Keeping Burnout at Bay

For Parents in Neurodivergent Families Holding It All Together At Work & Home

Tuesday 25th March & Tuesday 1st April @ 7.45pm

£97

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You’re HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER… but barely.

And if one more thing lands on your plate, you might actually cry.

You remember when you use used to be able to juggle it all. Work, home, life. It was never easy, but somehow you made it work. But now, neurodivergent family life has got more complicated, more challenging, and you’re running on empty.

📌You’ve just spent the evening drafting yet another email to school, trying to get them to understand fighting for support for your child, while trying to deal with the inevitable meltdown following a day of masking.

📌You’re behind on work - you didn’t get that report finished - but you’re lying awake at 2am after an hour of sitting at your child’s bedside, worrying about whether you’ll lose your job.

📌Your brain is so overloaded that even figuring out what to cook for dinner feels like too

much.

📌You’re doing everything for everyone. But in all of this, where do you fit?

That’s why we created this mini course.

Not to give you more to do - but to help you stop running on fumes. To show you how to spot the warning signs before burnout pulls you under and you have nothing left for anyone else. And to help you curate your own personal Burnout Prevention Toolkit with strategies that work for your life and your unique situation at work and home.

You don’t have to figure this out alone.

We’ve been there too, and we can help.

🔥 Keeping Burnout at Bay: A Mini Course for Parents & Carers in Neurodivergent Families

📅 Live Workshops: Tuesday 25th March & Tuesday 1st April 7.45-9pm (recordings available)

Price: £97

📍 Where: Online (Zoom + private Facebook group)

👥 For parents and carers who are stretched too thin, running on empty, and need practical ways to prevent burnout

💡 What You’ll Get:

✔ 2 expert-led workshops with realistic, practical strategies

✔ A personalised burnout prevention toolkit you can actually use

✔ A supportive, judgement-free Facebook community of people who get it

✔ Six months’ access to recordings and resources

Sign up now to secure your place

Imagine waking up and feeling like you can quietly handle whatever life decided to throw at you that day

**No more waking up with a knot in your stomach, already feeling stressed and behind before the day has begun.**

Instead, you feel calmer and in control - not because life has magically become easier or because you have single-handedly solved the SEND crisis, but because you know exactly what to do when things start getting on top of you.

• You recognise the early signs of burnout before you hit a wall.

• You have go-to strategies that actually work for your life - ones that don’t just sit on a “self-care” list but fit seamlessly into your daily routine.

• You can handle the chaos - the meltdowns, school meetings, work stress - without it swallowing you whole.

☕ You might even get to drink a hot cup of tea before it goes cold.

But right now, you put yourself last

Your child needs you. Your job needs you. There’s always something more urgent than your own wellbeing. You tell yourself you’ll rest after the EHCP paperwork is done, after you’ve caught up on work, after the current crisis is over. But the next crisis always comes first.

We know what it’s like. We’ve been there ourselves. That’s why we created this course - to help you put yourself back on the list. To give you permission - no matter what is going on right now. Not with generic self-care advice (we don’t believe in that), but with a personally curated burnout prevention toolkit designed around your life.

Because you DESERVE more than just getting through each day.

You’ve already tried so many things before, but nothing has really stuck…

You’ve read the self-care books. You’ve followed wellness coaches on Instagram, hoping something would finally stick. But none of it considered what it’s like to navigate the enormous daily stress and unpredictability of neurodivergent family life, emotionally draining calls with professionals, and hold down a demanding job.

You feel like you’re just bouncing from crisis to crisis and you never have enough spoons.

Maybe you tried:

✔ A ‘productivity hack’ where you start the day with your most important task - except at 8 a.m., your child is sobbing under their duvet, refusing to get dressed, and there’s milk spilled all over the floor.

✔ That ‘Perfect Morning Routine’ everyone swears by - 5 a.m. yoga, herbal tea, scented candles, journaling - but your actual morning involves three different breakfasts, lost school shoes, and a phone call from work before 9 a.m.

✔ A spa day that took weeks to organise - shuffling work, finding someone to take care of your child, making sure they had snacks, lunch, entertainment, a written plan in case things went wrong - only to come home and realise nothing had actually changed. The stress was still waiting for you.

✔ Advice to ‘set better boundaries’ - which sounds great, but no one tells you how to actually do that when you’re juggling work demands, fighting the broken SEND system, and being the one your child depends on in a meltdown. It’s not you.

