Unpacking why the conventional idea of meditation — stillness, silence, grounding, and bodily calm — can feel inaccessible or even dysregulating for neurodivergent people, especially those with ADHD, autism, PTSD, trauma histories, or chronic nervous system activation. Through personal stories, somatic processing, movement, EMDR parallels, and energetic metaphors, she argues that intuition is often accessed through motion, sensory engagement, physical exertion, rhythm, and bodily safety rather than forced stillness.
The piece critiques “gentrified spirituality” and reframes intuition as deeply individualized. For some people, intuition arrives while hiking, lifting weights, writing, sitting in water, bouncing on a trampoline, or physically grounding through sensation. The essay ultimately gives readers permission to stop forcing spiritual practices that feel unnatural and instead trust the ways their own nervous systems naturally connect to insight, emotion, and inner knowing.