A time of sadness
As life quiets and reflection deepens, clarity may bring difficult questions about career, relationships, and meaning. This sadness isn’t pathological—it’s part of finding your true direction.
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"What makes me neurotypical"
This video is, maybe, the perfect distillation of how the ways we test for neurological differences—in my language, neuro-deviances—are... dumb and bad.
Lostness
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Lost and there: an introduction
What does it mean to be lost? Not just in the woods — but in your life. Search & Rescue literature reveals that lostness isn't simply not knowing where you are. It's the inability to reorient. And that distinction changes everything.
Client dialogue - following up on medication with Josephine
From “holy shit, is this what normal feels like?” to crashing off a cliff at 3pm, Josephine’s ADHD meds journey wasn’t quick or clean. It took time, self-advocacy, and stubborn hope to find the right med, dose—and duration.
Review
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Dr. Sacks and Dr. Shengold
Aviv’s reporting reveals Oliver Sacks’s admitted fabrications—but here the focus shifts: what should we make of his nearly 50-year psychoanalysis with Leonard Shengold? Given psychoanalysis’s claims about trauma and repression, was this famously long therapy actually “successful”?
Wisdom from a drum throne
Wisdom from the drum throne: A reflection on resilience, creativity, and self-acceptance inspired by drummers El Estepario Siberiano and Miguel Lamas. Explore lessons on comparison, motivation, and becoming the best version of yourself—on and off the drums.
Client dialogue: Adhd and Trauma and Bears... oh my.
What follows is a writing project I worked on with a client. The thing that is missing from the vast majority of work written on psychotherapy is the voice of clients.
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The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny-head-in-air
The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny head-in-air were written by Heinrich Hoffman in the mid-19th century. Hoffman was a Physician and Psychiatrist professionally but is best remembered for his illustrated children's stories called Struwwelpeter.
Meme of the week: my clothes felt weird
I love this one, because in two short sentences, the author conveys a sense of some of the ways—there are many more—in which those of us with adhd experience sensory/perceptual overwhelm that might be surprising to neurotypical readers.
Welcome to There Counselling
Today is day 1 of There Counselling. Welcome all.
Kill the meaning. Keep the name.
It is my contention that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a corrupt phrase and name. It is a collection of prejudices. Its very existence has prevented scores of people from understanding the truth about themselves, namely that they have adhd.