Creative Consulting by ML Navarro, PhD, LLC
Expert consulting to optimize your business performance
My Story
Have you ever found yourself asking:
Where do I begin?
Do I really have something to say?
How do I say it without becoming overwhelmed or shut down?
For many years, alongside ongoing health and well-being challenges, I lived with complex PTSD without fully understanding what I was experiencing. Once I finally had language for it, obstacles that had once seemed permanent began to dissolve—like ice castles in the sun.
But before that clarity, there were many years when I wasn't simply silent—I was beginning to recognize how often my voice had been silenced by others.
One experience in particular profoundly shaped the work I do today. An editor requested significant changes to a manuscript I had written about trauma. Those revisions altered not only the story itself but the very purpose for which it had been written. What was intended as an editorial process became something much deeper: a loss of narrative ownership.
The experience was deeply triggering. Seeing my lived experience reshaped in ways that no longer reflected my truth felt, at times, like being re-traumatized directly on the page. The story no longer belonged to me. It no longer expressed what I needed it to express.
Today, I am reclaiming that work and revising it on my own terms.
That experience taught me something I now bring to every consultation, workshop, and course I offer: stories matter, but so does authorship. Creative work should not require people to abandon their truth in order to be heard.
Because I have lived the journey from systemic silencing to self-authorship, I understand the creative, emotional, and structural barriers that many artists face. My role is not to reshape your story into something more acceptable. My role is to serve as a creative midwife—helping you bring your story into the world with integrity, authenticity, and ownership intact.
My work is dedicated to helping others find, protect, and strengthen their voices—especially disabled, neurodivergent, and trauma-impacted creators whose stories have too often been minimized reshaped, or left behind.
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