I’ve been leaning into vulnerability and working on accepting all of the parts of myself.

Between growing up with social media, having so many expectations or ideas of how to present yourself and making it my career, I have severely severed and hid parts of myself away.

I live with mental illness that greatly impacts my daily life.

Bipolar is so often misdiagnosed, especially in women. I think I actually have complex post traumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD) and an autism spectrum disorder.

I think this context is really important.

While my trauma is mostly childhood, working in social media has been traumatic.

I was in the early wave of social media professionals and the inability to set boundaries, being gaslit by everyone from followers to administration, lack of control I am traumatized from this work.

Now I am investing all of my time in unf*cking my brain.

I am flighty. I am reactionary. I cry at seemingly nothing. All because I am full of pain from all the things I can’t control. Especially that work in social media.

I am finally able to make space to love the so fresh college grad thrown into these very scary waters.

I am so glad more people are recognizing there is a very serious need for support here.

There is space for everyone on social media, but it is not a space for everyone.

All of this to say, be patient with me.

I love doing inclusion work because I have a very fierce defender personality. I know how it feels not to be seen or heard. I know how important having that space is.

This space has been my professional facade for celebrating and offering advice, but I need support now. I need community now.