Hiya,

It’s been about two years since I sent an email to this list. 👀

In case you don’t remember—I write about healing trauma and attachment, personal growth, and self-liberation on Joy Ninja. My most-read post is my journey healing from Fearful-Avoidant attachment.

This used to just be the “Hey, I wrote a blog post” list. Going forward it will include updates on what I’m making, plus anything I think might fuel your quest for joy, freedom, and building an awesome life on your own terms. And unicorn gifs, obv. 😁

So, here is what is going on in the Joy Ninja Extended Universe...

1. I started a secret society

Ok, it’s not really secret. 😆 It’s called Self-Liberation Society and it’s a cozy online space for neurodivergent folks to heal, grow, and make their life awesome. I wanted a space just for us, because growth requires safety, and safety requires unmasking.

2. I made some freebies!

I started a password-protected ebook library for my email subscribers.

Here’s what’s in there so far:

• How to Stop Being Cruel to Yourself – Disarm & befriend your inner critic with parts work + NVC-style self-empathy.
• Liberate Your Weird – reframes to help us “weirdos” with not just self-acceptance but owning our own value.
• Unstuck – a guided journey to working with resistance in a non-forceful way.

3. I expanded some of my favorite posts

• I fleshed out my guide to how I rewired my brain into permanent happiness. (Not fake-happy—I shifted my emotional baseline, i.e. changing my happiness setpoint.)
• I added more prompts to my ChatGPT for Self-Therapy Guide including how to use it for parts work. 🤖

4. I added new content

I added some FAQs on autistic burnout and a long article about how to decondition yourself from capitalist programming and stop treating yourself like a machine.

5. I’ve been sharing my internal process on Substack

On Sparkly Dark, you can follow along as I apply self-liberation principles to my daily life, like radical self-permission, intrinsic motivation, parts work, and working through fear. Lately I’ve written about my fear of leadership, building SLS, and the Outsider archetype.

6. Astrology became a new obsession

Last year I created AstroLiberation, where you can dive into your natal chart as a map of your karma and life lessons. ✨ (Relatedly, I wrote a post about my journey to reconcile rationality and magic.)

Phew. I definitely need to email more often cause that was ridiculously long. 😆

Are you still on Facebook? We can be friends. I am still active there as I join about 20 groups for every new obsession. 😂

How are you? What’s new? Any weird rabbit holes have you fallen down lately?

Love,

Emma

I teach self-liberation skills reject the tyranny of "normal" · undo internalized shame · stop outsourcing your self-worth · practice self-compassion · stop self-bullying · cultivate intrinsic motivation · become your own best friend · rewire your brain for joy

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