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Healing • Boundaries • Becoming
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🎧 Tiána Lynn host
Healing • Boundaries • Becoming
Here for cousins, clarity, and real ones only.
Black woman. Many tabs open. Read my thoughts ↓
https://tianalynnhasthoughts.substack.com
www.wholisticvibeswellness.com
3pm and my brain is doing that thing where it won't shut up but also won't focus on anything real. just spinning. my body wants to move but also wants to sleep. this is torture
September 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
3pm and my brain is doing that thing where it won't shut up but also won't focus on anything real. just spinning. my body wants to move but also wants to sleep. this is torture
been awake since 4am for no reason my brain could explain and now im pretending to work while actually just staring at my coffee getting cold
September 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
been awake since 4am for no reason my brain could explain and now im pretending to work while actually just staring at my coffee getting cold
why did i just spend 45 minutes researching the history of venetian glassmaking when i have literally three things due today. my brain is so unserious
September 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
why did i just spend 45 minutes researching the history of venetian glassmaking when i have literally three things due today. my brain is so unserious
I stopped performing comfort in rooms that were structurally unsafe and people called it attitude. Nah. That was discernment. My nervous system read the blueprint before my mouth could.
September 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I stopped performing comfort in rooms that were structurally unsafe and people called it attitude. Nah. That was discernment. My nervous system read the blueprint before my mouth could.
Accessibility isn't generosity. It's the bare minimum of a system that claims to include you.
September 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Accessibility isn't generosity. It's the bare minimum of a system that claims to include you.
why is my brain already running three timelines at once and i haven't even had coffee yet. also my shirt is inside out and i didn't notice til i was already dressed. it's gonna be one of those days
September 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
why is my brain already running three timelines at once and i haven't even had coffee yet. also my shirt is inside out and i didn't notice til i was already dressed. it's gonna be one of those days
why does my body always know it's 6am even when i'm trying to sleep in. like my nervous system has a whole alarm clock i didn't consent to
September 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
why does my body always know it's 6am even when i'm trying to sleep in. like my nervous system has a whole alarm clock i didn't consent to
What's harder for you?
○ Starting the thing
○ Finishing the thing
○ Resting without guilt
○ Not starting 6 more things
I already know the neurodivergent delegation is about to ruin this poll. 😂
○ Starting the thing
○ Finishing the thing
○ Resting without guilt
○ Not starting 6 more things
I already know the neurodivergent delegation is about to ruin this poll. 😂
September 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
What's harder for you?
○ Starting the thing
○ Finishing the thing
○ Resting without guilt
○ Not starting 6 more things
I already know the neurodivergent delegation is about to ruin this poll. 😂
○ Starting the thing
○ Finishing the thing
○ Resting without guilt
○ Not starting 6 more things
I already know the neurodivergent delegation is about to ruin this poll. 😂
Which version of you needs the most attention right now?
○ The ambitious me
○ The exhausted me
○ The creative me
○ The healing me
And the comments are for those of us thinking:
“Unfortunately, all four.”
○ The ambitious me
○ The exhausted me
○ The creative me
○ The healing me
And the comments are for those of us thinking:
“Unfortunately, all four.”
September 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Which version of you needs the most attention right now?
○ The ambitious me
○ The exhausted me
○ The creative me
○ The healing me
And the comments are for those of us thinking:
“Unfortunately, all four.”
○ The ambitious me
○ The exhausted me
○ The creative me
○ The healing me
And the comments are for those of us thinking:
“Unfortunately, all four.”
It's always “go to sleep.”
Never:
“Tell me about the business idea you just invented at 2:43 AM that apparently requires an entirely new infrastructure.”
No one supports visionaries anymore.
😂
Never:
“Tell me about the business idea you just invented at 2:43 AM that apparently requires an entirely new infrastructure.”
No one supports visionaries anymore.
😂
September 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
It's always “go to sleep.”
Never:
“Tell me about the business idea you just invented at 2:43 AM that apparently requires an entirely new infrastructure.”
No one supports visionaries anymore.
😂
Never:
“Tell me about the business idea you just invented at 2:43 AM that apparently requires an entirely new infrastructure.”
No one supports visionaries anymore.
