Dear Dopamine Hope everyone has had a lovely bank holiday. I actually did something new to me, which was spending a lot of time just sleeping, resting and journaling. I've been experiencing a lot of financial insec
Dear Dopamine
Hope everyone has had a lovely bank holiday. I actually did something new to me, which was spending a lot of time just sleeping, resting and journaling.
I've been experiencing a lot of financial insecurity (yey solo founder life) and learning to self-regulate this feeling. It's been interesting since a lot of feelings of being insecure as a child came up, and I had to really figure out how to move through these feelings.
I wrote a blog post about processing late ADHD and dyslexic diagnosis. I guess
sometimes when you also have trauma, things in life can feel like they're triggering a mix of other things in your mind.
A lot of clients I coach, we talk about processing and taking the time to lower our highly sensitive nervous system. I have a tool in my Flair Toolkit to help you think about regulation tools, and I'm hoping to make some mini courses to teach people what I've learned.
Who watched it? I did, and it gave me the dopamine boost I needed, mainly the power of dopamine dressing.
With ADHD brains, I guess I am very sensitive to changes in dopamine and the environment I really feel it when it's grey and rainy. So I've been actively trying to dopamine dress.
And just seeing all the cool outfits in Devil Wears Prada 2 made me smile and reminded me how dressing for yourself is actually dopamine dressing and something you can control. (Unfortunately, I would love to control the weather, but I can't!)
I have spoken before about how I think being neurodivergent and having constant curiosity is a double-edged sword in some ways, since the jobs market has traditionally paid for very niche skillsets or longevity in an industry or role.
But I'm hoping that with AI, skillsets like hypercuriosity, which neurodivergent people naturally process (assumption being made here, mostly thinking about people who have dyslexia and ADHD since that's my lived experience) would be an advantage in a world where constant learning and adaption is necessary.
To be less irrelevant, it means being open to:
Picking up AI skills
Sharing ideas
Not being scared to break away from what you have been doing for years to try different things
I do feel this, I've moved from consulting, to finance, to the film industry, to higher education, to solo foundership. It's been tough income-wise, but I don't regret it. I've learnt so much about me, the world, and my values through this process.
In short, if you're in a position where you can carve out some time for yourself, play around with AI, look on YouTube, courses etc., and check events like meetup.com to find sessions to learn more (if you have that luxury, of course).
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s for me, I've booked myself in to go to a cabin in the middle of the British countryside and set the ultimate goal of writing 80% of my book "I am neurospicy" in 4 days because I realised I just need to have total hyperfocus to push this book out!
I'm very open to ideas being shared on what to include in this book, but I'm thinking of sharing:
All my coaching frameworks
Everything I've learned from coaching more than 100 late ADHD and AuDHD female and non-binary people with ADHD
No gatekeeping
This would be one of the gifts I give to my community 💛
🎤 Lunch & Learn — 60–90 min awareness session for all employees, book in a call with me to discuss
🏆 Neurodiversity Manager Training — CPD certified, 3 hours, for managers and leadership
🧠 Flairya — neurotech platform for neuroinclusion at work. Currently in beta with ERGs and HR teams — get in touch if you'd like to be involved
🎓 Coaching Neurodivergent Clients — CPD certified, self-paced course for coaches, mentors, and managers
Wishing you lots of dopamine, Kim 💛
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