It isn’t that you didn’t try hard enough or you gave up too early. It’s that these strategies were for other people. Nobody showed you how these things could actually work for parents in neurodivergent families like yours.

That’s why our course is different.

This isn’t about insisting on a rigid self-care routine that doesn’t fit your life. It’s about recognising your personal burnout signs, understanding what drains and restores you, and curating your own individual burnout prevention toolkit with strategies that practical strategies you can start using straightaway.

Why Keeping Burnout At Bay is different

Most burnout advice is generic and unrealistic - designed by people who don’t have children with additional needs, who have never had to fight the broken SEND system and somehow keep their career going too.

In this mini course:

✔ You won’t be given a one-size-fits-all plan - you’ll create your own personalised burnout prevention toolkit.

What works for someone else might not work for you, so the course helps you figure out what actually fits your life.

✔ We don’t just talk about setting boundaries - we show you how to make them work in a way that’s actually possible.

At work, at home, and everywhere in between.

✔ You can share your journey with others.

The webinars on Zoom are interactive and the Facebook group is a space to share, ask questions, and connect with other parents in neurodivergent families who truly get it. A community that understands how hard this is, and won’t offer unhelpful ‘just try this’ advice.

Liz and Helen bring both professional expertise

and lived experience to this course.

✔ Professional expertise.

Liz is an experienced occupational therapist and burnout specialist, and Helen is a specialist careers adviser who helps parents in SEN families find work that fits their lives. Between us, we’ve spent years helping people navigate stress, overwhelm and difficult life transitions.

✔ Experience as SEN parents.

We’ve been in those school meetings, fought for diagnoses, chased EHCPs, negotiated EOTAS packages, and reconfigured our own careers to fit around our families. We know what it’s like to carry the constant mental load of being the one who has to hold everything together.

✔ Personal experience of burnout.

We’ve both hit the point where everything just got too much - when the exhaustion wasn’t just physical, but mental and emotional too. We know only too well that recovery isn’t about ‘getting more organised’ or somehow ‘finding more time for self-care.’ We understand the importance of figuring out the right strategies for you.

This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about finding what actually helps you - with expert guidance, practical tools, and a supportive community alongside you.

What you’ll learn on this mini course

Keeping Burnout At Bay is about helping you recognise burnout before it takes hold and giving you real, practical strategies that work for neurodivergent family life.

Across two interactive workshops, you’ll explore what burnout looks like for you, uncover where your energy is going, and create a personalised toolkit of realistic, actionable strategies to prevent burnout from pulling you under.

📆 Workshop 1 – Understanding Burnout & Where You Are Right Now

Burnout doesn’t come from just one thing - it’s an accumulation of stress from work, home, and fighting the system and everything else you have going on in your life.

In this session, you’ll:

✅ Learn what burnout really looks like for parents and carers in neurodivergent families.

✅ Reflect on where you are right now and how burnout is affecting different areas of your life.

✅ Take part in interactive discussions to gain new insights and share experiences.

✅ Start identifying what’s draining your energy and where small shifts could make a difference.

📆 Workshop 2 – Building Your Personal Burnout Prevention Toolkit

This session focuses on practical, realistic ways to protect your energy and build resilience, even in unpredictable circumstances.

You’ll:

✅ Explore simple, effective strategies to prevent and recover from burnout.

✅ Learn how to set boundaries at work and home in a way that actually works for you.

✅ Discover quick, easy ways to reset when you don’t have time for a break.

✅ Create your individual Burnout Prevention Toolkit with realistic, flexible strategies you can start using straightaway.

💬 Private Facebook Group - a safe space to connect with other parents in the same boat

Between sessions, you’ll have space to share your own experience, reflect on the sessions, ask questions, and connect with other parents and carers in neurodivergent families who are also hanging on by their fingernails. The group will include:

✅ A couple of (optional) pre-course activities to help you start thinking about your own experiences of burnout.

✅ A supportive, judgement-free community where you can share your thoughts and personal experience with other parents who get it.

✅ Live check-ins with Liz and Helen to guide you through the process.

How the mini course works

We know time and energy are your scarcest resources, so while we are bringing people together for two live workshops, everything is available to watch at any time in the Facebook group.

Step 1: Sign up and get ready

The private Facebook group will open up a few days before the first session, and you’ll get:

✅ Two short, optional reflection tasks to help you recognise your personal signs of burnout.

✅ A private, safe space to connect with others course participants - other parents and carers in neurodivergent families who are walking the same path.

