One of the mediums that has saved me these 73 years, years of not having a single idea of where I truly belonged, was MUSIC! Somehow I could turn those lyrics into my mantra even when they were love songs. Know what I mean???? Then you add that rhythm as a dancer whose dreams were squeezed by "you can't live on that" yet the body knows the rhythm ...... Aren't we all like that.... know yet not quite trusting? We each have something. And now we have arrived here .... together..... Enjoy this artist cuz.................. https://youtu.be/I-SrGxoGFoE?si=-KNoL7G_jxbrqGfx

Hey Cohort 2 humans and newbies just dipping your toes in 👋 Quick share to celebrate a tiny-but-mighty win... I put my **Brave Britches** on this week and picked up the actual phone 📞 (yes, the scary one) to ring the manager of my local Community House about running mosaic workshops there. The kind of dream that's been quietly living in my "one day when I'm braver" pile for *years*, while my ADHD brain helpfully offered 47 reasons not to. Coffee meeting locked in for next week. 🎉 Now here's the bit I want to share with you... This isn't a launch. It's not a grand opening. It's just a market test. A bite-sized first nibble of something my Week 5 Ikigai work helped me see is part of *why I'm here*: turning discarded pieces into something beautiful, with people, for community. The big dream? A mosaic legacy. The actual action this week? One phone call. One coffee. That's the whole game, isn't it? We don't get to the dream by *doing* the dream. We get there by doing the next 10-minute thing that scares us just a wee bit. So, my lovely lot: **what's your Brave Britches phone call this week?** The thing that's been sitting in your "one day" pile, quietly waiting? Pop it in the comments. I'll cheer you on. 💪🎨 Debz x

I was not surprised by my report. I loved it, yes. There were sentences formulated in a way I couldn't, which makes a good start for further self-inquiry. What I loved most was taking my questions to the chat-AI afterwards. I got concrete, doable steps to work on my "stop blocks". I am excited about what could come from implementing them. What means the most is the recognition of how my brain works. I never knew that there were others operating in the same way. This- this makes me cry. 🧡🧡

I'm asking because I have no clue to how I found my way to here. 🫣😅 Suddenly I was answering questions from an ai while hanging out on my couch. And then there was 'Skool' that I knew about from a 'movement and mobility' program. 🫠 Maybe I can find a clue through your path to ADHD HARMONY. 🤗 And also I'm curious to know your way because it actually happens to me a lot this, 'how did I actually end up here? 🤔'. 😁

...Which hits a bit harder than it used to now that I've been learning that I feel behind in my own life. Also, I don't like feeling exposed or sharing but I figured I'd challenge myself to be brave and at least share the snippets my assessment provided me as I answered each of the five sets of three questions: "1) Just started the ADHD Awakening Assessment and already realized something wild: my "I can't get started" problem isn't about laziness. It's that I learned somewhere that if I'm not already great at something, I shouldn't be doing it at all. Even things I love. That voice has been running the show for years and I never named it until now. 2) Section 2 of the Awakening Assessment just showed me that the four roles I play (perfectionist, people pleaser, control freak, and the invisible one) aren't my personality. They're guards I built to protect a creative kid who loved to sing, write poems, and live inside her imagination. Turns out my "authentic self" isn't someone I need to become. She's someone I already was. 3) Just realized the voice in my head telling me I'm "just lazy" isn't even mine - it's an inherited script. And the kicker? I already have evidence against it. I cook meals for my future self. I record myself singing and it sounds good. Turns out the story I've been believing doesn't match the receipts. 4) The mirror principle just clicked. My overflowing inbox isn't a productivity issue - it's the exact same futility I feel about my emotions, my music, my whole life. More keeps coming in than I can process. Turns out the question underneath all of it is the same one: will I ever catch up to my own life? 5) Just completed all 5 sections of the Awakening Assessment, and I realized my "ideal day" wasn't really about performing - it was about finally being told I was "good enough to be there." Turns out I've been measuring my impact by whether other people take my advice, instead of by what I actually offered. Wild what 15 questions can surface"