Over the last two decades, she’d taken an alphabet soup of antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and drugs for seizures. She’d meditated, used mindfulness apps, explored Kundalini yoga, cryotherapy, somatic therapy, play therapy, group therapy, and music therapy, until her counselor’s notes had become an orgy of acronyms as the PTSDs on her ACE score had been treated by EMDR, MFT, and ACT, but had become TAU. Nothing had helped.

