Communication
How to Not Accidentally Terrorize Your Neurodivergent Coworker
AKA: The Care and Feeding of the Neurodivergent Brains in Your Workplace
acceptance
Standing in the Storm: What Cape Disappointment Taught Me About Showing Up
*Cape Disappointment does not "disappoint"!
Newsletter
The Quiet War on Women's Professional Labor and How the Department of Education is Systematically Deprofessionalizing Care Work
Here's what's happening, and nobody seems to be talking about it loudly enough. The Department of Education just reclassified what counts as a "professional degree." Sounds bureaucratic, right? Almost boring. But this single administrative decision is about to gut the professional standing—and financial
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
Newsletter
When Autonomy Looks Like Defiance
Why Neurodivergent Minds Need Co-Agency, Not Control
Neuroplasticity
When Worry Works: Understanding Your Brain's Planning System
If you’ve been told your worry is irrational, excessive, or something you need to “just stop doing,” I want to offer you a different way of thinking about what’s happening in your brain. Worry isn’t a malfunction. It’s not evidence that something is wrong with you.
Newsletter
The Ripple Effect: Why Adult Accountability Shapes Tomorrow’s Children
I’ve been thinking about something that comes up in my practice with adults all the time. In today’s social climate, this opens a lot of wounds especially when our world leaders are failing to live up to ethics one would expect. Here, we work through their childhood trauma,
Walk
Transform Your Day with a Simple Mindful Walk 🌿
Your next breakthrough might be waiting just outside your door. There’s something almost magical that happens when we step outside with real intention—our bodies start to heal themselves, the mental fog lifts, and we somehow feel more like ourselves again. Why Walking This Way Changes Everything Mindful walking
sensory
When Your Nervous System Sounds the Alarm at Your Desk
Picture this: you’re sitting at your computer, surrounded by the familiar hum of work, when suddenly your body decides there’s a bear charging at you. Except there’s no bear. Just emails. Deadlines. The fluorescent lights overhead. Maybe someone’s cologne three desks over. Your heart starts racing
Memory
When Your Brain Remembers Facts But Not Where You Put Your Keys
Understanding Memory Differences in Autistic and ADHD Brains