Katie Graziano, LPC

08/30/2026

Grief doesn’t always get smaller. Sometimes, life grows bigger around it.

On Grief Awareness Day, we’re making space for all the ways grief can show up. There’s no deadline for “moving on,” and healing doesn’t require forgetting or leaving behind the person, relationship or part of life you’re grieving.

Over time, new people, experiences, routines and moments of joy can begin to grow around the grief we carry. The grief may still be there — but so is everything else life continues to hold.

However your grief looks and feels, there’s no single right way or timeline to experience it.

08/19/2026

Dr. Zach Trevino, PhD, LMFT

08/16/2026

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08/12/2026

If "just do it" has never really worked on your brain, this may be part of why. ADHD motivation tends to run on interest, not importance.

PINCH is a handy way to remember the kinds of things that help get us moving. Most of us lean on some of these more than others.

It can be helpful to notice which ones light you up, and building tasks around them where you can.
Curious which is your strongest driver?

08/12/2026

You were the responsible one. The mature one. The one who held it together when the adults around you couldn't. You knew things children shouldn't know. You carried things children shouldn't carry. And everyone around you called it a gift and told you that you were wise beyond your years, and said they didn't know what they'd do without you.

They were describing a wound but calling it a strength.

Parentification doesn't always look like neglect from the outside. It can look like a child who is just so helpful, so capable, and close to their parent. It can look like a tight-knit family where the children are mature and responsible. It can look like exactly the kind of family other people admire from the outside.

What it looks like from the inside is different. It looks like a child who learned to read the emotional temperature of a room before they'd finished growing. Who managed a parent's moods, or a household's logistics, or a sibling's needs and not because they were asked in a healthy way, but because the alternative was chaos, or breakdown, or a parent who couldn't function without them. The child did not choose this scenario. They adapted to what they were given. And the adaptation was so thorough, so early in their growing, that it became their identity.

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08/12/2026

Neurodivergents are 9 times more likely to be victims of sexual crimes.
Why is that?
Predators know who are more vulnerable, and those who are not as socially adept are perfect targets because we often do not understand the social rules in a world built entirely around neurotypicality. So we doubt ourselves in social situations.

Many of us are also subjected at young ages to compliance model behaviorism, which as one can see on the consent continuum, already moves a person to a level below consent. And too often, behaviorism escalates from compliance to coercion. Neurodivergent children are taught to comply with demands no matter how discomforted we feel. Then, when faced with a predator, or an exploitive person, our continuum of consent has already been breached, the lines have been blurred, too many boundaries crossed. Without a concise understanding of consent, we are often more easily talked into things in which we do not want to engage.

The same goes with restraints. They're not just dangerous because of the trauma, injuries, and deaths. It's also dangerous to breach the bodily autonomy of a child without their consent, hence teaching them their consent is not needed to be coerced, or touched.

When we posted our film about the shame and secrets of restraint and seclusion, we were asked how bodily autonomy and consent play into this. With behaviorism and restraint, it becomes more clear when one considers the "Consent Continuum." If you want to read more about this and how to understand consent, or teach your child about it, please visit RAINN.org
from the denial of our right to consent.

Colorful graphic with black background; Copy:
The consent continuum
Consent: Both people want to share touch. (in green)
Compliance: Doing something because you should or for approval.(in yellow)
Pressure: Doing something because someone keeps asking you or tries to make you feel bad if you don't. (in light orange)
Coercion: Doing something because someone is threatening, extorting, or bribing you. (in orange)
Force Someone uses physical force or violence to force you into something you don't want to do.

neurodivergent liberation coalition, with the rainbow ND infinity symbol.

08/10/2026

DBTskills. Emotion Regulation.