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If I've mentioned something in a session, it's probably here. These are also just useful — take whatever helps, share what resonates.

ESC RESOURCES

Things made in this practice. Free to download, free to share. Not always perfect but constantly improving.

When ADHD Meets Menopause- Perimenopause, menopause, and why your strategies stopped working
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D.A.V.E. Dynamically Awesome Variable Executive. A case for why "ADHD" fundamentally misrepresents the condition — and what it might look like if we named it honestly.
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Understanding AuDHD. AuDHD isn't autism plus ADHD. The two neurotypes interact and create something distinct — with its own profile, its own contradictions, and its own strengths.
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Why We're Seeing More ADHD Diagnoses Not an epidemic. Not overdiagnosis. There's a good reason — this explains it.
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Window of Tolerance The optimal range where you can function, process emotions, and handle stress — without tipping into overwhelm or shutdown. Emma's Arched Window version.
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When the World Feels Heavy Climate grief, eco-anxiety, and the completely reasonable urge to be furious. What it feels like, what actually helps, and why your response is proportionate to the reality.
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FACT SHEETS
Curated external resources worth your time.
Grounding 101 — My go to is the 5 Senses but there are many different ways to ground yourself. Dr Neff created a great guide.
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The Rise in Autism Diagnoses What's actually driving them. Good for anyone who's heard "it's just a trend." 
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Therapy Review and Goals A structured resource from The Psych Collective — useful for taking stock of where you are and what you're working toward.

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Schema Explained, A Psych Collective Resource
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TOOLS & LINKS 

Apps, websites, and YouTube channels worth bookmarking.

Apps that I rate and recommend

How We Feel

An emotion-tracking app designed with input from psychologists and neuroscientists. Useful for building self-awareness between sessions — and genuinely good at what it does. → 

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Calm Harm

Calm Harm is an app that

helps you manage or

resist the urge to self-harm.

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Focus Friend

Focus Friend is a cozy, gamified focus timer created by online educator Hank Green. When you Focus, your Bean Friend will Focus.

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Websites

ADDitude Magazine Articles for adults and families living with ADHD and related traits. Reliably good

Go to ADDitude
Fish in a Tree Fish in a Tree: Center for Neurodiversity Education, Advocacy, and Activism Building the Infrastructure of Neurodiversity Justice
Go to Fish in a Tree

The aims of ACT are to reduce psychological suffering and maximise human potential for a fulfilling and meaningful life. ACT (which is pronounced as the word ‘act’, not as the initials ‘A.C.T.’) 

ACT Mindfully
Bridgette Hamstead, architect of the Neurodiversity Justice Framework™, writes on structural transformation, epistemic repair, AuDHD experience, movement strategy, and the theory and practice of collective liberation for neurodivergent people
Substack

YouTube

Dr Russell Barkley Research—backed videos from the world's leading ADHD researcher. If you want to understand ADHD deeply, start here.

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How to ADHD Jessica McCabe — kind, practical, and honest about every kind of ADHD brain

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ADHD Chatter—Real stories from people living with ADHD and AuDHD, hosted by Alex Partridge. New episode every Tuesday.

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ADHD Love / Late Bloomers Rich(ASD) and Rox Pink(ADHD) — raw and unfiltered, from barely surviving to thriving.
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ADHD and Driving   

 Researchers have found that those with ADHD are more likely to become distracted, which leads to preventable car accidents. In the interest of public safety, Shamieh Law has compiled this guide to ADHD and driving that although from Texas, applies to our neurodivergent teens as they start to think about driving.

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What If Neurodivergence Isn't The Deviation?

What If The Science Has Been Backwards? What if neurodivergence isn’t a deviation from the human baseline? What if it is the baseline — and what we’ve been calling neurotypical is the recent adaptation?

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