Send us a text This episode is a quiet meditation on change — the kind that doesn’t always feel exciting or triumphant, but necessary. We’ll explore how autistic and sensitive nervous systems experience emotional and seasonal transitions, the neuroscience behind letting go, and the psychology of identity shifts. Drawing from thinkers like Robert Kegan, Brené Brown, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Stephen Porges, we’ll look at why release often feels like grief before it feels like freedom — and how...
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Send us a text This episode is a quiet meditation on change — the kind that doesn’t always feel exciting or triumphant, but necessary. We’ll explore how autistic and sensitive nervous systems experience emotional and seasonal transitions, the neuroscience behind letting go, and the psychology of identity shifts. Drawing from thinkers like Robert Kegan, Brené Brown, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Stephen Porges, we’ll look at why release often feels like grief before it feels like freedom — and how...
# 4 - The Split of Late-in-Life Diagnosis: Freedom & Grief
Quietly Autistic at Last
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# 4 - The Split of Late-in-Life Diagnosis: Freedom & Grief
Send us a text In this episode, The Split of Late-in-Life Diagnosis: Freedom & Grief, we explore the paradox many autistic women face when discovering their diagnosis later in life. For some, it feels like a light switching on—clarity, self-compassion, and the freedom to live authentically. For others, or often at the same time, it awakens grief for the misunderstood childhoods, lost opportunities, and silent struggles carried for years. Join me as I share my own reflections alongside ins...
Quietly Autistic at Last
Send us a text This episode is a quiet meditation on change — the kind that doesn’t always feel exciting or triumphant, but necessary. We’ll explore how autistic and sensitive nervous systems experience emotional and seasonal transitions, the neuroscience behind letting go, and the psychology of identity shifts. Drawing from thinkers like Robert Kegan, Brené Brown, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Stephen Porges, we’ll look at why release often feels like grief before it feels like freedom — and how...
