What happens when the identity you performed to survive begins to fall apart?
This piece explores sacred identity shifts — the ones that come with late-diagnosed neurodivergence, chronic burnout, and deep-rooted grief. It’s for anyone unraveling the mask, shedding old roles, and wondering who they are now.
You’re not broken. You’re becoming. And your truth doesn’t need to be efficient to be holy.
What if doing less isn’t giving up — but a sacred strategy for survival?
This final piece in the series explores how to re-pattern your rhythms, scaffold your energy, and show up for justice without self-erasure. This isn’t about bouncing back. It’s about living differently — rooted in truth, not performance.
For anyone holding too much in a world that asks too much — this is your permission slip to slow down, protect your spark, and rebuild from the inside out.
This post breaks down what chronic stress, trauma, and systemic crisis actually do to your brain and body. Spoiler: this isn’t “just burnout.” It’s a survival adaptation — one that changes your memory, your decision-making, your energy, and your ability to show up. If you’ve felt foggy, numb, overwhelmed, or ashamed of your capacity… this is the science and sacred truth that will help it all make sense.
We’re not meant to operate at full speed through collapse. This piece unpacks the myth of constant capacity — why we feel like we’re never doing enough, and why that’s not a personal failure but a systemic setup.
It’s not burnout. It’s biology. It’s grief. It’s the pressure of showing up for justice in a world that won’t stop breaking.
If you’ve been blaming yourself for slowing down… this is for you.
It’s been a while since I posted here.
Not because I disappeared… but because I’ve been deep in it. In the healing. In the reimagining. In the sacred, slow work of building something more honest and more aligned with the world we’re actually living in.
The truth is: this kind of work doesn’t always lend itself to tidy blog posts.
It’s spiral-shaped. Nonlinear. Sometimes too personal—or too potent—to publish in the moment.
But I’ve been busy.
✨ I’ve been studying - working on my postgraduate diploma in autism and neurodivergence.
🃏 I’ve been creating - a neurodivergent-affirming oracle deck that speaks to identity, embodiment, and inner truth.
🔥 I’ve been co-creating - a Dystopian Empowerment Deck for those of us who see through the illusions and are still here, still fighting, still dreaming.
🌿 I’ve been dreaming a tool into existence - something like a tracker, or a compass, for burnout, intuition, and energy rhythms. It’s not quite here yet. But I can feel it coming.
And all of this has been happening while the world keeps shifting - burning, unraveling, revealing. The systems we were taught to trust are failing.
And still, people are building. Healing. Trying to find a way forward that doesn’t require erasing themselves.
This site just got a glow-up to match that energy. It’s now a truer reflection of the work I offer: spiral-shaped healing, neurodivergent wisdom, energy medicine that doesn’t bypass the mess, and tools for building a life on your own terms.
So yes… this blog is coming back. Gently. Intentionally. With stories and truths that don’t always fit into polished packages… Things I’ve been holding. Things we’re not supposed to say. Things I want to share.
If you’re in the in-between - still unraveling, still rebuilding, still here - welcome.
Me too.
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