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Rebelling
Study Hall!

Saturdays 11:30am-12:30pm

Rebelling Study Hall isn't about grades, productivity or having the right answer. Instead, it's about learning and questioning being something we do together. This is an ongoing, no cost, low-pressure space to pause, reflect, and explore the everyday questions, constructs, and contradictions we’re not really sure about. A place for ideas, imagination, and rebelling. Drop in, listen, share if you want, and leave feeling more connected, curious, and steady.

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For most of my life, I tried to make sense of myself in a world that didn’t usually make room for my ways of doing and seeing things.

 

The world has this way of letting us know we’re doing it wrong. So I tried to be “normal” instead of being myself.

 

Now, I try to see the world through the lenses of my neurodivergence, curiosity, sense-making. Not trying to be normal, trying to be more human.

​Through coaching, writing, and a podcast, I support people who want to get curious about their lives, question systems, experiment with change, and make grounded shifts toward living a life shaped by capacity, limits, and reality, instead of extraction, over-functioning, and "normal."

I'm glad you're here! Rebelling is my home on the internet, and I'm making this home because seeing myself reflected back to me out in the world has been a rare thing in my life. So many of us use a lot of our energy trying to fit into systems and expectations that just don't work for us, no matter how hard we try. I want to change that for all of us.

 

I invite you in, to be seen, heard, and recognized in ways that help you feel like you make sense and belong. 

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about
me

Hi! I'm Amy Knott Parrish. Here's a bit about me:

I'm 55 years old. I'm a queer, white, able bodied late-diagnosed AuDHD human. I was identified gifted as a child. I live in Durham, NC, USA. I have 2 children (both ND)- one young adult, one teen, and 2 cats- Rosie and Nellie.  

I've been sober and in recovery since December 7, 2012. I put together my own unconventional recovery. I write a blog about it called Soberbia.(find older posts here) Sobriety is the backbone of my life. 

I love reading, learning, writing, running in the woods, and when someone else makes the food. Cloudy dreary days are my favorite. (Sunny days are so pushy! lol) I love talking to other humans about humans, learning about people and what their lives and experience of life is like, and helping them figure out how to feel a sense of belonging and well being.

I have never had a 9-5 job, and I don't have a degree, even though I've taken a lot of classes. I'm fortunate to have a unique perspective when it comes to questioning long-standing corporate structures and deeply rooted social constructs. I am an independent scholar and lifelong learner. I love studying, learning, wondering about the human experience and how we can remember our complexity, rejoin the natural world, and understand that we are not merely machines. I did my coach training with IPEC and got my certification in 2017; I have a PCC from the ICF if you're into letters for things like that. :)

I have felt different from other people all my life, and up until 2024 I didn't understand why, so I just kept trying harder. I didn't get why what was important to other people wasn't important to me, why I couldn't just be 'normal'. Discovering my ADHD and autism and then learning more about AuDHD and giftedness is giving me the room I need to stop trying so hard to fit in. Now I'm learning how to be myself.

And...Trying harder was never going to work for me because I was trying harder in a system that wasn't made with me in mind!  My 9 years of coaching experience, over 13 years of sobriety and recovery, 21 years of parenting, a lifetime of self driven learning, and my neurodivergent experience provides an uncommon and fresh perspective. I'm in it with you, and I’m doing my own work too. I read, learn, and study all the time and it's why I made Rebelling- so I can share all of it with other people- like you :)
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