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Neurodivergent 🧠 Queer 🏳️‍🌈 Affirming AMHSW | Supervision | Training | PhD Researcher Disrupting Neuronorms & Reimagining Autistic Mental Health Practice
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Too often, self-care gets sold as a luxury or aesthetic.But for neurodivergent professionals, self-care is often invisib...
16/02/2026

Too often, self-care gets sold as a luxury or aesthetic.

But for neurodivergent professionals, self-care is often invisible. Quiet. Sensory. Subtle. And entirely essential.

🌱 It’s choosing silence over small talk.
It’s planning your day so it feels predictable.
It’s knowing that “regulated” might look like moving, stimming, pausing — not sitting still and smiling.

✨ Let this post be your reminder:
🌀 Regulation isn’t a reward for doing everything “right.”
It’s your right — and your resource.

One small practice you might explore is the **Mini-Practice: Daily Tree Check,** a nervous system-friendly way to reflect, reorient, and root into sustainable rhythms: Resources link in bio.

Airports are usually a symphony of trolley wheels, boarding calls, and nervous coffee energy.And then… there is the Dome...
15/02/2026

Airports are usually a symphony of trolley wheels, boarding calls, and nervous coffee energy.

And then… there is the Dome of Silence at Adelaide Airport. 🫧

A little pocket of hush tucked inside the chaos.
Soft lighting.
Muted colours.
The sound dial turned gently down.

It feels like stepping inside a seashell while the ocean keeps crashing outside. The world is still busy, but it can’t quite reach you in here.

For neurodivergent travellers, for overwhelmed kids, for anyone whose nervous system is waving a tiny white flag, this room is not a luxury. It is regulation with walls.

Adelaide Airport, you absolute legends for building this. ✨

If you’re travelling to/from Adelaide and your body starts buzzing louder than the departure board, go find it. Your nervous system will thank you.

Rest doesn’t mean you’re giving up.It doesn’t mean you’re falling behind.And it definitely doesn’t mean you’re lazy.🌙 Re...
14/02/2026

Rest doesn’t mean you’re giving up.
It doesn’t mean you’re falling behind.
And it definitely doesn’t mean you’re lazy.

🌙 Rest is recalibration.
It’s the body catching up with your inner knowing.
It’s a pause before burnout becomes collapse.

For so many neurodivergent folks, especially those who’ve internalised urgency, productivity, or people-pleasing, rest can feel like a threat.
Like you’re not doing enough.

But rest is not absence.
It’s presence.
It’s capacity repair.
It’s nervous system support in its most essential form.

Save this for when you need a reminder.

Check out my latest blog post: Rooted, Not Rushed: Reclaiming Regulation as a Neurodivergent Professional - Link in bio!

13/02/2026

Conferences always feel a little bit like standing inside a living nervous system. Ideas sparking. People orbiting. Energy humming through corridors and coffee queues.

I’m feeling incredibly grateful after The Neuro Nurture Conference.

A huge thank you to Esther Fidock for the extraordinary amount of work that goes into holding something like this together. Organising a conference is no small feat. It’s logistics, vision, care, and stamina all braided into one. And it showed.

To the presenters, thank you for your depth, honesty, and generosity. The quality of professional and lived experience in that room was powerful to witness.

Amanda Moses Amanda Moses Psychology

Sandhya Menon
Onwards and Upwards Psychology

Marie Camin

Christina Schmidt

Kelsie (Mick) Olds
The Occuplaytional Therapist

Sarah Harrower

Amelia Wright
neurotopical therapy

Chenai Mupotsa-Russell

And to everyone I spoke with, connected with, or shared a moment of recognition with… it means more than you know. Hearing how my work has landed in your lives, your practice, your own unmasking journeys… that is the part that stays with me. It’s profoundly heart-warming.

I had the privilege of presenting about PDA, exploring how we might better understand demand avoidance through a nervous system lens. The conversations afterwards reminded me why this work matters.

And also… conferences can be a lot.

Even the most affirming spaces are still full of sound, light, social energy, emotional processing, and cognitive load. If you’re feeling that post-conference fog or wired-but-tired buzz, you’re not alone.

