Neurotype
When “I’m So Tired” Doesn’t Mean Ready for Sleep
Neurodivergent Exhaustion is real.
ADHD
The Cognitive Equity Protocol
Overview The Cognitive Equity Protocol provides a research-backed framework for making workplaces and educational settings genuinely accessible to neurodivergent thinkers. These 10 practical rules remove invisible barriers that prevent people from contributing at their full capacity—without lowering standards or reducing rigor. Core Principle Cognitive equity isn’t accommodation.
Polyvagal
Why Neurodivergent People Struggle to Finish Things (And It’s Not What You Think)
From the outside, it can look like inconsistency. From the inside, it feels like something never quite arrives. People with ADHD, autism, and AuDHD don’t struggle with effort. If anything, we bring too much of it. We generate ideas endlessly. We work in intense bursts. We pour ourselves into
ADHD
The DSM Just Validated What Neuroaffirming Therapists Have Known All Along
The DSM Is Getting an Intersectional Upgrade—Finally
acceptance
How Emotions Are Made - Book Outline With Nurodivergent Affirming Perspectives
Core Premise
Affirming
The Two Sides of AuDHD: What Everyone Sees and What They Miss
...a personal take.
Neurotype
Grounding Techniques for the Office
If you’ve ever felt your heart start racing at your desk for no obvious reason, you’re not alone. For many neurodivergent folks, the workplace can trigger our nervous systems in ways that feel disproportionate to what’s actually happening. It’s not the big catastrophes that get us—
sensory
What Brain Energy Research Tells Us About Neurodivergent Sensory Needs
When Beauty Means Less Work New research from the University of Toronto just gave us scientific language for something many neurodivergent people have been saying for years: some environments just *cost* more to be in. The study found that images people find beautiful are actually the ones that require less
Relationships
Creating Space for All of Us This Thanksgiving
AKA: Making an Inclusive Thanksgiving for Your Neurodivergent Family and Friends
Neuroplasticity
What If You’ve Been Planted?
Someone awesome shared this photo she took with me today, and honestly, it stopped me in my tracks. Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you tend to think you have been buried. What if you’ve been planted? There’s something about this that hits different when you’
Polyvagal
It’s Not All in Your Head (Literally, It’s in Your Heart Too)
Why Your Heart Might Know Things Before Your Brain Does Your heart has its own nervous system, sometimes called the “heart brain” or intrinsic cardiac nervous system (ICNS). We’re talking about over 40,000 specialized neurons (sensory neurites or intracardiac neurons) clustered in ganglia around your heart’s surface.
Education
When Your Brain Needs a Minute
Let's Chat About the Unexpected Superpower of Boredom