By JoyGenea Furnstahl with bullet points from AI Falling in love with another person is fun. It is a whole bunch of emotions and feelings, that are mostly good, flooding your brain with a bunch of chemicals. It can be intoxicating. That is why we can’t always think straight when we are falling in
Embracing Neurodiversity: Shifting Labels and Focusing on Strengths
One of the most empowering aspects of being neurodiverse is the ability to choose how we are labeled and how we want others to engage with and talk about our neurodiversity. Do we want to focus on specific traits like dyslexia, ADHD, or autism, or embrace a broader term such as neurodiversity? This choice allows
Book Review of Educated by Author Tara Westover and an Example of Boundaries Brought to You by the Author’s Website
“The lecturer began his presentation. He spoke calmly but moved through the material quickly, as if he assumed we were already familiar with it. This was confirmed by the other students, most of whom were not taking notes. I scribbled down every word. “So what is Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts?” The lecturer asked. Nearly everyone
Fathers and Neurodiversity
Let’s talk more about the role fathers play in different thinker families. Transcription: Hi! Neurodiversity, how in so many ways that plays out for the fathers out in the world. I read a great article this week that really focused on fathers’ mental health in raising neurodiverse individuals. It was a lovely article written
Fathers and Their Family’s Mental Health and Neurodiversity – A Brief Acknowledgement
One of my coaching friends sent me a really good article about fatherhood, family, and neurodiversity. I am passing this article on to you. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE I believe and know that family connections are important to the overall welfare of
Specialized Diet Holiday Anxiety SDHA or Healthy Eating Anxiety or Family Food Anxiety
Specialized Diet Holiday Anxiety SDHA or Healthy Eating Anxiety or Family Food Anxiety– The anxiety created when you need to eat foods that are not the normal staple of your culture, general society, and/or family and you are having a gathering with a large focus on food. With the traditional holidays of Halloween,
Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Take a minute to learn about Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) with me. Transcription: Hey so, have you been hearing more about NLD, in the neurodiverse community, and that is Nonverbal Learning Disorder. It has come into the conversation because the person running on the democratic ticket in the vice presidency, Tim Walz, his
Motivation for Different Thinkers: DTMM Videos
This week’s article is brought to you by an audience member who recently asked why her young adult son hated her nagging, she just needed her son to get his crap together and move out of her house, she was just trying to motivate him. Her son was sitting next to her and I watched
Support Groups
I want to take a moment to thank our loved ones for all of their support and encourage connecting with local neurodiversity support groups. Transcription: Hi, JoyGenea here, international neurodiversity coach. Today I just want to reach out and thank, hug and squeeze if I could, our amazing family members and the people that support
ADHD and Dyslexic People Would Be Stuck Without the Passion and Support of Family and Friends
I have often said that without my mom fighting for me to be able to read, I would have never graduated from high school. She asked the school system to do better for me than it did for her. Her dyslexia is not as bad as mine and she knew how hard she worked to