Trust and find safety in myself

[Miffysmum]

I’ve been advised to go within and seek to find the answers and safety within me. I often seek to look through an Eastern lens highlighting the connection between mind, body, spirit. How then can I increase my confident self image/view of my achievements when my ‘narrative’ destroys and minimises any small success by the barrage of perceived failures that have occurred- daily. My brain analyses so much information sensory, emotionally and intellectually (ASD & ADHD) that my expectations for myself are unachievable and miscommunication with others runs rife.  Being an authentic self in a bubble out in nature seem the only option for me besides fatal suicide. Too many years in the space and too many continuous failures vs success

[Ru-bee]

Hi @Miffysmum and welcome to the forums. 

Thank you for sharing such an insight into what you're going through, I can hear the turmoil that this inner narrative is causing. Trying to constantly live up to unachievable expectations of ourselves can be exhausting.

I'm so sorry to hear that you don't feel able to be your authentic self unless it's separate from society. To me that highlights a failing of society, rather than of you.

I hope that this can be a space where you are able to feel safe to be your authentic self.

How can we best support you here to make that possible for you?