Is It Anxiety or a Bad Situation?
When being faced with genuinely awful situations, it can be hard to tell if what you’re struggling with is anxiety or just your reaction to the terrible situation itself.
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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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How to Use Body Signals to Make Better Decisions
Most recent articles on internal awareness for autistics
Is It Anxiety Or Sensory Stuff?
Anxiety and sensory stuff can be difficult to pick apart, so I’d like to talk a bit about them and how they can intersect.
(Re)Building Self Trust After You Learned You’re Autistic
Once you discover your autism, you may realize just how severed the connection to yourself is, but it is possible to get in touch with yourself; to learn to trust your instincts better.
How To Build Self-Trust
I occasionally ask about physical sensations when coaching, and there’s a very specific reason for that. Here’s how simply asking starts to build self-trust.
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.
Step One In Figuring Out What You Want
I’d like to talk a bit about the first step to figuring out what you want.
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.
The First Problem to Solve
To be able to work through a problem you’re facing, you need to start questioning what the issue is in a new way.
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.
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Ready to go deeper?
If you’d like more in-depth, structured, or personalized help with developing your internal awareness and interpreting it as useful information—and are open to paid resources—here are my top three options:
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