"Personal injury attorney" is trending. And I see a direct line from that to what we talk about on *No Safe Words*. It's not about the lawyers, not really. It's about what brings people to them. The car wreck, the slip and fall, the physical manifestation of something that often starts internally.
We talk about self-sabotage a lot. And sometimes, the patterns we refuse to break — the ones we ignore, the ones we rationalize away — they don't just stay in our heads. They show up. They show up in how we drive, how we navigate our physical space, how much attention we're actually paying. It's easy to dismiss an accident as "just bad luck." But how many "bad luck" incidents are actually symptoms? A cry for attention you're not giving yourself?
I've sat across from people who've had multiple "accidents." And when we dig, it's rarely random. It's a clear before and after, a physical marker of internal chaos they refused to address. You can get a settlement, sure. But if you don't break the pattern, if you don't do the actual work, the next "accident" is already in motion. What physical damage are you tolerating because you're avoiding the internal one?