Nina Ajdin

Nina Ajdin has been familiar with atopic dermatitis since a very young age. She was diagnosed with atopic dermatitis shortly after moving to the United States as a refugee from Bosnia at 10 years old, after going through significant amounts of childhood trauma during the Yugoslavian conflict in 1992-1996.

After a long journey that included not only atopic dermatitis but topical steroid withdrawal, recurring infections, mental health challenges, and the deep intersection of trauma and chronic illness, Nina found out about topical steroid withdrawal in 2014 and went through the excruciating withdrawal process. She was bedridden for nearly six years, with little to zero function, until finding Traditional Chinese Medicine and other natural healing modalities and beginning to truly heal from the inside out.

Nina has been an advocate in the TSW and eczema community for over a decade. She has been featured in several news media pieces and has shared her story openly across various outlets.

Her work now lives at Healing the Layers - a platform for honest, layered writing about chronic illness, trauma, and the nonlinear path of healing. She writes across the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of recovery - not from the other side, but from within it. Her goal is simple: to make others feel less alone in their own layers.

Find her writing at healingthelayers.com and on Substack at healingthelayers.substack.com.

Click here to read all of Nina's articles on AtopicDermatitis.net.