christinedoylewellbeing

I get asked this ALL the time.

And honestly, I’m not sure I have it right yet.

One of the most common questions I receive is:
“What HRT has helped you?”

The truth is that we’re all different. What works beautifully for one person may not work for another.

But after surveying 101 Autistic women and AFAB adults for HormoneFULL, one thing became impossible to ignore:

Hormones matter.

For many of us, shifts in hormones can affect sensory experiences, emotional regulation, executive functioning, sleep, anxiety, energy, capacity, and our overall ability to move through the world.

So I’m curious.

If you’re an Autistic, ADHD or AuDHD adult and HRT has been helpful for you, what has worked?

Not as medical advice.
Not as a recommendation.
Just lived experience shared with others who may be trying to navigate this stage of life too.

Feel free to share:
• What you’re taking
• What symptoms it helped with
• Anything you wish you’d known sooner

Let’s build a thread of experiences that others can learn from.

(And if you’re wondering why this conversation keeps coming up in our community, the answer is probably inside HormoneFULL. Link in bio.)

This is my page.

I do what feels instinctively right for me here.

Not what’s ‘right’, just what’s ’right for me’ and hopefully some of it may resonate with you and help validate your experience.

If that doesn’t sit well with you, let this be your reminder that unfollowing is always an option.

For those who choose to stay, I’ll continue to mind and protect my comments section carefully. It’s important to me that you feel safe here.

Not every comment is entitled to a place in this space.

Yes to communication, a hard no to anything that has the vaguest sniff of mean girl energy.

AFTER KNOWING is now open 🥳✨💕

A gentle, neurodiversity-affirming 3-day immersive space for late-identified Autistic, ADHD & AuDHD adults to digest, process, and make sense of what can unfold after recognition — alongside others who understand.

For a long time, my work has centred around helping people recognise themselves.

But what I keep seeing is this:

Recognition is only the beginning.

And often, there is very little space to actually digest, embody and integrate any of it with people who truly understand.

AFTER KNOWING is a structured online peer space designed for exactly that.

A space for reflection, understanding, nervous system awareness, honest conversation, and the experience of no longer trying to figure it all out alone.

This is not therapy.

It is a gentle, immersive online integration space held at a spacious, nervous-system-aware pace with regular breaks and no pressure to perform, participate, or have everything figured out.

Early Bird places are now open at €295.

Link in bio.

Christine X

✨Coming Soon✨

For a long time, my work has centred around helping people recognise themselves.

But what I keep seeing is this:

Recognition is only the beginning.

What comes after can feel equally profound.
The grief.
The relief.
The recalibration.
The nervous system shifts.
The identity changes.
The relationships.
The question of how to build a life that actually fits.

So I’ve been busy building something new.

More soon.
Christine x

For a long time my search for balance was a, well, search -

More discipline.
More consistency.
More self-control.

But for many AuDHD people, regulation can depend on a very delicate balance of energy, predictability, sensory load, sleep, movement, recovery, and capacity.
And for me since perimenopause - less of the ‘extra’.

However life is ever changing. Never static.

I think there can be a huge amount of shame in “knowing what helps” but struggling to sustain it consistently.

Especially when from the outside it can look like inconsistency, withdrawal, laziness, or lack of effort.

When often it’s actually a nervous system trying to recover.

I’d love to know what helps you stay regulated as an AuDHD person — and what tends to knock the dominoes over.

Autistic conversations need to leave Autistic spaces.

Because the people who most need to understand Autistic experience are often not Autistic themselves.

Workplaces.
Schools.
Healthcare professionals.
Leadership teams.
Families.
Communities.

For too long, Autistic, ADHD and otherwise neurodivergent people have carried the burden of endlessly translating ourselves within environments that still fundamentally misunderstand our nervous systems, communication, sensory realities, burnout, capacity, and ways of being in the world.

That is why I speak.

Not to create more awareness within neurodivergent spaces alone, but to help move these conversations into the wider world where understanding can actually begin to change people’s lives.

Through talks, training, webinars, panels, and organisational conversations, my work focuses on bringing lived Autistic and ADHD experience into the spaces that most need to hear it.

Because understanding changes environments.
And environments change lives.

If your workplace, organisation, school, conference, or event is looking for neurodiversity-informed speaking or training, you can find more information through the link in my bio.

I’m excited for the change to come.