Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

What if your silence is keeping you stuck?

4 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma describes growing up anxious and silent, calling herself a "mouse" who stayed small to avoid making things worse. She traces how trauma shaped her into someone who soothed others instead of speaking up, and argues that understanding where your silence came from is the first step to breaking free from it.

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For me, anxiety was my blueprint as a kid. In my house, I was a mouse. It was better to be unseen, unheard. I carried that with me into school, and I just. I had to keep the peace. I felt like, you know, calming and soothing is what people interpreted me as or experienced me as. But that was my trauma mechanism. Like, I had to become calming and peaceful so that I didn't add fuel to my outside world. When we think about anxiety, if there's an emotion that you feel like you've held onto since you were a little kid, look at the circ source or the instigation of all of that.

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