What are Neurodivergents Here For?

👋 Hey, I’m Rachel! I’m a content creator, yoga teacher, and coach, and a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman - ADHD a few years back, and I strongly suspect Autism too, so I choose to self diagnose for the time being, as AuDHD. I’m also a proud mum of three (all ND as well!).

Over the past five years, I’ve been on a deep spiritual awakening - one that’s reshaped how I live, parent, and show up in the world. I’m sober, I’m open-hearted, and I don’t hold back from sharing the messy, the magical, and everything in between.

On this podcast, I bring it all together: life, neurodivergence, and spirituality — with honesty, curiosity, and a sense of humour. Expect unfiltered and unscripted chats and inspiring guests, too. Check out my offerings and connect with me below!

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Conscious but grounded is a podcast exploring the intersection of neurodivergence and spirituality, high vibe living, while staying rooted in the very real challenges of life as a neurodivergent mom. Here I ask the big questions like, how do we connect to the universe while keeping our feet firmly on the ground? How do we honor our sensitivity, creativity, and unique wiring in a world that isn't always built for us? Expect honest, unscripted conversations, personal reflections, and inspiring guest episodes with spiritual teachers, healers and neurodivergent voices. This is a space for truth, humor, spirituality, and practical wisdom, so you can feel more connected, grounded, and at peace in your own skin. Let's dive in. Hello. Welcome back to Conscious Book Grounded. This podcast is all about spirituality in the real world. And, um, I am on season two now, and so the first season was all about me just, just beginning like that. You know, it reminds me of that. Is it Gir quote, um, you know, junior. Bold. No, no. Hang on, hang on, hang on. This is me. I always get it wrong. I think it's something like boldness has genius power and something in it. Begin it. Begin it now. Something like that, and I think I was trying to harness that energy and I'm really glad I did. However, it comes with a downside in that you actually don't know, you don't have a plan. I was just like, whoa, there is no plan, but I'm just doing this. And so because of that, because I've really, in my other areas of my work, I've really shifted into like right, I'm not messing anymore. I'm, I'm making very focused content with a very focused, uh, objective, uh, to earn income and also speak my truth. And so kind of like show up in my purpose in the world. And so I've got into that very feminine flow of like. Just speak your truth and don't have a plan as such. But then that more masculine side came in and was like, no, we need a plan, babe. We need a plan. And so this podcast now is starting to really take shape. And honestly, I'm gonna be really honest with you because I, I only ever want to be totally honest. With you. Um, and I have really doubt really, because my time is so limited. Um, three kids, five pets, big house husband, always away with his massive job. I am being very tough at the minute and going, right, this, this thing, even though I love doing it, has to go. It's taking too much time. And I've been on the fence about this podcast. But see what I'm talking about is, um, the fact that on YouTube I've relaunched my YouTube channel guys and, uh, some of you. Know me from that, from being, you may have been with me right from the start and oh my God, do I love you guys so much? Um, each one of you matters to me so much and I'll never, ever not be completely grateful for, um, yeah, people that resonate with your story.'cause that's everything, right? Like what we here for, if not that. Um, and you guys have been with me from the start and some people have come along on the way and found me via an A DHD video or via a sobriety video or. Some people just know me in real life. Um, and yeah, so wherever you've come from, this is a little life update as well as what I'm gonna talk about today, which is, I'll come to that in a sec. So I've started re uh, posting on YouTube and I went through a pro process. I've said to my coach for ages, I'm crazy not to talk on YouTube. I've got my highest following on that and it just feels like it's something that I love doing. But I was blocked. My A DHD was kind of blocking me'cause I didn't have my systems in place. I didn't have the equipment I needed, I needed to do a few things to get my systems in place. Once I'd got over that, I went through a process. I'm in a YouTube, um, kind of like a refresher course if you like, which kind of really forced me to, in that process to go, what is it you're talking about? Who is it for? What is it for? What's the point of this? Instead of me just in my normal mode? Uh, which is actually a mode that I think a lot of people enjoy, which is just like, I'm just here. Doing my thing, but, but for me, it doesn't serve me because I end up making a lot of content for free, which is, if anything, just a bit entertaining for people and they can connect to that has a massive value. But ultimately I'm in this for my own good as well. I need to earn some money and have, uh, an offering at the end of this. And so I've tried to blend. I was very much coming from a content perspective. I've tried to bring in more like Right, I'm actually here for a purpose, guys. I've got a lot of knowledge and this is what it's gonna culminate in. That's still in the main. King by the way. But I'm really excited about it. And so what I've decided and what I came up with was, you know, what has my story been about? My story has been about realizing six years ago that I was A DHD after a bit of a nervous breakdown type of thing, and being and going on a massive healing journey. I don't take medication and I'm sober now and I use my yoga practices and all my self-care practices and everything holistic. I've, and I feel