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🎉 Season 2 of The Behaviour Coach Podcast 🎙️ is back next Tuesday with a back-to-school arc, and this is one of the first strategies I recommend to every family before day one.

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The Belonging Blueprint for ADHD Friendships is live 🎉

This is the second audio course in my library, joining Meltdowns Mastery. It walks through what is actually happening in the ADHD social brain, why friendships can be so hard, and the exact framework I use with my own kids and with my coaching clients to help them build friendships that last and feel like they truly belong.

Inside the course:

💛 Why friendship struggles are almost never character flaws, and what is actually going on underneath.

💛 The hidden ADHD experiences that shape social connection, from impulsivity and rejection sensitivity to the Double Empathy Problem.

💛 The Iceberg Model for understanding your child's behaviour beneath the surface.
Why social skills training so often fails ADHD kids, and what actually works instead.
The Safety, Regulation, Connection framework that changes everything.

💛 How to move from correction to curiosity, and repair relationships when things go sideways.

The goal of this course is not popularity. The goal is belonging. Helping your child find the people and places where they can exhale.

Like Meltdowns Mastery, this course is pay what you can. Sliding scale. Always. Starting at just $5. Because families supporting neurodivergent kids should not have to choose between financial pressure and getting real help.

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After two weeks of talking about friendships, The Belonging Blueprint is finally here. Pay what you can, always.

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Friendships are on my mind this week. If this is where you are with your ADHD kid too, this week's newsletter is for you. And Episode 8 of my podcast goes deep on it.

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Demand avoidance is something showing up a lot in my client work this summer, and in my own house honestly. More on it in this week's newsletter and in my blog post.

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A little peek at what I am researching for my EdD this summer. Autonomy in ADHD support planning is one of my favourite topics, because it backs what so many of us already know intuitively. More on it in this week's newsletter.

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My oldest is in a big summer theatre production right now, and it has been a real education in watching her ADHD capacity get stretched.

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🎙 This week's podcast is the Season 1 finale, all about summer safety for neurodivergent kids.

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Check out this episode with my first podcast guest, . We go deep on movement and the nervous system.

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