Angela Bierman
@angelabierman.bsky.social
Seeker of joy and efficiency through compassionate, strategic, sustainable growth
AuDHD (ADHD + Autism)
POTS
hEDS (suspected)
CIRS
Canadian 🇨🇦
Elder millennial
Recovering perfectionist
AngelaBierman.com
More content www.tiktok.com/@angelabierman
AuDHD (ADHD + Autism)
POTS
hEDS (suspected)
CIRS
Canadian 🇨🇦
Elder millennial
Recovering perfectionist
AngelaBierman.com
More content www.tiktok.com/@angelabierman
What do you mean Strava doesn’t automatically create the cute overlay with the map for each of your runs?
That’s the whole reason I signed up! I don’t want to use other photo editing apps to get my cute pic 😢
That’s the whole reason I signed up! I don’t want to use other photo editing apps to get my cute pic 😢
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What do you mean Strava doesn’t automatically create the cute overlay with the map for each of your runs?
That’s the whole reason I signed up! I don’t want to use other photo editing apps to get my cute pic 😢
That’s the whole reason I signed up! I don’t want to use other photo editing apps to get my cute pic 😢
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little miss “picky eater” who didn’t realize her food aversions stem from taste/texture hypersensitivity and sensory processing issues related to having a neurodivergent brain
and not—as others had always insisted—an unwillingness to “grow up” or “try new things”
and not—as others had always insisted—an unwillingness to “grow up” or “try new things”
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
little miss “picky eater” who didn’t realize her food aversions stem from taste/texture hypersensitivity and sensory processing issues related to having a neurodivergent brain
and not—as others had always insisted—an unwillingness to “grow up” or “try new things”
and not—as others had always insisted—an unwillingness to “grow up” or “try new things”
They say a tired dog is a happy dog.
I’m realizing that a tired Angela is also much more relaxed.
As I’m healing from CIRS and making progress with various chronic illnesses, I’ve discovered that underneath some anxiety and overwhelm is unexpected energy I need to burn.
It’s strange, but nice!
I’m realizing that a tired Angela is also much more relaxed.
As I’m healing from CIRS and making progress with various chronic illnesses, I’ve discovered that underneath some anxiety and overwhelm is unexpected energy I need to burn.
It’s strange, but nice!
July 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
They say a tired dog is a happy dog.
I’m realizing that a tired Angela is also much more relaxed.
As I’m healing from CIRS and making progress with various chronic illnesses, I’ve discovered that underneath some anxiety and overwhelm is unexpected energy I need to burn.
It’s strange, but nice!
I’m realizing that a tired Angela is also much more relaxed.
As I’m healing from CIRS and making progress with various chronic illnesses, I’ve discovered that underneath some anxiety and overwhelm is unexpected energy I need to burn.
It’s strange, but nice!
Reposted by Angela Bierman
The biggest ADHD motivation myth?
"If it's important enough, you'll do it."
It sounds like it should be true, but that's just not how my brain works—my brain is motivated by things that are interesting, novel, creative, challenging, urgent.
Importance barely even factors in.
"If it's important enough, you'll do it."
It sounds like it should be true, but that's just not how my brain works—my brain is motivated by things that are interesting, novel, creative, challenging, urgent.
Importance barely even factors in.
July 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The biggest ADHD motivation myth?
"If it's important enough, you'll do it."
It sounds like it should be true, but that's just not how my brain works—my brain is motivated by things that are interesting, novel, creative, challenging, urgent.
Importance barely even factors in.
"If it's important enough, you'll do it."
It sounds like it should be true, but that's just not how my brain works—my brain is motivated by things that are interesting, novel, creative, challenging, urgent.
Importance barely even factors in.
“Muscles have two modes:
💪 Strong and loose
😣 Weak and tight”
- my sports medicine doc
This gave me so much clarity as I work through chronic pain.
I can stop obsessively searching for the perfect stretching routine and just focus on building strength.
This, I can do. Back to the gym! 🏋️♀️
💪 Strong and loose
😣 Weak and tight”
- my sports medicine doc
This gave me so much clarity as I work through chronic pain.
I can stop obsessively searching for the perfect stretching routine and just focus on building strength.
This, I can do. Back to the gym! 🏋️♀️
June 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“Muscles have two modes:
💪 Strong and loose
😣 Weak and tight”
- my sports medicine doc
This gave me so much clarity as I work through chronic pain.
I can stop obsessively searching for the perfect stretching routine and just focus on building strength.
This, I can do. Back to the gym! 🏋️♀️
💪 Strong and loose
😣 Weak and tight”
- my sports medicine doc
This gave me so much clarity as I work through chronic pain.
