We didn't build this from theory.
We built it from survival.
Holly & Meagan
Holly and Meagan came from different backgrounds, different traumas, and different healing paths. But they arrived at the same place: a deep belief that women deserve to heal faster, with more support, and in the company of others who truly understand.
Holly
Trauma-Informed Coach · Religious Trauma Specialist · Co-Founder
I grew up in a family shaped by poverty and instability. Education was my escape. I earned multiple scholarships, graduated from Liberty University with a degree in Biblical Studies, and spent years believing that if I just followed the rules—the religious ones, the relational ones, the cultural ones—everything would work out. It didn't.
I served in pastoral roles. I taught abstinence education. I married the man my church's prophet told me to marry. I became a trad wife, raised four kids, ran a business, kept a perfect house, and quietly lost myself inside a marriage that was never about love.
In 2011, after the stillbirth of my daughter Monroe, something cracked open. I started therapy—CBT, DBT, trauma-informed work, IFS. I started deconstructing everything I'd been taught to believe. I started learning, obsessively, about the nervous system, psychology, attachment, and why women like me keep ending up in systems—religious or relational—that teach us to disappear.
In 2021, I started sharing what I was learning on social media. I didn't have a business plan. I just needed other women to know: you're not crazy. You're not too much. Your body learned to survive. And there's a way back.
That community became this. And now, with Meagan, we're building the container I needed and couldn't find, so you don't have to spend years doing what I did.
I live on a 15-acre farm outside Charlotte with my four teenagers and young adults. I'm a proud LGBTQ+ ally. I continue to recover from complex PTSD, disorganized attachment, and the residue of relational and religious trauma. I'm not done healing. I'm just far enough ahead to light the way.
Meagan
Somatic Coach · Breathwork Facilitator · Reiki Practitioner · Co-Founder
My healing didn't start in a coaching program. It started in the wreckage.
Addiction. Divorce. Child loss. The early death of a parent. Years of navigating my own trauma while also building a career as a policy analyst, trying to be competent and capable and functional on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside.
I did a decade of therapy. Plant medicine retreats. Countless certifications. And what finally moved the needle wasn't more understanding—it was getting into my body. Breathwork. Somatic practice. Learning to be present inside myself instead of constantly bracing against what was happening.
I'm a late-diagnosed ADHDer. A single mom. Someone who rebuilds and reinvents and keeps going not because it's easy but because I've found that the other side of the hard thing is always worth it.
I'm trained in breathwork facilitation, somatic coaching, Reiki, sound healing, and intuitive practice. I bring the analytical and the spiritual the science and the mystery—because real healing, in my experience, requires both.
In the Trauma Queen work, I'm the embodied half. Holly teaches you why. I help you feel it shift in your body. Together we give women something that, in my experience, is genuinely rare: a place where the mind and the nervous system are both met.
Sometimes women must answer each other's prayers.
Why we do this together:
We connected on shared values, a shared frustration with how hard healing is to access, and a shared sense that we had a responsibility to pay forward what had been freely given to us.
Holly brings the research, the relational psychology, the lived experience of religious and relationship trauma, and the language to make it all make sense.
Meagan brings the body, the breath, the somatic practice, and the ability to guide women home to themselves in a way that no amount of information can do alone.
Together, we offer something neither of us could offer alone: the complete picture. Mind and body. Science and somatics. Understanding and feeling. That's Trauma Queen.
