One direct, no-fluff pep talk per page, written for the days your brain feels like too much. Open anywhere, read one, and get on with your day.
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Written by Dr Vikky Leaney . PhD in Mental Health
Not affirmations.
Actual instructions.
One pep talk
at a time
Short enough to read on a bad day. Open anywhere and you are in the right place.
You have heard “be kind to yourself” enough times. This book speaks to you the way a good friend who gets it would: plainly, directly, and on your side. With 50 pep talks, one per page, grouped into short sections for the moments neurodivergent women actually hit.
Keep it by the bed, in your bag, or give it to someone who needs it more than she will admit.
For all of us
Written for neurodivergent women broadly, not one diagnosis. ADHD, autistic, and everything in between.
Direct,not fluffy
Pep talks, not affirmations. It tells you what to do next, not how to feel about it.
A real gift book
122 pages, bold cover, made to
be handed over and kept.
When you laugh at the wrong moment
We've all been there. You laugh at a joke you didn't find funny, or didn't understand, because everyone else did, and you weren't sure what the correct response was. Laugh or don't laugh? I'm supposed to be laughing, right?
The inverse problem also exists. If, like me, you live with someone who is deeply sarcastic, you can find yourself laughing just in case it was funny, and it wasn't funny at all. Now you've laughed at a perfectly serious comment, and you wonder if you should acknowledge it or pretend it didn’t happen.
Neurodivergent women miss social cues sometimes. The things that come second nature to other people, we have to analyse, and sometimes the timing is just wrong. You laugh a little too hard when the news comes out that your coworker's cat was run over by a bus, and you don't laugh at all when you should.
It's okay. It happened, it's done, it was not a character flaw. Style it out. You laughed, and you meant it.
Vikky holds a PhD in Mental Health from Lancaster University, where her research focused on neurodivergence, gender and mental health. She spent years studying why so many women go undiagnosed and unseen, and writes Pep Talks with that research behind every line.
Vikky wrote this book as a way of gifting the feeling of being seen.