You finally get home after a day that, when viewed from the outside, doesn’t appear particularly remarkable. You didn’t run a marathon or hike twelve miles carrying camping equipment. Nobody asked you to push a boulder uphill or battle a mythical creature before lunch. You went to work, answered messages, sat through meetings, stopped atContinue reading “Your Body Has More Than One Battery: Understanding the Invisible Ways We Spend Our Energy”
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The DSM-5-TR and the Map That Forgot the Weather
The DSM-5-TR may map the mind, but it forgets the weather. Beyond its tidy criteria lives the living ecology of ADHD, autism, and AuDHD—the rhythms that shape daily life, not just diagnostic codes. This field guide steps past the manual’s margins into the real terrain of nervous systems in motion: the hummingbirds of hyperactivity, the cartographers of sensation, the phoenixes of rebirth. It’s not a list of symptoms—it’s a forecast of humanity in all its unpredictable, beautiful weather.
Are You an Innie or an Outtie? (Or Both?)
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Severance to Understand the Parts Inside You—and the Strange Magick of Becoming Whole Again Welcome to Lumon Industries (a.k.a. Your Brain) Let’s be honest: if your inner world sometimes feels like it was designed by a morally ambiguous tech company with suspicious lighting and no windows… you’re not alone.Continue reading “Are You an Innie or an Outtie? (Or Both?)”