Episode 41: Resolution, SSASS!

 

Retrospective SSASS-Y Start 😅

• A fateful chance to fill in some ironic gaps, linking my intention (explained below 👇) to my god-given spices 😇
• The irony of my intentional resolve to NOT CHANGE A DAMN THING about myself 🙏

Intentional SSASS 😎

• My steadfast Knowing that IRONY is the language of the Universe 💫🐇
• My 2026 Intention: Sustain Self-Acceptance, Sera Summer (SSASS)! 😎💖
• Self-Acceptance, for me, is no longer optional... a realisation after I finally got an accurate taste of what it feels like 🤤🤯
• Pause, observe, go gently... This is going to take practice! 😅
• I trust this will bring me closer to the joy of being my authentic Self... regardless of whether or not it's due to innate neurodivergence or traumatic events that would benefit from healing 

Episode 40: A Typically Atypical Christmas Gift

 

What are Our Ideal, Self-Bestowed, Christmas Gifts? 💝

• My spectral forms of the Christmas essentials: Food, Family & Fun! 🍖🎄🎉
• The ultimate gift for me: Understanding, Acceptance & a Celebration of My 'Tism... Finally Belonging! 🙏💖🐇
• The difference between my INNATE 'Tism versus the other fear-based & situational labels I've been handed, but have also healed (WIP!... Always a WIP😅😇)

A typically atypical Christmas conversation with my Sister... with no mention or acknowledgement of the holiday (the proof is in the pudding) 💖😂🤔

Yup, this pretty much sums it up... Merry Christmas! 😂😇🙏🎁🐇

And this was after everything I'd already recorded! 😅
More objective evidence that puts the puzzle comfortably & credibly in place! 💡

Summer's Summary: Pause for the Cause

 

Link to Original Article: Pause for the Cause

Part 1: Main Points

[Genuine note of apology for the poor video quality 🤦]

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Basics... Think-Feel-Do... With narratives, conditioned, false and/or limiting beliefs woven in between 💩
• The brain's bias towards action is actually RE-ACTION, insanity 😅
• Examples of fleeting shifts into PRO-ACTION using the PAUSE... Never easy, but always worth it! 💯

Part 2: Reflections on Reflecting

• An effortful pause for the 'cause' (of preserving my sanity), now a much-loved daily reflection practice (through healthy discipline) 🙏
• How rubbish in our brains drive behaviours... seemingly against our will; sensed as 'not ourselves' / out of control feelings 👿
• The power & JOY of self acceptance, how easy it becomes by surrounding ourselves with the right people 💝
• The many forms of PAUSING, the repercussions of failing to create that space (for me/from my perspective)👌

Part 3: What Pausing Looks Like Now

• Coming to understand the current form of impulse control required, and how I use a PAUSE to achieve it (sometimes) 🙊
• Using a PAUSE to understand & prevent forms of unhealthy distress avoidance, reassurance seeking and 'checking' 🙉
• Ethical maturity literally requires building self awareness of inner narratives, bias & assumptions, all of which require a PAUSE to see these blind spots 🙈
• PAUSING is difficult because it requires overriding our natural evolution! Our prefrontal cortex and ability to prevent insanity gets easier with practice, keep at it! 🌈

Episode 39: Wellness Wealth

 

Part 1: Wise Energy Investment

• How do we spend our most precious human resource, our energy? Focus on the quick wins versus making wise investments into our long-term wellness 🤔
• Our different energies, spices, and how we might recognise them and also spend them differently 💸
• Key Components 🔑
• Impulse control, Pausing, and SLOWING DOWN are essentials 🚦
• The ultimate Marshmallow Test! 🍭
• Forgoing dopamine and/or endorphine hits takes patience and acceptance 🙏
• Just a few of my own vulnerabilities and how I notice ways in which I utterly waste various energies 🐃💩😅

Part 2: God, Grant Me the Serenity to Cut the Shit

• My own awareness adventure started many years ago with the Serenity Prayer, to this day it boils down to self-acceptance 😇💖
• Nuances between leaning into things that will take effort because it will pay off in the long run, and saying F*&$!-it without wasting energy needlessly... Spoiler alert, there are no black & white rules! 💪🤷
• The benefit of allowing my definitions of 'healthy discipline' to shift and suit my current wellness needs... as well as some more 'typical' examples that may resonate with the broader audience 😅😎

Part 3: Overcoming Default Settings

• It's all about adding to our wellness wealth by making wise energy investments and becoming aware of areas we're prone to be a bit wasteful with our energies 🤑
• Being a Human is hard and some of our thoughts & emotions are rubbish! 🦄
• Regret (particularly upon reflection) as an apt wellness wealth energy investment check! ✅
• If & when our default settings leave us broke, unwell in some way, or feeling the 'naughty stick's' epic sting, it's time to build some awareness, and practice making wiser investments 🧘

Summer's Summary: Healing for Humanity

 

Link to Original Article: Healing for Humanity

Part 1: Main Points

• How and why healing shifts over time, but the take-home message remains the same... We all have a right to heal 💝
• It ain't for the faint of heart! Nor can our brains' distinguish between real & perceived trauma 😲
• Essential healing ingredients; becoming aware of blind spots, integrating our spices & listening to our narratives 🙈🙉🙊
• Indulge in the IRONY and lean into the Shadows (link to historical meaning, new meaning in Part 3) 🤯

Part 2: Reflections

• A Velvet Sledgehammer approach to healing, radical self responsibility & ownership as the purest forms of self esteem 😇
• Brains suppress trauma & distressing emotions to protect itself, without working to uncover these... shit can go magnificently pear-shaped 💩😅 
• Understanding what healing IS NOT in these days of motivational, post-modern, flowery BULLSHIT! 🙏
• An admitted bias against Therapists & tendency to prefer Mirrors 🫡
• There's nothing more natural than getting Pissed! 😠😂

Part 3: What Healing is For Me Now

• The pitiful history, for context, and finally confronting healing that's been 3 years in the making 🙏💖
• An apt analogy for healing... Bringing that deep infection to the surface for some Sun! ⛅
• My new definition of healing (below), and loving ourselves enough to put ourselves back together 💔🍳
• My realisation about reving up to Mach-5, why I had to leave my slow paced home & creating a shadow that I then ran away from 🤔🤯