When the cracks show

Written by Rachael Skyring

Rachael Skyring is a Curious Woman. Committed carer. Deep thinker. Energy navigator. Stubborn AF. Bonus very late diagnosed AuDHD. With postgraduate degrees in Astrophysics and Rocket Science, she's spent the last twenty years as a Mother, the last ten honing her metaphysical quantum brain surgery skills through mindful movement and embodiment practices. Whoever you want to be, and wherever you want to go next, Rachael can start you on your way. The sky's no limit. Let's begin!

3 May 2025

Change is only possible when a singularity cracks open. That point when everything you’ve been holding in one tight, tidy story suddenly splits… and you’re left blinking in the light of a new possibility. It doesn’t feel graceful. It feels like dropping your basket in the middle of the road and realizing you were carrying things you didn’t even want.

For those of us with AuDHD in our lives, that crack can feel like failure. Like we’re “too much” or “not enough” or “just can’t pick a lane.” But maybe that’s not dysfunction. Maybe it’s transformation. Duality begins with difference. You were never meant to be simple. Or smooth. Or resolved. You were meant to gather your oddities, your layered logic, your relational risks—and redistribute power in your own way.

Duality begins with difference—but whoa, it’s easy to forget that and start building little bunkers around “my truth” or “their mistake,” isn’t it? When we’re tired, dysregulated, or just trying to get through the damn day, difference can feel threatening. Like someone’s wrong or something has to give. And then we spiral into black-and-white, good-or-bad, me-or-them thinking—which might feel safe but keeps us stuck. In loops. In labels. In isolation. Ugh.

But here’s the sneaky magic: between any two poles, there’s a secret third thing. Not neutral exactly, not compromise either. It’s alive. Dynamic. The path that wasn’t visible until you started walking. And we don’t find it by thinking harder or being more certain—we find it step by uncertain step, by noticing what shifts when we stay with ourselves and stay curious. Even (especially?) when our brain is screaming NOPE.

🧠 Curious Mind

Ever notice how analysis and action don’t always hang out together? This week, let yourself linger at the edge—where doubt meets affirmation. You don’t have to choose right away. You just have to notice when a decision wants to be felt instead of forced.

💓 Connected Heart

Remember a time when you almost picked one side… but didn’t? When you held a tension long enough for something surprising to emerge? That wasn’t indecision. That was wisdom. That was you building a bridge from zero to one, from now to next.

🤲🏽 Creative Body

Try a real-world experiment: Share something small that’s been on your mind—an idea, a resource, a half-baked cake metaphor. Don’t wait until it’s perfect or proven. Sharing is an energetic transfer. It doesn’t have to scale. It just has to fit you.

Sinking into Success

What if success didn’t have to feel like a performance?

Let go of the high-alert hustle and drop into rhythms that actually fit your nervous system.

It’s not about doing more—

it’s about recognizing the deep intelligence in how you already work, rest, resist, and return.

This is success that doesn’t demand a mask or a spreadsheet—

it asks for presence, permission, and a power that flows from the inside out.

[✨ This way✨]

Spark up*

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✨ An Invitation to Wonder

Where have you already held two truths and made something whole from them?

Maybe you studied something you longed for, not just what was “sensible.”

Maybe you trained your attention like a muscle, not for approval—but for your own clarity.

Maybe you’ve already been choosing again and again.

These are not accidents.

They’re markers of your path.

 Encouragement for Sensitive Souls 💛

Let’s get one thing straight:

you are not a self-improvement project.

You don’t have to apply all (or any) of this.

In fact, please don’t, unless something clicks.

Without real no’s, you can’t feel your true yes.

So if something here stirred a hmm in your gut, follow that.

Not because you need fixing.

Because you might be at a crack.

And cracks, dear one, are how the light gets in—

and how your own power gets out.

🐢💃✨

AuDHD-friendly Affirmation for conflicted women:

You are not too much or too little—you are exquisitely tuned to a different kind of rhythm, and that’s your superpower.

Many women with AuDHD in their lives love to hold space for others, make meaning from chaos, and keep everything afloat even when no one sees the effort.

They are conditioned to perform success in ways that ignore their inner signals, value productivity over presence, and mask their needs to fit in.

Which undermines our ability to recognize our true pace, our real priorities, and the kind of success that actually sustains us.

Remember you can pause without losing momentum, say no without closing doors, and choose rest as a radical act of self-trust.

I trust you to know what’s right for you, even if it looks like failure to someone else.

Inside Sinking into Success you’ll find permission to soften, frameworks that flex, and practical tools to honour your unique way of thinking, feeling, and moving through the world.

Notes on duality and power

Here and there

Now and then

Here and now

Discalculia – beyond numerical

Struggle with values

Power is invisible

Yet palpable

Power is transferred through fitualmprocesses

To channel and contain

Accountability

Yet organic and free range

If you’re looking for energy,

Maybe what you’re really seeking is power

To regulate self and others

Situation

Power to choose

Power to perceive

Duality begins with difference

Chew on that cg

Discipline – train

Study – longing

Volunteer – will

These are the bridges from here to there

From zero to one

And back again

Power of focused attention

Highest frequency energy

Don’t burn a hole in/with third eye

Distributed power, identity

Gathering

Risking

Cake – please share

Photo and recipe is the best I can do with current technology unfortunately

Here and now

What is shareable

What is common – knowledge / resources / desire / ability

What is transferrable

What must be uniquely recreated in space and time to generate shared experience

Laws of physics + limits of engineering / materials science

Concentration gradient

Foundation of change, flow, shift

In life sciences and engineering/ physical sciences.

Concentration gradient

Attention

Focus

Density

Difference

Duality

Change is only possible when a singularity cracks open

Beyond unity / kind-ness

Difference between doubt and affirmation

Between analysis and action

Between acquaintance and relationship

The bridge footings

Hold both

And choose

There are no wrong answers

Take a step and choose again

New information

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