"I'll catch up tomorrow" — and other lies I told myself during a flare
The plan was to push through. The plan was always to push through. Here's what actually happened, and what I wish I'd known about managing capacity instead of managing guilt.
Founder & Patient Advocate
Building inside
limitation.
Living with chronic illness, chronic pain, and complex grief isn't the end of your story — it's where the real one begins. This is a space for the ones who are still building, still becoming, still here.
Chronic Illness
Complex Grief
Neurodivergence
Nervous System
Patient Advocacy
My Story
I didn't choose this.
But I'm still here.
I'm Sabrina Poulsen — founder, patient advocate, and someone navigating chronic illness, chronic pain, neurodivergence, and the particular grief of losing a parent to cancer while still mid-life.
"Gracefully Glitching isn't about performing resilience. It's about what's actually real."
I spent 8.5 years in cloud security operations at AWS before a layoff in 2025 accelerated a pivot I'd already been building toward. Now I run multiple ventures — a nonprofit in my mother's memory, a SaaS platform for multi-entity founders, and this space — all while managing a body that has its own ideas about what I can do on any given day.
This is where I share the unfiltered version. The starts and stops. The wins that took five times longer than they should have. The grief that doesn't fit a timeline. The nervous system regulation that is actually just survival dressed up in a nicer word.
Gracefully Glitching
Building While Grieving,
Chronically Ill, & Neurodivergent
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Gracefully
Glitching
Building While Grieving, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent
This is the book I needed when everything I was building kept running into the wall of my own biology. It's not a productivity book. It's not a grief memoir. It's the honest account of what it actually looks like to start, grow, and sustain something when your nervous system has its own agenda.
If you've ever had to rebuild a plan because a flare wiped out your week — or explain to yourself why you're still grieving when the world has moved on — this was written for you.
Inside the book
- How to build systems that actually accommodate unpredictable capacity — not the capacity you wish you had
- Grief as a business condition: what no one tells founders about loss mid-build
- The Unstuck Reset framework — a repeatable method for getting back to work after a crash
- Practical nervous system regulation that doesn't require you to feel better first
- Real talk on identity: who you are when you can't perform productivity
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Words that don't flinch
Founding a nonprofit for your mom while she is still dying
I started Flow of Care Foundation while my mother was still alive. Not as a tribute — as a fight. This is what that looked like from the inside.
The Unstuck Reset: how I get back to work after I can't
It's not a morning routine. It doesn't start with hydration or journaling. It starts with acknowledging what actually happened, and working backward from there.
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Tools for real life
Unstuck Reset Framework
The method I use to get back into motion after a crash — physical, emotional, or situational. Works when nothing else does.
Coming soon ↗Navigating Healthcare as a Patient
What they don't tell you about advocating for yourself in medical spaces — especially when you're already depleted.
Coming soon ↗Building with Variable Capacity
Systems and structures designed around what you can actually do — not what you could do on your best day three years ago.
Coming soon ↗Grief Without a Script
Resources for complex grief — loss that doesn't follow the expected timeline or come with the expected support.
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The Glitch Collection — Bookmarks
Hand-designed printed bookmarks for the readers who keep going even when it's hard. Multiple designs, each one honest.
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Affirmation Set — Bookmarks
A set of bookmarks where the words are the product. Real, honest affirmations for people who are tired of being told it'll all work out.
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