This amazing conversation between Sara and Stone Gye explores the critical role of community and deep connections in the lives of neurodivergent individuals, especially middlife perimenopausal or menopausal women, highlighting the stark differences in life expectancy compared to neurotypical individuals.
It emphasizes the importance of cultivating meaningful relationships and the impact of effective communication on longevity and overall well-being.
Takeaways
if there's a topic that you can't discuss and you don't have a community, it becomes a situation that is just untenable.
Neurodivergent people tend to die 38 years earlier than neurotypical people.
deep purposeful connections, but not just deep purposeful connections in a silo, community or collectivistic deep purposeful connections.
This is one of the reasons why women live longer because they communicate effectively.
If a woman is not cultivating deep purposeful connections in her tribe, in her community, over her lifetime, that can make any type of business activity more fraught.
About Stone Gye:
is a US combat veteran and multi-disciplinary health practitioner who understands and relates to the challenges and strengths of neurodivergent perspectives. As a late-diagnosed autistic person with several co-occurring conditions, his exceptionally unique background allows him to deliver a holistic approach to self-care.
Recommended book: The Upgrade by Dr Louann Brizendine
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stonegye/
https://stonegye.agency/cofffee
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