How Inner work is helping me managing my Neuro-D Struggles

Being born neurodivergent—living with ADHD and Autism—meant navigating a world that often felt like it wasn’t built for me. For years, the hardest part wasn’t the symptoms themselves, but learning to love and accept myself in a society shaped for neurotypicals.

What I didn’t realise at the time was that self-love and inner work would become the most powerful tools in transforming my neurodivergent struggles into my true neurodivergent potential. Slowly and gradually, healing from within began to build a version of me that felt more confident, balanced, and at ease.

Like many, I once looked at holistic practices through a skeptical lens. We are conditioned to seek quick fixes—and I was no different. I wanted a cure for my procrastination, emotional triggers, brain fog, emotional eating, and other compulsive behaviours. I turned to medication, hoping it would solve what I couldn’t seem to manage. Medications help but from my own experience they are not enough in managing our intense levels of emotional sensitivity and fight-o-flight behaviours.

I want to be clear: I am not against medication or scientific research. In fact, I’m deeply grateful that the science exists to validate and acknowledge our internal struggles. Getting diagnosed officially around July 2024 helped me understand and accept my differences. But long before that, I was already seeking answers—seeing psychologists and therapist—only to find myself still feeling empty, numb, and burnt out.

In parallel, I had always been drawn to holistic practices. I had been meditating daily since October 2021. While it felt soothing, it wasn’t shifting much in my daily life. But everything changed on 9 December 2023, when I attended a powerful Breathwork event on the Gold Coast hosted by Dr. Espen Wold-Jenson. Hearing his personal journey resonated deeply. After I returned home from that event: I committed myself to daily Breathwork practice—not for results, but simply for Inner Peace. I had nothing left to try. After 42 years of masking, I was chronically burned out, emotionally depleted, and exhausted.

I kept showing up. Day after day, just 30–40 minutes of Breathwork helped me feel lighter, more grounded. Gradually, by March 2024, I noticed something remarkable: my chronic emotional eating—the addiction I’d battled since I was 14—began to lose its grip. I wasn’t immediately reaching for food upon waking. There was a new sense of inner control rising from within.

Food had long been my only source of joy. I had tried every diet, only to fall back into old patterns. In a strange way, my emotional dependence on food had even kept me away from other addictions like alcohol. Food used to give me that quick dopamine hit, and my mind constantly chased it. So when I started feeling free form that food addiction, it felt like liberation. It wasn’t perfect—especially around my menstrual cycle—but over time, the change was real and lasting. Now, over 18 months into daily Breathwork, even my toughest days are more manageable with healthy balanced eating.

This transformation inspired me to go deeper into understanding how trauma impacts our physiology, how neurodivergent brains often function in a constant stress state, and how energy imbalances, coping mechanisms, and emotional sensitivity are all interlinked. I learned about fight-or-flight of the nervous system, and the impact of emotional repression on our behaviours and patterns. I researched about Neuroscience, Quantum Physics as that has always been my special interest.

And throughout this journey, I have never stopped practicing.

I now feel more emotionally regulated, more organised, and more present. The inner hollowness that once consumed me is softer, quieter. Breathwork hasn’t “cured” me—it has empowered me. It’s helped me meet myself with compassion and to manage my life with far more peace and clarity.

Through my blog, I’ll be sharing both the small shifts and big breakthroughs I continue to experience—from rewiring emotional responses to releasing long-held blocks. My intention is simple: to offer hope, insight, and inspiration to others who might feel the way I once did—lost, overwhelmed, and stuck.

This is just the beginning of what healing from within can look like for a neurodivergent Soul.