Neuro-What? The Divergent Blend.

12/02/2022

Anyone else feel like this with their coffee? 🤣 For anyone who has ADHD, caffeine can be used as a way to make us more functional due to the dopamine it can create. Hence why you see many ADHD people needing things like caffeine or sugar because we are lacking dopamine and those are easy ways to fix it.

31/01/2022

Since I am officially introducing my son to Star Trek (Star Trek Voyager specifically) today, I thought a Star Trek meme was appropriate. We can't run at our maximum all the time because we will burn out. Some times the best thing we can do is to is give ourselves some grace, a little self care, and just do our best where we are at each day. Also, don't tell my co-host I used a Star Trek meme (she refuses to accept that I like Star Wars, but I am also a Trekkie)!🤣

30/01/2022

Anyone else feel like this when helping your kids with their homework? My son has been baffled when my husband and I explained we are both older than Google. 🤦‍♀️

29/01/2022

Anyone else? 🤣 But on a serious note, people with ADHD need to find dopamine and one of the easiest and quickest ways is caffeine. Personally, I am a total b***h before coffee because it feels like I can't organize my thoughts and slow my brain down. Don't even get me started if I wake up and remember my dreams, then it's speeding by a million times faster.

I want to do homework, I have a cup of coffee at 9/10pm so I can focus at the prime time for my brain to be calm and able to work the way I need it. Then promptly go right to sleep.

My son who is 9 can have a sip of coffee and he doesn't get riled up, but similar effects as me where it has a calming like effect. When you're ND and your brain is wired differently than the average Joe, some things may seem "weird" or make others say "I don't know how you can do that", but that's what makes us incredible in our own ways. We find things that helps us function and allows us to be ourselves, even if that thing that helps us is coffee. So please remember that before you say something like this in a serious way to people. Also, we just found this funny because we (coffee drinkers) all know someone who we drinks coffee in order to be able to handle the energy of others.

27/01/2022

Hey, everyone! Sadly my cousin, soul sister, and co-host Jodi has Covid. So that means, unfortunately,we will be unable to record for the podcast for a while until she is feeling better.

Please send her all the positive and healing juju! And know she is looking forward to hitting the ground running with me after she feels better.

We love you all and will hopefully get recording soon!

16/01/2022

Just a little insight on autism.

10/01/2022

Anyone else have a hard time with sensory overload? I know we do. Tell us how you deal with it in the comments.

07/01/2022

I'm ADHD and OCD and my youngest is ADHD with suspected autism (waiting on testing results). Over this last week, with the help of my NT boyfriend, we power cleaned my room and my youngest kid's room. I had a bit of a meltdown with my room and I'm 36 years old lol. My kid though, what a trooper. I expected the usual meltdown and panic attack but it never came. We did however, have a small issue with this 🤣. We kept finding things we forgot about and got slightly distracted. But it's done now and the air feels a little lighter. Here's to hoping we can keep it clean. 🤣 if you have a ND cleaning story we would love to hear about it in the comments.

02/01/2022

A little insight into ADHD and what it really is.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year from our families to yours! Be on the lookout for our first couple episodes dropping soon. We love you all and hope you have a great start to your new year!

30/12/2021

Here's a fun post for today! Please let us know if you sang all of these just like we did. 🤣🤣🤣

29/12/2021

This is so true for me. Something that I think should only take an hour ends up taking all day or longer. It's so frustrating.

28/12/2021

As I sit here and watch Bob's Burgers for the 100th time. Lol! But seriously, who else has comfort movies or TV shows that they turn to? What are your favorites?

22/12/2021

Happy Holidays! We apologize we haven't been posting as frequently, but being ND while also planning and prepping for all the holiday festivities can be rough. But we are planning on getting some content ready for the new year. We won't be posting until after the weekend so we can enjoy our families. See you next year!

