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My journey has come full circle: I begin my dream job on July 1, and along with it starts the next phase of my healing.

Compulsive overachieving is often a sign of an activated flight state – one of the 4-Fs of trauma (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). It shows...

You’ve probably heard of the trauma responses fight and flight. You’ve likely even heard of the freeze response. Each of these responses...

It’s February again. That means I’m closing in on four years since my major mental breakdown and the radical change that continues as I...

People who have experienced social or familial trauma have a key commonality with people who are neurodivergent: We have to some extent...

We’ve entered the darkest days of the year in the northern hemisphere. The sun is setting before the workday ends. It waits until after...

Think of someone you’ve met who always seems to be comfortable no matter the setting, who they’re around or what events unfold around...

Everyone masks to some extent. We mask to fit in, to seem confident, to find love or to endure the workplace. We mask to try on new...

Autistics and highly sensitive persons (HSPs) have one major thing in common: a tendency toward sensory overload. And it’s a very big...

I’ve been hinting at it for a few weeks now, and I’m finally ready to come clean: I’m adding personal consulting services to my line-up...

Are you sick of being told to “take care of yourself” in order to reduce your stress? Are you tired of being told that the reasons for...

Anytime you set yourself up for growth, you open the door to deeper learnings. And often, those learnings take you in wildly...

Overwhelm can be a difficult state for anyone to reach, but for autistics, it can be outright dangerous. Picture “autistic overwhelm,”...