HeyJaredJourney to Wellness
Coming Home to Yourself Reflections on living with persistent health challenges, neurodivergence and a changing capacity—and on embodiment, the nervous system and befriending yourself as you are. Written by Helen Machen-Pearce helenmachenpearce.com
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The Organisation and Capacity Framework (opens the original)
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One day you manage the task, the thing: a journey, a family visit, an appointment or a day at work. You might manage it really well. The next day, you cannot even answer a text or make a call. Even getting dressed is too much.You might, or someone around you might, interpret this as inconsistency, laziness or failure, without recognising what the previous day required of you – or the recovery it now demands.I have talked about nervous system state for many years, but experiences like this have m
Meeting the Capacity You Have Today (opens the original)
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Capacity is often judged by looking at what you managed yesterday, last week or last month.If you coped with a long journey, a difficult meeting or a social event then, it can be hard to understand why something that seems much smaller feels impossible now. You may wonder what has gone wrong, whether you have lost progress, or why you cannot just do what you did before.But what you can manage in one moment affects what remains available afterwards. Sometimes you are able to do something demandin
I Teach Interoception. I Am Still Learning Too. (opens the original)
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Living with persistent health challenges has taught me that body awareness isn’t always as straightforward as we’d like to believe.As many of you know, I spend a lot of time talking about interoception. It’s a slightly technical word that simply means your ability to notice what’s happening inside your body - hunger, thirst, tension, your heartbeat, fatigue, pain, the need to rest, the need to move. I teach it because I genuinely believe it’s one of the foundations of living well, particularly i
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