Thriving Warrior Life

02/06/2023

“Hi, Fortune’s Wheel? I’d like to cancel my subscription to 2023, please.”

If you follow me on social media, or if we know each other in real life, you’ve probably heard me make this joke at least once in the past five weeks. (Wait, five weeks? That’s all it’s been?) Although I’ve lived an incredibly turbulent twenty-seven years, five months, and six days already, I don’t think I had any idea that so much chaos could be crammed into the course of a mere five weeks…or that I’d be able to find windows of calm within it all.

Read more about how I'm learning to balance the chaos with the calm of life after trauma now on Thriving Warrior Blog:

Thoughts on Harmony, Part 1

01/12/2023

In recent months, I've decided that I don't just want to look for the helpers. I want to be one. I want to lead them. And if I've learned anything on my life's journey, it's that leadership and teamwork can only happen when there's connection.

Connection comes from vulnerability, so that's what I'm here to do. Be vulnerable.

My name is Olivia Castetter ( ). I'm an author, speaker, tree-hugger, momma, animal lover, gluten-free vegan, partner, and survivor--both of complex trauma and cancer. My trauma spans the first twenty-five years of my life; at twenty-seven now, I'm learning what it means to live for joy instead of in fear, experiencing life for myself for the very first time...and I'm loving it.

But I didn't always love the way my life was, or being alive, and that's what I'm here to talk about. Here, my goal is to be authentically vulnerable with you about my story in the hope that we can all heal by joining together.

I believe we were made to thrive.

Let's thrive together.