Mindly Different
Coaching for the beautifully different mind
Category: Personal
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Supporting a neurodivergent brain during the holidays isn’t about forcing resilience – it’s about working with how the nervous system actually functions. Small, intentional adjustments can dramatically reduce overload and your post-holiday exhaustion.Remind yourself: I don’t need to attend everything.I don’t need to stay as long as others.My wellbeing matters as much as tradition.
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How Narcissistic Parenting Shapes the Developing Nervous System Children do not learn safety from explanations.They learn it from consistency. When caregiving is warm, predictable, and emotionally attuned, a child’s nervous system develops around the assumption that the world is largely safe and that distress will be met with repair.But when a parent is emotionally unavailable,…
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The Hidden Physiology of Neurodivergent Burnout Some people can push through long days, loud environments, dense information, shifting plans, and endless social expectations with minimal impact. Others – especially neurodivergent individuals or those with sensitive, reorganizing, or chronically stressed nervous systems – find that the same demands lead to profound exhaustion, emotional flooding, or shutdown.…
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When a neurological event changes your life, no one hands you a map.You wake up in a different body, a different mind, a different emotional landscape – and somehow you’re expected to navigate it while still grieving who you used to be.
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Who Am I Now? Neurological change doesn’t just alter how the brain functions – it reshapes the sense of self.When an injury, stroke, or medical event reorganizes neural pathways, the transformation is not merely cognitive.It is psychological, emotional, relational, and existential.
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What No One Told Me About Becoming a Different Version of Myself I believed in science with my whole being.I believed in medicine, in skilled hands, in protocols and knowledge and sterile rooms that smelled like safety. I believed that when you entrust your life to a neurosurgeon, you are carried – held inside a…
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Why I Created Mindly Different For as long as I can remember, stories about people whose minds worked differently captivated me. Even as a child, I felt drawn to understand the inner worlds of those who thought, felt, or processed life in ways that weren’t considered “typical”. I didn’t have the vocabulary for it yet,…
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