If you've been on your personal development journey for a while- you've probably heard the phrase "self-validation" more than a few times. That the key to healing is truly not caring what anyone else thinks. If you just loved yourself enough, something in your brain would click, all of your problems would melt away, and you'd become a beacon of perfect mental health. The result? Another thing weighing you down. Another task making you wonder if you're a failure.

You can pick any random word from a list of values and say to yourself "maybe if I try this one, I'll finally fit in." But it's still not your voice. It's just another mask.

Epilepsy Seized My Creativity Today I realized it's been almost a year since I last wrote something here. Not because I wasn't interested or inspired (actually, my phone is probably confused why I keep putting notes in it that I haven't come back to) but because after living with epilepsy for over twenty years and never having it completely controlled, I needed to really reexamine what my neurodivergent brain was doing. And it turned out all that examination would lead to a

Maybe you're used to having an abundance of words. So what do you do when the yap goes silent and you have nothing to say?

I write because my hyperverbal autism put a yearning for words in my soul that demands it. And it feels so good to listen.

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Asking myself what I'm working on every new moon created an exhausting continual loop of self-refinement and self-critique.

You've gobbled up the self-love journey. You even like yourself. Do you have to be perfect to actually love yourself?