Hello loves, happy 2026!
As I mentioned in the video, I DID film a techo kaigi for 2025, so once I’ve posted this I will watch it to see if much has changed! I suspect not, but what is new for this year is how my understanding of my neurodivergence is evolving.
I was diagnosed with ADHD (combined type) in 2022 and it was life-changing and validating in all the ways you’d imagine, and/but lately the more I read and watch about AuDHD the more certain I am this is also my brain.
I’m at the very beginning of understanding it all, so won’t be writing a huge post about it just yet, but it’s inevitably going to be woven into what I share here as I see how much it’s woven into my creative (and everyday) life!
I’d actually love to do more personal sharing here on Substack again and I’m trying to work out how to bring together our Club and also my other space, The Unraveled Heart. Having two separate Substacks made sense initially but as I shared in the video, the two halves of me are constantly tussling and my autistic side wants the order and clarity of a single space, while my ADHD gremlin is like, maybe we make a hybrid third Substack?!
I’m not going to do that.
Or am I? 😂
“It’s like wrangling a classroom of toddlers that live inside me”
Whatever happens, I hope you guys will come along for the ride. Once the lingering end of year exhaustion clears (I didn’t mention the herniated disc I had all December - how could I have forgotten that?!) I hope to start the interview series I’ve been hinting at forever…. so much I want to do!
Loves, I hope your new year has started gently. It’s messy out there but I will continue to broadcast creative joy as much as I can ❤️
From my tender heart to yours
Susannah xx
Timestamps
00:00 Last year’s journal
01:35 New journal set up
02:31 Neurodivergent realisations (woven throughout entire video :-)
04:36 The non-planning compromise
09:03 Mini calendar cuties
17:12 What’s in my pencil case?
20:29 On-the-go sticker book
21:39 Notebooks for work
22:58 Repurposing planners!
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