Examine the label
Unlabeling means looking honestly at the identities, assumptions and self-descriptions that shape how you see yourself — and asking which of them you actually chose.
By Jonathan Steeman - Author, Speaker and Performance Specialist
Unlabel
YourselfA book, keynote & online coaching program on self-empowerment
A groundbreaking concept of self-empowerment for beautiful brains. Not naive. Not judgemental. Radical ownership of who you are underneath the label you were handed.
Coming soon — Book · Keynote · Online coaching program
An honest conversation
I'm drawing a line in the sand
Let me put it plain and simple: this book is not for everyone. You may not be ready yet, or your mindset may be far off from mine. All I ask is that you keep an open mind while I show you what is possible from the other side of that line.
On one end there is the traditional approach to resolving ADHD symptoms. On the other end — that is where we meet. Therapy words are more common than ever, over-diagnosis is a fact of life, under-diagnosis isn't good either, and everybody agrees treatment matters. So: do something about it.
The comfort trap. After years of struggling undiagnosed, a diagnosis brings the relief of “it isn't my fault.” In that same moment there is a danger: surrendering yourself completely to what the system provides. We owe ourselves a better education so we can decide what is truly best for our beautiful brains.
We don't have a problem of focus. We have a problem of re-focus.
Some people with ADHD symptoms and talents excel beyond what many consider humanly possible. Others crash. The difference between them is what I have been obsessed with for my entire career — and it is what this work is about.
What unlabeling means
Not anti-diagnosis. Pro-ownership.
Radical ownership
Not naive. Not judgemental toward yourself. Simply refusing to hand your future to a statistic, an algorithm or somebody else's expectation.
Educate, then decide
Learn enough about your brain, body and environment to make informed decisions with the professionals responsible for your care. Nothing here dismisses diagnosis or treatment.
Inside the book
Chapters & samples
Chapter 1
Foundations of Change
How the world today sabotages us: the four social media dead traps — algorithmic brainwashing, self-diagnosis and self-identifying, adopted therapeutic language, and confusing cause with correlation. Plus the power and the disempowerment of statistics: a number built from the past is a prompt to act, never a verdict on your future.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”— Dr Wayne Dyer
Chapter 3
Growing Tulips in LA
I gave my mentor Joseph McClendon III a bag of hybrid tulip bulbs for his home in Los Angeles. He planted them, excited. Months later, on a morning run, it hit me: LA has no cold. Bulbs need vernalization — weeks of winter to switch off the floral repressor gene — before they will ever bloom.
Nothing was wrong with the bulbs. The environment was wrong. Find the right environment for your soul to flourish.
Also covered
Lifestyle change
Sleep, movement, screens and the daily architecture that decides whether your brain gets a fair chance.
Drug-free treatments & therapies
Powerful alternative modalities and therapies that work without medication — and how to evaluate them honestly.
Food, drinking & supplementation hacks
What you eat and drink, and the supplementation stacks that change energy, mood and attention.
Three ways to experience it
All coming soon
The book
The full conversation, chapter by chapter: the traps, the science, the stories, and the practical protocols for lifestyle, therapy, food and supplementation.
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A live stage experience for organisations, schools and conferences — confronting, funny, and built to move a room from labels to ownership.
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A guided program to apply the work to your own life, with structure, accountability and NeuroEncoding-based tools.
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About the author
Jonathan Steeman
Speaker, coach and author, representing Europe and the Netherlands at the NeuroEncoding Institute. Jonathan works with people whose brains never fit the template they were measured against.
He has been mentored personally by Joseph McClendon III, spoken on stages from Amsterdam to NeuroEncoding Live in Reno, and spent years chasing one question: why do some people with ADHD symptoms and talents excel far beyond what looks humanly possible, while others crash?
Unlabel Yourself is his answer — an honest conversation about attention, environment, biology and identity, written for anybody who is done being defined by a word on a form.
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