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New Year, New View: Inviting Self Acceptance

Week 3 of New Year, New View focuses on self-acceptance and understanding how your time, environments and resources shape your creative life. This workbook introduces a Wheel of Life for neurodivergent creatives alongside reflections on time use, environments and personal assets

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New Year?…New View! Week 2- Building Awareness

Week 2 of New Year New View explores neurodivergent traits, executive function, and spiky profiles, helping you understand how your strengths and challenges shape the way you work and create.

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Prevarication, ADHD, and the problem that procrastination doesn’t explain

Prevarication is a loaded word, often associated with evasion or bad faith. But when it shows up in ADHD, it can describe something very different: the difficulty of committing under uncertainty. This blog explores why procrastination doesn’t fully explain this pattern, what’s really happening beneath the surface, and how neurodivergent people can support decision-making without shame or forced pressure.

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Diagnosis! = Murder?

Receiving a neurodivergent diagnosis can feel like a clear before-and-after moment - as if something has been named, lost, and reshaped all at once. Alongside relief and understanding, many people experience grief for the version of themselves they spent years building without the full picture. This piece explores what happens to your pre-diagnosis identity, why integration can feel uncomfortable, and how to reconnect the old you and the new you into something whole and honest.

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How to Work Out What Tracks to Release 

For many neurodivergent music creators, the hardest part isn’t making music — it’s deciding what to release. When tracks carry emotional history, multiple versions, and years of effort, choosing one can feel risky and overwhelming. This piece explores why release decisions often trigger overload, perfectionism, and paralysis, and offers a gentler way to think about releasing music: not as a statement of everything you are, but as a single step forward.

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I Thought I Was Tired (Turns Out My Brain Was Bored)

Maybe she’s bored with it? Maybe it’s ADHD? It never occurred to me or any health professionals that my tiredness and daytime sleepiness might be a symptom of ADHD but spoiler alert it was! This blog includes some of my top tips and tools I use post diagnosis.

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How to set Goals (when your brain doesn’t vibe with planning)

Goal setting is often framed as simple and motivating but for many neurodivergent people it feels vague, pressurised, and demoralising. This piece explores why traditional goal setting doesn’t work for ADHD brains and what helps instead.

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How to plan for and take a break (and get back to normality)

Taking a break sounds simple, but for many neurodivergent people it isn’t. Breaks involve planning, transitions, and executive functioning before, during, and after the time off. If you’ve ever felt more unsettled than rested, this piece explores why breaks often go sideways - and how thinking about them in phases can make rest feel more supportive and manageable.

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All I want for Christmas is… To Not Burnout

Burnout creeps up fast in December. Extra social events, family expectations and disappearing routine can push anyone over the edge, especially if you are already running low. Here is how to spot the signs early and some simple ways to steady yourself before you crash

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The ADHD Tax and the Hidden Ways It Undermines Us

The real ADHD tax isn’t just late fees. It’s the subscriptions we never cancel; rebuying gear we misplace; the opportunities we miss and the overwhelm that blocks communication. Here are some gentle ways to lower the cost.

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Skipping to the End-  What’s That All About?

Ever found yourself skipping to the end of a book, film, or even a project- just to know how it turns out? You’re not alone. For ADHD and neurodivergent brains, that urge to skip ahead isn’t about spoiling the story; it’s about calming the nervous system. In this post, I explore why we crave closure, what it says about dopamine and curiosity, and how we can make peace with our need to know now without losing the joy of the process.

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Welcome to Your New Bank - The Bank of Self-Esteem

What if your confidence worked like a bank account- one you could top up by sharing what you know? In this week’s AMP Club blog, we explore how teaching others boosts learning, motivation, and self-esteem for ADHD and neurodivergent creatives.

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What Do People Use Coaching For?

Ever wondered what people actually use coaching for? From rediscovering identity to finishing projects and building creative balance, this post unpacks what coaching looks like for ADHD and creative minds.

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How to Get Back on Track!

Been away, off-routine, or just feeling a bit lost? Getting back on track isn’t about punishment or perfect schedules- it’s about reconnecting with what you were doing, what you wanted and how you were doing it. In this post, we explore a kinder reset using a snappy acronym ARIRA and The 5 Daily Pillars to help you rebuild balance, one small, realistic step at a time.

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It’s Harvest Time- for Your Ideas

Got hundreds of half-finished song ideas cluttering your voice notes? This week’s post is a Song Snippet Amnesty- a gentle creative harvest for neurodivergent artists. Learn how to sort, rename, and develop your ideas in ten-minute bursts, chip away at the chaos, and make space for the gold that’s already waiting for your attention.

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