14/04/2026
🚨 Trigger warning: went from potato to surgery real quick 🚨
🥔 Well… that escalated quickly.
The other night I went to bed thinking about a jacket potato…
You know…
👉 “Will that still be alright for lunch tomorrow?”
Normal. Grounded. thriving.
Then suddenly —
🔪 it was being sliced open
…
and so was I.
Yeah.
WHAT???
And I’m not even going to pretend I just sat there all calm and enlightened…
Because I didn’t.
That s**t was scary.
Like:
💥 heart racing
💥 body tensing
💥 “nope nope nope we’re not doing this right now”
So obviously…
🐰 I started thinking about fluffy bunnies
📱 grabbed my phone and scrolled like my life depended on it
🙃 fully avoided eye contact with my own brain
Because sometimes your nervous system just goes:
👉 “Absolutely not, mate.”
Now here’s the wild bit…
I was under for 8 hours during surgery.
Didn’t consciously experience ANY of it.
But my body?
👉 “Don’t worry hun, I logged that for later.” 📝
And this isn’t even the first time it’s happened.
Just minding my business and then —
✨ surprise trauma cameo ✨
But here’s where it actually gets powerful…
Not in the moment (I was busy with my emotional support bunnies 🐰😂)
But after.
Because instead of spiralling…
I just acknowledged it.
👉 “Yeah… that was scary.”
👉 “Yeah… that makes sense.”
👉 “That was a LOT for my body.”
And honestly?
That awareness alone…
Might be most of the healing right there.
Like genuinely… more than half the work.
No deep dive.
No over-analysing.
No trying to fix it instantly.
Just:
👉 noticing
👉 allowing
👉 letting your body know it’s safe now
And yes… I STILL went full witch mode on it after 😂
Because tell me WHY a jacket potato is basically:
🌍 grounding
🔥 under pressure
🔪 split open
Like??? The symbolism is doing the MOST.
Anyway.
I went to bed thinking about lunch…
And ended up processing subconscious surgery trauma via a potato.
Standard behaviour at this point.
I shared the deeper layer of this (because of course there is one 🙄✨) inside my little corner of the internet where we unpack this stuff properly l…
So if you’re someone who low-key knows your brain does this kind of thing too…
👀 you’d probably feel very at home there.
(Details in my featured post)
But for now…
Tell me I’m not the only one 😂
👉 what’s the most random thing that’s ever triggered a full “what the actual f**k” moment for you??