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The Map I Wish I Had: Touching The Zeitgeist In July 2025
🧠 “What if distraction is my only coping mechanism?”
💭 “What happens to a nervous system raised online?”
🌍 “How do I live ethically when every choice has a cost I can’t fully see?”
These are just a few of the 40 questions that poured out of me one night in the middle of an anxious spiral—questions that don’t have tidy answers, but feel too important to ignore.
This blog post is a love letter to the overthinkers, the emotionally attuned, the world-weary minds trying to make sense of a time that doesn’t make much sense.
Neurospicy at Glastonbury: Why Festivals Break My Brain (and How I Learned to Survive Them)
Festivals are supposed to be life-changing, right? For neurodivergent folks like me, they can be—just maybe not in the way you hoped when you bought the glitter and booked the tent. I passed out in a Glastonbury toilet thanks to sunstroke, dodgy weed, and absolutely no sensory plan. Now, years later (with an actual diagnosis and a lot more self-compassion), I’ve built a printable survival kit to help others avoid the same fate. Whether you're facing your first muddy field or watching from your sofa in soft clothes, this one’s for the neurospicy dreamers who still love the music.
Tricking My Brain Into Focus: Creativity, ADHD, and the Art of Tiny Wins
ADHD brains are full of ideas and no spoons. Here's how I use creativity, humour, and a therapist-made card deck to trick myself into focus.
Persona, Masking, and Ziggy Stardust: Why Jungian Archetypes Spoke to My Neurodivergent Soul
I’ve worn more masks than I can count—some sparkly, some stitched together from other people’s expectations. For years, I didn’t even know I was masking. I just knew I felt like an outsider in my own life.
When I discovered I was neurodivergent, everything clicked. But it wasn’t until I stumbled across Jungian psychology—and his idea of the Persona—that I truly began to understand the performance I’d been living. And why I’d been so drawn to people like David Bowie, who turned shifting identity into art.
This is a story about archetypes, unmasking, and finding yourself in the parts you were taught to hide.
7 “Weird” Habits That Actually Keep My Mental Health on Track
Mental health doesn’t always come dressed in yoga pants with a smoothie in hand. Sometimes, it’s talking to yourself in a David Attenborough voice or rereading The Secret Garden for the 12th time. As a therapist (and chaos gremlin in recovery), I’ve learned to honour the small, peculiar rituals that keep me stitched together.
In this piece, I’m sharing 7 of my strangest daily habits—the kind that don’t look like wellness, but are. They’re messy, sensory, emotionally scruffy, and often involve playlists titled “Existential Laundry Folding.”
If you’ve ever felt like your coping mechanisms make no sense to others but feel like home to you… this one’s for you.
The Sacred Shape of Thought: How I Survive Mental Chaos With Geometry, Bees, and Jung
Sacred geometry, bumblebees, memory spirals, and the unbearable swirl of being a neurodivergent person in a collapsing world. This is a story about finding order inside the mess.
I'm Frozen – A Day in the Life of AuDHD Depression
When both Autism and ADHD collide in your nervous system, even the smallest tasks can feel impossible. This is what a freeze day really looks like — and why you’re not lazy, broken, or failing.
Escaping Into the Past, Grieving the Present: A Reflection on Nostalgia, Music, and the World We Leave Behind
Why does the past sometimes feel safer than the present? This personal reflection explores the bittersweet pull of nostalgia, the way music transports us to lost moments, and the quiet grief of watching the world change. If you’ve ever found comfort in old songs, faded memories, or the longing for a time that no longer exists, this is for you.
A Day in the Life: When the NeuroDivergent Therapist Struggles with EVERYTHING
Being a therapist doesn’t mean having it all figured out—especially when you’re neurodivergent. Some days, executive dysfunction, sensory overwhelm, and an overactive brain make even the simplest tasks feel impossible. This raw, humorous, and painfully relatable glimpse into a day in the life of a neurodivergent therapist proves that even the helpers need help sometimes.
Why So Many Gen X Women Are Only Now Realising They’re Neurodivergent
Why are so many Gen X women only now realizing they’re neurodivergent? For decades, they masked, adapted, and internalized struggles that were never recognized as ADHD, autism, or other forms of neurodivergence. This piece explores the cultural, medical, and social reasons behind the late-diagnosis wave—and what it means to finally understand yourself in midlife.
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