I'm tired because I'm exhausted, not because I'm weak. My productivity does not define my humanity. Saying 'No' or resting is not selfish, it's reclaiming my energy. Healing is not becoming more efficient, it's feeling more alive. It's takes the tiniest spark of light to pierce the darkness.

Katherine Mays biographical book 'Wintering' writes "Our work is not to defeat the natural forces of sadness, death, the dark. Our journey is to learn to live with them." Being in the shadow may not always restful but most of the time we also know that we are never far from the dawn. Sometimes however being in the shadow means we go deep. To the kind of place where we lose our words and our hope. Our sensitive nervous system tries to protect us literally shutting down the con

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." Camus's1954 essay is really a reminder of the inevitability of the polarity of life. Most of my adult life I tried to escape the UK winter, heading to South East asia early in December. Returning reluctantly late January. Winter felt sad, dark and lonely. Learning to embrace this cyclical seasonal process has been once of the greatest reframes of my life. Today laughing my tits in the icy sea or loc

ADHD I imagine is like being an exquistie bird, encaged, unable to share their gifts. Feeling unsafe and desperately looking out, wanting to belong. Healing if it exists is unmasking, accepting who we are, stepping out of our prison and learn to fly. Carl Jung my go-to for wisdom, experience and hope talked alot about self-acceptance. A mystic, yogi, psychologist, medic, psychiatrist, first humanist, broke cultural barriers and told the tale with humility..all of the things s

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