Personal Growth
New Year’s Reflections and Intentions
A few prompts to reflect on the previous year and to set intentions for the next.
Coaching
Your Path to a Life You Love: Capitalize on Your Strengths
There are some great things about an autistic brain that can get overlooked if you focus only on the things that are more difficult.
Coaching
Your Path to a Life You Love: Design Your Own Best Destiny
Want to really get at the heart of what’s holding you back? To find the freedom to make your life be what you want it to be? That takes a deep dive.
Coaching
Your Path to a Life You Love: Deepen Your Personal Sensory Awareness
Almost all autistics have a more intense sensory experience of the world than the majority of people. Understanding what that means for you gives you power.
Coaching
Your Path to a Life You Love: Identify and Remove Hidden Barriers
Why is it that strategies to fix the obvious challenges often don’t work? It’s usually because they don’t get at what’s really going on beneath the surface.
Autism
Happy Autism Diagnosis Day!
Spectrum identification was absolutely, hands down, no holds barred, the best thing that has happened in my life.
Education
How to Kill A Growth Mindset
Many schools and teachers try hard to foster in students a growth mindset—the resilience to keep trying—but are we unintentionally undermining our best efforts?
Adulting
On the Habits of Successful People
A few thoughts on what society tells us about success and successful people, and how the truth may be different when you are neurodivergent.
Personal Growth
Can We Talk About the T Word?
There’s a topic I’ve been avoiding. It’s not easy or comfortable to talk about, but I’m increasingly convinced that it is necessary. Will you join me in this difficult, and deeply rewarding, conversation?
Personal Growth
Try This Secret for Falling Asleep Faster
I’ve had difficulty falling asleep almost my entire life. Turns out that is common for autistic individuals. Lots of sleep tips are great. Here’s one you might not have heard.
Sensory
Sensory Toys Can Be Anything
With more and more sensory specific products on the market, it can feel like you have to shell out money for sensory regulation. Don’t forget what you already have handy.
Society
A Few Thoughts on Labels
There’s a lot of controversy around labels. Some people love them, some hate them. I’m somewhere in the middle.
