Letting the Light In. Yolanda Brooks

19/06/2026

Did you know that some of us just weren’t designed to do one thing?

😃ADHD / trauma hyper-vigilance means we’ve been trained our whole lives to scan for possible outcomes. This means we literally see multiple paths stretched out in front of us, and can assess in quick-time.

But it also means we have anxiety and freeze if we’re not aware of what’s happening and how to handle it.

🥸As a manifesting generator, also called the Time Bender, my design type means I generate and initiate fast. I can see multiple solutions and get there in my imagination before I’ve taken a step.

I also have the emotional authority, which can mean I have rollercoaster feelings and can make mistakes when I’m over-excited or feeling flat.

🤩 notice how they’re in parallel?

😌And what’s true is that knowing how I function, and why, means I know how to manage my own energy whilst I’m on that rollercoaster.

🙋🏻‍♀️ How does it feel to know that maybe you’re like me and this is how you’re SUPPOSED to be? And that you can harness your skills without letting them overwhelm you?

24th 7pm join me. Link in comments.

17/06/2026

17/06/2026

Sunday’s plans with my boys were spectacularly interrupted by another impromptu episode of Dexter at my elderly neighbour’s. No makers fair, no eco house nosy with the Boy as planned.

D is my neighbour. He’s also my landlord. And for years he was my client.

I can see the look of confusion on your faces. How can he be all those things? How does it work? Is it weird?

I met him 9 years ago, I became his gardener. We worked together in the garden a lot. We’re very similar. Hoarders, plant obsessed, have our own funny little ways. I recognised a kindred spirit, another person not quite oblivious of their ‘differences’.

It took years for him to relinquish control of the plants, but gradually he’s saw how much I loved his garden. He was a dab hand with a long-handled axe until just a couple of years ago. And as he’s aged to 82, he’s given me permission to make the decisions.

We’ve even fallen out a couple of times. But we understand each other.

In a way, he’s what I imagine it must be like to have a dad at this stage in life.

When his tenants left 6 years ago, he offered us the house, next door to his own home.

So he became our landlord, along with Chrissie, his wife. Chrissie knew I understood him, snd we shared good-natured eye rolls & sneaky rose-pruning plans behind his back.

And here, we were able to rebuild the hut and create a garden with beds, a pond and sheds.

It’s a place that has never felt more like home.

When Chrissie died, we had the honour, Bear and I, to help David ready and bury her. And yes, I do mean literally. I filled in the grave in their woodland burial site, one shovel at a time. It was the best funeral I’d ever been to.

As his neighbour, I have a key to his house, he has a key to ours. Which has become so blatantly important as he’s aged so much in the last two years.

Today, I’ve spent from 9 until now, 18:20 in A&E, both Bear & I having cleared up the aftermath of his emergency - the Dexter-alike scenes that have greeted up both yesterday and today. Old skin and veins can be so fragile.

It’s been tiring, long and hot here. But he needed me, and here we are.

I’ve had many unusual experiences in my middle-of-the-road life.

The identities I’ve had, the lives I’ve lived, the things I’ve felt, seen and done: they all make up this person who sees life as an adventure.

Precisely BECAUSE of these things.

Nothing earth-shattering. Just unusual and varied.

And I’ll continue to look for the unusual and the varied in my life. Because that’s now who I am - and it’s what I want.

Just like my relationship with D, interesting and convoluted , I am a person of interesting and convoluted aspirations.

My therapeutic work is my purpose in life: it’s what my soul came here for.
Creativity is essential for my mental wealth: beauty in ritual and expression.
Variety, however I find it, is important: small adventures, big dreams.

We all have parts of us we ignore, put aside, don’t credit enough for how they drive us.

The most important thing I want you to know, is that allowing all your parts to be players on your stage is how you make yourself whole

17/06/2026

I want to hear about your experience ms if you a multi-passionate who finds themselves pivoting, side-questing and feeling like niching is like losing an arm.

In developing a program that helps you identify HOW you can follow all their business passions without feeling scattered and deranged for wanting more!

If this sounds like you, you’re invited you to a think tank, one where you can share your stories of how niching is impossible because you have multiple passions.

There’s no cost, just sharing your struggles, and you’ll gain some interesting insight from the conversation.

28/05/2026

The more life you’ve had, the less storage space you have.
The days blend into one because your brain is clever - and bored.
Survival mode robs you of some memories you want.

All these things contribute to why time feels like it’s outta control! Why? And how can you change it?

Every few weeks I hear myself saying ‘How is it nearly (month) already? Where’s it gone?’.

At first I was confused, then I felt like I was missing something - a secret for keeping track of time that I’d never learned. Then I noticed I sounded like a broken record and got a bit sick of my own disbelief.

So I questioned the theories of why time speeds up as your life progresses. Theories I know about from my psychology studies back in the olden days, but which didn’t always explain it well enough, as far as I was concerned.

Now I get it.

If you want to reclaim some of that time back 👉 (link in bio)

28/05/2026

There are dozens of wellness advocates holding retreat days promising you nervous system regulation or calm, nurturing connection. Especially in this part of the world, it seems – we’re everywhere!

So what you really need to hear from me is why Love Your Inner Light, Get Your Outer Glow is different, and why it’s for you if you’re a bit yoga’d out and don’t want to be all serious and sacred about your inner calm.

It’s no good having a pretty, intention-based day if it only lasts while your there – or maybe as far as Sunday night if you’re lucky.

What you need is help for your Everyday.

The days when you can’t be bothered with it all, days when you’re stressed to the hilt, days when you’d just rather be where I want to be – lounging on a hammock under a palm tree, with the blue ocean twinkling at you.

Preferably with a pina colada or a mojito.

Read more in the comments.

They’re different descriptions of the day, so get a really clear idea by reading both.

*****
This was a lovely evening on the beach with friends after a long, busy day.

Downtime isn’t just a fun thing or a rest thing - it should be fun, restful, grounding, exciting - it’s essential to your wellbeing.

Don’t underestimate it.

Lovely pic by the lovely 🌕
p.s. read comments in reverse!