Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing

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This is the go-to-guide to surviving and thriving as an autistic adult. Featuring customisable, stress-relieving strategies that are easy to implement into busy everyday life to create a calmer, happier you. Packed with lived-experience and professional tips and tricks, this guide works to help you truly look after your autistic self.

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'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase.Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what's happening when the stress response kicks in to using the 'detective habit' to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What's more, every element of this book can be personalised to you.Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.

Author Biography

Niamh Garvey is an autistic author. She graduated with a Diploma in Autism Studies from University College Cork in 2021. Niamh is a registered nurse, and lives in Cork, Ireland with her husband and three children.

Review

Niamh's opening words tell us that life as an adult is hard and then proceeds to tell us numerous different ways to make it easier. This is a truly fantastic book full of ideas and strategies delivered in an entirely autistic way. It's so logical, you will wonder why you didn't think of it before. Brilliant. -- Sarah Hendrickx, author of Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum.Niamh explores the depth, complexity and enjoyment of her everydaylife experiences from an Autistic adult's perspective. She gives awonderful, insightful analysis of her sensory experiences andchallenges in language that everyone can access and understand. Thisis an invaluable and essential read for people seeking to understandmore about living with Autism. Highly Recommended! -- Julie O' Sullivan, Senior Occupational Therapist, The Sunflower Clinic.This easy-to-read and engaging book describes why autistic adults find sensory and emotional well-being difficult to attain. They will resonate with these explanations, and the self-care recommendations will improve their quality of life. Family members, psychologists, and occupational therapists will also benefit from the insights and strategies -- Tony AttwoodThis is an exceptionally insightful, thoughtful, in depth and helpful book. Easy to read and full of practical strategies, it is sure to provide many Autistic adults with additional knowledge about themselves and their neurology, as well as methods they can use going forward to look after themselves (and their loved ones). Highly recommended! -- Davida Hartman, Clinical Director of The Adult Autism Practice

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Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

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'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism' It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase. Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what's happening when the stress response kicks in to using the 'detective habit' to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What's more, every element of this book can be personalised to you. Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.

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Niamh's opening words tell us that life as an adult is hard and then proceeds to tell us numerous different ways to make it easier. This is a truly fantastic book full of ideas and strategies delivered in an entirely autistic way. It's so logical, you will wonder why you didn't think of it before. Brilliant.

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Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

Details ISBN1839975601 Author Niamh Garvey Short Title Looking after Your Autistic Self Pages 256 Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1839975601 ISBN-13 9781839975608 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-03-21 Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2023-03-21 UK Release Date 2023-03-21 Subtitle A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being Illustrations n/a DEWEY 616.85882 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-03-20 We've got this

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