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06/09/2026

It turned out that the colours I wear are really important to me.
That tea from a teapot always tastes more joyful.
That pattern recognition is my super power (and it’s running in the background all the time - clearly!)

Self-belonging isn’t a destination, it’s the process of getting to know ourselves with the kind of attention and attunement we are used to reserving for others.

Self-belonging is not selfishness, nor is it self at the expense of the other. It is the recognition that our needs, limits, and presence hold equal value within each of our relationships. And for those with neurodivergence and complex trauma, it’s a skill we are now learning and growing one step at a time.

Self-belonging says, “I am no longer willing to abandon myself for connection,” and in doing so, it begins the winding process of establishing the inner conditions needed for deeper intimacy, trust, and reciprocity (often for the first time).

And if this is where you are on your journey, welcome! You’ll fit right in here!

What could you love about yourself more loudly? Weird and wonderful and true answers only 💕

06/01/2026

Once in a blue moon
I used to feel the kind of happy that now comes with each turn of the moon’s face
Once in a blue moon
I used to feel connected and seen the way I get to be known by you, by me, every day
Once in a blue moon I used to believe someone when they said they loved me
Now it’s just there, same as the air, that love is mine, and that it is the way of things.

05/26/2026

Reflections for May ✨
Our collective kinesey reading asked us to consider how we could expand our capacity to receive this month. To refuel an exceptionally Yang year with a yin pitstop.

For those who revisited balance within, and with self and others, coming out of May will feel like a much needed restoration of not just energy, but self-trust and a little more faith in the unknown to come. If it’s still feeling a little rusty and hasty, don’t worry! There’s no time cut off for taking these steps either.

Notice how expanding your receptivity (by a moment, by much needed rest, by a breath) enabled you to show up for someone else in a more grounded way.

Notice how you showed up for yourself when you remembered that you can meet your own needs too, even within the embrace of collective care.

Notice where more is still wanted and needed, and continue to value your quiet joys and (de)light, no matter how small, along the way.

I’m about to tune into June’s reading - see you there soon!

05/12/2026

My latest Substack Article is a deeply personal share that contains some of the most profound lessons I’ve learned over the last 9 years of living with FND - the ones I didn’t want and really needed!

A lot of these lessons also inform how I now work with neurodivergence and chronic health conditions: as the complex and multifaceted experiences they are, and as the learning and growing people we are as we find our ways back to ourselves.

There’s no paywall - just click the link in bio or find me in the app as The Liminal Library - I can’t wait to welcome you 💕

05/05/2026

Our May Kindred Kinesiology Reading is heading for your inbox friends, I hope you enjoy the lush yin energy coming your way 🧡

If you love the audio, I’m starting to play with expanding some of the concepts we encounter in what I hope are meaningful ways even as they’re entirely organic and on the spot musings! So let me know what you think 🙏🏼

Grateful for the ways I get to both give and receive in this way, thanks for being here!

05/01/2026

Reflecting on how often these days healing looks less like big transformation and more like permission.

To be sick when I’m sick.
To be tired when I’m tired.
To be sad when I’m sad.

It feels kinda silly now, how much these are the lessons I still needed to learn, but I know it’s not silly at all. It’s the medicine we are all longing for when we are trying to figure out how to keep moving, striving, surviving.

This is the missing piece of real, true rest: to radically accept why we are there and not try to fight it (that’s gonna cost us the whole spoon drawer).

Learning to let myself be how I am (and meeting the resistance that finally softens with permission) has had a remarkable improvement on the ease of recovery from burnout, from big days, from nothing days, and from illness. It still takes longer than I like, but that’s the unique role of restlessness (article coming on that soon!).

So here’s your Friday permission slip: to be tired. Excited. Uncertain. Dreamy. Grieving. Manifesting. Dysregulated. Disconnected. Content. Hopeful.
To be however you actually are.

Not because we need to stay that way, but because the shift finally, finally comes when we have enough space for the next.

Your body will thank you x

04/24/2026

Friends, I did a thing! I’ve been so enjoying Substack land that I have decided to create a space for my longer form writing there (my favourite kind).

There’s currently no paywall as I find my way, so for now what’s mine is yours. I hope you’ll love The Liminal Library as much as I do 💜

04/12/2026

🦋Reflections on Post-Burnout (insert your big life change here) Emerging 🦋

There’s a concern that comes as we venture out of the chrysalis, and it’s no longer about the unknown. We’ve been there, done that, have a few scars carefully, finally, filled with gold to prove it.

Instead, it is the vulnerable protection of our new wings. The fear that we might go back to how things were; that we might go back to how we used to do and be.

It’s a fierce protection from a deep well of self-reverence we’ve only recently become actuated with. Boldly guarding our new growth, mindful always of the price we paid to evolve, to emerge at this next threshold.

We have not yet learned to trust this new set of wings, they’re untested but ultimately what we now know as ‘me’ and so we must somehow, learn to fly towards a future Self we are still building faith in.

There’s no speedy way through this place. But I am hearing my own whispers that are guiding me through my new flight testing, wobbling and occasionally trust falling to see how far these new ways will carry me, what I still need to solidify and integrate to fully emerge into confidence of my new skills and values and ability to know myself in deeper ways.

It is not that we never stumble into old patterns again, for me I know I will likely burnout again (I know I am willing to be someone who finds the line by going over it). But rather it’s that we know the way back and that for the first time there is a back to go to that is safe, is secure, is somewhere we want to go (which actually is likely a wonderful forward, really). I know how I get to burnout, and why, and who I am being to get there. And I know how to find my way home again.

Writing this tonight to remind myself that I want to guide my future through care, not fear. And definitely not fear I won’t get the care I need. That is my job now, and it will be my job then: a trustworthy caretaker of my Self.

May we remind each other that our new and tender wings already know how to fly home, and that venturing beyond is also what brings us the beauty of being human. Both are what brings us closer to who we are. 💜

04/09/2026

Not an exhaustive list (because canva is fun but exhausting) but some of my thoughts that wanted to be shared this so far.

I think that if more people knew these things, and if my sharing of other accounts puts a few more autistic prople you wouldn’t normally see in your way, we can take a few steps forward together ♾️

A x

03/30/2026

The wind blows the sheer curtains towards the tall stems of sunshine on my dining table. It’s a dreamy scene - sunflowers reflected in the mirror showing other faces, other facets.

It reminds me of the quote from Cheryl Strayed “you must put yourself in the way of beauty.” It makes me glad I got up early to spend Sunday morning picking sunflowers with my family. Grateful for the captured memories, mindful that the golden petals are only here for a fleeting moment, gloriously finite.

It reminds me to enjoy the cooler breeze that tickles through the third floor windows over my skin as my lover sleeps, the soft fur of my cat tucked between us in the place pets and children feel safest. Both finding their favourite kind of rest at my side.

It all reminds me to find joy. As a spiritual practice. As a mental anchor. As a gritty resistance of light in the echo chambers of global suffering that I no longer look away from, but cannot allow to consume me either. I must do both and be both: the ascending of grief and the rising of hope.

Perhaps, today, my joy is also a remembering of the higher frequencies that many of us are currently tumbling towards. Fumbling the new, the unknown, but doing it because we quite simply must.

Perhaps the soaring of quiet joys is what paves the path towards a destination we don’t know yet, but trust, none the less, is where we must go next.

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

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