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Spots left: 5 of 5; Starting Date: June 2026 (date confirmed when 3 enrolled)

In the last four weeks, we connected three people to ideas that could help their loved ones with neurodivergence get improved brain function and quality of life. We decided that this was so coincidental that it might actually be a sign from the Universe that it’s time to launch a Group Care Coaching Cohort to heal neurodivergence.

We know the idea of “healing neurodivergence” is contested in our society. Some people hear hope in those words, while others hear a threat to their identity. Both perspectives can be important steps in a person’s complex illness healing journey, so we will not disparage either. However, we are offering our services to those who are ready to try something new: something to reduce their suffering and expand their capacity in all seven domains of their whole-person health without erasing who they are at their core.

Brett is healing from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Tenay is healing from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We are healing our child from ADHD, at the same time. We know the difference between who a person is at their core (their values, their beliefs, their beautiful and powerful purpose on this planet) versus what their current neurological capacity is (their sensory limits, their processing speed, their ability to integrate new information). It is from this lived experience of suffering and of increased capacity that we offer this resource to you.

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Do I need an official diagnosis to apply?

No. Although you may need an official diagnosis to have access to some of the treatment options available to you, you only need to say that you experience several of the following symptoms to work with us:

ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

• Sensory overload that wipes you out for days
• Meltdowns or shutdowns at home after “holding it together” in public
• School refusal or social exhaustion in kids
• A lifetime of being told you’re “too much” or “too sensitive”
• Routinely deduce and memorize rules about how to interact with people
• Spend a lot of time pretending to think, feel, or behave in a specific way that is expected of you
• Been told you look stoic or don’t show much facial expression
• Feel discomfort when your routines or plans are changed
• Can’t feel your emotions
• Only want to focus on your favorite topics or hobbies
• Feel like you are getting too little or too much sensory input (sound, light, movement, smell, taste)

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

• Been told you are smart, but inconsistent
• Forget homework, miss deadlines, have piles everywhere
• Spend a lot of effort trying to make sure you don’t miss a deadline (set alarms, have long to-do lists, take lots of screenshots, automate reminders)
• Have emotional outbursts that surprise even you
• Have difficulty starting or stopping certain tasks
• Can only do tasks you don’t want to do when you think about how you’ll get in trouble if you don’t

Dyslexia

• Reading costs you twice what it costs everyone else
• Letters seem to move, making it hard to understand the word everyone else is reading easily
• You’ve been labeled “lazy” even though you think you’re working harder than anyone else (especially in school)
• Jobs not applied for, forms dreaded, professional settings navigated on hard mode
• Rarely travels alone

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How do clinicians diagnose ASD, ADHD, or dyslexia?

Diagnostically. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) is the 2022 updated guide published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for diagnosing mental disorders in the U.S.. According to it, being diagnosed with ASD requires social-communication differences plus restricted/repetitive patterns. ADHD requires persistent inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity across settings since before age 12. Dyslexia requires reading difficulty disproportionate to cognitive ability and education.

On brain scans. Three different developmental trajectories emerge from longitudinal MRI research:

1. ASD shows early bloom with impaired pruning: abnormal brain overgrowth in the first two years of life, especially in cerebral, cerebellar, and limbic structures, followed by slowed or arrested growth. Postmortem work (Tang et al., 2014) found excess dendritic spines in the temporal lobe — by late childhood, neurotypical brains prune to ~50% of peak spine density, while autistic brains prune only ~16%. Hemisphere asymmetry is real but subtle, with somewhat more left-hemisphere overgrowth in some studies.
2. ADHD shows late bloom with normal pruning sequence: the same developmental order as neurotypical brains, just delayed by 2–5 years. Cortical thickness peaks around age 7.5 in typically developing children and around age 10.5 in children with ADHD, with the largest delay in lateral prefrontal cortex. The right prefrontal cortex shows greater delay than the left.
3. Dyslexia shows different bloom: reduced left-hemisphere activation in posterior temporal cortex, inferior parietal lobule, and inferior frontal gyrus during reading tasks, with white-matter differences in the left arcuate fasciculus. There is no single “neurodivergent brain” — and these distinct trajectories explain why the same intervention rarely works across all three.

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How can I heal from ASD, ADHD, or dyslexia?

Two words: promote neuroplasticity.

Since the autistic brain pruned too little, the ADHD brain matured late, and the dyslexic brain reads through different circuits, targeted therapies that promote neuroplasticity can help the brain catch up on what it missed earlier, when the infant brain was under other stressors and didn’t follow its full developmental map. There are many therapies that can directly or indirectly promote neuroplasticity–the innate ability of a brain to create new brain cells and prune old brain cells–which is what we will discover together in the cohort.

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What is the Complex Illness Healing Journey?

