Contain Me Kindly
A guided journal for neurodivergent lovers about structure, surrender, and regulation.
Contain Me Kindly explores how structure can feel like safety instead of control. Each issue combines a short essay, a practical system map, and reflective prompts designed to help people understand how power, care, and regulation work in their bodies.
This first issue introduces the idea of a “Submission System” A framework for understanding how needs shift across good days, bad days, and shutdown days.
Essay
Why structured surrender can be regulating
How kink can function as a nervous-system technology
Why care must be built into the system
Tool
The Submission System Map
Three states: good day / bad day / shutdown
Printable grid you can use with a partner
Prompts
Guided reflection questions
Space to track patterns
Notes you can revisit over time