Are We Educating… or Conditioning? The Truth About Modern Schooling with Olivia Couch
Before we dive in, a quick note 💛The audio and video are slightly out of sync in parts of this episode. Thank you for your patience and understanding as you listen through!Also, I want to acknowledge...
24 Mar 49min
🎧 Learned Helplessness: How Systems Teach Us to Stop Trying (Audio Version)
In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, we explore learned helplessness, a psychological pattern that develops when someone is repeatedly placed in situations where their actions don’t seem to matte...
17 Mar 20min
Building Something Steadier Than Survival✨
Welcome to Season 4 of The NeuroSpicy MomPod. 💖This podcast is a space where we explore neurodivergence, nervous system regulation, trauma, healing, and rebuilding life with more awareness and compas...
10 Mar 20min
🎙️ Season 3 Finale — Healing For the World
This episode closes out Season 3 of The NeuroSpicy MomPod!There’s no recap and no personal update here. Instead, this conversation centers on staying grounded, trusting the process, and tending to our...
6 Feb 19min
Holding Both: Neurodivergent Joy, Grief, and Staying Human
I don’t have a perfect script for this moment in history — but I do know what my body feels.In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, we talk about neurodivergent joy — not as denial, not as “look on ...
30 Jan 18min
A NeuroSpicy Interview with David Schmidt Jimenez; Supporting Neurodivergent Kids With Dignity
In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, I sit down with David Schmidt Jimenez — a late-diagnosed autistic, Cuban American educator based in Baltimore — for a conversation that hits deep if you’ve ev...
22 Jan 59min
Why Does Being Aware Make Everything Harder?
Why does healing feel harder after you finally have words for what you’ve been living through?In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, I explore why awareness can feel destabilizing at first — especi...
16 Jan 13min
🎙️Neurodivergence Without the Safety Net: When Survival Becomes the Only Option
What does neurodivergent support look like when you don’t have a safety net?In this episode of The NeuroSpicy MomPod, I talk openly about the gap between neurodivergent support in theory and neurodive...
8 Jan 14min
