A map of the rooms inside this house of becoming.

Welcome to the Sunflower Room — a living archive of the work, the questions, and the quiet revolutions that shape a life. This blog is organized into rhythms rather than niches, because becoming isn’t linear and neither is the way we tell our stories.

Each section below is a doorway into a different part of the journey.

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The Gentle AHA

why “simple things” aren’t simple for us

There are things the world insists are easy.
Take a shower. Go for a run. Get some fresh air. Move your body. Do the thing.

And for years, I believed the world.
I believed that if something was “simple,” then struggling with it meant something was wrong with me. My friends, Neurotypicals rule the world, and we just reside in it.

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