so different. I feel like at a level dot. Passionately spiritual, connected, grateful, happy, stable individual. And that's my story. And so now over on YouTube, I'm talking about a DH, D and neurodiversity specifically. Um, and in the context of a holistic toolkit. So building a holistic toolkit, not just building a toolkit, but also widening the aperture on our understanding of what Neurodivergence is. And that is what I found myself talking about for the whole first season, right? If you've listened to it. It's all about in real time, which is why I really, I would always be so sad to get rid of this podcast because it's my journey of NeuroD diversion, unmasking in real time. And what happened was, it was very much through the lens of a spiritual awakening. And that is what I've just posted about on Instagram today, and that's what I wanted to talk about today. But also this has just happened naturally. It's just like, I'm just updating you that I've got this YouTube channel on there now. It's. Still got all my old videos, which are really handy for A DHD people and NEURODIVERSE people. It's got all the recipes on there, just the kind of entertaining family life blogs and all my messy, perfectly imperfect life, all that stuff still on there. Sobriety videos, A DHD videos, all that stuff. But now I'm really focusing in on neurodivergence and holistic toolkits. And my latest video is where does A DHD come from? And I talk about, um, the. Theory idea that I'm a hundred percent behind, which is it's actually a, uh, neuro, it's kind of an adaptation of the brain. Uh, and it can, you know, the adaptation of the brain of the highly sensitive individual that responds to trauma and generational trauma. And that's something that the holistic psychologist and g mate also talk about. So I've got. Uh, people who know a lot about stuff on the same page as me, which is always reassuring. So that's my latest video. I'll link to that below. And yeah, so what I just sat down this morning to post was something that I voice noted to my coach yesterday and she was like, you need to post that. So I'm working with my coach on refining my message, um, being bolder, speaking my truth. Funnily enough, I just went on Instagram and on Moon Omens today, which is like one of the best spiritual accounts. I'm a member of their, um. Like monthly astrological membership. And it said like, today is the day to really speak your truth. Be really brave, be really bold. And I was like, that's it. I'm definitely posting it. Then. So what I voice noted to my coach yesterday was I was having a wobble. I have them sometimes, and I was like, I just, I'm having a wobble and I'm just voicing it out loud. I was like, I just feel like this is hard. Like living your purpose, living your drama, doing these things is really hard. You know, you do care what people think about you. You do feel judged sometimes. It would be easier sometimes to go get a job. I'm not gonna do any of these things, but I was just voicing that out to her and she was like, I hear you. I've been there. I'm still there myself sometimes. And then we got onto the subject of Neurodivergence and I was like, you know what? It's really hard having a DHD and kind of, I'm worried about like the way that I'm speaking about A DHD, am I making a mistake here? Directing my YouTube audience in that way? Um, and you know, the thing. I'm talking about, I could be criticized for, uh, and it's scary because I've got a protector part of me, right? We keep talking about parts at the time, all, all the time. Internal family systems, the parts of us, me and my coach, we're both really into it. I've had IFS therapy and it's very relevant, right? We all have these different parts of us. So I've got this part of me that wants to protect me and just wants to shut me down every time I say something a bit outlandish or a bit, I mean, it's not never outlandish to me, it's my truth, right? But I, the last thing I wanna do is ob. At people or anything like that. But she was like, you are here to speak your truth and you are here to not care as hard as it is or to put aside what people think of you. And so she was also relating that at times she feels like she might be neurodivergent and there's this massive conversation, right, with those midlife women at the minute, so many of us, and in spiritual circles, which I'm in, a lot of them re not reject, that's too strong a word, but they es issue the um, uh. Avenue of diagnoses, and they are more inclined, I would say, to kind of embrace themselves in all their quirks and things like that, and less likely to pathologize it. And so I'm, I'm always somewhere in the middle, right? This podcast is all about being somewhere in the middle conscious, but grounded, like, and I think it's a really important place to be. And so instead of hooing diagnoses and possible medication and all those different things, I think it's really. Really nice to have a, a foot in both camps. And so I think diagnosis is extremely helpful. I mean, it's literally a permission slip to go start accommodating for yourself and um, asking for help. And it's the final jigsaw piece for a lot of people that really liberates them and oh my God, have I experienced that? And so I get quite pissed off actually when people who mean, well, I don't get pissed off at them, I can just can feel quite triggered when people are like. Don't let your label define you and all that. I'm like, babe, it's defined me all my life. Like it's been the reason why I've been struggling so much, you know? Uh, but I know what they all, I also hear them, and I know what they mean. And everything's about context, right? What they actually mean is kind of own it, like own your superpowers, own yourself. And there's actually a Kelly Brogan book called Own Yourself, which is about this. It's about, let's. Try and stop pathologizing every single thing that we have, and I'm here for that conversation. However, if you feel like a diagnosis