
Happy Autism Diagnosis Day!
Spectrum identification was absolutely, hands down, no holds barred, the best thing that has happened in my life.
A lot of us who are neurodiverse don’t have a clear sense of what we want or need, because we’ve been trained for years to ignore our internal signals to survive
And while everyone is negatively affected by these systems, our more diverse neurological expressions create a more intense backlash.
Being able to push through is useful in dealing with unpleasant environments that we don’t have any control over, but it’s not useful in dealing with areas of life in which we do have some ability to regulate ourselves and what is going on around us. Our own homes, bedrooms, personal care routines, products we purchase, etc.
Gradually developing that internal awareness helps us reconnect meaning between things that happen and how they affect us. Like how it feels when
Which is why I made Sensory Moments. To help with this process of integrating your internal awareness, slowly and gently. (Fast and furious doesn’t work, and trying it generally triggers trauma.)
Simply noticing what’s going on in the moment, in one part of your body, is really all that’s needed to develop your internal awareness. It’s genuinely not any more complicated than that. It simply takes attention, over time.
You can do this on your own without paying anyone anything, but if a little reminder is helpful, or if getting examples of the kinds of questions to ask is useful, Sensory Moments can help.
You’ll get a short, daily email prompt to tune into your in-the-moment sensory experience.
It’s designed to take seconds, literally.
There’s no exercises. No getting up and doing something. No goals, “shoulds,” or comparisons. Easy to modify to your unique circumstances.
It’s simply about noticing what’s going on in one part of your body, or around you, in this very moment.
Gradually, over time, this noticing can subtly increase your own internal awareness at other times as well.
The whole sequence is an email-a-day for three months (though you can opt-out anytime).
Making the small tweaks and big changes that are needed to improve the quality of your sensory experience is most effective when you have a good sense of what’s going on inside you.
Getting better at not pushing past your limits involves knowing when you’re reaching your limits, which involves growing your internal awareness.
If you’re exploring ways to be present in the moment, this is an easy reminder to notice the now.
As you follow the prompts, or modify them to suit your needs, you’re checking in with a variety of sensory experiences that we tend to ignore on a daily basis. That our culture teaches us to ignore.
Gradually, over time, this noticing can subtly increase your own internal awareness at other times as well.
You might notice that you’re more aware of things like:
This is a great supplement to go along with other things you’re already doing on your journey of figuring yourself out and improving your life.
If body stuff is trauma-triggering for you. This is designed to be trauma sensitive, but it is directly addressing body stuff and if you’re not in a place where you can process that right now, even in a gentle way, this isn’t the right time.
The prompts are designed to be:
Because I deal with all of those myself.
If I were to put a firm price-tag on this, I’d ask $20 for the full sequence of three months. But that doesn’t work for everyone.
So here’s what I’m offering. (It’s a new experiment; we’ll see how this works.)
– Now –
Chipping in an initial $1 (or more, you choose) tells me “you’re in.”
– Later –
After you’ve tried this for a while, you get to decide how much to contribute, and when. (There’s a discrete link in each email, you decide when to use it.) If you get nothing from this, add nothing. If you find it adds some, any, value to your life, I trust you to add a little more.
– Or –
You could chip in more to start with and not bother with adding later. Whichever works for you.
Spectrum identification was absolutely, hands down, no holds barred, the best thing that has happened in my life.
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