Before we build anything, we need to know where we're starting.

Week 1 introduces the Regulation Continuum, a four-state framework for understanding where your nervous system is right now. It includes two evidence-informed self-reflection tools to establish your personal baseline: the Snapshot Screener for a quick continuum placement, and the Full Inventory for a comprehensive look across four domains.

This week's content also introduces the Nervous System Reset, a structured wellness practice for observing your own thought patterns and generating your first qualitative data point of the summer.

This download includes: Content pages · Snapshot Screener · Full Inventory · Guided Practice · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:‍ ‍

• Pastel — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Your body has been speaking to you your whole life. This week we learn to listen.

Week 2 explores alexithymia and hyperempathy, two ways neurodivergent nervous systems experience emotional awareness differently, and introduces body-based check-ins as an alternative to standard emotional processing practices. The Body Signal Reference Guide gives you a practical vocabulary for what your nervous system is communicating when words aren't available.

This download includes: Content pages · Body Signal Reference Guide · Guided Journal Practice · Journal Pages · Snapshot Screener

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print-friendly black-and-white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Before we build anything, we need to know where we're starting.

Week 1 introduces the Regulation Continuum, a four-state framework for understanding where your nervous system is right now. It includes two evidence-informed self-reflection tools to establish your personal baseline: the Snapshot Screener for a quick continuum placement, and the Full Inventory for a comprehensive look across four domains.

This week's content also introduces the Nervous System Reset, a structured wellness practice for observing your own thought patterns and generating your first qualitative data point of the summer.

This download includes: Content pages · Snapshot Screener · Full Inventory · Guided Practice · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:‍ ‍

• Pastel — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Your body has been speaking to you your whole life. This week we learn to listen.

Week 2 explores alexithymia and hyperempathy, two ways neurodivergent nervous systems experience emotional awareness differently, and introduces body-based check-ins as an alternative to standard emotional processing practices. The Body Signal Reference Guide gives you a practical vocabulary for what your nervous system is communicating when words aren't available.

This download includes: Content pages · Body Signal Reference Guide · Guided Journal Practice · Journal Pages · Snapshot Screener

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print-friendly black-and-white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Before we build anything, we need to know where we're starting.

Week 1 introduces the Regulation Continuum — a four-state framework for understanding where your nervous system is right now — and gives you two evidence-informed self-reflection tools to establish your personal baseline: the Snapshot Screener for a quick continuum placement, and the Full Inventory for a comprehensive look across four domains.

This week's content also introduces the Nervous System Reset — a structured, non-religious practice for observing your own thought patterns and generating your first qualitative data point of the summer.

This download includes: Content pages · Snapshot Screener · Full Inventory · Guided Practice · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:‍ ‍

• Pastel — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for digital notetaking apps like GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Your body has been speaking to you your whole life. This week we learn to listen.

Week 2 explores alexithymia and hyperempathy, two ways neurodivergent nervous systems experience emotional awareness differently, and introduces body-based check-ins as an alternative to standard emotional processing practices. The Body Signal Reference Guide gives you a practical vocabulary for what your nervous system is communicating when words aren't available.

This download includes: Content pages · Body Signal Reference Guide · Guided Journal Practice · Journal Pages · Snapshot Screener

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print-friendly black-and-white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Boundaries aren't walls. For neurodivergent nervous systems they are dynamic, responsive energy management tools.

Week 3 reframes boundary-setting through an energy lens, introducing the concept of energetic boundaries grounded in the latest research on ND burnout recovery. The three-part energy audit — relationships, environments, and sensory budget — gives you an honest accounting of where your energy is going and where you most need to protect it.

This download includes: Content pages · Energy Audit Journal · Journal Pages · Snapshot Screener

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

The bath bomb didn't work. The eight hours of sleep didn't either. That's not a failure, It's a mismatch.

Week 4 dismantles the self-care industrial complex and replaces it with evidence-based restoration strategies designed for neurodivergent nervous systems. The Rest Inventory helps you identify what actually works for your brain (sensory rest, creative rest, social rest, movement, and special interests) rated by how restorative they genuinely feel rather than how restorative they're supposed to feel.

This download includes: Content pages · Rest Inventory · Journal Pages · Snapshot Screener

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Understanding your nervous system is one thing. Building a framework that works for it is another.

Week 5 marks the series' shift from understanding into action. Understanding the ND Burnout Loop gives you the knowledge you need for interrupting the patterns that have been running your nervous system. Three differentiated framework templates and a self-talk script help you build a personalized decompression plan grounded in everything you've learned so far.

This download includes: Content pages · Decompression Framework Templates · Self-Talk Script · Snapshot Screener · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Who are you when no one needs anything from you?

Week 6 is the most personal week in the series. It traces the Identity Erosion Timeline (how implicit messages received in childhood create a progressive gap between the authentic self and the performed self) and introduces the Masking Spiral, documenting the social and professional cost of sustained masking. The Values and Preferences Inventory and exploratory journal practice guide your reflections.

This download includes: Content pages · Values and Preferences Inventory · Snapshot Screener · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

Seven weeks of honest writing. This week you find out what it's been telling you.

Week 7 is the payoff week. A step-by-step qualitative coding guide including inductive and deductive coding methods walks you through reading your own journal entries as data. Four coding categories help you identify meltdown precursor patterns, energy leaks, masking costs, and restoration sources hidden in your own writing.

This download includes: Content pages · Qualitative Coding Guide · Snapshot Screener · Coding Journal Pages · Theme Synthesis Page · Journal Pages

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.

This is not about setting goals. It's about building self-advocacy from evidence.

Week 8 brings the full summer together: the quantitative screener , qualitative themes, and the ND Cognitive Energy Model capstone graphic showing all three cycles in both their depletion and restoration states. The Self-Advocacy Plan translates everything you've learned into concrete commitments for the year ahead, grounded entirely in your own data.

This download includes: Content pages · Snapshot Screener · Full Inventory · Self-Advocacy Plan · Journal Pages ·

Available in three versions:

• Pastel — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Neutral — optimized for GoodNotes and Notability

• Grayscale — print friendly black and white version

Part of the free 8-week ND Teacher's Summer Recovery Series.