I can stop obsessively searching for the perfect stretching routine and just focus on building strength.
This, I can do. Back to the gym! 🏋️♀️
Overheard at the voting station:
I’m not even going to ATTEMPT to pronounce your name!
Where are you from?
What kind of name is that?
#ElectionsCanada train your staff to do better.
Also please ask them to stop licking their fingers.
I’m not even going to ATTEMPT to pronounce your name!
Where are you from?
What kind of name is that?
#ElectionsCanada train your staff to do better.
Also please ask them to stop licking their fingers.
April 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Overheard at the voting station:
I’m not even going to ATTEMPT to pronounce your name!
Where are you from?
What kind of name is that?
#ElectionsCanada train your staff to do better.
Also please ask them to stop licking their fingers.
I’m not even going to ATTEMPT to pronounce your name!
Where are you from?
What kind of name is that?
#ElectionsCanada train your staff to do better.
Also please ask them to stop licking their fingers.
Reposted by Angela Bierman
Sometimes I wear headphones just so people don’t talk to me. I’m not even listening to anything — it’s just social protection at this point
April 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes I wear headphones just so people don’t talk to me. I’m not even listening to anything — it’s just social protection at this point
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Woohoo, a big win for accessible design! @figma.com now includes a *built-in* color contrast checker, making it easier to design for everyone. 🎨
March 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Woohoo, a big win for accessible design! @figma.com now includes a *built-in* color contrast checker, making it easier to design for everyone. 🎨
The autistic experience of holding everything together until it’s done . . . and then absolutely falling apart when it’s over.
I saw so much of myself in the beautiful clips of Eva and Joe on #survivor
I saw so much of myself in the beautiful clips of Eva and Joe on #survivor
March 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The autistic experience of holding everything together until it’s done . . . and then absolutely falling apart when it’s over.
I saw so much of myself in the beautiful clips of Eva and Joe on #survivor
I saw so much of myself in the beautiful clips of Eva and Joe on #survivor
Interval training - chronic illness edition
Me: let me know when I reach 150m on the rowing machine
My trainer: oh, are you going to sprint to the finish?
Me: Bahaha 🤣 no! I’m not going to watch and I just want to know when I’m on the home stretch
Me: let me know when I reach 150m on the rowing machine
My trainer: oh, are you going to sprint to the finish?
Me: Bahaha 🤣 no! I’m not going to watch and I just want to know when I’m on the home stretch
March 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Interval training - chronic illness edition
Me: let me know when I reach 150m on the rowing machine
My trainer: oh, are you going to sprint to the finish?
Me: Bahaha 🤣 no! I’m not going to watch and I just want to know when I’m on the home stretch
Me: let me know when I reach 150m on the rowing machine
My trainer: oh, are you going to sprint to the finish?
Me: Bahaha 🤣 no! I’m not going to watch and I just want to know when I’m on the home stretch
The amount of data we have to collect for chronic illness is WILD.
I dropped off my holter monitor after 24 hrs and let them know that if anything looked weird, I also had data for:
❤️ heart rate
🩸 Continuous blood sugar
😴 CPAP
🧵 1/4
I dropped off my holter monitor after 24 hrs and let them know that if anything looked weird, I also had data for:
❤️ heart rate
🩸 Continuous blood sugar
😴 CPAP
🧵 1/4
March 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The amount of data we have to collect for chronic illness is WILD.
I dropped off my holter monitor after 24 hrs and let them know that if anything looked weird, I also had data for:
❤️ heart rate
🩸 Continuous blood sugar
😴 CPAP
🧵 1/4
I dropped off my holter monitor after 24 hrs and let them know that if anything looked weird, I also had data for:
❤️ heart rate
🩸 Continuous blood sugar
😴 CPAP
🧵 1/4
No Pilates pulses for this POTSie!
Finally figured out how to leave Pilates without feeling like my brain went through a pinball machine!
- use a wedge to make sure my head isn’t below my butt
- skip the pulses and keep going with smooth, gentle movements
- take every transition slow & steady
Finally figured out how to leave Pilates without feeling like my brain went through a pinball machine!
- use a wedge to make sure my head isn’t below my butt
- skip the pulses and keep going with smooth, gentle movements
- take every transition slow & steady
February 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No Pilates pulses for this POTSie!
Finally figured out how to leave Pilates without feeling like my brain went through a pinball machine!
- use a wedge to make sure my head isn’t below my butt
- skip the pulses and keep going with smooth, gentle movements
- take every transition slow & steady
Finally figured out how to leave Pilates without feeling like my brain went through a pinball machine!
