26/06/2024
Hi everyone. Thought I better send this out now since I am a few days from getting home and throwing myself back into work and my particular passion of exploring strengths based neurodivergence.
If you get a chance, have a look at my new website and pass it onto people you think might be interested in exploring this topic online or buying my book through Amazon - hard copy or kindle. I hope to release an audio version in the coming months with the support of my niece Kim and look out for a book launch when I can get it organised, also in the next couple of months. It is my intention to start strengths-based neurodivergence training for therapists or anyone in related fields, both online and in person, so am very excited about what the rest of the year holds, after an amazing holiday.
As you may see on the website, my partner Sam and I kicked off the YouTube/ Podcast series before we left, but we were way too ambitious to think they would continue while we travelled. There is another you tube discussion waiting for when we get home that we could not get online, which we made literally the evening we were going to catch the plane ( as it turned out we had missed the plane, but didn’t know it at the time - we were a day late!!). Anyway there’s nothing polished about it, but it’s a real and honest discussion between two people who have discovered their nuerodivergence late in life and claim it proudly.
I also mention this because I have a few people lined up to talk to me about this topic. There is a lot to discuss! So if you think you might be one of them get in touch with me. I know it’s not everyone’s idea of fun to talk in public, but this is a developing area of understanding. More and more women in particular are realising that being attention divergent and highly sensitive or a highly adapted autistic person are very powerful and positive identities, which can allow us to stop masking to fit a neurotypical norm.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read my book or get online and have a look at the thousands of videos and articles that are flooding the internet. Some are great, and some unfortunately use pathologising language like deficit and disorder or stigmatise what I believe to be normal variations of human evolvement
Discover your strengths and challenge the idea that the best benchmark for being in the world is a neurotypical one. We need all kinds of brains!! Neurodivergence probably helped our survival as humans evolved, and we continue to be needed to help the world move forward in creative and diverse ways.
