Been MIA for a few weeks. I am really working on trying to practice what I preach so to speak – and so dropped the social media ball in order to keep my other priorities in the air. We are super small – as you know – and super dedicated to doing the best we...Read More

Our young people tend to move in cycles (in reality we all do, but that’s another story). Like the waves crashing on the shore, the effort of moving forwards inevitably also leads to some backwards motion. Neurodevelopmentally foundational, it’s the same framework that operates during the so-called “sleep regressions” our young people experience as babies....Read More

I got caught in the rain walking the dog the other day. Only a tiny little bit of drizzle on a warm enough day and it reminded me of a time when we were living in China. We used to ride these little scooters around from work to home and home to work. They were...Read More

There’s a weird thing that happens with autistic people’s interests. They get called “special interests”. People get really concerned about autistic people engaging in these “special interests”. Things that any other neurotypical person would call a hobby or a passion. They are labelled as “too obsessive” and “too restrictive”. People intentionally try to interrupt them,...Read More

There’s an isolation we don’t talk about when you are someone who is no longer following the rules. Someone who has either chosen, or been forced, into that role. Being fully aware of “the rules” but no longer being able to follow them. It can be incredibly isolating. You are bearing witness to all this...Read More

The more I learn about neurodivergent nervous systems and sensory processing the better I understand myself. My digestive system is so sensitive that if I eat anything that is even just slightly out of date, or undercooked, or overcooked, then I know about it straightaway. Whereas my husband’s system is like, ‘yeah, whatever’ and is...Read More

An amazing kind of side effect of the work that I do is that I now get to be in community with this amazing group, this really incredible group of women who are putting their kids first, who are bucking the system, who are nonconforming and doing exactly what needs to be done so that...Read More

In a session the other day we were talking about the concept of masking, or wearing a mask. How in its most literal sense, it doesn’t really fit what happens when we mask. We don’t pick something up and place it in front of ourselves. A physical mask has hard edges. A definite line between...Read More

A lesson I needed to relearn today. We have a tendency to speed things up when we, or others, are in distress. To get things over with as quickly as possible, for the uncomfortable thing to have passed and the issue to be resolved. This is particularly true with our young people. When they are...Read More