07 Nov Understanding ADHD: Making Sense of Your Strengths and Struggles

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Living with ADHD often means experiencing life with creativity, energy, and curiosity — but also moments of overwhelm, self-doubt and exhaustion due to burnout. Understanding your neurotype is the first step toward turning that insight into confidence, clarity, and self-compassion....

03 Jun What Is Neurodivergent Burnout—and Burnout Is So Often Missed?

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Understanding neurodivergent burnout symptoms and burnout recovery is so important. Neurodivergent burnout is a form of chronic exhaustion that deeply affects many autistic and ADHD individuals. Unlike general stress, this kind of burnout is tied to the ongoing mismatch between how someone’s brain works and...

When do you know if you should see a psychologist because of a life change or transition?

03 Feb Autism or ASD and Anxiety in Girls (including non-binary and transgender individuals)

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Common misdiagnoses in girls and women with ASD include social anxiety disorder, general anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, and ADHD. These are seen more commonly as some of the symptoms overlap with ASD, and girls tend to be less ‘overt’ in their presentation, making it...