Don’t overthink. Just answer. ☕ Coffee or 🍵 Tea 🌞 Early or 🌙 Late 🎧 Music or 🔇 Silence 📋 Plan or 🌊 Go with the flow 🔥 Focus or 💤 Rest Drop your picks 👇

I’ve been clarifying something important behind the scenes — what this space is actually for. Broadly: I support adults who care for children. More specifically: I support parents, teachers, and carers of neurodivergent and deep-feeling children. More precisely: I support adults who are living with constant emotional intensity, demand avoidance, meltdowns, shutdowns, and power struggles — and who already know that traditional behaviour advice doesn’t work for the children in their care. This community is especially relevant if pressure makes things worse, not better — whether you’re at home, in a classroom, or in a care setting. My work sits at the intersection of: Nervous-system understanding 20+years professional childcare and early-years experience including SEN (Special Educational Needs) Lived parenting experience with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) and practical, relationship-protective strategies that translate across home and settings. I don’t teach compliance. I don’t use behaviour charts or reward systems. And I don’t frame adults as the problem. The core problem I help with is this: 👉 “I understand this child better — but I still don’t know what to do in the moment.” Grounded Roots exists to close that gap. This is a space for adults who want clarity, confidence, and realistic tools — not trends, not scripts, and not performative practice. If that’s you, you’re exactly where you should be. 🌿

This week I released a free ebook in my own community, and I thought it might be helpful to share it here too, in case it supports more parents, carers and educators. ❤️ It’s called “The Secret Map of Executive Functions”. It’s a very visual, story‑based guide to things like: planning and getting started, working memory (why they “forget” mid‑task), time and transitions, emotional regulation. I wrote it with neurodivergent brains in mind, but it’s also for the adults around them, parents, teachers, therapists, who are trying to understand what’s happening underneath the behaviours. Instead of a clinical PDF, I wanted it to feel like an illustrated map you can see and talk about with your child, your partner, your students, or even just with yourself at the end of a hard day. If you feel it could be useful, you’re very welcome to download it and use it in whatever way supports your family or your work with kids. Thank you, Ellie, for holding such a beautiful space here and for letting me share this with your community.❤️ 📥 Direct download link for the ebook: The Secret Map of Executive Functions

You don’t need more discipline. You need more safety. Everything else grows from there. 💕

🌱 Something that genuinely stopped me in my tracks this week… I walked in expecting background noise or a game. Instead, my 7-year-old was watching a video on Einstein’s theory of relativity, moons, and black holes 🌌 No prompting. No agenda. Just curiosity doing what curiosity does. It reminded me how often the world quietly surprises us when we’re not rushing past it. 💬 Root Drop: What surprised you this week? A moment, a thought, something you noticed, something that made you pause. Big or small — all of it counts - doesn't need to be child related 🌱