The biggest changes rarely arrive with a thunderclap. More often they start quietly, with a question you cannot ignore or a feeling that something is asking for more. If you have been waiting for a dramatic awakening before you are allowed to begin, this conversation gently lets you off that hook.
Thomas R Wilson, a storyteller who found his footing through stories when people around him had written him off, reframes awakening as ordinary, available and non-linear. He untangles self-care from selfishness, and offers a working test for it, and is candid about a hard week and the gentle voice that carried him through.
ABOUT THE GUEST:
Thomas R Wilson is a storyteller, advocate, writer and facilitator based in Colorado, with lived experience of neurodiversity and mental health challenges. Stories were his early refuge and mentors, and his work now centres on empathy-based storytelling and the belief that stories are as human as we are.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Awakening is not theatrical or reserved for a few. It is available to anyone, any day.
- It can be as small as a promise to a child or a kinder look in the mirror.
- What keeps us on the surface is often the fear that caring for ourselves is selfish.
- Self-care is not selfishness. You tend to yourself so you can show up for your community.
- Self-awareness is the line between the two: you are tending to yourself for others too.
- Choose a path because it is healthy for you, not because it looks good on someone else.
- Early signs you are on the right path: smiling more, real passion rather than all-or-nothing drive.
- Growth is non-linear. Slipping back is part of it, not a failure of it.
- Be your own hype: name what went well and genuinely celebrate it.
- Accountability without self-punishment, and hold others accountable too, kindly.
CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-wilson-42762927b/
Website: https://www.rhcreativeadvocacyandstorytelling.net
All links: https://linktr.ee/ndttrpg
EPISODE CHAPTERS:
[00:00] Welcome to I Awaken: change that begins quietly, not with a thunderclap (approx.)
[02:00] Stories as his earliest friends, mentors and source of healing (approx.)
[05:00] The biggest misconception: awakening is neither dramatic nor for the few (approx.)
[09:00] What keeps us asleep, and untangling self-care from selfishness (approx.)
[13:00] Self-awareness as the dividing line, and the good-parent test (approx.)
[16:00] Awakening on an ordinary hard week: the messy hair and the gentle voice (approx.)
[20:00] Where to begin: choose what is healthy for you, not what looks impressive (approx.)
[25:00] Non-linear growth, being your own hype, and where to find Thomas (approx.)
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