If you can get to know your neurodiversity better, you can find more happiness in your life.
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When I work with clients, often their biggest goal is they would like to be happy. They would like to stop fighting with life. They would like to stop feeling so alone. They’re looking for a lot of things, and that’s perfect. That’s where coaching is incredible. Do you want to have true happiness in your life? Because, becoming friends with your neurodiversity is the fastest and easiest way to do that and I recently put together kind of a little poem quote item, and that is this:
It starts out with a quote from Abraham Lincoln, “I don’t like that man I must get to know him better.” –Abraham Lincoln
When we don’t like something or someone, our instinct is to distance ourselves from it. Look away, we move away. In the beginning we don’t often like our neurodiversity, so we and our family, and the people around us, well we try to ignore, suppress, or deny it. It is the most common and standard default reaction. We look away from it whenever we can, or try and deny it. We move away and mentally. We want to know how to have true happiness day-to-day in life. What you really need to do though, is to get to know your neurodiversity better. You must move closer to it and befriend it, because even though our instincts are telling us to run, to hide, to ignore, we must remember that we are contaminated by our culture, which misunderstands the role of pain, suffering, and the purpose of struggle. As we learn to accept the necessity of being a different thinker in this world, we will find the true and natural instinct to get to know our neurodiversity. It has been there deep inside of us all along and it is not going away. I don’t always like my neurodiversity. I must get to know it better.
I am JoyGenea Schumer. I am an international neurodiversity coach and I have spent years getting to know my neurodiversity better and everybody else’s too. Thank you, and I hope you get to enjoy and get to know your neurodiversity better because you will become healthier, happier, stronger, your confidence will come that to help others and yourself. Thank you.