This entry explores a quiet rebellion:
how The Nail Tech, a mystic, a woman who has spent decades unpicking her own patterns with devotion and rigour, refuses the modern rush to diagnosis.

Clients sit at her table and offer labels for themselves like ready-made explanations —
ADHD, OCD, neurodiverse, anxious, inattentive, sensitive —
and some immediately try to hang those same labels on her.

But she won’t wear them.

Not because she rejects people’s experiences,
but because she has spent years doing the slow spiritual work those labels try to shortcut —
discipline, practice, due diligence of the self.

In this entry she speaks about:
how pathologising has become a cultural reflex,
how convenience has replaced curiosity,
how ritual and self-knowledge get mistaken for symptoms,
and how she learned to design a life that suits her nature rather than justify her nature to a system.

It’s a reminder that not every difference needs a diagnosis.
Sometimes it’s simply a soul remembering itself —
and refusing to be named by anything that cannot see it fully.