21/07/2026
We have our monthly session of Let's Talk Adult AuDHD on Thursday 23rd July at 6.45pm The Rise and this month we are going to be looking at what gives us energy and where our natural talents lie.
There is so much emphasis on the difficulties and deficits of being neurodivergent that it is easy to lose sight of all the good things it brings.
Having appreciation for our brilliance is especially important for those of us trying to make sense of a diagnosis later in life.
Last week I had an adventure in Italy, with a 3 day trek and climb of C***o Grande in the Apenines. It was challenging on many levels and it gave me a greater appreciation of the value of being neurodivergent - not least resilience, adaptability and focus.
I also have an eye for beauty and the landscape did not disappoint so I thought I would share some of it's jewels here for you to enjoy too.
If you would like a friendly space to explore what being neurodivergent means to you, then please come an join us on Thursday.
You will be very welcome.
Hazel
12/07/2026
All out of spoons.
I was reading a post on Linkedin and it sparked a quite big realisation. Ben Branson was talking about looking fine on the outside while the body's battery quietly drains — and how it can flip to empty without warning.
It took me straight back to visiting my Mum and how often I fell asleep mid-conversation on the sofa with her — not just close my eyes, properly checked out, sometimes for hours. I didn't see her often and I told myself it was rude and a waste of precious time. Mum didn’t see it like that, she just accepted me as I was. Knackered.
Looking at it now, I realise I fell asleep because I felt safe. My body battery flipped to empty and my nervous system could finally stand down and rest. Mum was my good place.
I spent too much of my adult life pushing through, masking well, achieving and calling it fine. It's exactly what I see in the clients I work with too: people keeping it together through pressure and change, performing "fine" so convincingly that they've stopped noticing what it’s like to feel good, to feel themselves.
Making sense of our experience to decompress is an essential part of maintaining wellbeing, not a luxury for the exhausted.
This is the work I do now – helping people working through change and uncertainty to create the stable ground that makes it possible to rest, recalibrate and live from somewhere other than empty.
If that's where you are, I'd love to talk. Drop a comment or send me a message.
