Wellbeing

As an activist, I recognize that breaking the silence around mental health and addiction is a necessary part of creating change.

High functioning is a label that fails to capture the immense stubbornness, effort, and exhaustion that lies behind my successes.

After a year 'dancing' through hard moments as I navigated health challenges, I am returning to publishing content.

How my ADHD works. THE SHINY I see a shiny. I can't ignore the shiny. I follow it into the depths until nothing else exists but the shiny. I can learn and know everything about the shiny. Suddenly there's a new shiny. I can't ignore the new shiny. I follow it into the depths until nothing else exists but the new shiny. I can learn and know everything about the new shiny. But now I can't remember anything about the before shiny. There is only the now shiny. But then. . . The b

You all don't hear a lot about my Coffee Me personalities anymore. There's a reason for that. They were a fun and light-hearted way for me to deal with the mental health load I was struggling under; pandemic, toxic home environment, years of destructive political attacks, money worries, increasing anxiety over "everything", and just the general stress of working and owning a business. I was exhausted by the effort to navigate these and yet could not afford to slow down, take