🧭 Week 1 – What Diagnosis Means (and Doesn’t) This isn’t about finding a new label to wear. It’s about rewriting your internal script. Week 1 is where we pause and acknowledge: being diagnosed as an adult is not the end of a story, it’s the start of a completely unexpected one. We look at what diagnosis or awareness actually gives us — and what it doesn’t. You’ll start to unpick what’s yours, what’s cultural conditioning, and why this shift might feel equal parts relief and pain. We’ll also face the reality that this can often feel like a grief process and can affect us and those around us just as much.

🔍 Week 2 – Looking Back with New Eyes You’re not imagining it — a late diagnosis makes the past hit differently. This week is all about the reframing that happens when you finally have a name for why everything felt harder. For some, it's just for those things we put down to quirks or personality that never quite sat right. For some it means feeling able to grieve the version of your life that might have been, while giving space to process without shame. For others it's just learning to accept a total reframe of who were thought we were and why. Whether we've had success or strife, diagnosis can feel like it changes everything. It’s also the week where we start to look at how to explain how this feels to others how may notice changes in you before you do in yourself. It’s not about blame but permission to reinterpret your story.

🔋 Week 3 – Burnout, Recovery, and Self-Compassion. Here’s the truth: some of us arrive at a diagnosis not because we were curious, but because we couldn’t keep going the way we were. Others for different reasons, but the one thing we’ll all have experienced at one time is feeling like we just could not keep going. This week, we explore the shape of neurodivergent burnout — not just feeling tired but existentially done. You'll learn why so many of us are diagnosed with anxiety, depression or stress way before we realise it's something else at the helm of our brains. We talk honestly about what recovery looks like after a lifetime of putting on a “I’m fine” face, overworking, and surviving. Yes, this is where we’ll talk masking, but not in the way most do. Rather in a grown-up, life-lived, evidence-based and helpful way that doesn’t blame others but acknowledges the toll masking takes and why it’s so connected to burnout.

💥 Week 4 – Emotional Regulation and RSD. This week, we discuss the “emotional side” people love to pathologise but rarely explain. We cover concepts like executive function, sensory challenges, social difficulties, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitivity dysphoria, emotional flashbacks, and what it’s like when your nervous system is running a marathon without your consent. We’ll touch on why this can and for many has affected our closest relationships, careers, and health. We will also touch on the coping strategies we’ve employed that may not have been the healthiest for us and explore alternatives known to work. You’ll understand that what feels irrational is often the most logical response your brain can give under pressure. We'll also learn why just because it feels logical to us it may seem difficult or challenging to others and learn tools to talk about that in ways that help everyone.