Work-life balance is often framed as a clear divide between work and home. For many neurodivergent people, life is rarely that simple.
This book takes a whole-life approach to balance, grounded in self-understanding, compassion, and lived experience. Through a neuro-trait lens, you’ll explore how energy, executive functioning, sensory processing, attention, communication, and stress responses shape everyday experiences across work, home, and personal self-care.
Throughout, you are invited to notice what supports you, what drains you, and how different environments interact with your support needs. Through reflection prompts, practical ideas, and community insights, you’ll be encouraged to build a personalized strategy toolkit that fits your needs, values, and pace.
Blending psychological insight with lived experience, Jessica Dark offers a compassionate guide to creating balance that honours neurodivergence and supports holistic wellbeing.
Whether you’re autistic, have ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia or another form of neurodivergence, this book is for you.
This book takes a whole-life approach to balance, grounded in self-understanding, compassion, and lived experience. Through a neuro-trait lens, you’ll explore how energy, executive functioning, sensory processing, attention, communication, and stress responses shape everyday experiences across work, home, and personal self-care.
Throughout, you are invited to notice what supports you, what drains you, and how different environments interact with your support needs. Through reflection prompts, practical ideas, and community insights, you’ll be encouraged to build a personalized strategy toolkit that fits your needs, values, and pace.
Blending psychological insight with lived experience, Jessica Dark offers a compassionate guide to creating balance that honours neurodivergence and supports holistic wellbeing.
Whether you’re autistic, have ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia or another form of neurodivergence, this book is for you.
Reviews
Balance is a compassionate and gentle book, full of thoughtful insight and helpful strategies. Each chapter is beautifully structured and summarised, with a helpful 'audit' at the end to reflect on individual priorities. Jessica offers incredibly helpful language and framing of traits and experiences, drawing on personal and community insights. Tremendous care was taken in writing this book, making it both accessible and affirming.
For Autistic or otherwise neurodivergent adults, Balance feels like coming home. Jessica Dark honours the invisible effort behind daily living and the ongoing work of understanding your identity. She offers practical strategies rooted in self-compassion, not compliance. This neuro-affirming book centres real experiences and needs across work, home, and self-care with honesty and compassion. An invaluable resource for our community.
Jessica Dark offers a radically affirming guide to the fluctuating realities of being neurodivergent. She explores energy, focus, flow, communication, sensory and executive functioning needs. Balance moves beyond neuronormative expectations, grounding practical strategies for work, home, and self-care in lived experience and community knowledge - for a life of thriving and belonging. Highly recommended. I wish I'd read this years ago!
Jessica Dark writes about neurodivergent wellbeing the way it actually works - not as a programme to complete, but as a practice to build and rebuild across a lifetime. As an autistic adult, filmmaker, and neuro-affirming respite practitioner, I found my own hard-won strategies reflected back at me here, alongside frameworks I hadn't yet named. This book honours who we are, not who we're supposed to become.
This is an indispensable tool kit for neurodivergent people offering practical ideas and suggestions to develop and maintain wellbeing. Jessica uses a range of practical activities, case studies and self-reflection to demonstrate the challenges of managing workloads, energy levels and day to day life to promote self care. Written in an accessible and highly informative way, this book is an essential read for anyone who is neurodivergent, or works and lives with neurodivergent people.