I'm Tra. I wore the uniform, and I never came back the same.

I served. I did the job. And then I came home — and home was supposed to be the safe part. It wasn't. PTSD and MST didn't show up with a name tag. They crept in through panic attacks in parking lots I couldn't explain. Showers with the curtain pulled all the way open because closed felt like a trap. Sleeping with every light on. Not trusting anyone — including myself. I thought I was falling apart. I didn't know I was surviving.

When I finally reached out for help, I got handed therapists who had never worn the uniform, never been through what I'd been through, never sat in that kind of silence. The clinical language felt like a foreign country. "Hypervigilance." "Triggers." "Processing." I needed someone who'd been inside it — who could look me in the eye and say, "I know. Me too." That person wasn't in any waiting room I found.

So I wrote Thriving with PTSD: Your New Normal. Not because I'm a counselor or a therapist — I'm not. I wrote it because no one else had written it for women veterans, by a woman veteran. It's not a therapy workbook. It's not clinical. It's what I figured out by living it — every hard day, every small win, every trick that actually worked when nothing else did.

Camo Sisters exists so no woman veteran has to navigate this alone. The guides here are practical, honest, and written from the inside — not from a textbook, not from a distance. No matter what stage of the healing journey you're in, this is for you.