Living with lupus means navigating symptoms that don’t always make sense to other people and sometimes don’t make sense to you either. One of the most confusing (and most common) is brain fog: that hazy, slow, glitchy feeling where your thoughts don’t quite connect the way they normally do. Brain fog isn’t just “forgetfulness.” It’s…
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ADHD Society: ADHD Paralysis
Why Starting A Task Feels Physically Impossible Even When You Want To Do It Let’s set the scene. You sit down with the purest intentions. You have your beverage. You have your playlist. You have your laptop open like a responsible adult who is ready to conquer life. You even whisper something motivational like, “Today…
Art Interrupted
I’ve been asked a few times now why I would add writing to my already overflowing plate. There’s a few different answers I’ve given but it kind of just boils down to…. Because I can. Between my full time job in intellectual property, rebuilding my digital footprint and small business 6 years after walking away,…
Playfulness Is My New Superpower
For the entirety of my creative endeavors, I chased perfection. I edited and over-thought everything until the pictures were pristine, stitched in perfect lines, and everything was curated like I was sending it off to a museum. Naturally after years of that I lost the spark along with the glitter, the giggles, and the joy. For me creating was my…
A Pause, A Pandemic, A Palette Reborn
In 2019, I walked away from the creative world—not with a dramatic slam of the door, but with a quiet, aching pause. It didn’t feel like burnout. It wasn’t a failure. It was something more….something like a slow unraveling of joy. Back then, my art felt more like a performance than an outlet. Every stitch, every brushstroke, every weave, every pixel was weighed down by a heaviness of expectation—mine,…
