Internal Realities: Tuning Into Your Neurodivergent Body with Dr Clare Jacobson

Dr Clare Jacobson has spent over 20 years holding people's most intimate inner worlds. As a specialist clinical psychologist in teenage and young adult cancer care, she knows what it means to sit with invisible experience - the kind that doesn't show up on a blood test, but is completely real.Over the past year, Clare has been on her own journey of neurodivergent identification. And in this conversation with Emma, she brings both lenses: the clinician who has learned to approach people's inner lives with curiosity rather than certainty, and the late-identified person who spent decades being told  -  by the world and eventually by herself -  that the parts of her that didn't fit were somehow wrong.They talk about the hunter-farmer analogy, the card game metaphor, hypermobility and proprioception, receiving extra sensory data, and what Clare calls the original Internet  -  the idea that neurodivergent people might be evolved to tap into collective consciousness in ways that neurotypical people simply can't access. It's a conversation about bodies, belonging, and learning to trust what you've always known.If you've ever felt like the call was coming from inside the house, this episode is for you. It probably isn't.This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast is hosted by Dr Emma Offord, clinical psychologist and founder of Divergent Lives. For every neurodivergent mind that was masked, misread, or missed.