Living in a neurodivergent family can be tough, especially in a world that is not neuro-affirming, with schools and workplaces causing many ND children and adults excessive and unnecessary distress. As a parent of a neurodivergent child, how can you provide the best support? Learn as much as you can about your child’s diagnosis […]
Supporting your ND kids and young people Read More »
I identify as she/her, and I’ve always shared this openly across my platforms. I recently realised the privilege I hold in having never had to think about it – never questioning, never feeling uncertain. I’ve spent much of my life reflecting on aspects of my identity – being neurodivergent, growing up in a mixed-culture household,
Women’s Embodiment – the felt sense of womanhood Read More »
Throughout your life you’ve felt like you don’t quite know how to be an adult, that you’re somehow failing at adulting, or like your head is always dipping just below the water level, never quite achieving the potential that you and everyone else expected. You have this undercurrent of fear that someday soon your mask
Living with a late diagnosis: neurodivergence Read More »
I will not shy away from the difficult, the contentious, the painful. I will not allow myself to be cleaved, in two parts that ought never to have been separated, one side accepted, the other judged and condemned. I grew up being told by the world around me that the ‘male’ traits of assertiveness, power,
Yin and yang – the value of integration Read More »
I am an ADHDer. * When I first started out as a therapist, I worried that some of my ADHD traits would cause me difficulties in my work… – distraction – – forgetfulness – – difficulties with routines – – struggles with sensory overload – …but I have my ways of coping with these. Having
Working as an ADHD therapist Read More »
I’ve been thinking about identity, and the assumptions we make about people. Obviously there is a huge complexity to identity, for example some of the issues that are very popular in the media at the moment in terms of gender, sexual and relationship diversity or in terms of neurodivergence, but on a lighter level, on
The auras of people – what are they, what do they mean? Making sense of our assumptions Read More »
Many people who have come across me and my work are aware that I am come from difference – specifically mixed culture and neurodivergence – and that this is primarily why I specialise in working with issues around identity. What most people do not know, is that I am also a twin. When talking about
Identity issues around the twin relationship Read More »
I came across a post yesterday by @unmaskedbyanna (IG) about ‘autistic info dumping’ and the differing ways that different people communicate. She commented that she finds other ways of communicating not as easy, and if people change the subject before she’s ready or ‘done’, she finds this difficult too. * “…I also need to sort
Info dumping versus collecting the strays Read More »
It’s New Year 2024 – for those of us that have lived through the Millenium parties, it may be a shock to notice how much time has passed since then! When we embark on a New Year, a whole new chapter ahead of us, popular culture tells us to celebrate the successes and achievements of
Awakening to live life with a conscious mind and an open heart Read More »
I live in world so infused with knowledge about what ADHD and autism are, because everyone I spend any time with has lived experience of one or the other, that I forget not everyone understands. And people look or stare, at what to me are normal parenting or relationship or individual behaviours, reactions and dynamics.
What is it to be neurodivergent? A personal perspective Read More »