😂
If you like conversations about:
Blackness without respectability politics,
neurodivergence without pretending it's always a superpower,
softness without pretending life is always soft,
Blackness without respectability politics,
neurodivergence without pretending it's always a superpower,
softness without pretending life is always soft,
September 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
If you like conversations about:
Blackness without respectability politics,
neurodivergence without pretending it's always a superpower,
softness without pretending life is always soft,
Blackness without respectability politics,
neurodivergence without pretending it's always a superpower,
softness without pretending life is always soft,
I don't want to be the strongest person in every room anymore.
Sometimes I would like to be the person who brought snacks.
Thank you.
Sometimes I would like to be the person who brought snacks.
Thank you.
September 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I don't want to be the strongest person in every room anymore.
Sometimes I would like to be the person who brought snacks.
Thank you.
Sometimes I would like to be the person who brought snacks.
Thank you.
Today's reminder:
You are allowed to outgrow a version of yourself you once prayed to become.
Gratitude doesn't require stagnation.
You are allowed to outgrow a version of yourself you once prayed to become.
Gratitude doesn't require stagnation.
September 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Today's reminder:
You are allowed to outgrow a version of yourself you once prayed to become.
Gratitude doesn't require stagnation.
You are allowed to outgrow a version of yourself you once prayed to become.
Gratitude doesn't require stagnation.
I think some ideas arrive before we're ready to make them.
That doesn't mean they're bad ideas.
Sometimes your job is just to write them down and become the person who can eventually execute them.
Not every idea needs to become a project by Friday.
I'm talking to myself too.
That doesn't mean they're bad ideas.
Sometimes your job is just to write them down and become the person who can eventually execute them.
Not every idea needs to become a project by Friday.
I'm talking to myself too.
September 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I think some ideas arrive before we're ready to make them.
That doesn't mean they're bad ideas.
Sometimes your job is just to write them down and become the person who can eventually execute them.
Not every idea needs to become a project by Friday.
I'm talking to myself too.
That doesn't mean they're bad ideas.
Sometimes your job is just to write them down and become the person who can eventually execute them.
Not every idea needs to become a project by Friday.
I'm talking to myself too.
Take away your:
job title
degrees
business
relationship status
productivity
money
and everything you do for other people.
Now finish this:
“I like myself because ______.”
That's the question.
job title
degrees
business
relationship status
productivity
money
and everything you do for other people.
Now finish this:
“I like myself because ______.”
That's the question.
September 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Take away your:
job title
degrees
business
relationship status
productivity
money
and everything you do for other people.
Now finish this:
“I like myself because ______.”
That's the question.
job title
degrees
business
relationship status
productivity
money
and everything you do for other people.
Now finish this:
“I like myself because ______.”
That's the question.
Songs are funny because at 19 you're singing the lyrics.
At 30-something you're sitting there like:
Oh.
OH.
So THAT'S what she meant.
😭
Some songs don't change.
We do.
At 30-something you're sitting there like:
Oh.
OH.
So THAT'S what she meant.
😭
Some songs don't change.
We do.
September 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Songs are funny because at 19 you're singing the lyrics.
At 30-something you're sitting there like:
Oh.
OH.
So THAT'S what she meant.
😭
Some songs don't change.
We do.
At 30-something you're sitting there like:
Oh.
OH.
So THAT'S what she meant.
😭
Some songs don't change.
We do.
Name a song that made you understand something about yourself years after you first heard it.
Not your favorite song.
A song you grew into.
I'm building my listening list. 🎧
Not your favorite song.
A song you grew into.
I'm building my listening list. 🎧
September 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Name a song that made you understand something about yourself years after you first heard it.
Not your favorite song.
A song you grew into.
I'm building my listening list. 🎧
Not your favorite song.
A song you grew into.
I'm building my listening list. 🎧
Being “easy to work with” is not the highest professional achievement available to a woman.
Sometimes being good at your job means asking the uncomfortable question.
Sometimes leadership looks like:
“Why are we doing it this way?”
Sometimes being good at your job means asking the uncomfortable question.
Sometimes leadership looks like:
“Why are we doing it this way?”
September 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Being “easy to work with” is not the highest professional achievement available to a woman.
Sometimes being good at your job means asking the uncomfortable question.
Sometimes leadership looks like:
“Why are we doing it this way?”
Sometimes being good at your job means asking the uncomfortable question.
Sometimes leadership looks like:
“Why are we doing it this way?”
Workplace culture isn't what leadership says during orientation.
It's what happens after someone says:
“I don't feel safe speaking up.”
What happens next tells me considerably more about the culture than the values printed on the wall.
