The Body Keeps the Checklist understands that under strain and stress, human cognition degrades under predictable patterns. Many different fields have asked questions as to what remains when everything falls away, from aviation, trauma science, and the desert fathers and mothers of the 4th century, and have come up with at least part of some of the answers as far as what to do when everything that you once knew is no longer certain.

This body of work is a synthesis of many fields, and is what survived when name, autobiographical memory, and story failed in Summer 2025 during a dissociative fugue state experienced in the wake of 35 year long buried childhood traumatic memories resurfacing weeks after leaving an emotionally unsafe home with people who had caused said traumas.

It is the creator’s hope that her experience and suffering is not in vain, and her body of work created from all of this can be used to help others not need to go as far, and for those already in the abyss, to be handed a map and the next few steps that they need to stay alive long enough to allow for the healing to happen.