Stimming as Self-Regulation: An Embodied Health Perspective
Content note: this blog includes brief reference to self-injurious behaviours. Earlier in the Embodied Mind series, we explored how neurodivergence is not just about cognition, but about…
Dysregulation as an Embodied State: Overwhelm, Overload and the Neurodivergent Body
Read part one of this series here, and part two here. Dysregulation is a word that appears frequently in conversations about neurodiversity, yet it is often…
Strong Bodies, Supported Brain: Exercise and Neurodiversity
If you would like to receive the rest of this series, please subscribe to our newsletter. Earlier in the year, we shared the Embodied…
Why Training Matters: Moving Beyond Awareness to Safer, More Effective Practice
Across this research, one finding stood out clearly: depth of understanding matters. Where practitioners had received meaningful training on neurodiversity, or drew on lived experience,…
New Series: The Embodied Mind +: Neurodiversity, Wellbeing, and the Body
Earlier this year, the Embodied Mind series explored neurodiversity through the lens of sleep and fatigue, gut health and nutrition, mobility and pain. Each blog started…
Partnership Working, Vulnerability, and the Cost of Inconsistency
When discussions about online extremism involve neurodivergent young people, vulnerability is often mentioned. However, findings from my research suggest that vulnerability is neither consistently defined…
Mens Rea, Intent, and the Problem of “Just Saying It Online”
One of the most complex questions practitioners face in cases of online extremism is deceptively simple: Did the person actually intend to act? Findings from…
When “The Extreme” Becomes “The Mainstream”
When practitioners talk about online radicalisation, they often describe it as something deliberate: searching, seeking, choosing. Findings from this research suggest something more unsettling:…