Anxiety Reduction for Neurodiverse Humans
Here’s one of the most helpful reframes I’ve ever come across when dealing with my own anxiety, or helping my clients through theirs.
Autistic Burnout
Executive Functioning
Warning Signs of Autistic Burnout
A checklist of common warning signs that autistic burnout is coming soon, or that you’re in it.
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Hexagon Progress Chart
Like star charts, or habit trackers, but without all of the blank dates to haunt you when you didn’t do something, just an ever-filling chart of what you did do.
Color in a hexagon each time you make progress toward your personal goals. Includes a full page and a half page chart.
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Stress and Restoration
5 of the Most Overlooked
(and Common) Stressors
If you, or your kid, are frequently exhausted, having trouble functioning, melting down or shutting down, have low energy, or are feeling tired or sick, get headaches, or avoid daily tasks, and you haven’t been able to explain why, check out these common (and commonly overlooked) sources of stress in everyday modern life.
5 Domains of Stress
When so much of life is governed by sensory overwhelm, it’s tempting to look only for biological stressors.
But stressors cause and build on each other, so it’s important to look for these other ones as well.
Here’s five areas, or domains, in which we all experience stress, and several examples to help you generate ideas.
The 5 Steps of Self-Reg:
A Quick Sheet
A quick reminder of the The 5 Steps of Self-Reg, with a view to autistic kids and adults.
Post it on the fridge, by your desk, or wherever you could use a gentle reminder.
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Regulating Activity Ideas
The easiest time to do something that helps you or your kid regulate, is before you become dysregulated.
Here are more than 50 ideas (57, but who’s counting?) of activities for autistics, and parents, to feel good and regulated so you have the energy to cope when things happen that are more challenging to deal with.
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Free Workshops
Recovering from Autistic Burnout
Here’s an overview of how to get out of autistic burnout permanently, so you can get your life back (an autism-friendly life you are excited to live).
How to Start Investigating Your Sensory Differences
Do you want to get better at figuring out your sensory differences, to understand your own body better? Here’s a few ideas on how to get started.
How to Use Body Signals to Make Better Decisions
If decision making is hard for you, here’s a technique to use body sensations as another source of information for decision making.
The 5 Most Overlooked (and Common) Autistic Stressors
Here are five things that are so common in our modern lifestyle, that we often don’t have a chance to experience life without them, so we don’t see how much they affect us.
