:: My therapist insisted that I make some serious changes to my life. Everything that wasn’t essential to my life had to go. I had to quit hard things, and some seemed impossible. But sometimes we have to scale back to survive, to thrive. Here’s how I did it and how you can, too.

:: I’ve spend most of my life not feeling good enough. Like I have something to prove. You might feel the same, but the good news is, we don’t have to live this way. 

:: Like so many autistic adults who are diagnosed later in life, my past clicked into focus once I was diagnosed. All of my awkwardness that led to bullying and more—I didn’t realize how much I blamed myself for those things. Why couldn’t I have been stronger? What was wrong with me? I didn’t realize that I never had a chance because I never received support.

:: Coming out from under a crushing deadline doesn’t mean you’re going to be happy. It can mean the opposite.