Te Whare Whakaruruhau: Trauma Informed Practice

My ADHD diagnosis was the most useful label I ever received.I was staring down the barrel of middle age, and suddenly my entire life was put into a fresh perspective. The challenge with deadlines, perpetual overwhelm, the dance between what I now know to be hyperfocus and paralysis. It reframed decades of internalised narratives.As a child, I had grown accustomed to different labels: lazy, unmotivated, not applying herself. Over time, those words stop feeling like someone else’s feedback or opin