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  • A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being
  • By: Niamh Garvey
  • Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson
  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)
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Summary

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'

Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase.

Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what's happening when the stress response kicks in to using the 'detective habit' to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What's more, every element of this book can be personalised to you.

Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.

©2023 Niamh Garvey (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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It's a yes

Clear, well written, nicely organised, great information, lots of practical examples and powerful lived experience

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Useful and quite complete information!

I enjoyed the book, how it explores different aspects of being autistic and strategies to cope with the challenges and difficulties we might experience.

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Defiantly worth listening too!!

One of the best autistic books out there. I have recently been diagnosed as autistic as an adult and I felt like everything in the book just made sense and made me feel not alone. Defiantly worth it! I have the physical copy and an audible copy.

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Best book ever on autistium

Love the way its layed out so easy, ive also bought the paper back so i can read it with my partner and we can talk it through! Its amazing!

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Useful and informative

This book was recommended to me when I got my diagnosis. It is very helpful and provides some thoughtful and interesting ideas to help with a variety of different issues someone who is autistic may experience. The recording quality is very good and it is narrated well.

The audiobook could benefit from having the chapter titles in the navigation to allow you to find the relevant chapter if you're in need of some information or support for a particular issue.

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Extremely reccomend but could do with having pdfs

Amazing book though I do wish there were pdfs of some of the key parts. I think I'm going to have to buy the paper version as well, as a reference to look back at.

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