Nefrit El-Or
What if becoming is less about changing who you are- and more about coming home to yourself?
Drawing on my lived experience with near-death anorexia, late-identified autism, and spirituality, I speak and teach about transforming adversity into growth through self-understanding, acceptance, inner joy, purpose, and the healing power of radical self-love.
My Story
At 43, I stood on the brink of death from anorexia nervosa- my body shutting down, my voice silenced, and everyone around me convinced I was dying of Crohn’s disease. The truth was more devastating: I was starving to death in plain sight.
Unaware of the autistic architecture of my mind, I moved through life feeling like a defective human product- faulty DNA Mickey Moused together into some unclassified space junk floating about in the ether, belonging nowhere. A glitch in the matrix.
Author
I operated on liminalities of energy squeezeage, the verges of the last drop- struggling to meet societal expectations. Every peopling encounter blew up my transformer and left me devoid of juice, in an eternal state of power outage. I could never understand why the smallest of things required so much elbow grease from me. I navigated the everyday with sensory faculties cranked to a hundred, like an exposed nerve.
From the Blog
I write to break silences, render interiority legible, and give voice to all that is too often misunderstood or left unspoken. Drawing on my journey through near-death anorexia, late-identified autism, and the radical rebuilding of self, my writing weaves raw authenticity, unexpected metaphors, and gallows humor into explorations of the human experience, healing, and Love.
My completed memoir journeys from self-annihilation toward self-love, illuminating the dangerously overlooked intersection between autism and eating disorders and the transformative power of coming home to oneself.
Speaking
Speaking Topics
Breaking the Silence: Inside the Mind of Anorexia
Autism & Eating Disorders: The Dangerously Overlooked Intersection
Late-Identified Autism: I Was Never Broken to Begin With
Coming Home to Yourself: The Radical Power of Self-Love
Joy Unfolds from Within: Acceptance, Equanimity & the Human Journey
Love Consciousness: Meditation, Spirituality & Connection to the Divine
Teaching
I teach from the lense of lived experience and from the spiritual understanding that emerged through my own journey of healing. My work spans late-identified autism, eating-disorder recover and the intersection between the two, alongside self-love, meditation, spirituality, acceptance, inner joy, and our connection to Love.
Workshops & Classes
I offer workshops and classes that create space for refleection, conversation, and deeper self-understanding. Each offering draws from lived experience while inviting participants to explore their own expeirence with curiosity and compassion.
Singer-Songwriter
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Songwriting gives me a place to explore the things that are sometimes difficult to put into ordinary words: Identity, connection, loss, healing, love, and the experience of becoming more fully myself.
