The Audio Library
For the parts of being human that are hardest to recognise while you’re living them.
A collection of long-form audio essays on the human experience, told by a person who has lived it, is still living it, and is free to be honest about it.
What is it?
Somewhere to hear yourself again.
We spend a huge amount of time taking ourselves in through other people. Their lives, their faces, their opinions, their progress. Even when we try to understand, we’re usually doing it while scrolling past everybody else.
The Audio Library asks something different. Headphones in. Outside. Walking, or sat somewhere. Screen left alone for a while. Not to escape yourself, but to get close enough to be honest.
Some of what you listen to may reassure you. Some of it may make you uncomfortable. Both matter.
Understanding yourself and taking responsibility for yourself are not opposites.
None of it is here to tell you who you are. It just stays with a question long enough for you to recognise what was already there.
Who is it for?
For people who have all the words and none of the distance.
People who can name the pattern and still find themselves back inside it.
People who have spent years trying to understand why they do what they do.
People who are waiting for an answer, living with one, or still making sense of what it changed.
People who know something is costing them, but keep finding reasons to stay close to it.
People who are tired of consuming more information and want a little space to actually hear themselves.
People who don't need more advice, they need something that meets them in the moment.
The ADHD Library
Two audios for what people rarely talk about.
ADHD is often spoken about as though diagnosis is the event. It isn’t.
There is everything that happens before it: the recognition, the doubt, the checking, the odd experience of seeing yourself in something and immediately finding reasons not to trust it.
And there is everything that happens after: relief, grief, anger, second-guessing, looking back at your life differently, and working out where ADHD belongs within everything else that made you who you are. Most people go through both of those alone. These are the conversations for them.
The Interruption Library - Coming soon
For the moments when you know exactly what you're doing.
Most support arrives too early or too late. It either teaches you when you’re calm, or helps you understand things once the moment has already passed.
The Interruption Library is for the moment itself. Before you do it. While you’re doing it. Just after. The points where some part of you still knows what is happening, even when another part is trying very hard not to. It is not built around one behaviour. It is built around that split second of recognition.
Its purpose isn’t to tell you what decision to make. It is to make it slightly harder to disappear from yourself while you’re making it.
When your body knows first
When you’re choosing not to notice
When it’s ‘just this once’
When it suddenly makes sense
When you’re pretending you haven’t decided
When you’re waiting for the moment you can do it
When you’re reaching for it
When you’re already doing it
When you’ve already done it
When you’ve been here before
FAQs
Everything you need to know about the Audio Library
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The ADHD audios are longer-form pieces designed to be listened to as a whole. The Interruption Library is made up of shorter recordings for specific moments. Exact lengths are shown before you buy.
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They are not frameworks, programmes or instructions for how to fix yourself. They are written from inside the experience, for the person living through it. The aim is not to promise healing. It is to put language around something clearly enough that you can see yourself in it.
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Your audio will be delivered by email after purchase. Check the inbox you used at checkout, and your junk or spam folder if it hasn’t arrived. The email contains the link you’ll use to access your audio. If your original link has expired, opening it again will prompt Squarespace to send a fresh one to the same email address.
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No. The ADHD Library is specifically written around the experience before and after an ADHD diagnosis. The Interruption Library is for anyone who recognises themselves in the moments listed on the site.
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Yes. These are made to be returned to, not completed once and forgotten.
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The Audio Library is designed to grow. New collections are already in the making.
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No. The audios are written from lived experience and are intended for reflection, recognition and support. They do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, therapy or treatment.