Neurodivergent Narratives Podcast

Mar 19 2025 63 ep. 28 mins 8

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on exploring neurodivergence, rejecting social norms & embracing the beauty & messiness of reconnecting to our humanity.

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when things are falling apart

Mar 19 2025 8 mins

While writing one of my previous Substack essays, I was reminded of something I read ages ago by Pema Chodron in When Things Fall Apart. In the book, Chodron describes hope and fear as being on two sides of the same coin: where there’s one, there’s the other, and both are the root of our pain.At that moment, I paused because I truly felt like she was on something.Yes, on someth

decoding demand-free time: pg 68-69

Mar 11 2025 8 mins

A slight edit on this video (because I couldn’t be arsed to re-record the whole thing), is when I complained about people saying they were “demand avoidant”, but aren’t. What I meant was when they say they are pathological demand avoidant, but they aren’t. Demand avoidance is real, but pathological demand avoidance is something entirely different. SC xoHey friends,Chapter

On Developing a Practice of Pausing

May 27 2022 22 mins

To reconnect with ourselves (the sensations in our bodies), so we can understand what we might need at that moment, means we need to pause. But pausing feels very scary to our bodies. This episode not only looks at why pausing feels so bad to us but how we can start to develop a practice of pausing in the times where we feel "safe- enough" so that when we actually do need

On When I Say Discomfort

May 13 2022 19 mins

When I was batching these episodes, it occurred to me that maybe some of you were like me and a little lost when it comes to trying to understand what "discomfort " might actually feel like in your body when thinking of emotions. So this episode is a short one and it talks about how I might describe what I'm trying to feel when I think of "discomfort in the body

On Issues of Introspection

Apr 29 2022 22 mins

FYI: I use the f word in the intro! It wasn't edited out this episode.Introspection is one of the things that we hear talked about a lot but it's not really talked about when it comes to what it means for being in this society. When we live in a society that works to separate the body from the mind, reconnecting with our body becomes a radical act. Because it's in ou

On Neurodivergence & Connecting with the Body

Apr 20 2022 17 mins

I'm pleased with this episode. I've shared some introductory thoughts about the mind and body connection with neurodivergent people in mind. I talk a little about how society divides us not only from the land and each other but from ourselves. Privileging the mind over the knowledge that comes from our bodies makes me think that for us ND brained people, (who seem to be d

On the Need for Culturally Competent Care: Part 2

Feb 02 2022 22 mins

One thing I tend to go on about is that when the story is told by one perspective, the problems and solutions are only seen from that perspective too. In talking about neurodivergence, we tend to be sharing the experiences from a lot about white boys, girls, men and women perspectives. No one else (because unless otherwise said, the default has always been white). Culturally compet

On the Intersections of Boredom

Jan 21 2022 31 mins

Maybe this episode will make sense to some of you, or maybe it won't. But hear me out. I started thinking a little more deeply about boredom and how terrible it feels for people. Then I started thinking about the messages we got when we were bored growing up and how they felt. It led me to think that if something like boredom can be so connected to doing things and what it mea

On Feeling a Lack of Clarity

Jan 04 2022 25 mins

A theme that seems to come up a lot with the people I work with is around the anxiety and stress that comes up from feeling a lack of clarity for ND people. I even wonder if it's something that feels a lot worse the further you are on the margins with your intersecting identities too because this is something I've struggled with as well.This episode looks at why we might

On Messages Behind the Boredom

Dec 17 2021 32 mins

Boredom often connects to productivity for me and this didn't sit right with me for some reason, so I decided I needed to learn more about it. The initial title for this episode was 'is boredom really our fault though?' and that question was what guided my research. It made me wonder if there was more to it. I think I was right. This episode hits on a few ideas aroun