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Exploring and expressing ourselves and our emotions through music, creativity and play.

26/10/2026

A year ago today...

🍁Autumn crafting and creating.
🎈Nervous system co-regulation.
🎉PLAY!

25/10/2026

17/10/2026

"Belief is the death of intelligence."

One of my favourite characteristics in a person is curiosity. I find it delicious!

You can't hold judgment and curiosity at the same time.

This world is infinite.
Infinite possibility.

Question.
Question everything.

Stay open.
Stay free.

05/10/2026

"You're only as good a musician as you are a human being"

Jacob Collier

16/09/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CK7FuKj7c/

30/08/2026

AuDHD burnout recovery

Yesterday I left the dale I live in for the first time in a month! Went for a wee coffee. I'm still unable to drive but a friend took me and it was so lovely to have a change of scene.

I paid for it afterwards. I had d to go to bed all afternoon and felt doomy and very sad that I am capable of so little after so long (8 months since hitting full neurological shutdown).

My burnout recovery looks like a spiral... Tentatively trying things out, stepping out, stepping back. My gast is flabbered that it is taking so long and progress is so slow. Well to be honest it doesn't feel like progress yet. But the progress lies in the fact that I am FINALLY listening to myself. After a lifetime of pushing myself beyond my limit every single day.
I am listening. I am giving myself safety and grace and LOVE.

21/08/2026

Something exciting is happening!

This little person... Little Rosanna is starting a podcast! Weeee! I have a name and a platform and the first 6 episodes ready to go.

I'll share more over the next wee while but I wonder whether you might help me grow my audience?

I am nearly at 900 on my Rosanna Whitton
page and just over 100 on my Rosanna page and over 400 here and would love my conversations with the amazing people I speak with to reach lots of people... they're going to be gorgeous explorations of neurodivergence, q***rness, growing (plants and ourselves).... All the good things!

Any likes, shares and follows would be massively appreciated! Thank you 😊❣️💥

30/07/2026

Negative Review.

You may notice that I have a negative review in my review section. For some reason I can't reply to the review so I am addressing it here.

Claire is absolutely right, my sessions were very inconsistent last year. I was deep in autistic burnout and looking back I should have stopped working earlier than I did (I have been off work since December last year).

I kept trying for various reasons:
1. I love my work and didn't want to stop!
2. I didn't realise how ill I was.
3. I am single and self-employed and have no other way of making money.

As an autistic person, I totally understand Claire's disappointment and their need, as a family for consistency. However, when the family started sessions I made it clear that I was struggling with my health and couldn't commit to regular sessions. Claire said she understood this and wanted to go ahead anyway. So to get this review felt rather unfair when it was something we had discussed and agreed on.

I disabled reviews for a while after this because I was also dealing with another family that I had needed to report to social services with a very serious safeguarding concern. They retaliated and were flooding my social media with false allegations about me and my business. I decided to disable reviews and any comments at the time to deal with that issue and safeguard my own mental health. Reviews were not disabled because of this negative review. I am absolutely here for feedback, honesty and clear communication.

Safety is at the core of what I do and believe in as a person and a business owner. Emotional, physical and spiritual safety. It is my number one concern.

I look forward to the day when I can also offer more consistency. It will never be 100% consistency because I am an autistic human being living in a world that is increasingly only friendly to machines, not human nervous systems and bodies. I am currently working on how to make my business more sustainable going forward, both for me and those I work with.

I am very sorry that I caused upset to this family and absolutely own that I should have stopped working earlier than I did. I am a human. I am learning and will continue to do so.

Thank you for reading.

30/07/2026

"We are an inclusive space". What do you think when you hear that phrase?

Supermarkets now sometimes offer "sensory friendly" shopping hours. They turn the lights down and it is quieter because it is often early in the morning. That's great for people who can get there early in the morning. But single parents? No chance! So is it really inclusive? Or is this a business paying lip service to the idea of being inclusive?
I'm delighted that it happens but we really need to think about what being inclusive means.

For me and my events, being inclusive means if you're cis het, white and not disabled (i.e. the privileged majority) of course you are welcome. You're a person. My events are for people. Everyone is welcome. Unless you have an issue with non-white, q***r, disabled people. Then please, find something else. We are not your people.

https://youtu.be/xfHZLTeyejg?si=nRdqdaefbaeZnzMH

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