Still Running on Empty
Expanded Edition
The original reached over 1,000 readers and stayed free. This is the second layer, for readers who've worked through the framework and need to go further, and for the clinicians working alongside them.
Eight new modules
I
Clinical Vignettes
Four composite characters across all five phases
II
ACT Integration
Six evidence-based exercises
III
Late Diagnosis
Grief, identity reconstruction, reinterpretation tools
IV
Professional Guide
Diagnostic differentials, billing codes, session integration
V
Alexithymia Adaptations
Behavioural tools for ~50% of readers with limited internal state access
VI
Shame Processing
CFT-based tools for masking shame and retrospective grief
VII
Hormonal Transitions
Perimenopause, postpartum, and stimulant efficacy ? a gap no resource has filled
VIII
Relational Dynamics
Fawn response, demand avoidance, neurodivergent couples
Four composite characters move through every phase of recovery ? a late-diagnosed Argentine professional in collapse, a developer whose burnout was invisible until it wasn't, a non-binary freelancer who cannot afford to stop, and a retired teacher whose burnout was triggered not by excess demand but by its removal.
Three modules address what no existing structured resource has put together: behavioural alternatives for readers who cannot reliably identify internal states; tools for the specific architecture of shame that arrives with burnout and late diagnosis; and the intersection of hormonal transitions with ADHD and autistic symptoms, including a prescriber communication script.
Module IV is a complete professional companion ? written for clinicians, but designed to hand directly to a therapist alongside the phrase: this is what I need you to understand about my presentation.
Who it's for
Readers
Those who've worked through the original and need to go deeper. This picks up where it left off.
Clinicians
Psychologists, therapists, coaches, and occupational therapists. Module IV is written for you.
