A physician built an AI training system and came back into their body

The problem I started with. I'm a physician who had PTSD for years before I knew what it was, because no one in medicine talked about it. Once I found my way through, I knew my purpose: share the story so other physicians don't lose years the way I did. I was stuck. I couldn't get the story out, and I was buried under a years-long administrative backlog caused partly by the cognitive effects of PTSD itself. What I built. Following the course structure, I built an interlocking system of Claude projects and skills rather than a single app: - Dojo — an embodiment training program run as a custom skill, refined across dozens of iterations of real daily use. It briefs each session, adapts to injuries, and logs what happened. - The Quarry — a capture-and-sort system for my story material, feeding a memoir, a medical journal commentary, and a TEDx talk. - A physician PTSD self-assessment — a screening instrument built with deep research, because existing tools miss how PTSD presents in physicians. - Daily operating skills — morning and evening routines, email triage, a writing-voice framework — that cleared the backlog and now run every day. - Two apps in design: Here, for nervous system regulation, built for a patient of mine, a retired firefighter I'll call Tom, who asked "Doc, where do I start?" — and Whole, the larger platform it belongs to. Tools and methodology. Claude (projects, custom skills, deep research, connectors to Gmail, Dropbox, and Airtable). The method was the OODA loop: use the system in real life, observe what broke, refine the skill, run it again the next day. Every skill in the system has been rebuilt many times from actual use. Who it's for. Me and my family first. Then my profession, which has some of the highest rates of burnout, mental illness, and PTSD of any field. I believe AI can be one of the adjuncts that helps us through it, and this system is my working proof. The outcome. I was not expecting that building a personal trainer would put me back in my body for the first time in 15 years. I'm fitter than I've been in 20. I'm eating healthy for the first time in my life, after years of difficulties with eating and bingeing. The backlog is gone. The OODA loop now runs in my clinic and my family, where we frame errors as opportunities for incremental improvement. And PTSD is finally disentangling from my identity. The story I couldn't tell for years is now being assembled: memoir, journal commentary, TEDx, the assessment. Status and cost. Honest picture: Here and Whole are in design, not launched. The deployed system is the skills themselves, which I have run daily for four months. Daily use is the demo. Cost: a Claude subscription. Attached: the Dojo skill file, a live session screenshot from July 21, the August 4 session log it carried forward into, a Wins capture from the celebration practice the skill runs at the end of each session, and the Quarry folder system where my story material accumulates.