⸺ THE DISCIPLINE
This is the lens behind everything I write and build: how stress, sensation and difference show up in the nervous system, and how understanding that changes the way we support each other.
Neuro-Wellness — understanding the mind as the starting point for compassion
⸺ WHAT IT MEANS
I use "neuro-wellness" to describe something specific: the practice of understanding neurodivergence and stress through the lens of neuroscience, rather than through behaviour alone. It's not a service I offer or a credential I hold — it's the discipline I bring to my writing, my research, and eventually my advocacy work.
For families like mine, this lens changes everything. It reframes a meltdown as sensory overload, a shutdown as a nervous system doing its best to cope, and a diagnosis — whether a child's or a parent's — as the start of understanding rather than the end of it.
⸺ CURRENT FOCUS
What I'm studying and reading right now
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Sensory processing in autistic children
How sensory overload shows up differently across children, and what that means for the language we use to describe it.
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Language, behaviour and communication
How the words we choose for behaviour shape how children come to see themselves.
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The neuroscience of chronic stress
How stress compounds in the nervous system over years — the research question at the heart of the non-fiction book.
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Family systems under diagnosis
How a diagnosis — a child's or a parent's — ripples through an entire family's sense of normal.