👉🏽 Subscribe for thoughtful, bite-sized emails — from Liz Zhou, a neurodivergent therapist — on how to take care of your nervous system & understand your brain.
Peek at my new podcast: Nervous System Care & Healing 🎧
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How does your brain like to process information?
Our brains process information in so many different ways — visually, auditorily, kinesthetically, verbally, non-verbally, sub-consciously, consciously… and more. 🎧 If you happen to be an auditory processor, you might enjoy this new resource that I’ve been working on behind the scenes. I’m excited to share a preview here. It’s a podcast, and I’m calling it Nervous System Care & Healing. Y’all are the first to hear about it! 🤭
This podcast aims to answer one question, in a bunch of different ways: How do we take care of ourselves & each other, while we navigate systems of oppression that were designed to keep us dysregulated? The first few episodes will come out next month — so if you follow my podcast on the platform of your choice, you’ll see them pop up soon. 💜 I created this podcast to make space for conversations that are too long for a social media post, too complex for a single email. These topics deserve nuance, depth, and sustained attention, not just a sound bite. I can’t wait to share more soon. For now, I’d love to invite you to check out the trailer on Apple, YouTube, or Spotify. 👉🏽 Feel free to reply & let me know: what topics & questions would you like to hear me talk about on the podcast? If you’ve ever had a burning question about: nervous system care, neurodiversity, holistic healing, or collective healing — I would love to know. Talk again soon, P.S. If you're overwhelmed & burnt out, but too busy for weekly therapy, I am here to support you. I offer Nervous System Healing Intensives — three 90-minute sessions, using brain-body modalities (Brainspotting, IFS, EMDR) that go deeper than talk therapy & help you feel better, sooner.
Intensives are a type of short-term, accelerated therapy — for folks who prefer a hyper-focused approach to healing; who need longer than 50-min sessions to warm up & process deeply. Our three 90-minute sessions are scheduled across 1-2 weeks. 👉🏽 If you want to get an Intensive on the books, click here to book an intro call. P.P.S. Know someone who needs to hear this? Forward it along. New readers can subscribe HERE. I help highly sensitive, neurodivergent adults heal their nervous systems & connect with their authentic selves. 💗 Need a nervous system reset? —> Join me for a Calm Place meditation.
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Liz's Neurodivergent Letters
👉🏽 Subscribe for thoughtful, bite-sized emails — from Liz Zhou, a neurodivergent therapist — on how to take care of your nervous system & understand your brain.
While scrolling on my phone last night, I counted 26 tabs / apps open and running the background. 26!!! Favorites include: my beloved astrology app; my YNAB (You Need a Budget) app that I swear by; recipes ambitiously bookmarked for “later”; and my clock app, where I set alarms to prepare me for the next alarm. (8:00am - soft wake up, 9:00am - seriously, wake up now.) The sheer number of tabs made me realize just how many directions my attention is pulled these days. It also made me reflect...
When do you feel most like yourself? 😹 When you’re laughing with friends over an inside joke? 📚 When your nose is buried in a book, making the hours pass by like minutes? 👐🏽 When you’re creating something beautiful/messy/tactile with your hands? 🗺️ When you’re at home? Or on the road? Or waiting at airports, the ultimate in-between space? What I find fascinating is that I could ask 1,000 people this same question, when do you feel most like yourself?, and I would hear 1,000 different answers....
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “nervous system regulation”? 🧘🏻♀️ Maybe you think about breathing techniques or mindfulness skills. 🍵 Or all the teas we’re told to drink, and supplements we’re encouraged to take. 🛁 Or bubble baths, self-care products, and spa appointments. All of the above are valid, and potentially extremely helpful, options for nervous system regulation. Different things work for different people. (I, for one, love my weighted pillow that smells like...