In this episode, Steph explores Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) through both lived experience and a neurodiversity-affirming lens. She shares some of her own reflections alongside accessible information about what PMDD is, how it shows up, and why it is so often misunderstood or dismissed.

Steph talks about the cyclical nature of PMDD, common experiences, and how this can intersect with neurodivergence and trauma. This episode also gently invites a shift away from self-blame and towards understanding the body as responsive, not broken.

If you've ever felt like you "lose yourself" at certain times of the month, this conversation may help make sense of that experience with more compassion.

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In this reflective episode, Steph shares from a place of lowered capacity, describing what it can feel like when internal systems are "shaken up" during deeper therapeutic work.

Through the lens of plurality and lived experience, this episode explores the disorientation, increased dissociation, and need for retreat that can arise, and how these moments invite us to slow down and turn inward.

Steph also reflects on the identity of being a "helper," and how early experiences of conditional love and trauma can shape a belief that our worth is tied to being of service. This leads into an important question: what happens when the helper needs help?

This episode is an invitation to:

• Rethink the connection between worth and giving

• Practise receiving care and support

• Honour your capacity and need for rest

Steph shares how learning to pause, set boundaries, and care for themselves has deepened their ability to show up with presence and authenticity for others.

A gentle reminder that caring for yourself doesn't take away from what you offer, it strengthens it.

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Connect with Steph:

www.sgroccupationaltherapy.com

Email: hello@sgroccupationaltherapy.com

Come and join us on the socials:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sgroccupationaltherapy/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SGROccupationalTherapy

Facebook group- The Neurodiversity Empowerment Movement

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In this episode, Steph shares the heart behind her new resource on autistic burnout, created after noticing how many people are quietly approaching exhaustion.

She explores what autistic burnout really is: a state of profound, long-term nervous system depletion caused by chronic environmental mismatch, masking, sensory overload, and the cumulative labour of navigating neuronormative systems. Through an occupational therapy lens, burnout is reframed not as failure, but as a signal that something in the current way of living is unsustainable.

Steph discusses common signs of burnout, the burnout cycle, and why recovery can feel overwhelming, especially when even "rest" feels unsafe. She introduces gentle, practical strategies for prevention and recovery, including radical demand reduction, recalibrating baseline capacity, and her "Urgency to Safety Bridge", a visual framework for moving from high-alert survival states toward safety, even by just 1–10%.

If you've been feeling depleted, this episode offers validation, reframes around productivity and worth, and small, compassionate steps toward sustainable living.

The full workbook resource, along with a podcast listener discount, is linked below.

Get the Resource: https://www.sgroccupationaltherapy.com/Autistic-Burnout-Resource

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Check out the Embracing You course: https://www.sgroccupationaltherapy.com/embracing-you-course

The code PODCAST will also get you 15% off the course too!

Connect with Steph:

www.sgroccupationaltherapy.com

Email: hello@sgroccupationaltherapy.com

Come and join us on the socials:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sgroccupationaltherapy/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SGROccupationalTherapy

Facebook group- The Neurodiversity Empowerment Movement

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1258437025035170/