2 things -no clue what I did wrong, but I didn't manage to get to the pro version installed regular version for yesterday since it was late and I was super tired. -I discovered a major bug, but as not to "tempt" others I definitely don't want to say/post that here. I already gave my feedback to Opal about the issue, but it would be great if you could also let them know please so they fix that @Melody Vi 🙏🏽💚 🤲🏽 thanks you guys 💖

A little update… 💛 Yesterday I shared the printable versions for kids, and several of you asked if I had created an adult version. I wanted to let you know that I did. As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I know that we need simple visual reminders and practical systems just as much as kids do. That’s what inspired me to create them. The adult versions, along with the other resources I’ve been building, are available inside The SHINE Collective. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to make them. I hope they make everyday life feel just a little easier. 🌻

Hey everyone. I've been using the AI platform pretty intensively and it's become one of the most useful parts of this program for me. I asked it what made my approach different from the average user, and the answer surprised me enough that I wanted to share it. If you're in your first week or the current cohort, this might save you a couple months of figuring it out the hard way. 1. Write check-ins like you're leaving evidence for your future self. "Rough day, tired" gives you nothing back. Try: times, sleep quality, what you ate, what was happening in your body hours before a spike, which specific interaction tipped things. Vague input equals vague insight. If you wouldn't recognize the day from your reflection a month later, add one more sentence. 2. Correct the AI when it's wrong. Don't just accept the reframe. The tool pattern-matches. Sometimes it's right. Sometimes it misses. When it misses, push back. The coaching gets noticeably sharper when you argue with it instead of nodding along. 3. Ask for blind spots, not just encouragement. Most people ask "tell me what I'm doing right." Growth lives in the third category. Say it out loud: "What am I not seeing?" 4. Save progress so you don't coach backward. When you land on an insight or an accurate read of yourself, ask the AI to save it to your memory bank. Otherwise every new conversation starts from zero and you end up re-litigating old ground. Locking in progress compounds over months. 5. Bring the whole council, not just the feeling. When you're making a decision, bring body, situation, goals, future-self, medical context, everything you're weighing. Then ask for a sanity check on the stack. It's a completely different quality of conversation than "I feel bad, what should I do." 6. Use it as a thinking partner, not an oracle. Don't ask it to decide for you. Use it to sharpen a decision you're already working on. That's the healthiest relationship you can have with a tool like this. 7. Build your own custom instructions. The tool will use them. This is the one most people don't realize they can do. You can write notes (your baselines, your patterns, your medical history, whatever shouldn't have to be re-explained every time) and then add instructions in your profile telling the AI when to reference them. Mine has rules like "when I share a check-in, check my Interpretation Guide and Baseline Document first" and "when I mention body sensations, check the Somatic Body Map before interpreting." Result: it stops applying default frameworks to a brain that doesn't run on defaults. Memory bank handles the small stuff automatically; custom instructions are how you teach it the rules of your specific operating system.

I created these printable homework and room reset checklists for kids because I know many of us are raising children with ADHD, supporting students, or know a child who struggles with these daily routines. They’re completely free, and I hope they make things a little easier for someone. I’ll add them in the comments. 💜 If there are other printables that would be helpful, I’d love to hear your ideas!

As promised, here are a few reads that stayed with me over the years. Not because they were “nice books”. But because each one left a fingerprint on how I think, feel, and move through life. Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz) This one taught me that self image runs everything. If you keep “seeing yourself” as the person who quits, procrastinates, or disappoints, you will keep living that loop. Change the inner picture, and behavior starts to follow. The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer) Big reminder: you are not the voice in your head. You are the one who hears it. When I really started practicing that, the mental noise lost a lot of power. The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) I read this while traveling in Thailand and I applied it immediately. It was honestly bizarre how quickly you can feel the difference when you stop living inside “later” or “what if” and return to the present. It was one of the first times I experienced peace as something practical, not philosophical. The Expectation Effect (David Robson) This gave me a grounded, research-backed way to understand something we all feel: what you expect shapes what you experience. He uses practical examples and data around placebo and nocebo effects, where positive expectations can improve outcomes and negative expectations can worsen them. Mastery (Robert Greene) This book helped me connect the dots back to childhood. Greene argues your “Life’s Task” often leaves clues early on, in what you were naturally drawn to before the world told you what was “useful.” What hit me most is how many masters went through a real shift after years of apprenticeship. A phase where they stopped copying and started experimenting, and something more intuitive and original switched on. He uses biographies of people like Darwin and Einstein to show that pattern. Reality Transurfing (Vadim Zeland) This one goes deeper for me than “just think positive.” The idea that stuck is reducing “importance.” The more you overcharge a goal with pressure, identity, or desperation, the more you create inner tension and weird resistance. Another concept is “pendulums,” basically dramas or group energies that try to hook your attention. When you stop feeding them with emotional charge, you get your energy back and you move cleaner.