This post was originally published via my newsletter on January 6th 2026. It has been updated slightly to reflect the release of the single. Head to the homepage and join the mailing list to stay up to date!
As you probably know by now, I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago in November 2022.
It was a pretty long and hard road to get there - it took me almost 2 and a half years to go from realisation to diagnosis - but having a framework to better understand my own mind has made the journey more than worth it. More than three years later, I am STILL finding out things about who I am and remembering things about my past that are completely re-contextualised by my diagnosis.
One of the questions that plagued me in those early days was: How much of who I am is my choice and how much is down to my condition? And even more than that I wondered, if I were to get treatment, would I change beyond all recognition as a person?
This of course was on top of all of the misunderstanding and dismissal that people with ADHD face from those who don't know any better. As I sought to move forward towards finding out who I could become with the right support, I put all of these thoughts down into a song.
Under My Skin is now one of my favourite songs of mine and is definitely my favourite song from the upcoming album - if anything, I feel like the arrangement on this one sums up who I am as an artist (which is very appropriate considering it's themes of identity) and I am beyond excited that I get to share this with you now.
The song is out as of today (9th January) and you can check it out now on my Bandcamp page here. I worked extremely hard on this (and the rest of the album), so it would mean the world to me if you could lend your support to the track and let me know what you think.