would help you go, God damn, get the fucking diagnosis, God equally, if you don't need that a piece of paper, if you're like, I know what I'm autistic, or like, I know I'm a DHD, good for you. And a hundred percent, a hundred percent I, I am here for that. I resonate with that attitude because I feel a bit like that with autism. I'm not at the place yet where I want. Get a diagnosis one day, I might. Um, but I just know deep down sense of inner knowing that I, if you wanna call it a DHD, let's call it that. Um, I have my DH ADHD diagnosis and then I resonate strongly with the, I. Tussle internally of Audi, DHD, let's call it. And then this happens at midlife. So this season is very much focused on the midlife in specific'cause I'm midlife and it's, it's just a point in time where our hormones drop and our vision sharpens. And we're no longer prepared to wear the mask anymore. We're no longer prepared to live inauthentically anymore. Okay. Coffee Sip. Uh. And you know what? This morning, right? So yeah, so what I said to my coach was. We're all voice noting each other. That's what the program I'm in. It's an amazing program. It's voice note support three days a week, and you are literally bouncing your thoughts and processes and everything towards a back and forth. With, with, with your coach. With my coach. And so I said to her, look, I see this so much in, in women our age in the spiritual world. She's a spiritual business coach. And I'm like, you know what? I think. I actually think, and I was really bold with her because I can speak freely with her. I said, I actually think the autistic people, um, are star seeds. And so if you're not familiar with the conversation around star seeds, a star seed, so we're all made of exploded stars, right? That's scientifically proven. That's what we're all made of. Um, and a star seed is somebody that, uh, it's a soul that's incarnated here on earth and has chosen to incarnate at this time. Time to come with the specific mission of healing us. And they are extra sensitive hu uh, humans. They make, they are extra sensitive people. And so this resonates a lot with neurodivergent people. Right? And so I've got this idea, this theory, and when I researched it, but I saw that I wasn't alone and having this theory that it's an idea that's been put out there before. And I don't wish to offend anyone with this idea. It's simply my idea. Okay? And so just wanna caveat it with that. I'm. That autistic people are aliens. Let me just get that straight. Okay. I'm saying I believe 100% as a yogi that we are all souls and we've all lived before and we've all come to incarnate at this lifetime for a specific purpose. And so I believe that star seeds in particular are from another realm and that they've chosen to come at this time to help heal Earth, right? So this is, this is a compliment in my eyes. This is the highest of the highest of the high. You cannot have a higher purpose in life than that in my. Opinion. And so I said this to my coach. I was like, I believe actually the autistic people are star seeds and they've come here from another realm to healers at this time. And then I also believe add on to that my latest video, which is about A DHD coming from trauma. I believe that people who are already DHD are star seeds from a different realm who've incarnated at this time, and they are here to soak up and ta and you feel like you've taken on generations and generations of trauma, right? That's honestly. What I feel like, I mean, Reed scattered minds by GABA mate, we are here, the awakened ones to go, fuck this. A DHD thing. I think it goes deeper. I think it goes deeper than just being a bit distractible and things like that. I think it's like I'm here to actually transmute and, and I'm here as a cycle breaker and I'm healing the A DHD seekers and the autistic seekers who are on a healing path, not on a self-improvement, self improved productivity, be more punctual and all that stuff. I'm not. Interested in that. I, I'm interested in, I'm here to heal myself. And as a result, when we heal ourselves, right? Guys, we have to understand this. When we heal ourselves, we heal other people. So if other people see you saying, actually no, I've, I'm going to this appoint for self care and actually no, I've got boundaries around this, this, this. Actually, no, I'm, I'm on a healing path. Like I quit alcohol, like, because it's no good for me anymore. And I'm like going to therapy and I'm like having hard conversations with my. Family that is, that shit's infectious. Okay? And that has a ripple effect. We're breaking cycles. We're speaking to our children differently. And this is a compassionate thing too. We can be compassionate around the limitations of our parents, grandparents, great parents, great-grandparents, great. You know, going back and back and back. Every generation is improving slightly. And so I said this to my coach and I was like, I think people with Audi h deer, the are the canaries in the coal mine. I think we're the cycle breakers. And I think that. That perspective can be very healing. And um, and she was like, you need to share that. Uh, and and it's a really interesting paradigm shift of the mind. Um, and I just wanted to come on today and share that and how it relates to midlife is, like I said before, this shit is happening to midlife women. I know I'm in an echo chamber'cause I'm midlife and on Instagram I probably mainly follow people in a similar age bracket and similar interest bracket to me. But I very intentionally try not to. Do that. I very intentionally try to, um, follow a range of different people with a range of different views. Like I intentionally do that. Uh, I definitely don't wanna be in an echo chamber, but I understand that that is a radical thing to think. Um, my intention behind it is only good. Um, and so when I posted that today, it was really scary. Like I refined the message a few times. It's still not perfect. There's a typo in