A self-inventory cataloging the many sources of stress — from genuine hardship to fear, an overloaded task list, unmet needs, conditioning, and self-sabotage — and asking what one needs to BE (present, flowing, breathing, thankful) to release stress that isn’t necessary.
A teaching essay arguing that expectation, of ourselves and others, is a device for validating a constructed sense of self, and that recognizing there is no fixed self can free us from the stress of the whole cycle.
A practical, personal walkthrough of a belief-retraining process: identifying stressors, writing corrective perspectives for each, and distilling them into daily affirmations read for a month to replace limiting beliefs with healthier mindsets and behaviors.
An art piece created to depict the artist’s own mind, its pockets of order and intellectual curiosity threatened by, or perhaps threatening, a tidal wave of obsessive distraction, capturing the felt experience of an autistic inner world.