms of Service and Affiliate Disclosure Below
I am celebrating five years of being a Certified Trim Healthy Lifestyle Coach. I have lived an abundance of seasons within just these five years. I was a nursing mom, pregnant multiple times, survived a traumatic pregnancy loss in 2022, lived in survival mode from 2022-2025 while being an ambassador for survivors of sexual assault and facilitating the legal aspects of a criminal trail against the perpetrator for those assaults, almost died due to pulmonary embolism after my eighth child was born in 2023, and somewhere in there lost and gained 80 pounds after identifying binge-eating disorder as a new challenge. I KNOW too well that life slows down for nobody and no situation, and every meal is a new opportunity to be a begin-againer!
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