The Impact Of Internal Awareness On Your Energy Levels
Here’s an explanation on how being aware of your body’s signals helps you manage your energy.
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- Do you only realize you’ve been so stressed, overwhelmed, or upset hours or days later, when you crash, meltdown, or get a flareup — rather than in the moment when you could have done something about it?
- Do you find it hard to explain what’s wrong, what you actually feel, or want, or need — not because you’re holding back, but because you genuinely can’t locate the feeling or find the words for it?
- Are you good at describing what happened but not how you felt about it — and does that gap make it hard to ask for help, set limits, or even know what you need?
- Are you afraid that if you start getting in touch with your physical sensations and emotions — that everyone says is so wonderful and helpful — that it’ll all turn out to be BS, and you’ll just end up feeling the pain more, and the hurt, and anger, and won’t be able to turn it back off?
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Most recent articles on internal awareness for autistics
When You Want To Integrate Body Stuff But Can’t
How do you follow the advice to integrate sensory awareness when you’re not getting info from your body?
When You Start Feeling Sensory Stuff and It’s All More Annoying, Here’s What to Do Next
A common experience with later identified Autistics who start figuring out all the sensory stuff that they’ve been shutting out, is that instead of things getting better, everything is more annoying.
Will Increasing Internal Awareness Make Things Worse?
A lot of times there’s a fear that if you increase internal awareness you’ll just make things worse, but you can avoid that.
How to Start Investigating Your Sensory Differences
Do you want to get better at figuring out your sensory differences, to understand your own body better? Here’s a few ideas on how to get started.
The 5 Most Overlooked (and Common) Autistic Stressors
Here are five things that are so common in our modern lifestyle, that we often don’t have a chance to experience life without them, so we don’t see how much they affect us.
Your Path to a Life You Love: Deepen Your Personal Sensory Awareness
Almost all autistics have a more intense sensory experience of the world than the majority of people. Understanding what that means for you gives you power.
Recognizing Stress is Complicated When You Can’t Tell What Your Body Feels
How do you figure out where your kid’s stress is coming from, when they aren’t even sure of what they are feeling?
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