Hellooooo,

I just watched a WheezyWaiter video with the advice to ‘close open loops’. And I’ve been needing to tell you about the essay I posted over on Substack about: autistic burnout, controlled burns as wildfire management, and getting into better relationship with land and body by allowing in more of what we fear instead of suppression and avoidance.

Since its release, I have heard directly from several people that the piece was really impactful. As with so much of my work: I’m sorry that it resonated, and I’m grateful that it resonated. I am sorry that you had to go thru that, but I’m so glad that this might help you feel less alone in all of it.

This essay took me over a year to write, and it wasn’t until I read the right romance novel that everything clicked into place. 🫢

And then the December writing got even more delayed because construction here at my place disrupted my nervous system and affected my schedule, so that I ended up posting this on December 23rd right before the holidays, when everything gets a bit more lost in people’s inboxes.

And now I’m writing this to you today from the tail end of an autism recovery day…which I need better names and words for. I’ve written about ‘no-nothing days’ before on Substack as well.

But done is better than perfect, I want to close this open loop, and this is good enough to send!

Cheers,
Christina

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