AuDHD Flourishing Love Your Brain

Rest is not something to be made up for later with productivity. Whether it was forced by the body or not.
We deserve to have energy to do what we love!
Love Your Brain now has three elements you can choose from for more accessibility:
Love Your Brain course contentGroup coaching and co-working callsDirect support from Mattia
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Eric Tivers has shared 10 years of helpful content on his podcast, ADHD reWired. He's also built multiple careers helping neurodivergent folks: from therapy, to teaching high support need kids, to the current ADHD group programs.
It's a never-ending journey of discovering what works for his current needs and capacity. And the relatively recent discovery of... oh... maybe there's something to this autism thing.
Find Eric and his work at adhdrewired.com
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Multiple times in the past week or two, clients have felt like they're failing miserably. But it turns out they're in complex, difficult, multifaceted situations that don't have an easy answer.
Plus, it's easy to feel like we're never doing enough, or the right thing. If we're solving personal problems, world events loom large. If we're addressing world events, it feels like a drop in the bucket.
Capitalism tells us that there's a straightforward, purchasable solution for every problem. That's a lie.
You're probably doing really well relative to all the complicated issues you face, and the overall lack of support and resources most of us encounter. And if you really believe that's not true... this episode is especially for you!
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Big feelings may be harder for monotropic people to handle. And if you have significant sensory sensitivity, the physical sensations can be overwhelming as well.
This episode covers some of the ways I've been approaching grief and helplessness about Gaza.
Links mentioned in show:
Episode 15, How Feelings WorkLisa Feldman Barrett's book How Emotions Are MadeAl Jazeera article, ‘It’s not human’: What a French doctor saw in Gaza as Israel invaded RafahMacklemore song Hind's HallSign up for General Strike in US!
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You'll rarely catch me using the term "hack." But this concept around demand avoidance is working great for me, so far...
TLDR: Shortcutting the PDA brain's ability to use pattern recognition to avoid tasks early in a sequence.
Here's the Instagram video by Kristy Forbes that inspired this episode.
While she suggests introducing new sensory details, I'm going the route of sincerely telling myself that we don't need to do the final thing. We're just gonna do this step.
Note: even if this or Kristy's suggestion works for you, there's a good chance you'll get used to it in some form eventually! And that's okay. Sometimes we just have to keep finding new ways to work with our pattern-seeking brains.
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Wow, over 100K listens! People talk a lot about feeling safe being visible—being seen and heard either literally or through putting your work into the world.
While I've done a lot of personal work being comfortable while visible, the Guardian article was a huge bump in visibility. To be fair, the "bad day" I reference was also the kidney infection kicking into full gear (see "Don't Die" a couple episodes ago).
It's also a lot easier to be "brave" being visible when you get almost entirely positive feedback! That usually changes with more visibility.
Enjoying this particular phase and trying not to worry about the next one.
The Guardian article, "The sudden rise of AuDHD"

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