Neurodivergent Burnout Recovery Without Ice Baths or Fasting
Most burnout advice adds more stress to a body with none left. Here is what recovery looks like when you don't push.
Low Muscle Tone and Constant Tiredness: Is Your Energy Supply the Link?
Muscles run on energy. If yours tire fast, feel soft or give out early, your cells' energy supply is worth a look.
What Is the Cell Danger Response? A Plain-English Guide for Neurodivergent Women
Your cells have an alarm system. Here is what it does, what keeps it ringing, and where the science runs out.
Can Making Art Calm a Neurodivergent Nervous System? What the Research Says
How making art lowers stress and helps neurodivergent women in perimenopause feel safe: the research, and what happened when I started.
Sensory Micro-Aggressions: Why Everyday Noise, Light and Smell Wear You Out
The small noises, lights and smells neurotypical people barely notice, and why they drain neurodivergent women's energy.
Sensory Overload in Perimenopause Is Real: Why Everything Suddenly Feels Too Loud
Noise, light and people suddenly feel unbearable in perimenopause. Why your senses really are more sensitive, and what I've learned about it.
Was That a Meltdown or a Blood Sugar Crash? (How I Tell, After the Fact)
Some meltdowns are sensory. Some are a fuel crisis. Why I started asking which one it was, and five gentle questions to ask yourself afterwards.
Why You're Exhausted After Eating Carbs (And Why "Just Eat Balanced" Hasn't Fixed It)
Why carbs flatten some neurodivergent women by 3pm, and why willpower was never the problem. My experience, and a simple way to find your own pattern.
Could L-Theanine Save the World? (Or At Least the ND Nervous System)
What a small amino acid in green tea did for my sensory overload, my nervous system and my mast cells. Why is nobody talking about it?
Why Your Unfelt Emotions Are Draining Your Energy: What Finally Released Mine
Unfelt emotions don't disappear. They sit in the body as tension, and your cells read it as ongoing threat. A motorbike accident, a drought, and what finally helped me release it.
Why You Crash After a Good Day: What Your Mitochondria Are Doing
The crash that arrives after something good. Why a lovely morning can leave a neurodivergent nervous system wrecked, and what your mitochondria are doing.
7 No-Cook Snacks to Stop a Blood Sugar Crash (Vegetarian, ND-Friendly)
Seven vegetarian snacks you can eat with no cooking and no chopping, to stop a blood sugar crash before it becomes anxiety, brain fog or shutdown.
Plummeting Estrogen. Starving Mitochondria: Why Rest Feels Like Physical Torture for Neurodivergent Women in Perimenopause
Scrolling isn't resting. Why rest feels like physical torture in perimenopause, and what your mitochondria need instead.
We Must Stop Treating Burnout as a Mindset Issue (It’s a Cellular Emergency)
Burnout in the neurodivergent brain isn't a mindset issue. It's a cellular emergency.
The Missing Matriarchs: Do We Really Want Organisations With No Older Women?
Look at the boardroom of a modern large organisation and the older women are missing. Why senior neurodivergent women are vanishing, and what it costs.
The Billion-Dollar Brain Drain: Why Organisations Are Breaking Their Most Valuable Minds
Organisations hire neurodivergent women to think differently, then place them in environments that break them. The financial and biological cost of that mistake.
Why Traditional Corporate Wellness Programs Are Failing Neurodivergent Women
Wellness programmes are built for neurotypical bodies. Why they fail neurodivergent women, and what that mismatch costs the organisations paying for them.
The Silent Exodus: Why Organisations Are Losing Their Senior Women (And the Biological Truth About Burnout)
Why a retention crisis is being misdiagnosed, and what the biology says about senior neurodivergent and perimenopausal women burning out in large organisations.
Signs of Insulin Resistance in Neurodivergent Women (Beyond Brain Fog)
Brain fog and severe burnout may not be 'just' your neurodivergence. The hidden signs of insulin resistance that drain your battery.