there. Uh. Um, and I'm like, you know what? I need to be bold. My time has come now where I'm not messing anymore. And, and to the same, in the same respect, it was why I've decided to keep going with this podcast because I need a place where I can really speak freely like I do with my coach, right? Like, I need a space and that's my podcast to me. So if you are interested in the Instagram post, a lot of people won't, and a lot of people probably will unfollow me because they'll be like, this girl's batshit crazy. Um, I'm not for that person in that respect. I mean, friends and family, they might think that too, but they've got me for life. Sorry guys. Um, but I'm okay with that because I'm brave enough now and I don't give a shit anymore. I'm like, yeah, man. That's what I think. Um, because I can, you know, I deeply hold these ideas, these beliefs. I would never be so arrogant to say, I know I'm going to prove, you know, I don't need that. I've got a deep intuitive, inner a knowing. I have ideas that I, I think, and I'm like, I. Think this is kind of in the ballpark of what's going on here. You know, I really feel like I know certain things in my, based around my own faith and spirituality. I know that we are more than this experience on earth. Um, so yeah, actually I take that back. I do know certain things, but I wouldn't be so bold as to say this is a fact about where this comes from. I think we're all on a precipice, a big old precipice right now where shit's getting real. Has been doing for a while and like this is, I mean, I'm a bit sick of people saying this is a scary time right now because look back in history, mate, every time's a scary time. We've, we've all, we've been in this kind of spot many times before, you know, look at the world wars for God's sake. But I think we are at a real turning point now because it's this, uh, intersection of things like ai, things like, you know, war obviously, but a, a different type of war now I think we all have. A collective ritual awakening. I think Neurodivergence is part of that. Look at the way that the secret service and so on, and this is a total fact, is recruiting neurodivergent people. We are the forward thinkers. We are the ones that fucking open shit up. Like look at the big thinkers of the past, right? Albert Einstein, Beethoven, um, Michelangelo, you know, all of these people. When you're divergent, it is pretty much like there's been so much discussion around, you know, these. Geniuses of the past, like you need to be a bit crazy and like be thinking on a new way, wavelength like this is thinking on a different plane because we need to, to come up with the solutions that are required at this time to move forward. There's gonna be things that we don't even know yet that we're gonna be integrating and utilizing to make this a planet that we can live on and that our grandchildren can live on to make sure that AI is used for good. You know? Um, so this is. A big subject, and I just wanted to share today that like if you, I mean, I'm looking now, I had a quick look before I set off to the gym, which is where I'm going now. And I was like, oh, good. A couple of people that I know have liked it. That's reassuring. You know, it's reassuring to know that you are not alone in the, in these nudges, these sole nudges. But even if people don't, you know, I think as long as your heart is leading with love and as long as we're like, you know, really coming from a place of good, like I went to see Marian Williamson's. Um, and if you listen to this podcast, you probably know who she is. If not, go look her up. She wrote A Return to Love in the seventies, which is a commentary or an interpretation of the metaphysical text, of course, in Miracles. And so she's a leading spiritualist and thought leader, but she's also a politician. She ran for the American presidency. Oh my God, can you imagine? Anyway, she should have won, but anyway, she didn't. And that's all part of the Divine Plan, right? It's part of the Sacred plan. You know, the universe. God wanted Trump and people like that to get in. This is shadow work. This is the shadows coming to the surface and we're gonna get through this time. You know, people aren't all bad. Like there'll be some stuff that he is doing that's good. I believe there are things that he's doing that's good. Uh, you know, we need to see the full picture of things. We cannot be polarized. We must see, we must hear all the sides, all the perspectives, even the ones from the hurt people are. Okay. We must give, uh, attention to all the different parts of ourselves, the hurt parts, the healed parts, the protector parts, the manager parts. It's really important on a micro and a macro level. So yes, I hope that that has made sense or landed in some way. So, yeah, it's all about speaking our truth and really just questioning, you know, what is the greater plan here? What is the divine plan here? Why aren't neuro so many people coming out as neurodivergent now, what could that mean for society? What, you know, where's the, where's the evolutionary benefit here? What's going on? Uh, and it's really important, I think, to, to widen the aperture of our minds and, and, and really tap into our souls and our bodies and think about, uh, the possibilities here. So I hope you enjoyed that. Um, remember to leave a comment and review, and I'm gonna keep sharing here. This is my safe space where I can talk about everything and anything within the realm of my multi-passionate. Brain and I think it's really important for me to keep that space there. And so, but it would be lovely to hear from you. And um, I keep saying that we're gonna have some more guests on, we are gonna have guests on. Uh, but I think it's just so easy for me to pick up the phone and record and, and, and that's what this has become really kind of journal space for me, um, for people to listen who resonate with what I'm talking about. And so that's all our guys. Take care. Love you. Bye.