Sarah Hartley

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524 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 25 Feb

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Sara Hartley: Purposely Me: Navigating Neurodiversity With the Power of Stories · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

You know, a few weeks ago, we had the shooting at Evergreen High School.

And so even just the anxiety that comes with children doing fire drills and tornado drills and now active shooter drills, there's a tremendous amount of anxiety from that.

And so other topics are anxiety, dyslexia, ADHD, autism.

So it really runs the full gamut of various things that can be neurodiverse, but really are all centered around mental health.

So far, we've only shown these books to therapists, OTs, and different members of school organizations.

So whether it's been a principal or a social-emotional coordinator or teachers themselves or teachers that are within the gifted program, to get that feedback, that was really step one, even before I was paired with an illustrator.

So we've already run through that process.

The first book will actually launch in November, and then we'll have one a month coming out after that.

So stay tuned.

They're coming very soon.

But

One of the most critical pieces of feedback I received from actually a therapist is she said, I see myself in this book, but I see my daughter in the other book.

And so I think it's really important that while this is directed for children, there's still this element of where an adult can say, oh, wow, I see myself there.

And then adult can feel a little bit less alone in their own brains as well.

Absolutely.

So they are children's books.

They're written in lyrical format.

The illustrations really bring to life the raw emotions of the characters.

It's a classroom of students.

And so you're hearing from a different child who's going to be shown throughout the entire series where they are integrated into each other's lives.

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