Get your energy back without pretending another early night will fix it.
For neurodivergent women who are done collapsing every time life asks something of them, and want a nervous system they can actually rely on again.
Join the 29 August Cohort — £297Watch before you scroll — it'll save you reading the rest, honestly.
It's time you stopped running on empty
If you read these out loud, they should land like something you said out loud to a mate last week.
Rest isn't the same as regulation
You haven't failed at recovering. You've just been given the wrong instructions for your nervous system.
Time off without regulation just delays the crash. You come back to the same nervous system, still stuck in survival mode.
Bubble baths and journalling don't touch a dysregulated nervous system. That's a mismatch of tool to problem, not a discipline issue.
True eventually, useless right now. You can't boundary your way out of burnout while you're still in it.
Regulate. Rebuild. Reclaim.
Three stages, in this order, because doing them out of order is why nothing's worked so far.
Regulate
Calm the nervous system first. Nothing else sticks while you're stuck in survival mode.
Rebuild
Small, daily, non-negotiable actions that add energy back instead of quietly draining it.
Reclaim
A way of living and working that doesn't collapse the moment life gets busy again.
You stop white-knuckling through your days, and start actually having them.
Eight weeks, built for a burnt-out brain
Nothing here asks more of your capacity than you've currently got. That's the whole point.
A short video and one small task, every day
Ten minutes or less. Consistency without overwhelm, so it actually gets done.
Live Q&A calls with Laura
You're never stuck working out the tricky bits alone, or wondering if you're doing it "right."
The Regulate–Rebuild–Reclaim curriculum
Built by a psychologist who's also autistic and ADHD, not adapted after the fact from neurotypical advice.
Full access to Maelstrom Academy while you're enrolled
You're not buying eight weeks in isolation. You're buying a home to keep doing this after week eight ends.
No grey areas, no waiting around
You check out securely
Stripe handles payment. Takes about a minute, no faff.
You're added to the Academy
You get your login and Week 1 waiting for you, plus the full library to explore.
The cohort starts 29 August
Daily videos begin, live calls go in your diary, and the eight weeks start properly.
You don't have to have it figured out before you start. That's what the eight weeks are for.
I built this because I needed it first
I'm Laura. I spent seven years as a neurodiversity specialist teacher before I burnt out hard enough to have to rebuild my entire way of living and working from scratch.
I'm AuDHD myself, so this isn't theory borrowed from a textbook and handed down. It's psychology I hold an MSc in, filtered through a nervous system I've actually had to learn to live inside.
Burnout to Balance is the method I wish someone had handed me seven years ago, instead of another instruction to "just rest more."
Meet Laura Maelstrom AKA The Neurodiversity Fairy
(MSc Psychology | PGCE PCET | BA Hons | Certified Coach and Neurodiversity Specialist)
What eight weeks actually did
One programme. One price. One start date.
29 August. Everything you need for the eight weeks, nothing you don't.
- ✦ Full 8-week Regulate–Rebuild–Reclaim curriculum
- ✦ Daily short videos + one task
- ✦ Weekly live Q&A calls
- ✦ Lifetime access to this programme
Show up for it, and it works. That's the deal.
Do the daily video and task every day for all 8 weeks. If you've genuinely shown up and done the work and you still haven't seen results, you get a free 1:1 session with Laura, plus another 8 weeks in the programme, on the house. No small print, no catch. Just proof this works when you actually do it.
Questions people actually ask
I've tried literally everything already. Why would this be different?
Most of what you've tried treated the symptom, not the nervous system underneath it. This starts with regulation first, which is the step almost everyone skips, and it's usually the reason nothing else has held.
How much time does this actually take?
Ten minutes a day for the video and task, plus one live call a week if you can make it. That's it. It's built to fit inside a burnt-out capacity, not on top of one.
What if I'm too burnt out to even start something new right now?
That's exactly who this was built for. Week one doesn't ask you to fix anything. It asks you to regulate, which is the one thing you actually have the capacity for right now.
What if I miss a live call or fall behind on a day?
Nothing resets or locks you out. The daily videos stay in the Academy, and the whole design assumes real life will get in the way sometimes. That's not a failure state.
Do I need a diagnosis to join?
No. This is built from an AuDHD nervous system outward, but burnout doesn't check for a diagnosis first, and neither does this programme.
I'm a man, can I join?
Yes! Of course you can! The process works for men and women, I just tend to speak to women as I am one. We would love to have you on board!
Another month like this isn't free. It's just a cost you're already paying.
Eight weeks from now you're either exactly here, or somewhere else entirely. The cohort starts 29 August.
Join the 29 August Cohort — £297
