If you're an ADHDer (especially INTJ) looking to leverage your strengths in your career you won't want to miss this episode!

Focusing on the INTJ type (the Architect/Strategist), we explore:

- Key INTJ strengths like strategic thinking, innovation, and deep focus — amplified by ADHD hyperfocus when channeled right

- Common challenges (e.g., executive function hurdles, perfectionism, emotional intensity) and how they show up with ADHD

- Research-backed benefits of strengths-based psychology: higher workplace satisfaction, better performance, and improved well-being

- Practical ways for INTJ ADHDers to advocate in the workplace (accommodations, boundary-setting, leveraging strengths)

- Self-support strategies: building more grace, recognizing your 10x effort as a high achiever, and turning "weaknesses" into assets

Whether you're a manager building neurodiverse teams, an INTJ with ADHD seeking deeper self-understanding, or anyone interested in positive psychology for ADHD brains — this episode offers actionable insights to thrive, not just survive.

When James Van Der Beek spoke about his experience with cancer, he didn’t talk about achievement.He didn’t talk about legacy.He talked about self love & how we are all inherently worthy of it.About how so much of our identity is built on earning it. Performing for it. Achieving for it. Becoming “something” in order to deserve it.And how illness stripped that away.In this episode, I break down:• James final videos & interviews• How conditioning teaches us our worth is transactional• The Sun in Gate 49 at the time of his passing — and the message of revolution from the I ChingGate 49 is about higher principles. About revolt. About rejecting what is no longer aligned.What if the real revolution… is realizing you were always worthy?What if the real revolution… is realizing that your purpose was always simply to be you?If you’ve ever felt like you had to become more in order to be loved — this conversation is for you.Find out your bodygraph on my website here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/Learn more about Gene Keys here: https://genekeys.com/ref/1717/And if you enjoy more long form written work I invite you to join me on Substack here: https://substack.com/@ashleybrianaeve#jamesvanderbeek #genekeys #humandesign #findyourpurpose #adhdselfimprovement

Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern among high-performing entrepreneurs and brand builders.

It isn’t a lack of discipline.

It isn’t a lack of ambition.

And it certainly isn’t a lack of intelligence or talent.

It’s a misunderstanding of where motivation is actually coming from.

Most people assume that burnout happens when you take on too much. In reality, it happens when you repeatedly say yes to goals your nervous system, and soul, was never designed to sustain.

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High performers are often the last to notice when their nervous system is under strain. In this episode, I explore how the body keeps score under chronic stress — and how subtle signals can show up long before burnout or breakdown. Using a Body Keeps the Score framework, I unpack nervous system overload, freeze responses, and stress without completion, and share my recent experience with sleep paralysis as a real-world example of what happens when the body speaks before the mind catches up. This conversation is about listening earlier — before the body forces a stop.

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Enjoy a previously paid workshop that now lives exclusively as a bonus in The Overwhelm Reset Course!In this video we break down stress from a somatic experiencing perspective. We explore stress not as something negative but as adaptation. And the fact that the more we have a negative attitude towards our own process (ie- stress) the less we can be in relationship to it & feel it.We then move into the Not Self Mind & mapping the not self within Human Design. Finally, we move into some somatic practices to help you move the stress and bring alignment back into your body.If this workshop helped move something within you, or sparked a curiosity about reframing stress I invite you into The Overwhelm Reset Course. A transformative 7 module course which will redefine your relationship with your body, Overwhelm, Freeze, and how you move through life.Learn more here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/overwhelm-reset-workshopPlease share with someone that could use this training. You never know who's life you could improve by sending a link.Learn more about me here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/

If you’re a high performer with ADHD who feels stuck in burnout, overwhelm, or functional freeze—this episode is for you.I break down how Not-Self patterns in Human Design quietly fuel ADHD masking, people-pleasing, and overcompensation—especially for ambitious, capable adults.We explore why: • Generators with ADHD force productivity and results • Manifestors force initiating, pushing, and proving • Projectors force visibility, recognition, and being seen • Reflectors force fitting in and adapting to othersThis episode is the pre-work for The Overwhelm Reset ADHD upgrade. If you wish to dive into the Psychology, biology, & energy of overwhelm I welcome you into the course. Learn more here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/overwhelm-reset-workshopLearn more about ADHD & HD Transformational Life Coaching here: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/mentoring-with-ashhttps://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/adhd+human+design+coaching #adhdawareness #adhdsupport #humandesign #humandesignnotself

What if the not-self isn’t something you “think”… but something your body is still carrying?In this short episode, I challenge the most common misunderstanding in Human Design — the idea that the not-self is a mental problem that can be fixed with awareness alone.Instead, I share how the not-self is a body-felt experience, much like trauma.When we’re open in certain areas of our design, we naturally take in energy, emotions, expectations, and pressure from the world around us. That energy is meant to move through us — but when it doesn’t, it gets stored in the body. Over time, we identify with it. We call it “my belief,” “my fear,” or “my personality.”That’s the not-self.In this episode, I break down: • What the not-self actually is (and why it’s not a mindset issue) • How Human Design shows where energy, grief, loss, and self-sabotage patterns get stuck in the body • How somatic experiencing helps complete what was never finished • My 3-step process for challenging beliefs that were never yours to begin withThis is Human Design as it was meant to be used — not as another identity to cling to, but as a map back to your body, your truth, and your agency.To learn more about me or explore coaching support: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/The Overwhelm Reset Course: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/overwhelm-reset-workshop

You don’t burn out because you’re lazy, broken, or “doing it wrong.”You burn out because you’re running patterns that were never yours to carry.In this video, I break down a hidden burnout & overwhelm loop I see constantly in high-performing, sensitive, intelligent people—especially those who feel chronically overwhelmed, dysregulated, or stuck despite doing “all the right things.”You’ll learn: • Why burnout often comes from absorbing pressure, expectations, and energy that isn’t yours • How this creates shadow patterns like over-proving, forcing, people-pleasing, or self-abandonment • Why more information, productivity hacks, or mindset work won’t fix the loop • How this shows up in the nervous system as overwhelm, freeze, and exhaustionI also explain how this pattern is mapped in Human Design as the Not-Self—but even if you’ve never studied Human Design, this framework will help you recognize where you’re leaking energy and living under invisible pressure.This is for you if: • You’re capable, driven, and exhausted • You feel like you’re always “bracing” or pushing • You keep hitting burnout cycles no matter how self-aware you are • You know something deeper is going on—but haven’t been able to name itAwareness isn’t enough. Regulation and alignment come first.The Overwhelm Reset Course: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/overwhelm-reset-workshopADHD + HD Coaching: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/adhd+human+design+coaching Holistic Human Design Coaching: https://www.ashleybrianaeve.com/holistic-human-design-coaching#adhdwomen #nervoussystemhealing #nervoussystemregulation #somaticexperiencing #somaticexercises