🕯️ December Is Overwhelming
Stay calm this Festive Season with three simple nervous-system tools you can actually use
A free live training for counsellors, parents, and neurodivergent adults who want more capacity, less overwhelm, and steadier relationships at home and in the therapy room during the pressure of the holidays.
This free webinar is where it begins.
From Overwhelm to Connection: How to Stop Shouting, Regulate Your Nervous System & Build Relationships That Feel Connected.
What this session is really for
December pushes most people past their limits.
- Routines fall apart.
- Sensory load rises.
- Family dynamics intensify.
And the pace becomes too much.
This session gives you practical ways to stay regulated when the noise, demands, or expectations start to build.
These are nervous-system tools that actually work for real ND lives, real parents, and real therapy rooms.
Clear, simple, and usable the moment you learn them.
You’ll learn ...
- Three interactive tools you can use in the moment when your system begins to climb
- How to keep your footing when routines break and sensory load increases
- What to do when someone else’s stress starts to spike yours
- A simple way to reset the system after difficult moments
- How to support the neurodivergent person in your life without adding more pressure.
All explained in plain language, with visual metaphors that make sense the moment you see them.
Who this is for ...
✅ Parents: Who want steadier evenings, calmer family days, and fewer guilt-filled spirals.
✅ Neurodivergent adults: Who want clearer capacity, fewer overload cycles, and tools that don’t rely on theory-heavy instructions.
✅ Counsellors and therapists: Who want grounded, practical regulation tools for themselves and for clients during an intense month.
✅ Anyone: Who knows December tends to push them out of regulation and wants something that genuinely helps.
Why it works ...
These tools are short, direct, and built for real life.
- No academic jargon.
- No hour-long routines.
- No worksheets that gather dust.
Just practical regulation strategies you can use
in the car, between sessions, in a busy home, or during moments when everything feels too loud.
- They help you stay present without forcing calm.
- They help you hold your capacity without collapsing.
- ….. And they help you support the people you love without burning yourself out
🏡 A Gentle Invitation
At the end, you’ll be invited (without pressure) into my Finding Home program – my deeper programme for nervous system regulation, communication, and connection.
About Your Host
About Yasmin
Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar: Trauma & Relationship Counsellor (BACP Accredited) – Founder of Watoto Play • Creator of World Stop Shouting Day
Yasmin is a trauma and relationship counsellor and the creator of multiple nervous-system tools used widely in the counselling community, including the Whats My State Card Deck, Sandwich of Capacity™, Angry Tent®, and Anxiety Tent®.
She is also dyslexic, ADHD, and autistic (all diagnosed later in life) which means her work is designed for brains that are overwhelmed by jargon, long explanations, and clinical language that doesn’t land.
Her tools are visual, simple, and immediately usable for Neurodivergent adults & children, stressed parents, and practioners who want clearer ways to help the people they support.
