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Neurodivergent Faith
Neurodivergent Faith explores the intersection of neurodivergence and Christian faith and practice, creating a space where neurodivergent individuals can process their faith without judgment, while also offering education and inspiration for neurotypical listeners to understand and support their neurodivergent family in Christ.
Episodes
54 episodes
Neurodivergent Birthdays: How Do You Want to Be Celebrated?
Birthdays are supposed to be celebrations—but for many neurodivergent people, they can also bring sensory overload, social expectations, disrupted routines, emotional complexity, and the exhausting pressure to perform the “right” kind of happin...
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Bespoke Spirituality: Neurodivergence and the Many Ways of Following Jesus
What if your spirituality doesn't need to fit neatly into a box?Christianity has always contained many different ways of encountering God. In this episode, I explore six historic Christian traditions—contemplative, holiness, charismatic,...
What Are You Apologizing For?
For many neurodivergent people, apology can become almost automatic: apologizing for having emotions, getting off topic, talking too much, needing an accommodation, thinking differently, or simply taking up space. But what happens when “I’m sor...
Reading Scripture Through a Neurodivergent Lens
What happens when we read Scripture through the lens of our own lives?In this episode, I explore what it might mean to engage Scripture through a neurodivergent lens, and why our particular ways of seeing the world might actually help us...
Repeated Overwhelm Is Not Character Formation: On Capacity + Discernment
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I begin with listener mail—including some thoughtful questions about parenting, sensory overwhelm, gratitude, accommodation, and the difference between stretching ourselves and pushing ourselves...
Belonging Without Becoming Someone Else
In this special episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I’m sharing a replay of my conversation on Deb Gregory’s Betwixt podcast. Deb is an author and spiritual director, and as someone who is part of a neurodiverse family, she and I...
Praying with ADHD
In this solo episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I explore what prayer can look like for Christians with ADHD, drawing inspiration from Megan Fowler’s Christianity Today article, “How to Pray with ADHD.” Along the way, I reflect ...
When You Don't Fit The Mold (with Daniel Curtis)
What happens when the world keeps telling you that you don’t fit?In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I talk with Daniel Curtis, a speaker, storyteller, composer, and late-diagnosed ADD adult from South Wales. Daniel shares ...
Executive Function + Faith (Part 5): Persistence and Stress Resilience
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I continue my conversation with Neurodiverse Couples Coach Robin Tate—and bring our series on executive function and faith to a close.Together, we explore two more executive functions tha...
Executive Function + Faith (Part 4): Cognitive Flexibility + Self-Awareness
In this episode, I continue my conversation with Neurodiverse Couples Coach Robin Tate in Part Four of our series exploring executive function and neurodivergence.This time, we turn our attention to two often-overlooked executive functio...
Creating Church Spaces Where Every Child Belongs
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I sit down with author, speaker, ministry leader, and grandmother Kim Botto for a deeply compassionate conversation about creating church spaces where every child truly belongs.Together, ...
Spiritual Wayfinding: Neurodivergence + Embodied Connection With God
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I sit down with spiritual director and author Deb Gregory to explore the sacred connection between spirituality, embodiment, and neurodivergence.As members of neurodiverse families oursel...
Neurodivergent Faith: What's Working (And What's Not) Right Now (Spring 2026)
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I reflect on what’s working—and what’s not—in this current season of life and faith. From singing together as a family and discovering the quiet gift of object-focused connection, to the unexpec...
Parents, Please Regulate Yourselves!
What if one of the most important things you bring to your neurodivergent child (or your loved one)… isn’t your words, your strategies, or your plans—but your regulated presence?In this episode, we explore the sacred, often over...
Parenting, Trauma, + Connection [with Amanda Diekman]
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I sit down with Amanda Diekman—known to many as “Low Demand Amanda”—to explore the tender intersection of parenting, trauma, and connection.We name the reality so many parents carr...
Child Sacrifice for the Sake of the Community
In this episode, “Child Sacrifice for the Sake of the Community,” we explore what happens when belonging, harmony, and reputation are prioritized over a child’s nervous system. Through personal reflection, we name the ways many of us l...
The Myth of Good Christian Parenting
In this episode of Neurodivergent Faith, I sit down with Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis to explore some often unexamined assumptions that have shaped Christian parenting culture. Together, we name the pressure to produc...
Growing Up Undiagnosed In Christian Church + School (Pt 2)
In Part 2 of my conversation with Alyssa Barringer, we explore what led to her AuDHD diagnosis and how that understanding began to bring clarity to years of lived experience. We talk about neurodivergence in the family, the connection between m...
Growing Up Undiagnosed In Christian Church + School (Pt 1)
In this first part of my conversation with Alyssa Barringer, she shares stories that you may find very relatable—especially if you grew up in the rhythms of church and Christian school, trying to follow God with all sincerity, while simultaneou...
S4 E1: I Wish I Had Been Believed
In this opening episode of Season 4, we begin exploring the question:What do you wish your caregivers had known… or done differently?In this episode, Josh shares his answer to this question and together we explore:...
Listening to Our Listeners: Celebrating One Year of Neurodivergent Faith
In this final episode of Season 3, we celebrate one year of the Neurodivergent Faith podcast—34 episodes of stories, courage, and connecting with God and with each other. I reflect on the themes and wisdom listeners have shared over th...
Masking as Performing Belonging (a conversation with Sunita Theiss)
In this final episode of the Masking and Spiritual Formation series, Josh is joined by Sunita Theiss for a thoughtful and deeply honest conversation about masking as performing belonging—especially within faith and community s...
Masking and Faith Communities [a conversation with Harrison Litzell]
In this second episode of the Masking and Spiritual Formation series, Josh is joined by Harrison Litzell for a thoughtful and honest conversation about masking and belonging in faith communities. Together, they explore how masking show...
Masking and Spiritual Formation (An Introduction)
What if we don't have to pretend to be something we aren't in order to be loved?In this opening episode of a short series on Masking and Spiritual Formation, Josh explores the practice of masking—what it is, why neurodivergent p...
Stimming and Stewardship: The Sacred Work of Regulation
In this episode, my friend Kristina Coombes joins me for an exploration of stimming across all our senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, interoception, proprioception, and the quiet wisdom of the vestibular system. Together we name stimming...