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These proven holistic programmes enable you to reach your potential.
There's so much noise out there about what self-care is supposed to look like. And Becky makes a really good point in this episode: most of it is misinformation, because self-care is completely personal.
Her version is knitting. She's even converted Vanessa, who stops mid-conversation to compliment the jumper Becky's wearing.
The point they're making is a simple one but worth sitting with. Rest doesn't have to look wholesome or productive. It just has to work for your brain. What does that actually look like for you? Drop it in the comments, we'd love to know.
Vanessa uses this analogy in the latest episode that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
A Ferrari on a Formula One track performs brilliantly. But if you never service it, never change the tyres, just keep pushing it round and round? It burns out. And that's what it's like being neurodivergent and high-achieving. The brain is fast. The output is real. But the maintenance gets skipped, and burnout ends up sitting permanently on your shoulder.
If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you. Have a listen and let us know what comes up for you.
03/06/2026
New episode!
Your brain runs like a Ferrari. But even a Ferrari needs a service.
This week we're talking about why rest feels so hard for neurodivergent people, the guilt that comes with stopping, and what actually helps.
Episode 8: The Ferrari Needs a Service, out now on Spotify and YouTube.
Have a listen now
https://youtu.be/C1MmTczol-I
02/06/2026
Are you joining us for our free Webinar tomorrow lunchtime?
We'd love to see you there. If you haven't registered there is still time.
We'll be looking at why the narrative you may have had running internally most of your life is just plain wrong - you aren't lazy, or disorganised and it's definitely not that you just aren't trying.
You are trying extremely hard. Possibly harder than anyone around you. The problem is that a significant proportion of that effort is going into things that don't show up as output.
Managing how you come across, tracking the energy in the room, replaying the conversation you had this morning to see if you said the wrong thing, checking for signs that someone might be disappointed in you and running the mental simulation of every possible way the next interaction could go.
That is cognitive work and it takes real energy.
When so much energy is being taken up internally by the time you get to the actual task, you're already depleted.
Not because you've been doing nothing. Because you've been so much internally.
We are going to be talking about this tomorrow - come and join us.
The link to register is here: https://join.remarkableminds.org/rm-free-webinars-registration
For most of my career, I had a version of myself I showed up as at work.
She was organised, calm, on top of it.
She definitely didn't spend twenty minutes looking for a document she'd saved in four different places.
But that version of myself wasn't the real me and putting on that show every single day, just to appear to fit in was utterly exhausting.
By the time I got home I had absolutely no energy whatsoever for anything, not my relationships, not my friendships and definitely not cooking dinner!
The thing is that masking isn't just something we do and it's all just fine, it's something we feel we have to do that takes a huge toll on us.
If you want to understand a little more about why working in a neurotypical world can be so challenging for neurodivergent people - why it really does feel like you are having to work so much harder than everyone else around you - come and join us for our free webinar this Thursday.
Why Your Brain Is Working Twice As Hard: Neurodivergent productivity explored
It's this Thursday 4th June at midday on Zoom - Register at the link below and we'll see you there.
https://join.remarkableminds.org/rm-free-webinars-registration
Just reflecting on today's amazing webinar and some of the things that were shared with us in the chat.
Raise your hand if you've ever been so focused on something that you forgot to eat. Or drink water. Or... go to the bathroom. 🙋
That's hyperfocus - and in this clip from the Remarkable Conversations podcast, Vanessa tells it exactly like it is (with zero shame), and Becky explains why it's not something you can just switch on when you need it.
Turns out, the conditions that trigger hyperfocus are different for everyone.
Deadline pressure works for some people.
A specific kind of project works for others.
Understanding your own triggers? That's where it gets really useful.
Full episode is live now. https://youtu.be/llQgTyUcmtY
What triggers hyperfocus for you? Tell us in the comments 👇
21/05/2026
Hey! Did we tell you we are running a free webinar next week?
When we work with our clients, one of the biggest challenges they experience is how they interact and relate to other people. Because when your brain works a little differently to your friends, your colleagues and your partner, well it can be a bit tricky to navigate relationships.
When you are in a relationship of any kind, as a neurodivergent adult, and things feel a bit rocky - it's easy to feel like you are the problem. Most of our clients do.
But, is that really case? Are you really to blame for all the awkward conversations the feeling of letting people down, the exhaustion from trying to be someone you're not in all of your relationships?
Come and join us for this free 30 minute online webinar on 28th May at 12:00 and we'll help you understand what's really going on, and how you can have much better, more fulfilling relationships in your life.
See you there
Register at this link: https://join.remarkableminds.org/rm-free-webinars-registration
12/05/2026
New episode out now - and this one's a good one.
We're talking hyperfocus. If you're neurodivergent, you probably know exactly what we mean. That state where you are completely locked in, time disappears, your bladder ceases to exist, and somehow you produce your best work at 11pm when everyone else has gone to bed.
But hyperfocus isn't always the hero of the story.
When it doesn't show up, it can leave you questioning yourself. When it points at the wrong thing, it causes chaos. And if nobody around you understands what's happening, it can look a lot like selfishness - which does real damage to relationships.
In this episode Vanessa and Becky talk through both sides honestly. The brilliant and the messy.
Real stories included - a pandemic plant-based standoff, a son who ignored every school checkpoint and still nailed it, and Vanessa's now-legendary bathroom moment from a Wellington stage.
If you're neurodivergent, this will feel very familiar. If you love, work with, or manage someone who is - this might be the most useful 25 minutes of your week.
Go have a listen. And if someone in your life needs to hear this, send it their way.
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/show/02vMVizni69B7V9ldTt1Iw
30/04/2026
Let's talk about some of the self care myths that need to go.
The idea that you should want to meditate every morning. That if you were doing it "right," you wouldn't feel this tired. That self care is something you earn after a good week.
None of that is true.
Swipe to bust a few myths - and find a better way to start looking after yourself.
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