Sensory Struggles & Masking: How Society Fails ND Kids in Everyday Situations

Sensory Struggles & Masking: How Society Fails ND Kids in Everyday Situations

In this episode, we dive into a topic so many of us know too well—sensory overwhelm and the exhausting reality of masking. From everyday errands that turn into full-on meltdowns, to the quiet ways our kids (and we) try to shrink ourselves to “fit in,” this episode is a raw and validating look at how society often fails to meet neurodivergent needs.

Whether it’s a simple haircut turning into a full-blown crisis, or the quiet pressure to hold it all together in public, we unpack how to support our nervous systems, honor our kids' cues, and stop normalizing the grind of masking just to get by.

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Two Identities, One Nervous System: Growing Up Undiagnosed & Rebuilding Who You Are

Two Identities, One Nervous System: Growing Up Undiagnosed & Rebuilding Who You Are

In today’s episode, we’re diving into something so many late-identified neurodivergent adults know all too well — the feeling of having two versions of yourself living inside the same body.There’s the...

20 Marras 202513min

🎙️ What Our Children Wish We Knew: Healing Our Inner Child While Parenting

🎙️ What Our Children Wish We Knew: Healing Our Inner Child While Parenting

This week’s episode cracked my heart open in the best way. 💞 “What Our Children Wish We Knew” is a love letter to the kids we’re raising and the little ones still living inside us.In this exclusive v...

13 Marras 202519min

School Refusal: When the Body Says "I Can’t”

School Refusal: When the Body Says "I Can’t”

Why do some kids seem unable to go to school—no matter how much we encourage, reward, or reason with them? In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, we unpack school refusal through a neurodivergent a...

31 Loka 202516min

The Hidden Cost of Being Neurodivergent (Audio Version)

The Hidden Cost of Being Neurodivergent (Audio Version)

✨ S3E7: The Hidden Cost of Neurodivergence ✨Let’s talk about the price of existing in a neurotypical world — the emotional labor, the job instability, the financial strain, and the silent burnout so m...

24 Loka 202519min

Healing While We Parent - An Interview with Kecia Nelson, LCSW

Healing While We Parent - An Interview with Kecia Nelson, LCSW

In this week’s episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, host Austen Marie chats with Kecia Nelson (@wholehearted_parenting)—a licensed clinical social worker and mom—about the messy, beautiful process of rep...

17 Loka 20251h 7min

Trained to Tolerate: How Childhood Abuse & Undiagnosed Neurodivergence Can Prime You for Narcissist

Trained to Tolerate: How Childhood Abuse & Undiagnosed Neurodivergence Can Prime You for Narcissist

In this week’s episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, we’re talking about something so many of us live without realizing it — being trained to tolerate. From toxic workplaces to unhealthy relationships, ma...

10 Loka 202516min

🎙️From Overwhelm to Empowerment: Trauma & Neurodivergence with Bry Bryan

🎙️From Overwhelm to Empowerment: Trauma & Neurodivergence with Bry Bryan

🎙️ Today I’m joined by Bry Bryan (@brythetherapist)—a licensed trauma therapist who works with neurodivergent kids, overwhelmed parents, and adults navigating trauma. Her own lived experiences with a...

3 Loka 20251h 3min

Back to the Beginning: A Glimpse at Neurodivergence Through Time

Back to the Beginning: A Glimpse at Neurodivergence Through Time

This week on The NeuroSpicy MomPod, we zoom out and trace the history of how society has seen neurodivergence. From myths of “divine madness,” to the rise of asylums, to the Disability Rights and Neur...

26 Syys 202519min

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