Firstly, kudos to you for coming through those events and influences as I'm sure it took strength and faith and some serious hard work to claim your own self and move forward.

I'm sure that stressors impact our health in multiple ways, including even how we breathe. A yoga teacher/friend told me about sometimes having to work with new students to get them to be able to breathe 'normally' before they can start to be in touch with their bodies. But my doctor/mother always stressed the human body's innate propensity for equilibrium and healing, given a chance, and I kind of rely on that as a guiding principle. So it's worth identifying stressors, including those no-longer present but maybe casting a long shadow. We are more resilient than we know and I find that a comforting notion.