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When do you feel most like yourself?
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When do you feel most like yourself? 😹 When you’re laughing with friends over an inside joke? 📚 When your nose is buried in a book, making the hours pass by like minutes? 👐🏽 When you’re creating something beautiful/messy/tactile with your hands? 🗺️ When you’re at home? Or on the road? Or waiting at airports, the ultimate in-between space? What I find fascinating is that I could ask 1,000 people this same question, when do you feel most like yourself?, and I would hear 1,000 different answers. When you feel most like yourself, you are unmasking — taking off the masks that many of us wear as we move through the world. When you don’t feel like yourself, you are most likely masking. I talk about:
(Learn more about Nervous System Care & Healing Podcast here.) Also, thank you for all the kind feedback on my podcast! I’m grateful that folks are listening along (if podcasts are your thing; and no pressure if not) and I always welcome your reflections. With care, P.S. Know someone who needs to hear this? Forward it along. New readers can subscribe here. P.P.S. If you’re interested in working together, I’d love to support you. 🌻 For folks who are overwhelmed & burnt out, but too busy for weekly therapy, I offer Nervous System Healing Intensives — three 90-minute sessions, using brain-body modalities (Brainspotting, IFS, EMDR) that go deeper than talk therapy & help you feel better, sooner.
Intensives are a type of short-term, accelerated therapy — for folks who prefer a hyper-focused approach to healing; who need longer than 50-min sessions to warm up & process deeply. 👉🏽 If you want to get an Intensive on the books, click here to book an intro call. I help highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults heal their nervous systems & connect with their authentic selves. 💗 Need a nervous system reset? —> Join me for a Calm Place meditation. |
Liz's Neurodivergent Letters
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While scrolling on my phone last night, I counted 26 tabs / apps open and running the background. 26!!! Favorites include: my beloved astrology app; my YNAB (You Need a Budget) app that I swear by; recipes ambitiously bookmarked for “later”; and my clock app, where I set alarms to prepare me for the next alarm. (8:00am - soft wake up, 9:00am - seriously, wake up now.) The sheer number of tabs made me realize just how many directions my attention is pulled these days. It also made me reflect...
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “nervous system regulation”? 🧘🏻♀️ Maybe you think about breathing techniques or mindfulness skills. 🍵 Or all the teas we’re told to drink, and supplements we’re encouraged to take. 🛁 Or bubble baths, self-care products, and spa appointments. All of the above are valid, and potentially extremely helpful, options for nervous system regulation. Different things work for different people. (I, for one, love my weighted pillow that smells like...
When I sit down to crochet (one of my favorite sensory-soothing activities), my cat always loves to join. The movement of the yarn riles her up, and she’ll swat at it or pounce at me from different angles to attack her prey — I mean, the yarn. 🧶 It’s actually super unhelpful for me — my process ends up looking like two stitches forward, one stitch back, as the yarn inevitably gets tangled by her ferocious attacks. But I don’t get mad, because it makes total sense to me why she does this....