Finally! A Beginner's Guide to Meditation for ADHD/CPTSD/Seasoned Dissociaters!

Meditation that doesn't make you want to stab your eyeballs out with a fork!!!

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In Part 1, I talked about how fucking impossible meditation felt when I first started dipping my toe in the terrifying waters of breath and silence. So what helped me create + sustain a 20 year meditation practice as a highly intense, CPTSD, ADHD person:

1. First and foremost: you are allowed to meditate in any way that makes meditation work for you. What YOU want to get out of meditation doesn’t have to be what THEY SAY you *should* get out of meditation.

• What do you want out of meditation? In the past, I wanted to stop feeling terrible all the time. Now I feel pretty happy, but I still want to rewire traumatized/low self-worth parts of my brain + an overactive, highly anxious nervous system.

  • Some other things I’ve wanted to get out of meditation:

    • develop awareness of my thoughts and become an “observer” of my internal experience,

    • create a stronger connection between my body & brain,

    • manifest love and wealth into my life…lol.

• A constant desire through meditation (especially after becoming a parent) is also to become more present to the moment, because the only reality that exists is happening NOW. Playing with my daughter and really focusing on her breath, voice, smell, and smile is meditation. Going into her room at 11 pm to hold her because her stomach hurts or she woke up from a bad dream, and focusing on her face without my phone, is meditation. Making a meal and helping her eat it is meditation. Noticing the worries and stress of unfinished tasks pulling my attention away from her - and drawing my attention back - is meditation.

2. Trying to meditate but getting distracted all the time and finding it really hard” *is* meditation.

• The act of *trying* to meditate IS meditation.