LOVE your Neuro-divergent life.
ND Affirming Coaching inVermont and Beyond
Managing it all on your own leads to burnout.
Learning that you’re neurodivergent as a grown up brings more questions than answers:
Am I masking?
What are my support needs?
Why do I suddenly have MORE AuDHD traits than ever????
And am I really AuDHD or am I making it all up?
You’re in the right spot.
Together we’ll explore all these questions and more.
When you’ve been trying to do all the things that are expected of you as a neurotypical but really you’re neurodivergent. . . it tends to make you doubt yourself and defer to other people.
We believe in Autonomy (you stay in control) and Diversity (you’re allowed to be exactly you), so you can choose the type of interaction you are most comfortable with.
Get the support that’s right for you.
Maybe you are neuro-curious and want one-on-one support with Amy or Miranda. We can do a supported self-assessment, or just talk through whatever is coming up for you. Knowing whether you are Autistic or ADHD can help you gain self understanding, begin to unmask, self advocate, and gain access to support and resources that actually work for you. Supported Self Assessment might be the right start for you.
Want to understand Autism and ADHD at a deeper level? Amy was so special-interested she went back to school for a second master’s in Autism Studies. With a passion for neurodiversity, she’d LOVE to answer any of your questions and dive deep into exploration, whether it's about personal experiences or those bigger philosophical questions that shape how we understand neurodivergence.
Struggling to stay present in your life? So much of our struggles as ND’s come from having a super sensitive nervous system. Miranda is excellent at helping you get to know yours, along with practical exercises you can do to get out of chronic dissociation and back into your body and your life. Miranda is trained in Somatic Experiencing as well as other neurobiology based practices, like the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP).
Or maybe you’re craving some more connection to neurodivergent community. You want to get to know other adults that are just figuring this stuff out for themselves, and swap stories from childhood to visions for the future. We will match you with others that are in a similar spot on this journey, so you don’t have to go it alone. Try our Affinity Groups and other programs to get that intimate community experience!
Learning about your unique brain and body, while spending time with other neurodivergent adults, gives you the perspective you need to start designing a life that supports and nourishes you. . . and that’s fun enough to feel worth living!
We believe in. . .
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We’re in this for the long haul. We’re trying to create systems and cultivate ways of engaging with our struggles that will see us through all the years to come. While we may be problem-solving small day-to-day roadblocks, we’re also creating templates for how to address them in the future. We’re not just handing out fish here, we’re trying to redesign the whole fishing industry, one boat at a time!
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We believe there is a threshold over which life is possible, under which ND’s are in real danger. We want to nudge as many people as we can above that threshold into a life that feels worth getting out of bed for! We know you don’t have extra time or energy to waste, and neither do we. We are committed to doing things that are truly useful and make things better for you. Even small changes can add up to big wins for your quality of life.
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There’s a saying, “when you’ve met one Autistic person, you’ve met ONE Autistic person.” We believe that each of us is unique and that diverse and varied ways of knowing and being are a vast and ever growing source of strength and empowerment. Please disagree with us when you disagree, and share with us the beautiful and important wisdom that you have! We promise to share what we have found in our lives with you.
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Autistic people are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and to cults. Sharing in ND community, particularly after a lifetime of isolation, can trigger a flood of endorphins and good feelings. We want to protect people in this vulnerable emotional space so we wrote a Bill of Rights for our ND Friendly community. We are committed to keeping YOU in the driver’s seat of your own life.
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Chances are you’ve experienced people trying to make decisions for you or pressure you into doing things instead of letting you choose. We believe that YOU get to decide things about yourself and your life, and that consent is an ongoing, moment to moment process, not something you give once and then stop thinking about. We want you to choose in every moment what you want to believe, and what you want to do.
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One of the most powerful growth vehicles for us was embracing our needs and limits. In acknowledging what works and what doesn’t for each of us, we can STOP doing the things that don’t work and focus all our energy on what does. Prefer video or text? Let’s do it. Want to walk around while talking? Great. We’re working on building more offerings to come in all shapes and sizes so you can get what you need in a way that you can actually access and use.
Many ways of being, many ways of knowing
**Content warning…hard truths about being late identified neurodivergent. Mention of grief, mortality rate and other physical symptoms. **
