Doing Less, Supporting More: A Course for Parents
What If You’ve Been Trying Too Hard?
A new way to support motivation, independence, and emotional safety for your neurodivergent teen or young adult.
There’s something no one prepares you for as a parent: the moment you realize your relentless support may be wearing both of you out—and not actually helping.
You’re not alone in that moment. Especially if you’re raising or mentoring a young person with ADHD, dyslexia, executive function challenges, or simply a nonlinear path into adulthood.
Many of the families I work with are successful, thoughtful, highly invested. They’re the ones who show up early, read the books, find the specialists. And yet, despite all their effort, they’re still watching someone they love struggle. Missed deadlines. Emotional shutdowns. The same avoidance loops repeating week after week. They wonder why their child seems unmotivated—or worse, unresponsive to all the effort poured in.
Here’s what I tell them: it may not be a lack of motivation. It may be that your young person is experiencing too much of the wrong kind of support.
That’s what this course is about. It’s not a repackaging of old advice. It’s not a new set of rewards or reminders. It’s a completely different way of seeing the problem—and of seeing your role in it.
Why “More Support” Isn’t Always the Answer
There’s a common myth, even among the most educated and resourceful families: that if someone isn’t succeeding, it must be because they need more structure, more accountability, or more external motivation.
But the neuroscience tells a different story.
What we know about ADHD and related learning profiles is that it isn’t a deficit of intelligence or motivation. It’s a difficulty with regulation—of attention, emotion, time, memory, and overwhelm. And when someone is already on the edge of what their system can manage, adding more oversight, more “just checking in,” or more urgency often backfires. It creates a static of stress that shuts down learning, trust, and initiative.
This doesn’t mean pulling away. It means shifting the way we engage. It means learning how to create the kind of environment where motivation can emerge from within, rather than being pressured from outside.
That’s what we teach in this course. Not just strategies, but a mindset shift.
From Manager to Mentor
This shift begins with a question:
What if your job isn’t to manage every piece of the process… but to create the conditions where your young person learns to manage it for themselves?
That’s a harder move than it sounds. Especially if you’ve been holding a lot, or if your young person has struggled in ways that make independence feel risky. But it’s also the only path that leads to growth. Research shows us that people with ADHD, dyslexia, and related profiles are not “delayed versions of normal.” They are navigating entirely different terrain. And that means they need a different kind of map—and a different kind of guide.
Not someone who solves everything. But someone who walks alongside without panic. Someone who listens without lecturing. Someone who trusts that it may take time—and that time is not failure.
Real Tools. Grounded Science. No Shame.
This course is built from years of coaching work with students, professionals, and families, backed by evidence-based research in executive function, motivational psychology, and neurodivergent learning.
You’ll learn:
· Why “just trying harder” usually leads to emotional shutdown, not progress
· The difference between motivation and regulation—and why that matters
· How even well-intentioned support can become a demotivator
· What it actually looks like to do less—but better
You’ll leave with tools, frameworks, and a renewed understanding of what your young person may actually need from you. And perhaps just as importantly, what you can let go of.
Want to Start Now? Try This.
Before you even sign up, I’d like to invite you to try something.
Picture your child—or the student or client you support—five years from now. They’re calmer. More confident. More able to manage the swirl of expectations, emotions, and responsibilities that life throws at them. They’re still neurodivergent, still themselves, but they’re less stuck. They’re becoming the kind of person who can show up for themselves.
Now ask yourself this:
What changed in how you showed up to make that possible?
This is not a trick question. It’s not about guilt. It’s an invitation to imagine yourself not doing more—but doing differently. That’s what this course is about.
What You’ll Get if You Join Us
This is not a passive video course. It’s a guided learning experience, designed for people who are smart, tired, and deeply invested in doing better. You’ll get:
· Five core learning modules, focused on rethinking motivation, building trust, and designing low-friction systems
· Downloadable tools and checklists you can apply right away
· Optional office hours or 1:1 consults if you want personalized support
· A tone of compassion and clarity, grounded in science but never cold
It’s designed to take two days, but you can move at your own pace. Some people binge it in a weekend. Others revisit a module each week. Either way, it’s yours to keep.
For Further Reading or Listening
If you’d like to explore a few aligned and accessible ideas right now, here are two foundational books—that reflect the same neuroscience-informed, emotionally grounded approach we use in this course.
Books
• Hallowell, E. M., & Ratey, J. J. (2011). Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood. Anchor.
Still considered a classic, this book brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to the ADHD conversation. If you're new to ADHD, this is the most approachable entry point.
• Shaywitz, S. (2020). Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition. Vintage.
A must-read for any parent trying to support a child with dyslexia. Offers evidence-based strategies, real case examples, and strong advocacy for intervention and accommodations.
You Don’t Have to Fix Everything
If you’ve been doing everything you can, and it’s still not working, there’s a reason.
You’re not doing it wrong. You’re just doing it all.
Let’s try a different way. One rooted in clarity, not panic. One that creates more space—for you, and for them.
To learn more or to talk with me directly, you can email jason.lee.braun@gmail.com or book a discovery call 314-614-3717.
Let’s start this new chapter together.
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