- use a wedge to make sure my head isn’t below my butt
- skip the pulses and keep going with smooth, gentle movements
- take every transition slow & steady
Reposted by Angela Bierman
Reposted by Angela Bierman
As I say often, failures are investments we've already paid for. Growth comes from making the most of these investments: learning what we can, pivoting when needed, & taking smart steps forward
🎙️Listen to my Finding Mastery podcast episode for more!
findingmastery.com/podcasts/amy...
🎙️Listen to my Finding Mastery podcast episode for more!
findingmastery.com/podcasts/amy...
January 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
As I say often, failures are investments we've already paid for. Growth comes from making the most of these investments: learning what we can, pivoting when needed, & taking smart steps forward
🎙️Listen to my Finding Mastery podcast episode for more!
findingmastery.com/podcasts/amy...
🎙️Listen to my Finding Mastery podcast episode for more!
findingmastery.com/podcasts/amy...
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having an adhd brain and a chronically ill body so often feels like such a cruel joke. to have such a fast brain that needs so much stimulation and has so many ideas combined with a body that cannot act on any of it is so impossible and unfair.
January 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
having an adhd brain and a chronically ill body so often feels like such a cruel joke. to have such a fast brain that needs so much stimulation and has so many ideas combined with a body that cannot act on any of it is so impossible and unfair.
I cried a little at the end of my first physio appointment.
Was it a somatic release?
Or just relief at feeling truly seen?
Not sure, but either way I felt better!
#chronicpain #disability #sciatic #CIRS
Was it a somatic release?
Or just relief at feeling truly seen?
Not sure, but either way I felt better!
#chronicpain #disability #sciatic #CIRS
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I cried a little at the end of my first physio appointment.
Was it a somatic release?
Or just relief at feeling truly seen?
Not sure, but either way I felt better!
#chronicpain #disability #sciatic #CIRS
Was it a somatic release?
Or just relief at feeling truly seen?
Not sure, but either way I felt better!
#chronicpain #disability #sciatic #CIRS
One way I’ve tried to explain POTS - my body is like a half filled water bottle - and sloshing should be avoided at all costs
January 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
One way I’ve tried to explain POTS - my body is like a half filled water bottle - and sloshing should be avoided at all costs
Keep a health journal for those random symptoms that don’t feel like enough to go to a doctor.
They might become important clues later!
After a few years of chronic illness, I was able to connect the dots to related symptoms as far back as 2019.
#chronicillness #disability #CIRS
They might become important clues later!
After a few years of chronic illness, I was able to connect the dots to related symptoms as far back as 2019.
#chronicillness #disability #CIRS
January 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Keep a health journal for those random symptoms that don’t feel like enough to go to a doctor.
They might become important clues later!
After a few years of chronic illness, I was able to connect the dots to related symptoms as far back as 2019.
#chronicillness #disability #CIRS
They might become important clues later!
After a few years of chronic illness, I was able to connect the dots to related symptoms as far back as 2019.
#chronicillness #disability #CIRS
This one is so good for the introverts, the neurodivergent, and the chronic illness warriors too
Basically, my people 🤣
See you in 2 months! I’m still recovering from the holidays
Basically, my people 🤣
See you in 2 months! I’m still recovering from the holidays
January 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This one is so good for the introverts, the neurodivergent, and the chronic illness warriors too
Basically, my people 🤣
See you in 2 months! I’m still recovering from the holidays
Basically, my people 🤣
See you in 2 months! I’m still recovering from the holidays
Can you have too much self-acceptance and self-compassion?
I think yes, and it led me to dismiss symptoms of chronic illness.
🧵 1/5
I think yes, and it led me to dismiss symptoms of chronic illness.
🧵 1/5
January 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Can you have too much self-acceptance and self-compassion?
I think yes, and it led me to dismiss symptoms of chronic illness.
🧵 1/5
I think yes, and it led me to dismiss symptoms of chronic illness.
🧵 1/5
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January 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Angela Bierman
What if you didn’t need more self-discipline?
Maybe you need more self-compassion.
This is your annual reminder that goal setting can be helpful but new years resolutions are optional and often shame-filled bullsh*t.
Happy 2025! 🎉🥳🍾
Maybe you need more self-compassion.
This is your annual reminder that goal setting can be helpful but new years resolutions are optional and often shame-filled bullsh*t.
Happy 2025! 🎉🥳🍾
January 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What if you didn’t need more self-discipline?
Maybe you need more self-compassion.
This is your annual reminder that goal setting can be helpful but new years resolutions are optional and often shame-filled bullsh*t.
Happy 2025! 🎉🥳🍾
Maybe you need more self-compassion.
This is your annual reminder that goal setting can be helpful but new years resolutions are optional and often shame-filled bullsh*t.
Happy 2025! 🎉🥳🍾