14/12/2021

Who else can relate to this? I frequently have to stop my internal monolgoue in order to truly hear someone. Most days I have learned to cope and stopped being afraid to ask for a repeat and give myself grace that things take a little more time to process.

Also, did you know that not everyone has an internal monolgue in their head? Who has one and who doesn't? I definitely do, lol!

11/12/2021

As parents (no matter how you became a parent), there is often times we feel that we aren't enough. And all parents make mistakes, but how we respond after those moments, especially with our neuro-divergent kids, is what they will remember and take away when they grow into adults themselves. Our kids will never know though how much those big, little hugs from them mean to us and how much they are needed on our end, as well as theirs.

06/12/2021

Our kids mimic what they see. They learn how to cope with feelings and emotions by what they see us do. If we can't control and regulate ourselves why on earth would we expect them to be able to?

01/12/2021

24/11/2021

Happy Thanksgiving to all in our community who celebrate! We have big plans with our families starting tomorrow so we are sending you our well wishes a day early so we can enjoy our family this weekend. We won't have another post coming your way until Monday. Stay safe and enjoy this holiday weekend!

*Pic credit to Womenworking.com *

23/11/2021

All too often, this is my day. I have found that setting alarms on my phone help but then I get annoyed at my phone. The thing that helps me the most is writing a list thw night before of all the things I need to get done the next day. I plan it all out and allow myself 1-2 hrs in the morning for coffee and worrying and planning. Physically crossing items off my list helps but I still feel bad when I don't get everything done I need to get done. I'm learning lately that it's ok to give myself a break. I'm not lazy, I'm doing the very best I can and that's ok.

22/11/2021

Huge Happy Birthday shoutout to my Soul Sista, my cousin, my best friend, and my partner in crime! Happiest of your annual 29th birthday this year and so excited that I get to share this journey with you! Let's show Jodi some love!💖

20/11/2021

Please check out and share our podcast trailer! We are really excited about December 1st and cannot wait to bring our journeys to you and build a community together. It takes a village to raise our kids so please join us!

https://anchor.fm/steph-sleeman

19/11/2021

With the holidays right around the corner we can expect a lot of sensory overload with our kids, especially our ND kids. I know I even get overwhelmed with the holidays. It's important to remember to do our best to stay calm and make sure everyone gets a little break sometimes. YES even us moms (and dads).

18/11/2021

Neuro-divergent people tend to hear more negative statements about them throughout their lifetime, than neuro-typical people, especially ND kids! Here are some positive affirmations to remind all of your ND friends and family. Also, who hasn't struggled with transition times? I know that's a big one in our house- especially night time routine. Get creative and it will put a smile on everyone's face!

**photo credit: self sufficient kids and Keywell.au

17/11/2021

Shoutout to everyone who may be feeling down or overwhelmed, especially with the holidays fast upon us! We love you all and we are here for you and you are WORTHY!

14/11/2021

Anyone else? It's hard living such a contradictory life but someone has to do it. But seriously, it is overwhelming and frustrating and somedays it's so easy to just want to give up and stay in bed. We got this though. We are neuro-divergent and we got this.

13/11/2021

Not that we don't love you all, but it's a busy weekend for us both so we thought you'd enjoy this little throwback!

https://youtu.be/g5BHxozBPuA

12/11/2021

Any other parents feel like this? We spent two days working on the floor to finish this puzzle and I felt it for the whole rest of the week!🤣 As you can see, one of the cats clearly didn't care that we literally put hours of work into it. 🤦‍♀️

11/11/2021

IT'S HERE! The Neuro-What? The Divergent Blend Podcast trailer has officially dropped today! We figured it out...finally. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

Welcome to the Neuro-What? The Divergent Blend! We wanted to introduce ourselves and what the podcast is all about. We both are neuro-divergent, have blended families, neuro-divergent kids, and doing our best to navigate this mom life and support our kids. We are looking forward to building a commun...

10/11/2021

Sometimes the misinformation can be just as debilitating as the condition. If they don't have it they don't understand.