If you’re a high-achieving woman who’s still showing up, still performing, and still getting things done, but something inside feels heavy or off, this episode is for you.

In this deeply honest and compassionate conversation on Ladies After Wisdom, I sit down with my sister, Naketa Young, a licensed mental health therapist who specializes in trauma, to talk about how undiagnosed and untreated trauma shows up in high-achieving women, often quietly, and often unnoticed.

We explore why so many strong, capable women downplay their own trauma, how trauma isn’t defined by the event but by its impact on the nervous system, and why depression in high-achieving women doesn’t always look like sadness, it often looks like exhaustion, overworking, numbness, and living in survival mode.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What trauma actually is (and why you may not have recognized yours)

• Why strength and success can hide suffering

• How trauma and depression show up differently in high-achieving women

• How to tell the difference between stress, anxiety, and something deeper

• What healing really looks like—without falling apart or losing control

This conversation isn’t meant to overwhelm or diagnose you. It’s meant to help you understand yourself with more grace, clarity, and compassion and to remind you that you don’t have to carry everything alone.

Aquilla Hicks: Cert. Life Balance/Health Coach

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CoachQ@LadiesAfterWisdom.com

Naketa Young: Mental Heath Therapist

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