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Sara Hartley is a neurodivergent mom, healthcare executive, and certified ADHD & neurodiversity coach. She’s the author of Purposefully Me, a bold 14-book children’s series launching over 13 months that redefines how we teach emotional wellness, neurodiversity, and confidence at home. These books dive into tough subject that aren’t openly discussed with children like ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Bullying, Divorce, Death and more.
She’s not just writing books; she’s starting a movement for parents raising emotionally intense and neurodiverse kids. Her message resonates deeply with parents and educators:
Echo Parenting - the philosophy that our children’s needs and diagnoses mirror back opportunities for our own healing and growth.
The ALIGN Parenting Method™ - a simple, 5-step grounding tool (Awareness, Listen, Identify, Ground, Nurture) that helps parents not lose their sh*t in real-life dysregulated moments.
Why Sara is a podcast must-have:
Echo Parenting: A fresh framework to connect with thousands of overwhelmed parents realizing we need to put our oxygen mask on first before we can help our children
The ALIGN Parenting Method™: Other grounding tools stop at calming down. ALIGN not only calms you, but also helps you understand what’s happening, connect with your child, and repair the relationship in one framework - vetted and used by neurodiverse parents and children!
14 SEL books in 13 months: From affirmations to calming strategies, the first of which will launch before the end of the year and once a month from there.
Real + professional insight: Nearly 20 years in healthcare, branding, and AI paired with lived experience as a mom with ADHD raising two neurodivergent kids
She can dive into high-impact topics like:
✅How Echo Parenting transforms the way we see ourselves through our kids
✅The ALIGN Parenting Method™: a 60-second tool for parents to regulate themselves and co-regulate with their kids in the hardest moments
✅Parenting through the ADHD lens, both as a mom and as a woman
✅Why she wrote 13 books in the middle of burnout and how storytelling became her survival and healing tool
✅Teaching confidence, emotional regulation, and affirmations through social and emotional learning stories
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