Category: Neurodivergence & Mental Health
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The Myth of the Magic Pill: Healing Is Slower—and More Ordinary—Than We’re Told
Come sit with me for a moment. There’s something hard to face that I think many of us carry quietly—especially those of us who come to therapy, spirituality, or self-development with real hope in our hearts. The idea that there is an insight that will unlock everything. And I don’t…
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The Ecology of the Misfit: Rethinking Neurodivergence, Masking, and the Cost of Endless Adaptation
If you’ve ever found yourself Googling ‘what’s wrong with me’… Sometimes that belief is explicit. Sometimes it’s woven into years of trying harder, performing better, pushing through. Either way, it often sits underneath burnout, anxiety, shame spirals, or the persistent feeling of being slightly out of sync with the world…
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Self-Care That Doesn’t Become Another Job
February gets marketed like a glittery hallway leading to Valentine’s Day. And yet, for a lot of us, February actually arrives with a quieter truth: we’re tired. So here’s the angle I want to offer—not from above, not as an expert who has it all figured out, but as someone…
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The Alchemy of Journaling: Reclaiming Magic from Productivity
There’s a quiet kind of magic in writing things down. Not the kind you can track or measure, but the kind that hums under your skin — the moment ink meets paper and something unnamed starts to take form. I’ve always been a bit of a scattered journaler. My ADHD…
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Hands in the Dirt: A Way Through Existential Dread
The other day I watched a reel by Kimberly Ann Johnson that hit me with a wave of deeper understanding on a topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. You can find the reel here, and I highly recommend you watch it, because she speaks with the kind of…
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Cycles, Not Schedules: Reimagining ADHD Through Nature’s Rhythms
If you live with ADHD, you’ve probably been told—directly or indirectly—that your way of being is wrong. Too scattered. Too inconsistent. Too emotional. Too forgetful. Not organized enough. Not productive enough. Not disciplined enough. But what if the problem isn’t you—it’s the system you’re trying to function within? As a…
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When Your Mind Turns on You: Understanding Mental Loops, Intrusive Thoughts, and the Trickster Brain
Some days, the mind feels like a trusted ally—problem-solving, creating, helping us navigate the world. And then, there are the other days. The ones where it spins in circles, offering nothing but worst-case scenarios, intrusive thoughts, and an inner monologue so critical it borders on cruel. When your own mind…