Nurture: create space for acceptance and possibility in your neurodivergent family
A 4 month journey for neurodivergent humans - or those parenting neurodivergent humans - to explore their identities in a safe, healing and supportive container. Step into feelings of belonging, acceptance and support; feel less alone.
“I found the session on boundaries totally transformative. It just suddenly made everything so clear to me not just in regards to fitting in yoga and mindfulness. In the last two weeks I have written 15,000 words of my novel! I really thought I didn’t have the time before (it took me 2 years to write the first 20,000) but I just didn’t have the boundaries!! Thank you again for all your inspiring work.”
Imagine living exactly the same life but it feels easier…
Imagine being more present for yourself and your kid/s…
Imagine what life could be like if your neurodivergent identity could be accepted, embraced and nurtured…
Over our four months together you’ll explore your dynamic interpersonal relationship with neurodivergence - your own and/or others - and what it means to live in a neurotypical world that’s not designed for neurodivergent minds. This is as relevant for parents of neurodivergent kids as it is for parents who are neurodivergent themselves because wherever we lie on this continuum, we are reminded each and every day that we are different, that we don’t ‘fit’ and that we might ‘do better’ if we changed ourselves.
But we don’t need to change ourselves.
We can’t live freely until we accept ourselves in our truest, most heart-filled, most magical form: exactly as we are.
This journey is for you to step in to exactly who you are and learn to love and celebrate yourself.
It’s not until we have done that, that we can parent in the way we desire.
Our neurodivergent Self needs that and our neurodivergent children need that.
As we journey, you will expand your sense of Self, consider how to support those around you with authentic self-care and start moving through the world more to the beat of your own internal drum. You’ll learn to listen to your heart and your body as well as unpicking the conditioning of your mind that shows up within the hierarchical structures of this world (think patriarchy, ableism, homophobia, racism and capitalism). This journey is an embodied celebration of all that you are and I can’t wait to stand alongside you as you travel it.
This is a real and honest space, not one filled with toxic positivity - all of your emotions and experiences are valid and we need to pay attention to them (not pretend the negative ones don’t exist) to lead full and happy lives. I’m going to listen and I’m going to ask you to listen because all the answers - actually - already lie within you.
“I have been having therapy and coaching to try to help me manage my own mental health whilst supporting my parenting, personal relationships and a busy professional life - but felt I had stalled. I wasn’t unhappy but felt tired, frazzled and unconnected and wasn’t sure how I could push myself any harder. Nurture changed my life. Through Holly’s accessible, practical suggestions I have incorporated a flexible but consistent routine of self care that helps me in every aspect of my life. I’ve flipped my perspective and am essentially watering my own garden first and everything else is blooming as a result. Friends and family I hadn’t told about the course have commented that I am ‘transformed’. I honestly couldn’t have imagined it would have the impact it has but I’m a calmer mother, a more considered professional and a happier person. I cannot recommend the course highly enough.”
“Thank you for everything over the past four weeks... Putting things in place to continue with mindfulness everyday, its easy to make excuses not to do it, but doing it everyday makes such a difference.”
What do I get?
Four supported months to focus on YOU – your needs, your priorities, your mental health, your wellbeing, your joy
Space to nurture yourself to allow you to support others with more connection
The opportunity to embed the healing practices of yoga, meditation, embodiment and somatic enquiry into your life, with lasting impact
Opening and Intention Setting Ceremony (recording available)
A live workshop each month (recording available) + an email including journalling prompts around each month’s theme (Commitment, Boundaries, Connection and Acceptance)
A live weekly practice session: yoga asana, meditation, embodiment, somatic enquiry or a combination of some/all (recording available in library of classes with unlimited access)
A live weekly yin yoga class (recording available in library of classes with unlimited access)
Four months of Parents Connection and Healing Circles (if you wish to attend) - not recorded
Ongoing Voxer support for the duration of the journey (Voxer is a safe, secure ‘walkie-talkie’ app for voice notes and messages)
4 x 1:1 Focalizing sessions (1 per month) - more information can be found here.
2 x mindfulness meditations (1 x 5 minutes and 1 x 10 minutes)
The option of a support group with other participants (I want to respond to participants needs and feelings with this one)
How’s it going to work?
Honestly, I’m allowing space for us to figure some of it out as we go along. Because I don’t want to overfill the offering but I also don’t want to limit it - I want to leave space to respond to what’s needed by the wonderful humans I know who are going to sign up, as we move through.
What I guarantee is that I will show up and hold the space for you that you need to step into acceptance and possibility in your neurodivergent family and I will provide what is on the above list with all my heart and capacity.
I also want you to have the freedom to curate how it works for you - that is true embodiment to me, so you have total flexibility how you show up, what you access and how you access it. This is an inclusive program. Nothing is compulsory - everything is an invitation to you, for you.
What will I need to do/how much effort is it going to be?
To get the best results, you’re ready to commit in some way to practise meditation most days but aren’t sure how to do it. You’re going to do this practice to awaken to your own innate magic and that’s going to allow you to witness your kid/s’ and support them in the way you so long for.
It might all feel a bit stretchy to fit it in around the rest of your life at first - that’s kind of the point and why this journey is here. Because it’s not always easy to embed these practices into your life.
We’ll look at why it’s difficult (mentally, practically, emotionally) and explore ways to make space for you to flow more easily in your day-to-day. BUT this is not a bootcamp, this is a nurturing space. So you get to do what you can and I’ll support you in that, whatever it looks like.
Nothing is compulsory. You’re in control.
Who is it for?
Women, men, trans, non-binary, genderqueer and any other identifying humans who are neurodivergent and in any kind of family dynamic
Someone who is exploring their own newly discovered neurodivergent identity
Someone struggling to accept, love and celebrate their neurodivergent identity
Someone who needs more capacity and resource to live the way they want to within their neurodivergent family
Someone neurotypical who parents a neurodivergent kid and wants to do that with more capacity, heart and acceptance
Anyone who it speaks to
Couples can complete the journey together but would need to pay for 4 x additional Focalizing sessions as that’s going to be an important part of the process.
It’s probably not for you if you’ve very recently experienced a bereavement, trauma or exceptional period of (unusual) stress - please email me hello@hollysut.uk to discuss suitability if you have any questions.
What are the details?
We start March 2022.
Pricing is £2222 full price. Payment plans available at no extra cost.
E.g. 2 x £1111 or 3 x £740.66 or 12 x £185.16. You choose how many months - up to 12 - to pay across.
“The main thing I’m going to take away is the notion that it is really helpful to take the time to reflect on what is going on both around me and inside my head on a much more regular basis and with less criticism. Thanks Holly!”