When Someone Interrupts Your Alone Time
If when someone joins you it makes you feel like your peace is gone, and your nervous system is on edge. There could be a reason.
If when someone joins you it makes you feel like your peace is gone, and your nervous system is on edge. There could be a reason.
Here’s one of the most helpful reframes I’ve ever come across when dealing with my own anxiety, or helping my clients through theirs.
Personal growth can feel intimidating and frightening, and it can be hard to tell why that is. Here are some of my thoughts on it.
A lot of times there’s a fear that if you increase internal awareness you’ll just make things worse, but you can avoid that.
I keep forcing myself to wear uncomfortable things, but there’s no shame in, and nothing wrong with, stopping.
Sometimes when you ask a clear question, you get anything but the answer. It can be easy to think it’s us, but there is another reason.
I thought I might talk you through what I do to calm myself down, to see the anti-anxiety practices I teach in action.
I used to push pain away and think it didn’t affect me anymore. That wasn’t as true as I thought it was.
Eight easy and predictable steps to ensure a lifetime of self-hatred.
In figuring yourself out, you might find yourself getting more annoyed by specific things. Here’s what’s happening.
Here are a few questions about interpersonal relationships and your autism journey that may spark some ideas.
When we say we can’t do something that we actually can do, it may limit our ability to solve the real issue. Here’s a way to take back control.
Here’s the brief story of how I stood up for my needs by saying no to someone, and then how I dealt with the anxiety for a week waiting for a backlash from that.
Labels and diagnoses have their use, but they also have some significant downsides. What if there were an alternative?
There are good reasons why job interviews are such strange experiences. Here are a few.
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