The Untamed Mind: How ADHD Traits Shaped Our Past and How We Navigate Them Today
For decades, I lived inside a storm I couldn’t name. A restless mind. A body always braced. A heart that felt heavier than it should. I blamed myself. I blamed circumstances. I worked harder, tried harder, forced myself into routines that never stuck. I spent years believing I was simply too much and not enough at the same time.
Then, a diagnosis reframed everything.
The Long Aftermath: When Recovery Isn't a Moment, But a Reclamation
There’s a kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from one crisis but from the accumulation of many.
It’s what happens when life doesn’t collapse all at once, it caves in slowly, in sections, over years.
The Human System: Lines, Boundaries, and the Myth of Balance
Strength is not balance.
Strength is not pretending the line doesn’t cut through you.
Strength is knowing how to move with it, carry your history, your neurotype, your roles, scars, and gifts, all as one integrated system.
The Price of Shelter: What Survival Teaches Us About Systems
There’s a kind of stillness that comes when you’ve run out of plans. It’s not peace. It’s a forced quiet, like when the body shuts down just enough to keep you breathing. In that silence, you begin to see how a system really works—not from the diagrams or the policies, but from the vantage point of the people it’s supposed to help.
Hijack Your Brain: The 5/55 Flow Method (Winter Adaptions!)
When the sidewalks freeze over and the idea of “a brisk walk” becomes a survival sport, don’t abandon the rhythm, just change the beat!
Here’s how to keep your 5-minute flow break alive when the weather turns brutal
Orange & Amber
Grey doesn’t scare me like it used to.
No Signal, No System: What Elastic Waistbands Teach Us About Leadership
There’s a study I read years ago that I’ve never been able to forget.
In a prison setting, people were gaining significant amounts of weight, not because of diet, but because of their pants.
The Line Between Leadership & Ego
“Don’t call it manipulation if it’s just superior strategy.”
Meet Alex. Charming, decisive. Alex may even seem like the kind of person you want in a crisis, the kind of person you might even follow.
Three Birds
Sade is woken by the sounds and motions of a struggle next to her on the mattress. With what shadowy vestiges remain of her sight, she catches a flurry of movement as someone disappears into the bathroom.
Beyond the Scale: Body & Story
Don’t chase thinness. Seek peace.
The Woman at Midnight: Rage as Data in a Collapsed System
Why can’t I do this?
Recoil, Regroup
Just to move away from
this space this place
This gap in the forest walls
Content
There are days the internet feels like a place where words go to die.
The Poverty Line
A meditation on the thin line between having a home and losing one, and how the light still falls evenly, even when the world doesn’t.
Introducing Narc-Away™: The Only Spray Guaranteed to Keep Narcissists 100 Feet from Your Sanity
Tired of being gaslit into oblivion?
Exhausted by the “I’m sorry you feel that way” Olympics?
The Systems We Inherit, Part II: The Rewiring
Real change, the kind that reshapes both cities and selves—requires architecture: deliberate rewiring at every level of the human stack.
Earth, Fire, Air, Water: The Ancient Map for Modern Systems
Understanding your elemental architecture isn’t about self-typing. It’s about learning to read energy as information; how your nervous system, your work, and your relationships move through states of stability, activation, connection, and care.
You’re Not “Too Much”: The Hidden Strength of Being Wired Differently
You are not too much. You are the calibration point for a culture that’s forgotten how to feel.
The Systems We Inherit: Rewiring the Invisible Blueprints of Our Lives
Take a moment to look at your current life: your job, your home, your daily habits. Which one of those feels like a "borrowed model"? Which inherited assumption is holding you back?
The Ohm's Law of Housing Affordability: Why the Circuit is Overloaded
Affordability isn’t just an economic problem. It’s a systems problem.
