The Real Self Series
Practical reflection tools adapted from the books to help you see beneath behavior, notice the Real Self, understand protective adaptations, make room for the nervous system you actually have, and meet old pain with steadiness, honesty, and compassion.
Book Three companion resources
These companion resources are adapted from The Child Behind the Behavior: A Compassionate Guide for Parents of ADHD, Autistic, Anxious, and Emotionally Intense Children. They help parents look beneath hard behavior with steadiness, compassion, limits, support, repair, and a clearer understanding of what a child may be signaling.
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A companion plan for understanding meltdown signals, preparing before escalation, protecting safety during the storm, supporting recovery afterward, repairing rupture, and learning from the pattern.
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A companion map for understanding the parent parts that may show up during hard child behavior, including fear, anger, guilt, shame, rescue, control, avoidance, advocacy, grief, exhaustion, and hope.
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A companion map for understanding the protective child parts that may show up during hard behavior, including alarm, demand resistance, explosions, shutdown, masking, shame, fairness, perfectionism, avoidance, bravery, and depletion.
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A companion worksheet for slowing down one hard behavior, noticing what may have happened before, naming the possible signal, identifying child and parent parts, holding limits, offering support, and repairing after rupture.
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These companion resources are adapted from The Neurodivergent Self: ADHD, Autism, Masking, Shame, and the Emergence of the Real Self. They are rewritten for web use so they can stand alone as free tools while pointing back to the fuller clinical context of the book.
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A companion worksheet for noticing sensory inputs that drain or support, early body signals of overload, masking and fawning around sensory needs, recovery, repair, communication scripts, and a Real Self sensory care plan.
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An inner-system map for understanding the Masker, Fawning Protector, Shame Carrier, Chaos Manager, Shutdown Protector, Overexplainer, Justice Flame, Avoider, Performer, Pleaser, Critic, Invisible One, and other protective parts.
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A companion inventory for noticing the hidden cost of appearing fine, social camouflaging, fawning, sensory masking, executive-function performance, shutdown, burnout signals, support needs, and safe-enough unmasking.
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A reflection tool for noticing nervous system capacity, executive-function pain, sensory needs, masking, fawning, shame, shutdown, communication, justice sensitivity, gifts, protective parts, and supports worth exploring.
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These companion resources are adapted from Developing the Real Self: Personality, Defenses, Abandonment Depression, and the Life That Is Actually Yours. They help map Real Self contact, False Self adaptation, defense patterns, abandonment fear, abandonment pain, and small movements of truth.
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A companion guide for understanding old attachment alarms, noticing body signals and protective parts, checking present reality, and letting the Real Self respond with steadiness, support, boundaries, and compassion.
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A reflective inventory for noticing Real Self contact, protective adaptations, parts, abandonment pain, desire, boundaries, intimacy, work, and daily self-contact.
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A companion map for understanding what adapted in you, what it protected, what it now costs, and how the Real Self can begin to lead.
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A companion worksheet for slowing down automatic defenses, naming what they protect, noticing what they cost, and letting the Real Self begin to lead.
Open the resourceThe books behind the resources
The free tools can help you notice patterns. The books give the fuller framework, clinical language, examples, and deeper context for the emergence of the Real Self.
The Real Self Series
A Compassionate Guide for Parents of ADHD, Autistic, Anxious, and Emotionally Intense Children
A compassionate guide for seeing beyond behavior and understanding what a child may be trying to communicate through anxiety, intensity, shutdown, refusal, masking, overload, or collapse.
The Real Self Series
ADHD, Autism, Masking, Shame, and the Emergence of the Real Self
A compassionate guide to the neurodivergent nervous system, protective parts, masking, shame, sensory overload, executive-function pain, and the emergence of the Real Self.
The Real Self Series
Personality, Defenses, Abandonment Depression, and the Life That Is Actually Yours
A compassionate, depth-oriented guide to the Real Self, False Self adaptation, protective defenses, abandonment depression, and the emergence and development of authentic feeling, desire, choice, grief, boundaries, intimacy, creativity, and calling.
