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The Awakened Heart: A Podcast for Healing Women — 125 episodes

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Who Am I After Sexual Trauma? Identity Emergence for Late Diagnosed Neurodivergent Women

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How Do You Reparent Yourself After Sexual Trauma? Shadow Work for Neurodivergent Women

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You Don’t Need to Be Fixed to Be Worthy: Healing from Sexual Trauma

4

Your Nervous System Is the Eternal Flame: Burnout Recovery for Neurodivergent Trauma Survivors | Brigid Part 2

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ADHD and Trauma: Why Nervous System Dysregulation Is Evidence of Wisdom Not Weakness

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BONUS EPI: Honoring Brigid Part 1: Healer Poet Smith - Celtic Goddess Healing for Neurodivergent Women and Trauma Recovery

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How to Be Soft Without Losing Your Power After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing

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What If Your Home Held Your Truth: Sacred Space and Altar Practice for Sexual Trauma Healing

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Not Being Believed After Sexual Trauma: The Rage of Silence and Reclaiming Your Truth | Neurodivergent Women

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Stop Performing and Choose Yourself: A Pep Talk for Neurodivergent Sexual Trauma Survivors

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Shadow Work Tools for Sexual Trauma Healing: Practical Practices for Neurodivergent Women

12

Comparison Rage After Sexual Trauma: When Other People’s Normal Feels Like a Slap | Neurodivergent Women

13

Lilith Part 2: When You’re Punished for Having Boundaries | Mythology and Trauma Healing for Neurodivergent Women

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Rage at Lost Years After Sexual Trauma: Reclaiming Your Time as a Neurodivergent Woman

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Lilith Part 1: Reclaiming Your No After Sexual Trauma | Boundaries and Autonomy for Neurodivergent Women

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Unmasking After Sexual Trauma: Dropping the Performance as a Neurodivergent Woman

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Somatic and Mindset Tools for Body Anger After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing

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When Your Body Feels Like the Enemy After Sexual Trauma | ADHD Autism and Trauma Recovery

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Honoring Sacred Rage: Shadow Work and Altar Practice for Sexual Trauma Healing

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Your Anger Is Proof You Are Healing: Sacred Rage After Sexual Trauma for Neurodivergent Women

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Healing from Sexual Trauma Alone: When You Have No Safe People | Neurodivergent Women Recovery

22

A Sexual Trauma Survivor’s Story: Healing as a Neurodivergent Woman | The Awakened Heart

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IFS Parts Work for the Freeze Response After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing

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Why Your Body Avoids Stillness After Trauma: Nervous System Protection for Neurodivergent Women

25

Shadow Work and Somatic Release for the Numb Season After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing

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Honoring Grief and Loss After Sexual Trauma: When Healing Feels Heavy | Neurodivergent Women

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Holding Space for Numbness After Sexual Trauma | Somatic Healing for Neurodivergent Women

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Your Freeze Response Was Survival Not Consent: Sexual Trauma and the Nervous System | Neurodivergent Wome

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How Mother Wounds and Father Wounds Shape Your Nervous System | ADHD Autism and Trauma Recovery

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Why the World Feels Against You: Neurodivergent Women Trauma and Hypervigilance | The Awakened Heart

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BONUS EPI: When You Have No One: The Loneliness No One Talks About

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Navigating Toxic Masculinity

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Reactive Abuse: When Survival Looks Like Aggression

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SEASON 2 TRAILER

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If January Didn’t Work, Try This Spring Reset Instead

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Understanding Trauma Bonds; Why Leaving Can Feel Impossible

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Somatic Healing Explained in Practical Terms

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BONUS EPI: How To Switch Off Squirrel Brain And Turn On Hyperfocus

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Ingrained Misogyny: The System We Learned Without Knowing

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BONUS EPI: Grounded Action For A Heavy World Where Billionaires Get Redactions

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Understanding Weaponized Incompetence And How To Shift It

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: From RSD To PDA - Common Terms Explained

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: ADHD/Autism Accommodations: What You Deserve and How to Ask

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Autistic/ADHD Burnout - Why Everything Feels Impossible Now

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Telling Family After Late Diagnosis

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BONUS EPI: Saying No To Hustle, Yes To Healing

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Working Through the Grief & Rewriting Your Story

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BONUS EPI: Untangling Trauma Responses From Personality Traits For Late-Diagnosed, Neurodivergent Women

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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: What The First Year Post-Diagnosis Really Feels Like And How To Move Through It

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ADHD, Autism, AuDHD And Trauma: How To Tell Them Apart And What To Do Next

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End of Year Reflections

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BONUS EPI: The Difference Between Being Nice and Being Kind (And Why Nice Is Killing You)

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How To Be Love And Light And Take No Shit

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BONUS EPI: Dear January: Opting Out Of New Year’s Resolution Pressure For Neurodivergent And Trauma-Surviving Women

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Getting Unstuck: A Late Diagnosed Guide to Routines and Systems

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BONUS EPI: When Your Body Says Yes But You Mean No - Healing Sexual Trauma

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Love Bombing - What It Is, Why You Fall For It, and How to Protect Yourself

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BONUS EPI: PEP TALK - Comforting Words When the World Feels Heavy, Dark, and Impossible

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Unmasking: The Hidden Cost of Being “Easy-Going” and “Low-Maintenance”

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BONUS EPI: Walking on Eggshells in Relationships: A Guide to Healing

61

You Did Your Best - And Your Child Is Still Hurting. Now What?

