Rebecca Block, PhD will change the way you work with your brain

This course is wonderful (for many reasons)! For each carefully selected key executive functioning skill, Becca synthesizes relevant scholarly research with real-life examples, including her own lived experience, to communicate ideas in a relatable and effective manner. Becca’s education and professional background is not in mental health, which she readily discloses (as one should when teaching a course to help students identify thinking and behavior patterns impacting their lives). However, she brings qualities to her work that exemplify what someone with such training should have. A large component of the course involves experimentation, as students choose a strategy each week to implement specific change related to an executive functioning skill. Becca is a strong active listener, taking time to understand each individual’s perspective and helping them solidify a goal that makes for them. When students discuss how their experiments unfolded, she follows up in a nonjudgmental manner. The goal is learning about oneself, and even a “failed” experiment is a success if the result allows an individual to understand a little more about their brain or what supports may be helpful moving forward. Additionally, Becca continually works to improve the course through a critical consideration of student perspectives and seeking feedback. For example, Becca explained that she opens the course with the stories we tell ourselves about how our brains work because she found students were attributing small mistakes to deep-seated negative beliefs about how their brains work, creating barriers to progress. By calling attention to this common tendency at the outset, Becca helps students to understand and call out these negative beliefs while fostering a safe and supportive learning environment. For the lesson on attention, with guidance from Becca, I chose to clear my physical and digital space in order to finish an offer sheet for the business I’m developing. Though clearing distractions was my selected strategy, I used this and other knowledge gained from the course to achieve my goal. As I’m moving into the executive functioning coach professional space as well (albeit focusing on a younger demographic) Becca also served as an accountability partner and provided helpful, well-informed feedback.

I was grappling with burnout so severe that even the simplest decisions felt impossible, and now I have systems that keep me from reaching that point again. I took Becca's course in March 2026, and honestly it took me months to even recognize what had happened to me. In September 2025, I ran a full virtual summit almost entirely alone. I handled outreach, marketing, hosting, scripting, and sponsor sales for months, and by the end of it my body and brain had simply stopped cooperating. The structure and routines I had built my life around stopped working. I had brain fog so thick I could not think clearly, could not maintain anything, and could not figure out why I kept abandoning even the smallest tasks. I kept waiting to snap back into myself, but the energy never came and it took a long time to accept that I was genuinely exhausted at a level I had never experienced before. Something as basic as eating became a whole ordeal because I discovered in the course, it wasn't just about eating. I would get hungry, not know what to cook, dread the cleanup, overthink whether it was healthy enough, and then just not do it at all. That pattern was showing up everywhere. This course helped me see that the problem was not laziness or lack of discipline. It was decision fatigue and procrastination stacking on top of exhaustion. In Becca's course I learned tools to make those decisions in advance or during a calm moment instead of a depleted one. Happy to share that my energy has returned and that my spicy brain can now more easily get stuff done!

Each session of this course provides actionable tools and experiment ideas that can be quickly implemented with low stakes to solve challenges you're experiencing. However, the most valuable part for me both times I've taken it was to have a group of people to work with who understand my neurodivergent experience and are navigating similar challenges. Even more than any tools, those connections and real-time processing supports have been invaluable.

This was the first intentional space where I didn’t feel like I had to translate myself to be understood. Becca "gets it" like so few others do. The content on its own is strong and relatable and delivered in a way that makes it easily understood, but what really made it actionable was the chance to work through it as a group and think out loud with people who process the world in similar ways. That combination is super powerful, and when it comes to change and improvement and validation and encouragement, it really is irreplaceable.

I struggled mightily with task switching despite the fact that my job demands jumping from one thing to another almost hourly. This so often led to feeling the need for massive blocks of time to get bigger projects done because I really needed to get into the zone to do so. Becca offered concrete techniques--like physically leaving my desk and stepping outside for a few minutes even between short tasks--that really helped me accomplish more in shorter blocks of time. This course is well worth it for anyone who wants to understand how to take advantage of their spicy brains to achieve big things.