She gained a deep appreciation and awareness for the human experiences of trauma and connection while encountering people whose adverse life experiences were unparalleled by anything she had previously experienced. She witnessed ways in which symptoms of trauma manifested immediately, and also decades later, seeing firsthand the effects of multi-generational and complex trauma. To cope with this exposure, she began to write poetry. ‘One’ was a poem that emerged from her own experiences of trauma: the end of a relationship, her new career, and her desire to find meaning and purpose in the horrific experiences of the abused children she was blessed to work with.