What this might look like in your Chronic Illness Healing Journey™ is an upward spiral of eight stages and four phases (no, this path is not linear):

1. Prevent — genetic counseling, prenatal exposure reduction, family history mapping; vulnerability & stressor identification
2. Contain Crisis — psychiatric stabilization; breathwork; mindfulness/meditation
3. Activate Healing Program — slow the calendar; build sensory-safe space (ASD: sensory regulation; ADHD: schedule margin; dyslexia: reduced reading load)
4. Optimize Lifestyle — sleep, nutrition (gluten-free, dairy-free, whole, clean foods), movement, environment; (ADHD: protein-forward mornings; ASD: predictable routines; dyslexia: audiobooks)
5. Cure Root Cause — attachment trauma integration; in-body heavy metal reduction; electromagnetic environment clearing
6. Dissolve Compensations — unmasking, social support building; addiction support
7. Reset Programs — hyperbaric oxygen treatment; aerobic exercise; cognitive training/brain gym; healing prayer; sleep optimization; non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS); neurofeedback; acupuncture; transcranial photobiomodulation (red/near-infrared light); ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapies
8. Graduate to Self-Care — client drives their own healing team

And four concurrent phases that can happen anytime throughout the above stages:

• A. Support Symptoms — medications, occupational therapy, speech therapy, family therapy, trauma-informed behavioral therapies* (ABA, ESDM, PRT, DIR, RDI)
• B. Augment Basic Needs — disability benefits, IEP/504, respite
• C. Receive Social Support — support groups, community activities
• D. Accommodate to Abilities — flexible work, assistive tech, screen readers, transportation, housing

* What you need to know: Behavioral therapies are contested in the autistic self-advocacy community (as is the idea that people can or should heal from autism). There are documented experiences of harm from some approaches for some populations. There are also families in acute crisis — children with self-injury, elopement, severe feeding refusal, no functional communication — for whom skilled, trauma-informed, assent-based behavioral support is what creates enough stability to live safely within a family and community. Which approach fits your family depends on your child’s and family’s profile, the practitioner’s quality, and what’s actually accessible to you financially or regionally. This is the sort of help a Care Coach provides: helping you evaluate all your options — including what to look for in a practitioner and what to walk away from.

Will every person need all of these treatments? Absolutely not. Will every person benefit from all of these treatments? Also absolutely not. Will every person get fully healed from neurodivergence? Probably not; at least, not yet.

After all, if there were a straightforward cure to healing all neurodivergence, it would already be sold to you in a pill. But many people are seeing different levels of success with different treatments, and don’t you want to know about that?

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How can a Care Curation Coach help me?

A Care Curation Coach educates you on all your options as well as what people are saying about them (in favor of and against), so that you are empowered with the latest opportunities to curate your complex illness healing journey (for yourself or a loved one, if you’re a parent or caregiver). A Care Coach also helps you tap into your own healing program so that you can find the right treatments for your specific situation, then helps you find the right professionals across wellness, healthcare, and human services sectors, as well as across Western, Eastern, Integrative, and Holistic care models, for the stage you’re in.

Typical tasks that a Care Coach performs include:

• Giving classes on how the coaching and advocacy relationships work to get you the best results, with a focus on you as the most powerful member in your healing team
• Teaching about the complex illness healing journey and the traits of collaborative care professionals
• Sharing about all the care professionals who say they treat the symptoms you have including:
  • Those in the health, wellness, and human services sectors
  • Those across Western, Eastern, Integrative, and Holistic care models
  • Those who treat all seven parts of your health (spiritual, psychological, physiological, environmental, capital, social, and influential health)
  • More than your primary care manager will ever tell you
• Helping you find (or finding for you) care professionals who fit your preferences and your budget
• Coming with you to the first appointment or to all appointments, if you would like
• Helping you devise lifestyle strategies to cooperate with your care professionals—including going grocery shopping, or cooking with you
• Advocating on your behalf if your experience with a care professional, employer, or insurance company is not meeting your needs, if you so request it
• Promoting collaboration and communication between your entire healing team including your healers and your supporters
• Helping caregivers with their functions to promote well-being for all people in the healing team
• Conducting periodic check-ins to see how you are doing and feeling
• Celebrating successes and encouraging you to achieve your goals in small, bite-size portions, if needed
• Walking with you in your healing journey—in the tears, in the shouts, in the frustration, in the victory

These activities will be done virtually through a recurring group meeting via Google Workspace. You will need to use either a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop with a stable internet connection and headphones to be able to participate. You can find these at your local library if you do not possess them yourself.

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Which populations does this Care Coaching Cohort serve?

This group is open to adults with neurodivergence and their caregivers. It is also open to parents of children with neurodivergence.

It is designed for people receiving care in the U.S. and is currently only offered in English. We look forward to being able to offer this service in Spanish and others languages spoken in American homes in the future.

This group is open to people of all faiths, genders, identities, ethnicities, and abilities. The only requirement is that you cannot pose an immediate danger to yourself or others. If you do, we will direct you to crisis resources first so that you can stabilize before you dive into the deeper work of long-term healing with us.

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How much does Care Coaching cost?

In Group Care Coaching, you receive coaching in a cohort of 3 to 5 others with similar symptoms or diagnoses. It’s more affordable than Private Care Coaching, gives you the same personalized care, and gets you something the private program can’t give you: the healing journeys of others walking beside you, and a built-in social support group.

This Founder’s Cohort is on sale from $400/mo to $250/mo monthly retainer!

There will not be another sale like this.

Cohort minimum: Group Care Coaching cohorts start once 3 clients are enrolled with similar symptoms or diagnoses. If your cohort hasn’t reached 3 enrolled members yet, you’ll either be matched into an existing cohort, placed on a short waitlist, or offered a temporary discount on Private Care Coaching while we build your group.

If this resonates with you, send me a quick message and I’ll give you more information! If you know of someone who might benefit from learning about this service, please forward this blog to them.

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Check out all the details about Care Curation Coaching
costs, payment methods, discounts, and more!
And if you mention where you heard about this cohort,
I will give you an extra 10% off!

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