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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    I already knew I was a highly sensitive person (HSP) but there was more.

    Her offering me to be a part of her neurodivergent community helped me see myself as not broken. I finally felt seen for the first time in my life. All my quirks I thought were my personality were more likely my neurodivergence. I no longer felt like an outsider. This was the greatest gift I had ever received. Knowing myself. Truly knowing myself.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    While I do not have an assessment, the more I learn about neurodivergence in high masking women, I realize that is likely me. My struggles are mostly internal.

    I didn’t even know I was masking my whole life until I learned what that meant. So I’m likely autistic.

    I asked my doctor yesterday about getting assessed for autism.

    Hoping I can access it as I’ve heard it can be quite expensive.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    I have spent my life feeling like I was wrong. Too sensitive. Not enough. But also too much. My needs did not matter. So I became the good girl. Always shapeshifting into what I thought others wanted me to be.

    I never once thought to ask myself what I wanted. I hated myself my whole life.

    It took a while to go from being my own worst enemy to becoming my own best friend. That’s where self-compassion came in.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    I’m grateful for the work of Kristin Neff in this area and so glad that I stumbled upon her books. Providing myself the same care and compassion I would provide a friend was a great way to continue my journey towards self-love.

    The last step before I finally started to love myself was acceptance. Radical self acceptance.

    Another storm had me in fight or flight on January 12, 2026.

    I was reborn that day.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    I discovered Maggie Sterling on TikTok and started listening to her podcast a few weeks earlier.

    Her podcast on January 12, 2026 saved my life that day. That’s not hyperbole. As I was shaking with what I thought was anxiety, I googled it and discovered I was in fight or flight so tried breathing exercises to recover but no amount of breathing exercises helped. What finally worked was splashing cold water on my face.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    I listened to Maggie Sterling’s podcast episode 22 “The Missing Step in Nervous System Work” that was released on the same day and I eventually came back to myself. Not just from that one fight or flight moment but I eventually felt like myself again.

    My literal thinking had me believing that I could not accept something I did not like. So I spent most of my life fighting against reality.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    Always bracing myself for the next terrible thing to happen.

    That podcast let me know that I did not have to like what was happening, but I needed to accept it. Because fighting against it was signaling danger to my nervous system.

    I stopped feeling like myself almost a decade ago and did not know why. I now know that when I lost a job in 2016 for the first time in my life that I ended up in survival mode.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    Coming back to myself brought such peace, calm, and so much energy.

    I missed myself. I remember looking at myself in the mirror and saying to myself: “There you are. I’ve missed you!”

    People began telling me I was radiant and that they wanted to be around my energy. My first therapy session after that day felt like I had graduated to the next level of life.

    Acceptance has improved my life in so many ways.

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  • S t a c i eStacieBee@mastodon.social
    Jul 11, 2026, 5:45 PM

    Acceptance lead me to accepting myself and eventually loving myself.

    I honestly felt like I was never going to get there. I’m beyond grateful to my past self for starting the journey. Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.

    self-compassion.org/

    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

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