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BONUS EPI: Social Media Burnout: Choosing Authenticity Over Algorithms

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When Your Family Doesn’t Understand: Setting Boundaries Around Holidays, Special Events, and Expectations and Traditions

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BONUS EPI: Executive Dysfunction, Part Two: The Emotional Overload Edition

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Executive Dysfunction: How Can I Get You to Function?

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BONUS EPI: When Autism Meets ADHD; AuDHD

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Energy Management Over Time Management: Spoon Theory for Neurodivergent Lives

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BONUS EPI: The Good-Girl Recovery: Healing from the Rules That Keep You Small

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Stop Calling It Lazy: The Real Story Behind Executive Dysfunction and Trauma

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BONUS EPI: When There’s Never Enough: Time, Energy, Money, and Worth

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Burnout vs. Neurodivergent Shutdown: Understanding the Difference Between “Tired” and “Done”

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BONUS EPI: The Sacred Pause: Lessons from Surgery

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Intense Emotions as Gifts: How Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Is Your Superpower

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Taking a Break This Week

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BONUS EPI: The 10 Songs That Saved Me: A Healing Journey Through Music

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Friendship Trauma: Why Social Relationships Feel So Hard

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BONUS EPI: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Good Therapist (and Questions to Ask So You Don’t Settle)

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Drama Queen? Too Loud? Too Sensitive? The Wounds of Growing Up Misread

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BONUS EPI: Recovery from Neurodivergent Burnout: What Actually Works And What Doesn’t

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The Late Diagnosis Blues: Processing Your Autism/ADHD Discovery as an Adult

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BONUS EPI: Daily Wellness Habits for Nervous System Health: What My Lab Results Taught Me About Healing

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When Being Around Others Feels Like Work: The Hidden Cost of Always Holding It Together

83

BONUS EPI: Somatic Healing: When Your Mind Understands But Your Body Still Reacts

84

ADHD Accommodations That Actually Work (When You’re Tired of Systems That Don’t)

85

BONUS EPI: Empowered Dating Rules: Avoiding Love Bombing, Red Flags and Rushing Intimacy

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4 Simple Skills That Stop Overwhelm in Its Tracks

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BONUS EPI: Emotional Availability: The Art of Being Present with Others

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Chronic Loneliness: When You Can’t Remember Not Feeling Lonely

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BONUS EPI: Emotional Availability: The Art of Being Present with Yourself

90

When You Feel Numb in Your Healing Journey

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BONUS EPI: The Money Episode I was Afraid to Make

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Still Not Behind: You’re Not Late; You’re Living

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BONUS EPI: What It Looks Like To Heal Solo When No One Else Feels Safe.

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What It Really Means to Be Neurodivergent (It’s More Than ADHD and Autism)

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BONUS EPI: This Is What It Feels Like: The Perimenopause Episode I Needed Years Ago

96

Why You Feel So Tired All the Time Even When You’re “Doing Everything Right”

97

BONUS EPI: Pep Talk: Comfort on the Hard Days

98

People-Pleasing Part 2: Untangling Trauma from Kindness

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BONUS EPI: Meal Planning Burnout: When Feeding Yourself and Others Feels Like Too Much

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Tired of People-Pleasing? Claim the Peace You Deserve

101

BONUS EPI: From Authority to Ally: Parenting Adult Children with Love

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Parenting the Parent: When You’re the Emotionally Mature One

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BONUS EPI: Rest is a Rebellion: Making Peace with Stillness in a World That Won’t Stop

104

Processing Slowly Doesn’t Make You Broken; You Are Discerning

105

BONUS EPI: Healing Attachment Styles: What It Really Takes

106

The Myth of Being Behind (And What No One Tells You About Time)

107

BONUS EPI: What If Being the Common Denominator Isn’t a Bad Thing?

108

Speaking Again: Finding Your Voice After Survival Mode

109

BONUS EPI: You Are Not Behind: Decentering Romantic Pressure at Any Age

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How to Regulate without Shutting Down or Disappearing

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BONUS EPI: When One Thing on the Calendar Takes up the Whole Day

112

You Were Not a Burden: What Your Inner Child Still Needs to Hear

113

BONUS EPI: Hey Black Sheep: You Were Never the Problem

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Why It’s So Hard to Set Boundaries And How to Start Anyway

115

BONUS EPI: Is Hope a Scam? What to Do When You’re Tired of Trying

116

Why You Feel Emotionally Numb and How to Heal

117

BONUS EPI: When Nurture Felt Like Neglect: Understanding the Mother Wound

118

The Guilt you Feel Isn’t the Truth

119

BONUS EPI: The Cycle-Aware Workout Plan No One Taught You

120

The Power of Coming Home to Your Body

121

BONUS EPI: Soft, Angry, Awake: Living in a World That Doesn’t Make Sense

122

Survival Mode Isn’t a Life Plan: Unpacking the Choices We Made in Our 20s & 30s

123

If You’re Wondering Why You’re Not ‘Over It’ Yet; This Is Why

124

Finding Your Voice After Trauma

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The Awakened Heart - A Podcast for Healing Women - Episode 1