calmnowspace

A quiet place for what's hard to say.

Writing on attention, presence, and being human. Not advice. More like a walk, on paper.

Peter van Dijk

Hi, I'm Peter.

For most of my life, I felt different from everyone else. Twenty years ago, I found out it was ADD.

Before the diagnosis, I had my own way of numbing the noise. Self-medicating. It worked, until it didn't.

Between then and now lie years I never expected to share, let alone write down.

I built and sold a company, and I work in SaaS. On paper, it looks fine. But this — writing about what it means to be human when your head never quiets — is where things finally start to feel right.

No guru. No method in capital letters. Just someone who happened to survive, now writing about it.

Here on CalmNow.space, I share what I've picked up along the way: pieces on attention, slowing down, and the quiet moments where something shifts. The rawer stories — the wandering, the cell, the wild years — will come through the writing and interviews in time. At their own pace.

Read the pieces

Pieces, slowly gathered.

No schedule. A rhythm, though. Pieces appear when they are finished, not when they have to be.

Misty Morning Walk · The alwaysness of things The warmth technique What a cow taught me about presence

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