STILL RUNNING ON EMPTY: EXPANDED EDITION, NEW MODULES

Still Running on Empty

Expanded Edition

The original reached over 1,000 readers and stayed free. This is the second layer, for readers whove worked through the framework and need to go further, and for the clinicians working alongside them.

Eight new modules

I

Clinical Vignettes

Four composite characters across all five phases

II

ACT Integration

Six evidence-based exercises

III

Late Diagnosis

Grief, identity reconstruction, reinterpretation tools

IV

Professional Guide

Diagnostic differentials, billing codes, session integration

V

Alexithymia Adaptations

Behavioural tools for ~50% of readers with limited internal state access

VI

Shame Processing

CFT-based tools for masking shame and retrospective grief

VII

Hormonal Transitions

Perimenopause, postpartum, and stimulant efficacy — a gap no resource has filled

VIII

Relational Dynamics

Fawn response, demand avoidance, neurodivergent couples

Four composite characters move through every phase of recovery — a late-diagnosed Argentine professional in collapse, a developer whose burnout was invisible until it wasnt, a non-binary freelancer who cannot afford to stop, and a retired teacher whose burnout was triggered not by excess demand but by its removal.

Three modules address what no existing structured resource has put together: behavioural alternatives for readers who cannot reliably identify internal states; tools for the specific architecture of shame that arrives with burnout and late diagnosis; and the intersection of hormonal transitions with ADHD and autistic symptoms, including a prescriber communication script.

Module IV is a complete professional companion — written for clinicians, but designed to hand directly to a therapist alongside the phrase: this is what I need you to understand about my presentation.

Who its for

Readers

Those whove worked through the original and need to go deeper. This picks up where it left off.

Clinicians

Psychologists, therapists, coaches, and occupational therapists. Module IV is written for you.