(Neurodiversity Week) A client once said to me, “I am exhausted — and I haven’t done anything wrong.” By most measures, her life was working. She was capable, thoughtful, and reliable. Yet internally, she felt like a disappointment to herself. Not because others had rejected her — but because the relationship she had with herself […]

“Do you have life figured out?“ A client recently asked me that during a coaching session. Not as a challenge, and not with irony — but as a genuine question. And in many ways, that’s what made it so telling. The question itself points to how deeply we’ve been taught to think of life as […]

Your Child Isn’t “Lacking Willpower”—They are Out of Capacity As parents and educators, we are conditioned to look at a child’s struggle through the lens of behaviour. When a child has a meltdown over a blue bowl, refuses to put on shoes, or “ignores” an instruction, we often ask: “Why won’t they just listen?” or […]