If you’ve looked for me on social media recently, you may have noticed things have gotten quieter there. That’s intentional.
Over the past few years, I’ve found myself increasingly uneasy with how I feel when engaging with social media. I like to consume information and sometimes find excellent resources, colleagues, ideas to research further. Other times I feel like it is an echo chamber of anger, a place I have lost an hour of life to or a place of activation. And then there is the way mental health content lives on social media. The algorithms that reward brevity and performance over depth, the pressure to post consistently in order to stay visible, the sense that meaningful information gets flattened into something consumable in thirty seconds. I got tired of trying to understand and play that game, and honestly, I wasn’t sure it was serving the people I most want to reach anyway. It felt like another way to mask, push myself into a box that would appeal to people.
So I stepped back. And I’ve been thinking about what I actually want to do instead.
This blog is my answer to that question. I want to share ideas, new resources and offerings in a way that is sustainable for me. And I hope it is helpful for any of you reading along as well.
What this space is and isn’t
I’m not here as an authority. I’m a social worker with more than two decades of clinical experience, and I’m also someone who is continuously learning, regularly surprised, and genuinely curious about the people and ideas I encounter in this work. Those two things aren’t in conflict, I think the best clinicians hold both.
What I want to do here is share that curiosity openly. That means writing about topics I’m exploring in my own training and practice, linking to resources I’ve found genuinely useful, and pointing toward voices and frameworks that I think deserve more reach than the algorithm gave them.
I’ll write about things as I’m learning them, not after I’ve mastered them. That feels more honest and more useful than waiting until I have something perfectly packaged to say.
Who I am writing for
The people I think about most when I sit down to write are women, gender diverse and queer folks who have spent a lot of their lives feeling like they don’t quite fit, in systems and in spaces that weren’t built with their nervous systems in mind.
They are often late-identified as neurodivergent. They have frequently been mislabeled, misunderstood, or told that what they’re experiencing is something else entirely. They’ve learned to mask and adapt and push through in ways that are exhausting and invisible to almost everyone around them. And they are often the last ones to extend to themselves the same curiosity and compassion they so readily offer others.
If any of that resonates, whether you’re a client, a fellow clinician, a parent, or someone who just found their way here, this space is for you too.
What you will find here
I’ll be writing about neurodiversity including Autism, ADHD, and PDA (Persistent Drive for Autonomy), integrating holistic health practices and resources about how hormonal changes in various stages of life impact our health and well being. This content comes through a lens that centers dignity, self-understanding, and the social model of disability rather than deficit. I’ll share updates when I complete a new training or add a new offering to my practice. I’ll link to practitioners, researchers, and community builders whose work I respect. And occasionally I’ll just share something I’m thinking about that feels worth putting into words.
This isn’t a content calendar. It’s a conversation at whatever pace feels right.
A Note on Resources
As a social worker, the impulse to connect people with information and support is pretty deeply wired in me. I believe strongly that knowledge about how our brains and nervous systems work shouldn’t live only inside the therapy room. So alongside this blog, I’ll be building out my Resources page with curated links organized by topic, written in plain language, and updated as I keep learning. In an attempt to step into space before it is all perfect, or just right, that page and others will continue to shift.
If there’s something you’d love to see covered here, or a resource you think belongs on that page, I’d genuinely love to hear from you.
