When Your Survival Tactic Threatens Your Survival

“People see all I’ve done and assume that I am struggling because I’m just not trying hard enough. And the reality is that I’m drowning, asking for help, and not receiving it. I’m waving from the center of the ocean and everyone’s on the shore waving back, not realizing I am out here fighting for my life.”

When Progress is Hard

In this post I share about some challenges I deal with, that maybe you or someone you know can relate to. At the end, I will offer a tool that I created to help myself and people like me to work through those challenges and have more successful days. Worth reading. Proud of myself. AfterContinue reading “When Progress is Hard”

I Did It!

Image of Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist’s new stylish purple journal on a wooden desk with matcha and plants. Title on journal is “What’s Your V.I.B.E. A daily journal to help you focus and process your day” Author’s name Marlene Dillon below. Then a quote ““Living with executive dysfunction
is hard AF. So I’m sharing my tools
and celebrating my wins.”
“Living with executive dysfunction
is hard AF. So I’m sharing my tools and celebrating my wins.”
— Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist
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New Level Unlocked: Self-Acceptance – Releasing Shame for Who & How I Am

When you come to a place in your life that you realize that the things that you did and the things that you didn’t do, the things you forgot and the things that you couldn’t stop remembering, that all of it was related to a processing challenge rather than because you just didn’t give a…