Is it possible that in our effort to mitigate overwhelm, we sometimes remove growth promoting opportunities and reduce healthy stress tolerance?  Joelle and Gillian talk through their decades-long journey of understanding the experience of neurodivergent youth and the complexity of how to support their capacity to cope with a world built by and for neurotypical people, while offering authentic and worthy learning and skill building experiences.  All of us in supportive roles can play the short game to relieve overwhelm and the long game where we face healthy challenges alongside youth.  All of us can make the wrong call at times and push too hard for the wrong reasons or overaccommodate to provide immediate relief.  As we navigate these decisions, we can polarize each other and go to extremes that further confuse the kids and eachother.  In this discussion, Joelle and Gillian identify some guiding considerations for teams to help us align our approaches.

At a certain point in this episode Gillian shares some potential drawbacks of Brene Brown's approach, which is better encapsulated in this article:

https://drcareyyazeed.com/the-dangers-of-courage-culture-and-why-brene-brown-isnt-for-black-folk/

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