It's what happens after someone says:
“I don't feel safe speaking up.”
What happens next tells me considerably more about the culture than the values printed on the wall.
September 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Workplace culture isn't what leadership says during orientation.
It's what happens after someone says:
“I don't feel safe speaking up.”
What happens next tells me considerably more about the culture than the values printed on the wall.
It's what happens after someone says:
“I don't feel safe speaking up.”
What happens next tells me considerably more about the culture than the values printed on the wall.
Sometimes I ask for a sign.
Then I get one.
Then I ask:
“Okay…but was THAT the sign?”
Then another one comes.
And I'm like:
“Interesting. I'm going to need additional documentation.”
😭
Apparently intuition has to survive my internal peer-review process.
Then I get one.
Then I ask:
“Okay…but was THAT the sign?”
Then another one comes.
And I'm like:
“Interesting. I'm going to need additional documentation.”
😭
Apparently intuition has to survive my internal peer-review process.
September 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Sometimes I ask for a sign.
Then I get one.
Then I ask:
“Okay…but was THAT the sign?”
Then another one comes.
And I'm like:
“Interesting. I'm going to need additional documentation.”
😭
Apparently intuition has to survive my internal peer-review process.
Then I get one.
Then I ask:
“Okay…but was THAT the sign?”
Then another one comes.
And I'm like:
“Interesting. I'm going to need additional documentation.”
😭
Apparently intuition has to survive my internal peer-review process.
Finish this sentence:
The version of me I'm becoming no longer ________.
Don't overthink it.
Actually…
Considering who follows me, you probably will.
😂
Answer anyway.
The version of me I'm becoming no longer ________.
Don't overthink it.
Actually…
Considering who follows me, you probably will.
😂
Answer anyway.
September 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Finish this sentence:
The version of me I'm becoming no longer ________.
Don't overthink it.
Actually…
Considering who follows me, you probably will.
😂
Answer anyway.
The version of me I'm becoming no longer ________.
Don't overthink it.
Actually…
Considering who follows me, you probably will.
😂
Answer anyway.
I'm learning that a soft life isn't necessarily a life where nothing difficult happens.
Maybe it's a life where I stop making everything harder than it has to be.
Less proving.
Less explaining.
Less abandoning myself to keep other people comfortable.
Maybe it's a life where I stop making everything harder than it has to be.
Less proving.
Less explaining.
Less abandoning myself to keep other people comfortable.
September 18, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I'm learning that a soft life isn't necessarily a life where nothing difficult happens.
Maybe it's a life where I stop making everything harder than it has to be.
Less proving.
Less explaining.
Less abandoning myself to keep other people comfortable.
Maybe it's a life where I stop making everything harder than it has to be.
Less proving.
Less explaining.
Less abandoning myself to keep other people comfortable.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Me after learning one new thing:
Okay but how could I turn this into a program, business, essay, training, podcast episode AND organizational framework?
😭
Entrepreneurship + ADHD is a dangerous combination.
Absolutely nobody:
Me after learning one new thing:
Okay but how could I turn this into a program, business, essay, training, podcast episode AND organizational framework?
😭
Entrepreneurship + ADHD is a dangerous combination.
September 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Me after learning one new thing:
Okay but how could I turn this into a program, business, essay, training, podcast episode AND organizational framework?
😭
Entrepreneurship + ADHD is a dangerous combination.
Absolutely nobody:
Me after learning one new thing:
Okay but how could I turn this into a program, business, essay, training, podcast episode AND organizational framework?
😭
Entrepreneurship + ADHD is a dangerous combination.
Maybe procrastination isn't always:
“I don't want to do this.”
Sometimes it's:
“I don't know where to start.”
“This feels bigger than I expected.”
“I don't want to do this.”
Sometimes it's:
“I don't know where to start.”
“This feels bigger than I expected.”
September 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Maybe procrastination isn't always:
“I don't want to do this.”
Sometimes it's:
“I don't know where to start.”
“This feels bigger than I expected.”
“I don't want to do this.”
Sometimes it's:
“I don't know where to start.”
“This feels bigger than I expected.”
What's something you stopped explaining once you got older?
Mine: why I need alone time.
Your turn.
Mine: why I need alone time.
Your turn.
September 18, 2026 at 11:02 AM
What's something you stopped explaining once you got older?
Mine: why I need alone time.
Your turn.
Mine: why I need alone time.
Your turn.