Another excellent report from IMROC thank you Simon Bradstreet Being a different type of learner I have created this for others like me....... Thank you all for what you do. @Stacey Bannister please thank IMROC I started my research back in 2011 - " The Theory and Practice of Recovery Coaching " almost there....... :)

Greetings from sunny Spain ☀️ don’t forget to look after yourself. You can’t pour from an empty cup 🙂

This started the way a lot of my thoughts do — from something small that then refused to stay small. I have combined ADHD, though I lean more inattentive, and I also live with misophonia, so I know that particular moment when ordinary background noise suddenly stops feeling ordinary. I was out running, my music cut out, and almost instantly everything around me felt far louder than it had any right to — not dramatic, just that immediate internal shift where sound stops being background and starts landing directly inside your nervous system. Which took me straight into something else I keep circling. How often we still talk about ADHD and associated features as though everything sits neatly in separate boxes, when lived experience rarely feels that neat. Because once you really start looking, it is hard not to notice how much seems to gather around the same core wiring over time: sensory overload, masking, rejection sensitivity, intrusive thinking, people pleasing, hyper-awareness, shame responses, all the quieter internal adaptations people often carry for years before they even realise they are there. And then I found myself wondering about things like Tourette’s too — whether some of that leans more toward the hyper side of the same underlying picture, just expressed differently. Some of it may well sit separately. But some of it also makes me wonder how much develops around years of trying to regulate, suppress, decode, compensate, recover, and repeat — especially the parts that stay internal and therefore often get mistaken for personality rather than recognised for what they are. The more I scribble around it, the less it feels like random overthinking and the more it feels like there may be something in it. I don’t know if I’m off track yet — but I’m not fully convinced I am.

@Stacey Bannister Excelent Linkedin post. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454837124677431297/ Go to full IMROC article here For all our Neurodivergent Friends: Video, Podcast, Infographic, Slides. Thank you Stacey, IMROC and everyone else that workes in this field!!

Great session today talking about lived experience and recovery and what it means to us all as individuals. Just curious what does being in recovery mean to you?