After a day of back-to-back meetings and juggling tasks, you leave work feeling completely drained, yet to everyone else, you look perfectly composed. For many neurodivergent individuals that hidden exhaustion comes from masking the constant effort to appear “neurotypical” at work. While it may help you fit in or avoid judgment, this kind of masking takes a heavy toll, draining energy, and fueling burnout. 

Learn why masking is so exhausting, what’s happening in the brain in this state, and how recognizing overwhelm as feedback can help you protect your mental well-being in the attached Homewood Health article.  

Homewood Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) offers a wide range of confidential services to help you manage stress, improve mental health, and prevent burnout. These include:  

• Counselling services to support you through stress, anxiety, or burnout.  
• The Life Smart Coaching Program: Burnout and Stress Solutions.  
• The online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program.  
• A rich library of on-demand articles, webinars, and podcasts to deepen your understanding of mental health and burnout prevention.  
• Key Person Advice Line to help managers navigate work concerns 
• Pulse Check and Wellness History, a personalized tool for tracking your wellbeing.  

Full-time employees and Regular Part-Time (RPT) Support Staff and their immediate family have access to the EFAP services and support. You can contact Homewood at 1-800-663-1142 or visit the Homewood website to access their online resources. Please follow this Registration Video Tutorial to create an account and access Homewood’s website and online resources.  

Part-time/contract employees who need counselling support should contact oe@humber.ca for assistance.    

For more information on well-being resources for employees and students, visit Humber’s online Healthy Community Hub.  

If you have any questions, please contact oe@humber.ca.