
Autistic Identity and Shame: You Were Always You
You were always you. Finding out you're Autistic can mean reprocessing your whole life: the things that happened to you, whether they were fair, and what you might have done differently had you…
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You were always you. Finding out you're Autistic can mean reprocessing your whole life: the things that happened to you, whether they were fair, and what you might have done differently had you…

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Beautiful people. If you’ve been feeling heavy and suspended in fog or struggling in ways that don’t have a clear source over the last few months, you’re not alone. In February, I noticed and named…

This is a messy one, with no answers but an honest glimpse into one example of what “doing the work” means to me. It is exploring in writing, on three different days over the last couple months, my…

This Here Together hour has become an anchor in my week. It is here for you, too, and we would love to see you this month. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Additionally,…

Our world is moving quickly these days. I invite you to slow down with me for an hour each Wednesday this month at 10am EST. We greet each other, check in with ourselves in whatever way works best…

Welcoming 2026 with warmth, grief, and joy and sending so much love to each of you! Read more

I have been struggling to find my way back to writing. Not as content, but as connection, an offering of community suspended in time, agnostic as to location and grounded in love. For months, I had…

I haven’t had anyone join me yet—will you be the first? In any case, I will be holding space for centering and connection the first three Fridays in December. I anticipate moving the call to another…

The experiment continues! If your Friday could use a pocket of mindful reflection and compassionate connection, please join me! Read more

This post contains call details for the Here Together gatherings on 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, and 10/31. Please save the details to your calendar or bookmark this page for future reference.…

This post details a new offering for paid subscribers. The first section describes the context and background of my intention in offering it and the second section provides more details on what to…

[Image description: Close-up of bright pink and blue crystal blooms growing on darker pink and lighter blue paper cut and arranged to resemble coral against a bright yellow background.] Not back to…

Hello—Writing from transition-land where old routines have fallen apart and new ones have yet to take hold. Hoping to find the rhythm that will allow me to reach out with more regularity, giving…

Sometimes things don’t work the way you think they should. Recently, I have found myself saying this to my children as they are learning, in shuffles and leaps, to navigate their newly created…

Dear beautiful reader, I am thinking of you today with a full heart. Yes, you that I have known for decades, you who are reading my words for the first time, and all others in between. I do not take…

[Image description: Abstract watercolor painting by a child with swaths of blue, gray, brown, and green with some black marker scribbles along the left side.] “I am a person who gets overwhelmed by…

At various points this summer, I had been looking ahead to the fall. Having only one child at home rather than summer’s three, I imagined that I would be able to finally find time to move forward on…

My kids started back to school this month, two to the small independent early education school that our family joined last year and one homeschooling after having withdrawn from kindergarten in the…

Late on day two of our recent 9-day cross country adventure, I stood in a hotel lobby with the three kids as my husband was parking the car. I was waiting for the front desk attendant to finish her…