🌱 This is hallowed ground where I am gently alchemizing motherhood (reshaped by neurodivergence and special needs) into a joyful life I STILL love to live. Be nourished by the stories, strength, & soul-work along this grounded venture of life design BEYOND caregiving...
This space is very intentionally kept:
🌱 Cozy, not loud
🌱 Reflective, not reactive
🌱 Slow, not optimized
🌱 Grounded in real life…
And you're free to arrive just as you are and stay as long as it feels good.
You don't need to “follow” anything here... Read and experience. Bookmark a reflection. Subscribe if you'd like letters in your inbox. Come back when life feels a little too loud.
HELLO & WARMEST WELCOME TO YOU
I'm Cheniece Patrick...
Enter my digital living room (instead of just another stage). Here is my personal soft landing space and easeful online home for ideas… This outlet of mine is reserved for reflection, self-return, and personal growth… especially when life feels heavy or uncertain.
You see, I share about: reclaiming your identity and purpose beyond the role of “Mom“, being a caregiver to my two (very, very pretty) autistic and special needs young children, keeping up with a life-giving creative practice, a little nervous-system care, and just what it means to remain softly human amidst the mess and beauty of this real life..
🌱 Please explore my mindful essays, grounding rituals, honest reflections, and open letters to other women who are ALSO quietly becoming themselves again… This is me connecting with myself beyond the diagnosis letters and therapy schedules, even in this deepest season of motherhood.
A GROUNDED VENTURE OF LIFE DESIGN
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Featured Entries
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When the Fireworks Are Loud and the Serotonin Is Gone
Landing Place Here on the eve of the New Year, I’m seated at my workstation with quiet dedication, scanning my whole body over for any and all bleak little pulses of serotonin…
READER APPRECIATION
I loved your letter!..
“I LOVED your letter, and I am with you in the “Isolated Mom Club”… The masking to get through a conversation at the park, or grocery store, or large gathering is exhausting, and you put to words the mental load so eloquently. I appreciate you!…”
1. Biweekly~ish letters full of reflection & self-return
My writing practice saved me… It's all documented here in my own voice, unedited by trends, timelines, or algorithms.
You'll find odds and ends about motherhood and neurodivergent caregiving (without romanticizing the burnout), identity loss and self-reclamation, grief and love coexisting in the same breath, and small grounding practices that make your life feel inhabitable again… Some posts are short. Some are slow. ALL of them are honest.
2. A gentle tool for starting to live again & not disappear
Through the honest reflections and intimate stories on my microcast, I create a space for moms navigating autism and special needs to remember who they are beyond the endless appointments, advocacy, and caregiving… Episodes explore self-discovery, personal growth, and what it means to design a life that honors both your motherhood AND your humanity.