✅ A chance to engage in a way that works for you - dip in and out, share when you want, or just observe.

Step 2: Take part in two live, interactive workshops - or watch the replay

These aren’t passive webinars - they’re practical sessions designed to give you the tools to stay out of burnout. You’ll:

✅ Identify what’s draining your energy and where small shifts could make a big difference.

✅ Learn realistic, adaptable strategies that fit around your work, home, and daily life.

✅ Get plenty of time for discussion and support, with space to ask questions and reflect.

✅ Join in however feels comfortable. Never any pressure - cameras on or off, chat when you want, or just listen.

If you can’t make the live sessions, don’t worry. All sessions are recorded, so you can watch in your own time, at your own pace.

Step 3: Walk away with practical tools that actually help

By the end of the course, you’ll have:

✅ A clearer understanding of your personal burnout triggers and how to manage them.

✅ A personalised burnout prevention toolkit - not just more things to do, but practical strategies that actually reduce stress.

✅ Confidence to set boundaries that work for you, without guilt.

✅ A supportive community that reminds you - you’re not in this alone.

The Investment:

A Course Designed for You

You’ve probably already spent time, energy, and money trying to manage burnout. Maybe you’ve read the books, tried the apps, or followed the advice that never quite fit your life. The problem isn’t that you haven’t tried hard enough. It’s that most solutions weren’t designed for parents juggling work, neurodivergent family life, and constant unpredictability.

This £97 mini course is different.

Keeping Burnout At Bay is a practical, tailored mini course designed for parents and carers like you. You’ll walk away with a personalised burnout prevention toolkit, strategies that actually fit your life, and the reassurance that you’re not in this alone. The course includes:

✔ Two live workshops where you’ll learn, reflect, and build your toolkit

✔ A private community space where you can connect with others who get it

✔ Six months of access to the recordings and resources, so you can come back to them when you need a reset

The cost of burning out is far greater - exhaustion, mistakes at work, feeling like you’re failing everywhere. This is an investment in protecting your energy, your wellbeing, and your ability to keep going in a way that actually works for you.

No hidden fees, no unexpected extras. Just the support, tools, and community you need to make real, lasting changes.

Meet Your Courses Leaders

We’re Helen and Liz - two professionals, parents and humans who’ve both been through burnout ourselves. We know what it’s like to feel like you’re barely holding it all together, and we also know that generic advice doesn’t cut it when you’re juggling work, home, and the constant unpredictability of neurodivergent family life.That’s why we created this course - to give you practical, realistic strategies that work in your life.

Helen Buzdugan

True to You Careers

Meet Helen Buzdugan - Specialist Careers Adviser for Parents in Neurodivergent & SEN Families

Helen is a highly experienced careers adviser who specialises in helping parents in neurodivergent families find flexible, family-friendly work when life at home is complicated. She’s spent over 20 years supporting people through career changes, burnout, and difficult transitions across education and in her independent practice.

During the first COVID lockdown, she hit burnout hard. She was juggling a demanding university job while trying to homeschool her children, one of whom was struggling - neither of them knew then that he was autistic. At the same time, she was dealing with her own undiagnosed ADHD and was in perimenopause. It was a perfect storm and things escalated rapidly. Life felt broken, and something had to change.

That experience led her to rethink how work should fit around family, energy, and the unpredictable realities of caring for neurodivergent children. Now, she helps other parents avoid burnout and find a way to make work work for them.

Liz Evans

The Untypical OT

Meet Liz – A Highly Experienced Occupational Therapist Specialising in Parental Burnout, Mental Health, and Wellbeing

Liz has worked with countless families over the years and, through her own experience, realised that parents and carers aren’t just the last on their own list of priorities—their struggles are often invisible to others. She has made it her mission to help parents feel less alone, bring awareness to parental burnout, and celebrate the incredible work they do in raising the future.

But Liz doesn’t just teach this—she’s lived it.

As a solo parent to two children, one of whom is neurodivergent, she has fought for EHCPs, faced tribunals, and battled a broken SEND system—all while juggling work, her family's mental health, parenting, her own health, and dyslexia.

The pressure took its toll, and burnout hit hard. One day, she found herself sitting on the kitchen floor, unable to move, overwhelmed by the weight of it all. A GP offered medication, but Liz knew she wasn’t depressed—she was completely drained, she had nothing left.

That experience changed everything. Now, she helps parents recognise burnout before it takes hold, rebuild their energy, and develop strategies that work in real life. Because when burnout hits, even the smallest tasks feel impossible. Liz is passionate about helping parents take action sooner and finally get the support they deserve.

