How Neurodivergent Women Hold Multiple Selves at Once
For neurodivergent women navigating a late ADHD or autism diagnosis — often in the same season as perimenopause — the question "which self is actually me?" can feel urgent and exhausting. This essay explores the observer self as an adaptive response, a somatic capacity, and an ancient form of knowing, and offers a different way of holding the multiplicity that midlife tends to surface.
Process Over Product: What Neurodivergent Women Lose — and What Helps
When we can't make just to make, something essential goes quiet. This essay explores what neurodivergent women lose when process gets crowded out by productivity — and what it looks like to find your way back to creative aliveness.
I Asked AI to Help Me Understand a Relationship Issue and Here’s Where It Went All Wrong
A therapist's honest take on why AI can't replace real therapy — and what the mental health tech industry doesn't want you to know.
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Unmasking Your Neurodivergence in Midlife
How to Harness ADHD Hyperfocus for Creative Breakthrough
ADHD creativity runs on cycles of intensity. When something grabs your interest, your brain can hyperfocus for hours, producing work at a speed and depth that honestly seems superhuman. You're IN it. Time becomes irrelevant. You're channeling something.
When you're not in that state, even simple creative tasks feel like wading through wet cement in winter boots.
How to Function While Falling Apart: ADHD, perimenopause, and midlife
How Perimenopause Unmasks ADHD in Mid-Life Women
Learn the connection between perimenopause and ADHD symptoms and why you may want to get this check out!
Redefining Productivity for ADHD Women in Mid-Life
Feeling Alone in the Developmental Stage Nobody Told You About
Writing with ADHD: How a Weekly Writing Group will Cure Your Creative Paralysis
Why Process Art Is Perfect for Your ADHD Brain
Redefining Success as a Neurodivergent Parent
Navigating late-life ADHD diagnosis as a perimenopausal woman
How to Stop Fighting your ADHD and Start Loving your Creative Process
Interview with Diane Evans on KCHW’s live radio show called Artists on the Air where Maggie talks about her own creative history and practices.
How to Finish Creative Projects When You Hit the Messy Middle
how to finish creative projects when you’re in the messy middle of adhd and perimenopause
Help, I’m having a CREATIVITY EMERGENCY!
How to find 25 years of peace
How to Recover from Creative Burnout
Could you be resisting your own vulnerability?
the Golden Thread
Make art. Document your life.