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Today’s a great day to wander down a new learning path.
Explore the latest from the NeuroKind blog, below!
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Coming Home to You: Recognizing + Recovering from Autistic Burnout
You aren’t broken, and neither is your brain. If you lived in a world designed for minds like ours, you wouldn’t be constantly be doing things that deplete you and lead to Autistic “symptoms”, like Autistic Burnout. You’re a person who’s been told you're driving an automatic, when it turns out you’ve actually been driving a stick shift all this time. That’s great news - because you can learn how to drive a different kind of car. This article is a good place to start. Read on to learn more, and start noticing, reframing, recovering from, and even preventing Autistic Burnout.
Self-Compassion is not the same thing as making excuses
Self-compassion ≠ making excuses. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Instead, self-compassion is what allows us to get enough perspective to accurately identify the problem. This matters because correctly identifying a problem is the only real chance you have of solving that problem. Read more for an excellent example of what this looks like, and why self-compassion is so critical to our ability to make meaningful progress in any area of our lives.
The Uniquely Neurodivergent Challenge of Understanding People’s Emotions
If you’re a neurodivergent, “2e” type of human, trying to “put yourself in someone else’s shoes” can be a complicated proposition. You are more likely than a neurotypical person to ascribe a more complex motivation to someone’s actions or behaviors than is actually present. You’re also more inclined towards Negative Intent Attribution - meaning you’re more likely to attribute more negative and less positive intent to peers. Keep reading to learn more about how “thinking differently” can cause us to misidentify others’ motivations, and how we can work with our brains to cultivate emotionally-healthy communication and connection.
Why professional credibility has to come from within (and why brand-borrowing isn't an effective shortcut)
The kind of credibility that will genuinely further your career has to come from the inside out. Brand-borrowing your credibility without addressing your underlying confidence issues or skill gaps will, in the long term, compromise your confidence and decrease your chance of reaching your goal. Read more to learn what brand-borrowing is, the right way to use it, and three questions that will help you build earned credibility.
7 Things Worth Committing to in the New Year
New Years Resolutions are trash. I'm just going to say it. They are the steaming dumpster fire of personal growth. Instead, here's a list of 7 approaches to life you can commit to that will definitely improve your New Year - including the neuroscience behind why each one is important and why it works. Basically - here's your one stop coaching superstore, complete with hilarious gifs!! READ ON, good humans, and get ready to glory in 2017!!
Things (don’t have to) Fall Apart: staying connected through Covid
Everyone in my house has Covid right now. It sucks, and we’re exhausted. But we’re also genuinely ok - as a couple, and as a family. Check out these six brain-based relationship coaching practices that we lean on to stay connected and co-create a healthy, loving relationship - even in the face of Covid.
Your Brain on Quarantine (and why you’re not getting anything done)
Ok, listen up with all that "I'm not getting enough done. I'm not writing that novel. I haven't worked out at home 8 days a week. I'm FAILING QUARANTINE" NONSENSE.
The state of your brain determines what you are capable of accomplishing on a basic, biological level. And right now there are several things happening on a BIOLOGICAL LEVEL that are fucking your brain up.
What To Do When You Lose Faith in Your Own Judgement
What do you do when you've lost faith in your own judgement? Maybe you always pick shitty friends, bad men, or jobs that don't fulfill you. What's the solution? Learn why relying on your gut intuition is the most logical path, and how your brain can support you to make smart, tailored-to-you decisions!
Your Brain is Lazy (Why It Can Feel Hard to Stick to Goals)
How many times have you made a goal to improve yourself and failed to follow through? Honestly, it’s probably thousands of times. For all of us! I’m counting all the Big Goals (I’m going to work out 6 days a week for an hour) and the little goals (I’m just going to watch one episode on Netflix before bed). So why is there such a discrepancy between the awesome life plans we’ve designed and actually taking the actions that will get us there?