Start Here: What MGEL Is and Why It Exists
Welcome to My Greatly Exaggerated Life
This space is part journal, part map, part excavation site. It’s raw, evolving, and deeply personal — and I’ve made it public in the hope that something here will help you make sense of your own story.
What Is This?
My Greatly Exaggerated Life (MGEL) is a messy work in progress. It’s not a brand. It’s not curated. It’s not meant to be impressive.
It’s a framework — a way to look at the tangled web of neurodivergence, trauma, religious indoctrination, and the long tail of CPTSD, and start teasing apart what was done to us from who we really are.
This isn’t where I tell you how to heal.
This is where I show you how I’m trying.
Why Am I Doing This?
Because I spent most of my life thinking I was broken.
Because I masked so well that even the people closest to me didn’t know I was drowning.
Because no one ever handed me a guide, so I started building one out of scraps — and now I want to share what I’ve learned along the way.
If you’ve ever felt unseen, misdiagnosed, isolated, “too much,” “not enough,” or like you’re somehow the exception to everyone else’s healing story — you’re in the right place.
What Are MGEL Minis?
MGEL Minis are the in-between pieces — short reflections, ideas, insights, and raw moments that don’t warrant a full post but still matter.
Sometimes they’re fragments. Sometimes they’re seeds.
They’re the connective tissue between the deeper dives, and they’re just as important.
A Quick Note Before You Dive In:
This site is full of emotional honesty. It’s nonlinear, sometimes contradictory, often intense.
You might see me catching myself mid-thought and unpacking it in real time. That’s on purpose.
I’m trying to model how healing actually looks — not as a polished before/after, but as a living, breathing, ongoing conversation.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for listening.
And if something here helps you put language to something you’ve never been able to name before — I’m so glad. That’s the whole point.
