What if the cost of appearing almost okay is the very energy you need to heal? We unpack a powerful set of new resources designed for helping professionals facing year-end pressures: a deep dive into ADHD masking and shame, neuroaffirming mindfulness that actually fits non-typical nervous systems, a thought-provoking bridge between rationality and mystical experience, and single-session strategies to navigate Christmas with clarity and calm.
We start by naming the invisible workload. Masking shows up socially, cognitively, and sensorially, draining attention and resilience until burnout follows. You’ll hear practical ways to externalise the problem and build congruence—using an adapted Rogers diagram to align who you are at work, at home, and inside—plus sentence stems that surface costs without judgement. We map shame with Ray Little’s loop and the compass of shame, then add a holistic lens that includes stabilising energy through nutrition.
From there we re-engineer mindfulness for neurodivergent brains. Dr Emma Bede’s approach replaces one-size-fits-all scripts with anchors that leverage intensity and hyperfocus: tactile objects, gentle movement, sound loops, photography as mobile meditation, gaming with intention, and mind jars as visual settling. We address safety and trauma considerations, and share the Unstuck Button’s cognitive shuffling for sleep and rumination.
We also widen the frame with professor Kyriakos Marquitas, who challenges strict materialism by restoring intuition as a mode of knowing. Whether taken literally or symbolically, the stories push us to meet clients’ spiritual experiences with respectful curiosity. Finally, we come back to earth with Wendy Dryden’s single-session toolkit for the holidays: precise scaling questions, exception finding, and a modest miracle question that turns overwhelm into one actionable step.
If you’re a counsellor, psychotherapist, coach, or healer, this is a compact guide to reclaiming energy and authenticity when it counts. Stream the sessions, try one tool this week, and tell us: what’s your 5% reduction in masking you’ll commit to today? Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review to help others find the show.
