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Musings on photography, mental health and mountain life.
Chasing Quiet: ADHD, Burnout, and the Search for Stillness
Chronic stress turns the volume up on everything: sound, smell, emotion, guilt. ADHD explains the speed; burnout explains the empty tank. Together they can feel like two hands on the same lever. Some days I can lower it. Some days I can’t.
Meeting Myself: When the Horse Bucks
Tears rolled down my cheeks as I drove to meet a friend for lunch. The boy I had met was a memory I had of me aged 19. For the first time since I was this boy, I had somehow been able to find the mental space and distance to understand what he was struggling with.
Introspection
As you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life you could save…