Why learn from us?

We bring a combination of professional expertise and lived experience - so we don’t just understand burnout, we’ve been there.

✔ We’ve supported hundreds of people through stress, overwhelm, and life transitions.

✔ We know the reality of work, life in a neurodivergent family, and the constant mental load - it’s why we take a practical, flexible approach.

✔ We’ve built this course to be inclusive, judgment-free, and genuinely helpful - no rigid plans, no impossible expectations, just real strategies that work for your life.

You’re in safe hands.

We’re not here to tell you to wake up earlier, meditate more, or just set better boundaries. We’re here to help you figure out what works for you, so you can stop running on empty and start feeling like you can breathe again.

TESTIMONIALS

"certainly the most helpful"

"I really felt you understood our situation. I have been on other burnout courses and this was certainly the most helpful."

-Parent that attended a live Parental Burnout Workshop

"I wish it didn't have to end"

"I wish it didn't have to end. Courses with you are like talking to a friend - and that's priceless"

- Parent that attended a live 'Parental Burnout Support Course'.

"Gentle and understanding "

"Gentle and understanding nature and expertise"

- Parent that attended a live support course

"confidence, strategies and knowledge"

"The course gave me confidence, strategies and knowledge to help me help myself better in the future

- Parent that attended a live support course

Frequently Asked Questions

I don't have time. How much time do I need to commit?

We know you’re already stretched thin, which is why this course is designed to fit around your life. The two live sessions are just 1.25 hours each, but if you can’t attend, you can watch the replays anytime. There’s no compulsory homework, no pressure to participate, and no expectation that you’ll do everything perfectly. This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about figuring out what small changes will actually help you cope.

I can’t afford this right now. Is it really worth it?

We get it. Spending money on yourself can feel hard to justify when you’re used to prioritising everyone else’s needs. Often, we are happy to spend whatever is needed to support our children, but when it comes to our own needs it feels more difficult to justify. But burnout has a cost too. When you’re running on empty, everything feels harder – work, parenting, even basic decisions. This course will help you identify small, realistic changes that make a big difference to your energy and stress levels.

I've tried other courses before. How is this different?

Most burnout advice assumes you have time, energy, and control over your life, but - as parents of neurodivergent children ourselves - we know that’s not your reality. This isn’t about rigid self-care routines or vague advice to “just set better boundaries.” It’s about understanding what burnout looks like for you and curating a toolkit of strategies that actually work for your life, whether you’re balancing work deadlines with school meetings or running on broken sleep.

Do I really need this? I just need to push through.

Burnout doesn’t go away by itself. If you’re hanging on by your fingernails, that’s a warning sign, not something to ignore. We’re here to help you recognise when you’re heading for burnout and make small practical changes that protect your energy before you hit breaking point.

I’m not sure I want to be in a group. Will I have to talk?

No pressure at all. Cameras on or off, chat as much or as little as you want. If you just want to listen or watch the replay, that’s absolutely fine. This course is designed to be inclusive, flexible, and accessible for all learning styles.Both of us, Liz and Helen, are neurodivergent, and we’re committed to making this a welcoming space for everyone, including LGBTQI+ parents and carers. If you have specific accessibility needs, let us know and we’ll do our best to support you.

Keeping Burnout At Bay: a mini course for parents and carers in neurodivergent families holding it all together at work and home

Delivered by Liz Evans and Helen Buzdugan

Starts 25th March 2025

£97

You’re holding everything together - work, home, meetings with professionals, endless forms, chasing appointments, endless to do lists. But at what cost? If you’re running on empty and feel like you can’t keep this up, you’re not alone. Burnout isn’t inevitable. With the right strategies and support, you can stop it before it takes over.

This two-part mini course is designed specifically for parents and carers in neurodivergent families who are stretched too thin. You’ll learn how to recognise your personal signs of burnout, set boundaries that actually work for you, and create a personalised burnout prevention toolkit - all in a supportive, understanding space where you don’t have to explain yourself.

✔ Two live, interactive workshops on 25th March at 7.45pm and 1st April at 7.45pm, with recordings available for six months

✔ Practical, flexible strategies tailored to work and home life

✔ A private community where you can connect with others who truly get it

✔ Led by two professionals who’ve been there - we understand both burnout and neurodivergent family life

Burnout won’t wait. Take the first step toward protecting your energy and wellbeing.