Finding My Steady - Families, Parents and Caregivers
Finding My Steady - Families and Parents — From £229
Creating opportunities for more joy, rest, care, choice and imagination in everyday family life.
A practical, creative health programme to help you understand overwhelm, communicate your needs and respond to different needs within your family - with the aim of increasing a sense of safety, reducing fear and building steadier lives.
Explore through everyday examples, reflection prompts and creative activities, at your own pace.
Less shouting, arguing and miscommunication at home: a gentle, nervous-system approach for parents, caregivers, kinship carers and blended families.
Finding My Steady with Glad We Talked® is a self-paced, neuroaffirming programme for parents, caregivers, kinship carers and blended families.
It brings together learning about emotions, communication and relationships with creative health: creativite activities to support health and wellbeing. A nervous- system approach invites us to consider how our bodies, experiences and surroundings may influence how we respond. Through practical examples and simple creative activities, you’ll explore your own needs alongside those of your family.
You don’t need to think of yourself as an artist or creative to take part. In short - if you want less shouting, arguing and miscommunication at home - this program can help you.
Does this sound familiar?
Everyday demands can quickly become overwhelming
Noise, tiredness, unexpected changes and several people needing something at once. Sometimes, even a small request can feel like one demand too many.
It feels difficult to express what you need
Perhaps the words disappear, you agree before you’ve had time to think, or something comes out more strongly than you intended. You might only understand what was bothering you much later.
You care about each other, but misunderstandings keep happening
Different needs, communication styles and experiences can make family life complicated. You want to understand what’s happening and explore what might help.
You need support that fits your family
Your family may need more processing time, different ways to communicate or adjustments to everyday routines. You’re looking for ideas that take these differences into account.
Is this for me?
What you’ll explore
- Understanding overwhelm: noticing the demands, sensory experiences and pressures that affect your capacity.
- Recognising and expressing needs: exploring what matters, including when spoken words are difficult.
- Supporting different ways of communicating: trying adjustments such as fewer words, thinking time or visual prompts.
- Repair, boundaries and choice: considering what helps after a difficult moment and when space or a boundary may be needed.
- Creating your family toolkit: gathering practical ideas and resources that fit your circumstances.
The aim is to support opportunities for more joy, rest, imagination, care, choice and connection in everyday life. That might mean a shared laugh, another adult taking over a task so you can rest, expressing a preference or trying a new idea together.
Learn at your own pace or learn together through live sessions
Join guided live calls alongside your self-paced lessons (all optional), with opportunities to revisit ideas and explore how the learning might apply in everyday family life. You can also ask questions in our community within the app as you work through the programme.
The modules
- Module 1: What Is Communication Really? Beyond Words: Understanding Communication Through Nervous Systems, Behaviour, and Connection — Explore communication through nervous systems, behaviour and connection, including the different ways we express and understand each other.
- Module 2: Your Nervous System is Always Listening — We learn about the science of the brain body connection and how pressure, sensory demands and experiences of safety can affect your capacity and behaviour. We explore behaviour through a nervous system lens.
- Module 3: Co-Regulation – The Science of Feeling Safe Together
- Module 4: Is Your Rupture A Repair Or Is It Time For A Release? — Consider what happens after a difficult interaction, what repair might involve and when a boundary or letting go may be needed.
- Module 5: Create Your Personalised Toolkit for You and Your Family — Bring the learning together and choose practical approaches to communication, overwhelm and everyday family life.
Created by Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar
I'm Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar: a trauma counsellor, MBACP (Accred), a creative health artist practitioner, founder of Watoto Play® and creator of World Let's Stop Shouting Day. In 2026, I received the National Autistic Taskforce Founder's Award for The Finding My Steady with Glad We Talked® Program. I'm also a neurodivergent parent, diagnosed late with dyslexia, ADHD and dyspraxia.
I grew up being shouted at, and promised myself I'd never do the same. Then I did. What changed things wasn't more guilt. It was understanding what was happening in my body and my family, and finding small, realistic ways to respond differently.
I still get it wrong sometimes. Finding My Steady is everything I wish I'd had.
This October, Glad We Talked® was selected for the Propel Health Tech NHS Accelerator, which is supporting me to bring these programmes and tools into the NHS, so we can reach and support more families and communities.
Questions about Finding My Steady Families and Parents
Is Finding My Steady right for me?
It's for you if everyday moments keep escalating and you're not sure why, the usual advice doesn't fit your family, or you want small changes you can keep up rather than another system. It's for families raising neurodivergent children, parents who are neurodivergent themselves, or both. It's also for families affected by a head injury or brain injury. Parents, carers, kinship carers and step-parents in any kind of family are welcome. It's not the right fit if you or your family are in crisis or not safe right now. Please get urgent support first: our Crisis support page is linked at the bottom of every page. It's also not therapy or a diagnosis. It's an educational programme.
What is steady parenting?
Steady parenting means noticing what is happening in your body, and your child's, before reacting. It helps families calm conflict, share needs and repair after hard moments.
Who is Finding My Steady for?
Parents, carers, kinship carers and blended families, including families with autistic, ADHD or other neurodivergent members.
Do we need a diagnosis?
No. The programme is for any family who wants calmer, kinder communication at home.
We are waiting for CAMHS or an assessment. Can we start?
Yes. You don't need a diagnosis to join. It doesn't replace clinical or medical support.
How does it work?
Five self-paced online modules. You can join optional live calls and ask questions in our community in the app.
How much does it cost?
£229 paid in full, which includes free What's My State? cards and track posted to you (free UK postage). You can also pay in five monthly payments of £49.99.
Who created it?
Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar, a BACP accredited counsellor and creative health practitioner. The programme won the National Autistic Taskforce Founder's Award in 2026.