What if it wasn't this hard all the time?
Seriously… it doesn’t have to be this hard.
I used to feel most weeks like I had been through the wringer… 10 rounds with someone… and climbed a mountain..
Every.
Single.
Week.
Most of the time I pushed through and got on with ‘it’. Didn’t complain. Just pulled up my big brave pants and carried on.
Though periodically I could go no further. Brain and body just said “nope”. And in these moments I took a couple of days out. No internet. No telly. Nothing. Detached from life completely.
It was often is inconvenient as sometimes these came when I was supposed to be at work, or doing something with my loved ones. Pfft life. And sometimes I pushed through even harder… being miserable, fed up and not really enjoying life.
I thought this was what everyone did.
Apparently not.
It seems this is something quite unique (though other people do burnout too…) to neurodivergent people. Of all flavours.
As I leaned into the patterns and rhythms of my neurodivergence something started to change.
The times between ‘nope’ moments grew.
I feel less worn out all the time.
The further I leaned in… the better my mental wellbeing became.
I feel happier.
The more I designed my world for how I worked… more energy biscuits I had available for the unexpected BS that came as part of life.
I have space and capacity to breath through the good and hard.
And this is what I do with my coaching clients.
I help them find ways to grow capacity.
I support them to experiment with new ways of being that work with, not against their unique brains.
I empower them to be unapologetically themselves and ask for the support they need to be themselves and live their best lives.
