The Awakened Heart: A Podcast for Healing Women
The Awakened Heart: A Podcast for Healing Women is a safe space for trauma survivors and neurodivergent women ready to claim their voice, soften into their truth and feel at home with themselves.
I’m Autumn Moran, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), certified Life Coach, and 500-hour trained yoga instructor who understands this journey intimately as a neurodivergent woman, trauma survivor and as a therapist and life coach.
Each week, I offer soulful episodes where I intertwine my lived experiences with insights from my therapy practice all with the goal to help women unmask and find peace in their lives by healing trauma and learning how to accommodate their neurodivergence.
Through real talk, mindfulness practices, and gentle healing approaches rooted in trauma-informed wisdom and nervous system care, you’ll find practical tools to help you feel safe in your body, seen in your story and supported in your journey.
This is your sanctuary to soften, heal, and remember that you were and are never too much.
Work with me: Click the link to schedule a free 15 minute consultation.
Episodes
83 episodes
LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: ADHD/Autism Accommodations: What You Deserve and How to Ask
This episode explains why accommodations are equity, not favors, and I offer scripts for you to use to ask for what you need at work, at home, and in your social life. We will unpack internalized ableism, set boundaries with compassion, and sha...
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Episode 44
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46:34
LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Autistic/ADHD Burnout - Why Everything Feels Impossible Now
Today I trace the real arc of neurodivergent burnout after late ADHD or autism diagnosis and why understanding yourself doesn’t refill the tank overnight. I share raw stories, practical accommodations, and a path to recover with boundaries, res...
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Episode 43
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47:22
LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Telling Family After Late Diagnosis
I explore how to decide whether to tell partners, kids, parents, and siblings about a late ADHD or autism diagnosis, and how to protect your peace. • who to tell and why based on safety and motive• building support before shari...
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Episode 42
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50:53
BONUS EPI: Saying No To Hustle, Yes To Healing
I share a schedule shift to Wednesdays only so we can honor health, capacity, and sustainable creativity. I model boundaries over performance and invite you to choose a rhythm that supports your nervous system and real life.About Me:...
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LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: Working Through the Grief & Rewriting Your Story
We explore the hidden grief that follows a late neurodivergent diagnosis and map the waves that crash through childhood memories, relationships, and sense of self. Practical tools help you move rage and sorrow through the body, find community, ...
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Episode 41
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38:30
BONUS EPI: Untangling Trauma Responses From Personality Traits For Late-Diagnosed, Neurodivergent Women
We trace how survival strategies like people pleasing, hypervigilance, perfectionism and hyperindependence get mislabeled as personality and how to tell the difference. We share simple tests, grief and identity shifts to expect, and small exper...
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33:20
LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: What The First Year Post-Diagnosis Really Feels Like And How To Move Through It
We open a new series on late diagnosis with a frank look at the first year after learning you’re neurodivergent. Relief, rage, grief, and an identity shift arrive in cycles, and we share real tools for feeling it, naming it, and building a life...
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Episode 40
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40:18
ADHD, Autism, AuDHD And Trauma: How To Tell Them Apart And What To Do Next
We unpack how ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and complex trauma overlap, why women are missed for years, and how to finally tell the differences that matter for care. Clear criteria meet real-life examples, with simple steps, tools, and compassion for ne...
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1:02:38
End of Year Reflections
I reflect on a messy, beautiful year of parenting adult children, emergency surgery, sleep apnea, quitting social media, and rebuilding life with rest at the center. I share lessons on boundaries, money, creative capacity, and the new series co...
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Episode 39
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46:32
BONUS EPI: The Difference Between Being Nice and Being Kind (And Why Nice Is Killing You)
This episode challenges the myth that being “nice” is the same as being kind abd I will explains why niceness often masks as performance, people pleasing, conflict avoidance, trauma response, control disguised as care and dishonesty that erodes...
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47:11
How To Be Love And Light And Take No Shit
We challenge the wellness myth that healing means endless calm and compliance, and offer a grounded path where compassion and firm boundaries live side by side. We share scripts, name the thousand small cuts women endure, and map twelve steps t...
