Work With Your Brain, Not Against It
Like embers that transform with patient tending, your neurodivergent mind has unique patterns and powerful potential. The RISE Method helps you recognize and work with these patterns, creating sustainable systems for growth and focus. Instead of fighting against your natural rhythms, you'll learn to work with them, building momentum in a way that feels natural and sustainable.
The RISE Method: Your Framework for Sustainable Growth
The RISE Method is built on understanding how neurodivergent minds actually work, not how they "should" work. Each component builds on the others, creating a flexible system that adapts to your needs:
- Recognize: Understand your natural patterns and energy states
- Integrate: Build tools and systems that work with your brain
- Support: Create environments that nurture your growth
- Engage: Move forward with purpose and sustainable momentum
This isn't about forcing change - it's about creating conditions where growth happens naturally, like tending embers until they transform into steady, sustainable heat. When you understand your patterns and create the right environment, progress becomes less about willpower and more about working with your natural strengths.
Why RISE Works for Neurodivergent Minds
Instead of forcing your brain to fit neurotypical systems, RISE helps you:
- Work with your natural energy patterns
- Build momentum through understanding
- Create supportive environments
- Maintain sustainable progress
The framework adapts to your needs, whether you're managing ADHD, exploring autism, or simply seeking tools that respect how your mind works. It's built on real experience and refined through community insights, creating a system that evolves with you.
What You'll Find Here
Your journey is supported through multiple channels, each designed to provide different types of support when you need them:
- Field Notes: Weekly insights and practical tools, capturing real-world observations and quick techniques you can implement immediately
- Weekly Ember: Deep-dives into specific challenges and solutions, sharing personal experiences and detailed implementation strategies
- Framework Resources: Comprehensive guides and support systems, thoroughly documented and continuously refined based on community insights
- Community Support: Connect with others on similar journeys, share experiences, and learn from collective wisdom
Each piece works together to create a complete support system, while remaining flexible enough to use in whatever way works best for you. The focus is always on practical, actionable strategies that you can adapt to your unique situation.
Get Started
Join our community and receive:
- Regular updates and insights
- Practical implementation guides
- Access to core framework resources
- Community support and connection
Your journey toward better understanding and supporting your neurodivergent mind starts here. Join us in building systems that work with our natural patterns rather than against them.
Who's Behind This?
The kitchen was my first classroom in understanding neurodivergent patterns. For almost two decades, I thrived in the chaos of professional kitchens, where my ability to hyperfocus and manage multiple tasks made me stand out. But it wasn't until I got sober and received an ADHD diagnosis that the patterns began to make sense.
Now, at 40, with five years of sobriety under my belt, I've learned that the same principles that make a kitchen work - understanding heat management, respecting timing, and creating the right conditions - apply beautifully to supporting neurodivergent minds. The RISE Method emerged from this intersection of culinary wisdom, recovery insights, and a deep dive into understanding how our unique brains actually work.
I'm Blake, and I'm building this framework because I believe in working with our natural patterns rather than against them. Whether you're navigating ADHD, exploring late-diagnosed autism, or simply seeking tools that respect how your mind actually works, you'll find practical, experience-tested approaches here.
Remember: You're not broken - you just need tools and spaces built for how you actually think and work.