Where Science Becomes Sensory.

Some stories don’t wait for a publishing date. They write themselves in real-time, breath by breath, especially when they cut deep like a knife. This Juneteenth, I didn’t post right away. Not because I forgot. But because my nervous system was still catching up to something that had cracked wide...

You can understand your pain.You can journal it. Diagnose it. Even name it.And still—your body will keep flinching.Because healing doesn’t happen when we “get it.”It happens when we embody it—when our bodies feel safe, not just our minds. When Knowledge Isn’t Enough In Part 1, we explored the invisible injury of emotional...

Healing doesn’t begin with knowledge. It begins with repetition.Not the mindless kind, but the sacred kind.The kind that whispers, “You are safe to come back now.” If Trauma Wires the Brain to Protect, Ritual Can Rewire It to Receive When trauma happens, big or small, loud or subtle, the brain...

Some wounds don’t bleed. They whisper.They show up in the way you flinch at affection, freeze when asked how you feel, or feel bone-tired after doing everything “right.”And when the world doesn’t see those wounds, it tells you you’re fine.But the brain remembers differently. This Is Not Burnout—It’s Unrecognized Injury...

Before your body ever metabolizes a nutrient, it metabolizes your environment. The nervous system decides whether you digest or defend Whether you absorb nourishment, or just survive it. The Science Behind the Metaphor Let’s start here: your body is not a passive machine waiting for calories. It’s a living, breathing...

What happens when the systems that scan us don’t see us? Not just metaphorically, but visually, sonically, emotionally? What happens to the nervous system when it is repeatedly misrecognized? This question has become central not just to AI ethics, but to emotional regulation, stress physiology, and identity coherence, especially for...

AI isn’t neutral. It reflects us, our stories, our exclusions, our systemic blind spots. And for women navigating the world in neurodivergent bodies, with sensory sensitivities, alexithymia, or high-functioning autism, that reflection often returns as a distortion. We live in a time where algorithms scan our faces, analyze our speech,...

The world often tells us that healing should feel like a breakthrough that’s loud, vibrant, linear. But for women who live with high-functioning autism, ADHD, alexithymia, and sensory sensitivities, healing rarely looks that way. It’s not a breakthrough. It’s a soft return, to safety, to sensation, to self. As a...

What do we see when we look in the mirror of our lives? For many women navigating neurodivergence, trauma, and identity marginalization, the answer is often fractured. Not because they are broken, but because the visual, symbolic, and emotional languages that once tethered them to a coherent sense of self...