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What Therapy Taught Me About No Longer Tolerating Certain Behaviors
Therapy didn’t hand me answers.
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What I Learned from Finally Doing a Friend Detox—and How It is Helping Me Heal Mentally
But here’s the thing: holding on to people who drain you emotionally keeps you stuck in patterns of anxiety, stress, and self-doubt who don’t respect…
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Why Getting Support is Half The Battle
I can tell you both from personal experience in my own mental health journey and as someone who has worked in the mental health field there is a lot of…
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Living With ADHD: It’s Not the Symptoms—It’s the World’s Expectations that Hold Us Back
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Living With ADHD in a world, that's not ADHD friendly 
Living with ADHD isn’t just about navigating a brain that works differently—it’s about existing in a world that wasn’t built with me in mind.
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June 2025

Five Ways to Play a More Active Role in Your Mental Health Journey
Let’s be real: waiting on the mental health system to swoop in and rescue you is a bit like waiting for a text back from someone who’s “just bad at…
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Why Learning to Define My Progress—Changed Everything
For the longest time, I thought progress had to look a certain way—neat, linear, and Instagrammable.
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Reclaiming My Power: How Focusing on What I Can Control Helps Me Rise Above Stigmatized Beliefs
For most of my life, I spent a lot of energy trying to “fix” things that were never mine to carry.
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Choosing Myself: Why Going No-Contact with Abusive Family Was the Best Thing I’ve Ever Done for My Mental Health
For a long time, I believed that keeping the peace with family—no matter how much it hurt—was some kind of virtue.
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🧠 No, ADHD Is Not My Superpower
Let me just say it: ADHD is not my superpower.
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The Unexpected Lessons of Recovery: Insights from the Inside Out
Recovery isn’t linear.
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When ADHD Diagnosis Comes Too Late: the link between late ADHD diagnosis and Complex PTSD
People still ask me, “Why does it hit so hard if you finally got answers?” And I get it—on the surface, it seems like a win.
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