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Episode 38
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55:54
BONUS EPI: Dear January: Opting Out Of New Year’s Resolution Pressure For Neurodivergent And Trauma-Surviving Women
We push back on “new year, new you” and offer permission to rest, especially for neurodivergent women and trauma survivors who feel depleted by winter pressure. We explore why biology favors dormancy now and how seeds of gentle intention can wa...
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37:57
Getting Unstuck: A Late Diagnosed Guide to Routines and Systems
We unpack why “stuck” is not laziness and map clear ways to move again using ND-friendly rules, mindset shifts, flexible routines, and micro-habits. We trade shame for curiosity, perfection for progress, and rigid schedules for structures that ...
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Episode 37
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51:37
BONUS EPI: When Your Body Says Yes But You Mean No - Healing Sexual Trauma
We name freeze and fawn as survival, not consent, and speak plainly about coercion in relationships, religious pressure, and why obligatory sex harms the nervous system. We share body-based tools for healing, with special care for neurodivergen...
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1:07:15
Love Bombing - What It Is, Why You Fall For It, and How to Protect Yourself
We name love bombing for what it is; a manipulation tactic that mimics romance to fast-track control. I offer concrete tools to slow the pace, protect your nervous system, and choose green flags over fireworks.• definition and origins o...
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Episode 36
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1:08:11
BONUS EPI: PEP TALK - Comforting Words When the World Feels Heavy, Dark, and Impossible
This episode is a Pep Talk for anyone who’s barely keeping it together. For anyone who’s tired of toxic positivity that skips over the reality that life is legitimately difficult right now. For anyone who needs permission to scale back, do less...
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23:31
Unmasking: The Hidden Cost of Being “Easy-Going” and “Low-Maintenance”
We name masking for what it is; a survival strategy and will map out how to spot it, why it starts, and how to unmask without burning your life down. We share lived examples, body cues, and gentle steps so you can move from performance to prese...
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Episode 35
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1:01:54
BONUS EPI: Walking on Eggshells in Relationships: A Guide to Healing
This episode unpacks why walking on eggshells is a trauma response, not a relationship skill gap, and how fawn shows up in adult intimacy. I share somatic tools, red flags, options when your partner won’t change, and how to choose yourself with...
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1:20:01
You Did Your Best - And Your Child Is Still Hurting. Now What?
When your child says “you hurt me,” do you freeze, defend, or try to explain it away? We’re getting radically practical about what true repair looks like; how to hold your child’s pain without making it about your own, and how to rebuild trust ...
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Episode 34
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1:04:04
BONUS EPI: Social Media Burnout: Choosing Authenticity Over Algorithms
This fall/winter season , I’m letting something die so something real can grow. In this raw and honest episode, I’m sharing why I’m completely done with social media and how I plan to grow The Awakened Heart Podcast without it.If you...
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20:25
When Your Family Doesn’t Understand: Setting Boundaries Around Holidays, Special Events, and Expectations and Traditions
The holidays can magnify an old ache: being the “difficult” one in a family that doesn’t see your neurodivergence. We unpack the invisible wound of feeling mislabeled and misunderstood, then go deep into the family dynamics that keep you stuck ...
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Episode 33
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51:41
BONUS EPI: Executive Dysfunction, Part Two: The Emotional Overload Edition
This Epi explores emotional overload as a protective response that shuts down executive function and offers practical tools to restore safety and momentum. We map the flood cycle, name four overload types, and practice resets, scripts, and a th...
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22:19
Executive Dysfunction: How Can I Get You to Function?
When a simple task feels like a threat, your body isn’t being dramatic; it’s protecting you. We open up executive dysfunction through two powerful lenses: the inner child who learned to survive by freezing or perfecting, and the ADHD nervous sy...
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Episode 32
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38:45
BONUS EPI: When Autism Meets ADHD; AuDHD
When your nervous system wants two different things at once, life can feel like a constant tug; one part craving structure and quiet, another chasing novelty and movement. We open up about living at the intersection of autism and ADHD, especial...
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27:48
Energy Management Over Time Management: Spoon Theory for Neurodivergent Lives
We explore why time management fails when the real issue is capacity and how Spoon Theory helps us plan days that fit our nervous systems. We share practical tools to track energy, unmask gently, and build rhythms that restore creativity and se...
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Episode 31
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