Please be gentle with yourselves today. Hydrate. Rest. Stim freely. Let your nervous system land. Big days require big recovery.

10/02/2026

Neurodivergent parenting isn’t about perfection…it’s about presence, compassion, and connection. 💛

🎙️ Episode #45 Holding Space for Yourself and Your Kids with Michael Coles

In this heartfelt podcast episode, we share a moment from our powerful conversation with autistic advocate and dad, Michael Coles. Together, we explore the reality of raising neurodivergent children as neurodivergent parents.

🎧 Listen to the full episode via the link in bio or search Divergent Dialogues on your fave podcast app.

I’ve just recorded another Divergent Discussion with Kaboose App's Karla Pretorius, and I’m still sitting with how groun...
08/02/2026

I’ve just recorded another Divergent Discussion with Kaboose App's Karla Pretorius, and I’m still sitting with how grounding and clarifying the conversation felt.

We spoke about something I see constantly in organisations:
What happens when workplaces say they’re neuroinclusive…but nothing actually changes?

Not the systems.
Not the expectations.
Not the power dynamics.

Just the language.

In this conversation, we unpacked performative neuroinclusion:
Where lived experience is invited in as optics rather than guidance.

There is no final destination in nervous system work.No checklist that means “you’ve made it.”No perfection point where ...
08/02/2026

There is no final destination in nervous system work.
No checklist that means “you’ve made it.”
No perfection point where you’ll never dysregulate again.

✨ Regulation is not something we *achieve*.
It’s something we *return to.*
It’s a pause.
A walk around the block.
A deep breath before answering the email.
A stim, a movement, a moment.

Save this post for when you need a reminder.

I’m currently creating The Ripple Framework of Neurodivergent Flourishing - a spacious model for neurodivergent professionals who are tired of over-adapting and ready to reconnect with their own rhythm.

Join the interest list: link in bio!

Burnout is often framed as a personal failure.A resilience problem.A “you need better coping skills” issue.But for many ...
07/02/2026

Burnout is often framed as a personal failure.

A resilience problem.

A “you need better coping skills” issue.

But for many neurodivergent professionals, burnout is a **boundary alarm** — a signal that our nervous systems have been carrying more than they were ever meant to hold.

Autistic burnout isn’t just tiredness.

It can involve losing access to skills, heightened sensory overwhelm, and a deep erosion of self-trust.

This doesn’t happen because you’re weak.

It happens because you’ve been adapting — for too long — in environments that don’t accommodate your needs.

✨ When we name burnout as a *mismatch* rather than a *moral failure*, something softens.

Shame loosens.

Curiosity becomes possible.

If this resonates, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to push through to prove anything.

I’m currently creating The Ripple Framework of Neurodivergent Flourishing - a spacious model for neurodivergent professionals who are tired of over-adapting and ready to reconnect with their own rhythm.

Join the interest list: link in bio!

If you’ve ever been told to “manage your emotions” or “hold it together”…you’re not alone.For many of us neurodivergent ...
05/02/2026

If you’ve ever been told to “manage your emotions” or “hold it together”…you’re not alone.
For many of us neurodivergent folks, especially those who’ve masked for survival, “regulation” was framed as silence. Stillness.
A way to shrink ourselves until we felt acceptable.

But regulation isn’t about taming.
It’s about trusting — your body, your needs, your cues.
It’s not about fitting in.
It’s about coming home to yourself.

✨ Regulation means listening inward.
It’s asking:
→ What do I need right now?
→ Where do I feel safe?
→ What pace is sustainable for me today?

You don’t need to perform calm.
You need to feel safe.

I’m currently creating The Ripple Framework of Neurodivergent Flourishing - a spacious model for neurodivergent professionals who are tired of over-adapting and ready to reconnect with their own rhythm.

Join the interest list: link in bio!

04/02/2026

What happens when organisations say they’re neuroinclusive, but nothing actually changes?

In this Divergent Discussion, Caitlin Hughes unpacks performative neuroinclusion, tokenism, and the harm caused when lived experience is used as optics instead of guidance.

Honest. Necessary. Neuroaffirming.

🎟️ Save your seat.
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