Understanding Your Neurodivergent Brain: Finding Self-Compassion & Ease

This course is designed for people who are neurodivergent — or who are beginning to wonder if they might be — and are feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or weighed down by years of self-judgment, masking, or feeling “out of sync” with the world.

Understanding Your Neurodivergent Brain: Finding Self-Compassion & Ease is both educational and experiential. You’ll learn how neurodivergent nervous systems actually work, why overwhelm and burnout make so much sense, and how mindfulness can become a supportive tool rather than another thing to “do right.”

Rather than trying to change who you are, this course helps you understand yourself more deeply, so you can meet your needs with greater compassion, clarity, and ease.

Through gentle teaching, guided reflection, and grounding mindfulness practices, you’ll be supported in:

Reducing overwhelm without pushing yourself
Healing shame that may have built up over years of misunderstanding
Recognizing burnout as a nervous system response, not a personal failure
Learning your natural rhythm for focus, rest, and energy
Unmasking safely and sustainably, at your own pace

Each session blends psychoeducation about neurodivergence with simple, repeatable practices you can return to whenever you need support.

What You’ll Learn & Practice

Session 1: Understanding Your Neurodivergent Nervous System
Learn how neurodivergent brains process the world differently and why your responses make sense. This session builds a foundation of self-understanding and relief.

Session 2: The Impact of Masking
Explore how masking affects the nervous system and sense of self, with mindfulness practices to gently reconnect with who you are underneath learned adaptations.

Session 3: You Make Sense
Reframe lifelong patterns through a neurodivergent lens, helping reduce shame and replace self-criticism with clarity and compassion.

Session 4: The Science of Overwhelm
Understand sensory and emotional overwhelm and learn practical tools to regulate your nervous system when things feel too much.

Session 5: Burnout Isn’t a Personal Failure
Learn how neurodivergent burnout develops and practice resting without guilt, pressure, or the need to earn recovery.

Session 6: Healing Shame with Self-Compassion
Meet internalized shame with kindness and validation, using mindfulness to soften long-held beliefs about being “too much” or “not enough.”

Session 7: Living in Your Natural Rhythm
Discover practical ways to work with your energy, focus, and executive function — not against them — using skills you can apply in daily life.

Session 8: Becoming More You
Integrate what you’ve learned, explore gentle unmasking, and leave with encouragement to keep returning to these practices as ongoing support.

This is not a course you need to complete perfectly or only once. You’re encouraged to return to these lessons whenever you need reminders, reassurance, or grounding. The more you get to know yourself, the more naturally you’ll be able to meet your own needs — and the less pressure and struggle you may feel.

Nothing here is about fixing you.
It’s about helping you understand yourself, trust yourself, and move through the world with a little more ease.

Lección 1: Understanding Your Neurodivergent Nervous System

This session introduces how neurodivergent nervous systems process information, stimulation, and stress differently. You’ll learn why overwhelm, sensitivity, and intensity are not flaws, but adaptive responses. Through gentle mindfulness, you’ll begin building a foundation of self-understanding and relief.

Lección 2: The Impact Of Masking

This session explores what masking is, why many neurodivergent people learn to do it, and how it affects the nervous system over time. You’ll be guided to gently notice where you may still be holding yourself in or performing, without pressure to change.

Lección 3: You Make Sense

In this session, you’ll reflect on behaviors or patterns that may have been misunderstood or criticized in the past. Through education and mindfulness, you’ll practice viewing these experiences through a neurodivergent lens, helping reduce shame and self-blame.

Lección 4: The Science Of Overwhelm

This session focuses on why overwhelm happens in neurodivergent nervous systems and how sensory and emotional input can stack quickly. You’ll learn at least one practical regulation skill you can use when things feel like too much.

Lección 5: Burnout Isn’t A Personal Failure

This session offers education about neurodivergent burnout and why it develops over time. You’ll be invited to rest without guilt and reflect on how pressure and expectations have shaped your relationship with rest and recovery.

Lección 6: Healing Shame With Self-Compassion

This session gently addresses internalized shame that can develop from years of being misunderstood. Through mindfulness and compassionate reflection, you’ll practice meeting yourself with kindness rather than criticism.

Lección 7: Living In Your Natural Rhythm

This session explores how attention, energy, and motivation fluctuate in neurodivergent nervous systems. You’ll learn practical skills to work with your natural rhythm rather than forcing yourself into unsustainable patterns.

Lección 8: Becoming More You

The final session brings everything together, focusing on gentle unmasking, self-trust, and integration. You’ll be encouraged to return to these practices whenever needed and to continue learning how to meet your own needs with care. Thank you so much for participating in this course with me!

Reviews

Very good course. Practival, kind and validating. Thank you for creating it 🙏🪷