About Warrior — Feral Gen X Warrior (FGXW)
Welcome — I’m Melanie FGXW, founder of a survivor-led trauma-informed CPD platform called Warrior Wisdom.
If you’ve landed here, you might be wondering who’s behind this blog and the growing digital space of Warrior Wisdom. This is where I share how I got here — and why this work matters so deeply to me.
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🧠 Lived Experience Meets Professional Insight
My relationship with trauma didn’t begin in childhood — it began in grief.
I lost both of my parents when I was 45, just nine days apart. The shock of that loss shattered my world and left me profoundly untethered. In the fog of that grief, I missed the warning signs and drifted into a relationship that would become coercively controlling and violent.
I am a survivor of that relationship — and of the systems that so often fail to recognise what’s really happening behind closed doors.
Before all of this, I was a high-functioning professional. I held CQC-registered leadership roles across healthcare settings — managing staff, overseeing clinical compliance, and building ethical, patient-centred services. I knew how to meet external standards. I knew how to lead.
But trauma doesn’t care about your credentials. And burnout doesn’t knock — it just takes.
Eventually, the weight of unmanaged trauma led to full-scale collapse: PTSD, nervous system shutdown, and a complete withdrawal from the world I’d once excelled in.
That unraveling gave way to the work I do now.
🧩 Neurodivergence, Reflection, and the Road Back
Long before I had the language for it, my neurodivergence was evident.
As a child, I was part of a hospital-based cohort study that tracked development from birth to six years old. Dyslexia showed up early, along with signs of high cognitive ability — labelled “gifted, definitely maybe.” I was bright, but inconsistent. Clever, but hard to teach. The kind of intelligence I had didn’t fit the boxes on the form.
And in school, there was only one way to do things — their way.
So I masked. I played along. I hid my true thinking style just to get through the day.
II didn’t fix the system — I adapted myself to it.
The truth is, I don’t think in straight lines. I think in layers. I see patterns, not just problems. I sense when something is off — even when others don’t have language for it yet.
That’s how my brain works: I don’t just think. I observe how I’m thinking.
I notice thought structures. I notice the shape of a belief before it’s even formed.
That’s not just metacognition — it’s frame-shifting intelligence, deeply intuitive and critically sharp.
I’m dyslexic. I have ADHD. I’m a critical thinker by nature, a systems analyst by instinct, and a pattern recogniser to my core.
I solve by shifting the frame, not forcing the fit.
But it wasn’t until trauma brought everything to a halt that I had space to ask deeper questions.
Because here’s the truth: PTSD will stop you in your tracks.
It doesn’t care how high-functioning you are, how clever, how capable.
It will take the ground from under you — and hand you silence in its place.
That silence gave me room to finally ask:
Which thoughts are truly mine?
Which beliefs belong — and which are knotweed, invasive and destructive?
Healing became a process of mental weeding.
Some thoughts felt like home.
Others were foreign, fast-growing, and choking out everything else.
And in that clearing, something unexpected happened:
A spiritual path rose up under my feet. Quiet. Steady. Ancient. Mine.
I began to understand the true power of self-regulation, self-care, and the stillness found in meditation — not as luxuries, but as lifelines.
They didn’t just soothe me.
They rebuilt me.
Bit by bit, I cleared the space — and found my true voice underneath.
⚔️ Warrior Wisdom — Rebuilding What Trauma Dismantled
Warrior Wisdom was born out of lived experience — but it’s built for systems.
It’s a trauma-informed platform designed for regulators, decision-makers, and policy influencers — people tasked with upholding quality, person-centred care in complex environments.
In today’s fast-paced and evolving professional landscape — where scope of practice and prescribing power are expanding — we aim to deliver the practical skills, insight, and trauma-awareness that frontline teams and leadership genuinely need.
Having worked frontline myself, I know how easy it is to misinterpret behaviour.
What looks like non-compliance is often a trauma response — a protective instinct, not a refusal.
And those on the front line — in uniforms, in clinics, in reception areas — are not just implementers.
They are leaders of service delivery, the trusted faces of public care.
They are also the most likely to receive trauma disclosures, safeguarding concerns, or signals that something isn’t right.
They deserve the training, language, and organisational support to respond with confidence, compassion, and clarity.
Warrior Wisdom bridges those worlds.
We offer CPD-accredited training, consultancy, and strategic insight that help organisations not just meet regulatory standards — but exceed them.
Because trauma-informed isn’t soft.
It’s structural. It’s ethical. And it’s urgent.
We don’t need more box-ticking.
We need brave leadership, sustainable care models, and systems that support both the public and the professionals who serve them.
Warrior Wisdom exists to support that mission.