Author · Clinician · International Speaker · Misfit Matriarch

You have worked too hard for life to still be this hard.

A book that finally explains why effort stops being enough, and what actually needs to change.

Tanya Hicks portrait

You tried the therapy.
The routines.
The boundaries.
The books.

You keep doing what you were told would work.

And it is still harder than it has any right to be.

Did you ever stop to consider that

Not everyone starts from the same starting line.

Before you spend more money on
the next course,
the next coach,
the next strategy

Do you actually
have your feet
in the starting blocks?

Or are you still strapping your ankles in the car park?

STARTassumed equal
← NOT EVEN ON THE TRACK
FINISH →

↑ tap any runner to read their starting line

For years people with their fog horns have screamed from the stadium among boos and hisses and the occasional unconditional cheer from a loved one:

START
🏃
hover the crowd ↑

But you have already tried that.

Nobody asked where YOUR actual starting line was.

ENOUGH is the first honest map of the race you are actually running.

Inside your head
What's wrong with me?
Why am I failing?
I suck at this.
🧍‍♀️
Look around.

Q.Is everyone else carrying a baby on their hip?

Q.Struggling with sensory overload?

Q.Navigating what you are navigating?

Have you ever considered that maybe there is nothing wrong with you.

That you may just be

Misfit by Design.
Not Deficit.

When you can finally see your actual reality clearly,
everything shifts.

hover each step ↓

🥈 2nd place

Then, you start making decisions that work with how you are actually built and the things that are actually important to you.

🥈
2
2ND
🏆 1st place

And perhaps for the first time, your podium spot starts to come into view. The real one. The one that actually matters to you.

🏆
1
1ST
🥉 3rd place

First, you stop blaming yourself for losing a race that not only were you never set up to win, but you never should have entered.

🥉
3
3RD
You get to advance the steps of your own Podium.
ENOUGH by Tanya Hicks
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Book

ENOUGH

Did you know we all have a place on the podium?

Not in some airy fairy participation trophy way. But in a way that reveals we are all working towards different podiums when we get really clear and honest about what the six stages covered in this book actually show us.

ENOUGH is written for the people who kept trying. The ones who learned the skills, did the work, held it together and still ended up pulling a hamstring while in full speed down the straight.

This book names what has been happening and shows what changes when you actually follow your unique podium training program.

This work was not built as theory first.

It was built on snapped ligaments, sensory overwhelm, a brain that could not understand the instruction manuals written in typical language, and a heart that was broken over and over again.

And then I birthed a little version of me and decided enough. Not on my watch will that happen again.

And then it was forged in clinical practice, neurodivergent affirming support, community design, leadership work, and advocacy, while we replicated getting clear on the unique podium each person was racing for instead of running the same race.

Tanya Hicks

"I do not choose between soul and science, body and ethics, pleasure and responsibility. I work at the point where those false divides collapse."

Misfit Matriarch · Human Systems Architect · Author

I am a late diagnosed AuDHD counsellor, solo parent, and author, with PMDD and hypermobile Ehlers Danlos layered underneath everything I once called coping.

For most of my life I could hyper focus on skill development with surgical precision.

I trained exceptionally well.

And I was still paying a cost no one could explain.

So the work you see here began the way many important systems do.

Someone needed something the world had not built yet.

So it got built.

Neurodivergent Empowered Sparkly Aliens Inc. The Nest
Portrait of Tanya Hicks

Speaking

First,
do no harm.

If you want to help people,
first understand what it costs them to be here.

Most professionals enter their work because they want to help.
Teachers, clinicians, leaders, parents.
Good intentions alone do not prevent harm.
When you cannot see the full load someone is carrying, you cannot teach them how to have wings and fly.

Be the coach the person in front of you actually needs.
Not the coach you were trained to be for someone else.

If capable people keep struggling in your system, the problem is probably not the people. It is probably that you are looking at the race and not the runner.

Tanya Hicks speaking

Pre-order

ENOUGH is open.

Pre-orders are now available.

No spam. No funnels. No daily inspiration.

Just the book.

You do not have to become someone new.
You only have to stop fighting the way you are built.

You were
always
enough.

Acknowledgement of Country

I live and work on Gubbi Gubbi Country on the Sunshine Coast.

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land and pay respect to Elders past and present.

Sovereignty was never ceded.