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My Story
Hi I’m Dr. Sam!
As a high-achieving, high-masking neurodivergent woman, I have always excelled professionally and personally. With four degrees, including a doctorate, Fortune 500 consulting experience, and a multi-six-figure business, I had built a life that looked successful—but I was living in High-Functioning Survival Mode. After years of performing, overworking, and proving my worth through achievement, I burned out. Twice. The second time, I made a different choice. I fully paused. I rested. I let go of the performance. Resting allowed me to redefine my relationship to work, to myself, and to my life. realized what true alignment actually looks like outside of the traditional markers of success. That pause also created space for my intuitive and ancestral gifts to strengthen. It's when I developed the Soul Activation Model™—the foundation of my entire practice and the work I do with other high-achieving, high-masking women. Now I guide women through the same transformation: exiting High-Functioning Survival Mode and rebuilding from soul-led alignment.
Features & Previous Partnerships
More About My Work
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Neurodivergent-affirming: I center the lived experiences of autistic and neurodivergent people
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Intersectional: My work honors Black women, queer folks, and all marginalized identities
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No spiritual bypassing: I don't do toxic positivity or "love and light" without accountability
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Strategic + Spiritual: I integrate intuitive gifts with systems thinking and business strategy
The frameworks below are proprietary methodologies I created and continue to develop through my work with clients and within community.
High-Functioning Survival Mode Framework™
High-Functioning Survival Mode is a nervous system state in which a person maintains external functionality while internally operating from hypervigilance, over-functioning, and survival-based coping. Your life can look successful and still feel misaligned.
I developed the High-Functioning Survival Mode Framework™ at the intersection of two lived experiences: autistic burnout and chronic survival mode shaped by complex trauma.
Autistic burnout is a specific type of burnout that results from prolonged masking, sensory overload, and navigating a world not designed for neurodivergent nervous systems.
The bridge between autistic burnout and general survival mode is the nervous system itself. Both involve Complex PTSD responses and long-term dysregulation, even when the external causes differ.
Soul Activation™ Model
The Soul Activation Model™ emerged during my 19-month sabbatical as the pathway out of High-Functioning Survival Mode. It's a nervous-system-based framework that guides the transition from survival-mode functioning to soul-led alignment through unlearning, stabilization, and reconnection to your internal power.
This work integrates:
Nervous system science and trauma-informed practices Neurodivergent-affirming approaches
Intersectional understanding of how systemic oppression impacts nervous system regulation
Spiritual transformation and ancestral wisdom
Systems thinking and strategic implementation.
My Values & Approach
These core beliefs guide how I show up in my life, my content, and all that I create. They are the foundation of everything I do and the values you can expect in every interaction with me.
Rest is Data & Power
Rest is not a reward you earn but a necessity. It restores your mind, body, and spirit and creates space for your true self to emerge.
Creativity as a Strategy
Tapping into your creativity (however that looks for you) keeps you in alignment with your highest good and connected to what's actually true for you.
You Are Not An Island
Community is your lifeline. It creates space for mutual exchange of love, support, and care—and helps you stay grounded in alignment.
Alignment Over Performance
We redefine what existence means, so we no longer need to survive or optimize survival.
I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Dr. Samantha for the past 2 years on varying panels, written publications, and podcast interviews related to Intersectionality, Marginalization, and Privilege in the workplace, in the educational setting, and even on social media platforms. Dr. Samantha is an incredibly talented scholar-practitioner, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice advocate. As an educator, Dr. Samantha creates helpful forms, templates, diagrams, lessons, workbooks, and guides that meet the needs of diverse learners. As an ally to neurodiverse folx, Dr. Samantha regularly modifies learning materials, adjusts communication techniques, and supports participants in identifying the strengths in their diverse learning styles. Dr. Samantha is thoughtful, observant, and collaborative! She continually researches to stay aware of the ever-changing diverse experiences and leads with empathy and social justice at the heart of her work.
- Brittany Bronson, PhD