This isn’t a book about brokenness; it’s about understanding. It’s about recognizing how our childhoods, relationships, and life experiences have written rules we didn’t agree to and taxed us in ways we didn’t realize. Tia invites readers to explore how trauma manifests not only in loss or fear, but in overcompensating, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and even the choices we don’t make. Through heartfelt reflection and transformative exercises, she teaches us to audit our emotional debts and renegotiate the terms of our lives.lexities of adulthood. But what if we could stop paying its price? In Trauma Tax, Tia Warrick uncovers how the invisible toll of our past shapes our present, not just through pain but in the ways we love, trust, and live.