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
104 episodes
A Survivor’s Story Of Sexual Trauma
I share a story I’ve held close for more than 30 years, including childhood sexual abuse, rape, pregnancy, and adoption, and how silence from adults shaped my life. We name what trauma does to the body and relationships, then walk through what ...
BONUS EPI: How To Use Parts Work (IFS) for Your Freeze Response After Sexual Trauma
We slow down together and practice meeting freeze with compassion instead of pressure, using simple grounding and body-based support. I reframe shutdown as a protective • slowing down without needing to feel calm • refra...
Your Body Is Protecting You From Stillness
Restlessness after grief is normal when our nervous system finally comes online after numbness. I share a trauma-informed way to practice real rest in tiny steps so our body can learn that slowing down is safe. • why emotional release ...
BONUS EPI: Shadow Work And Somatic Release For The Numb Season after Sexual Trauma
We slow grief down and give it a body, a breath, and a ritual so the numb season can finally feel safe to move. I guide you through shadow work, heart-centered visualization, and gentle somatic release so you can honor double grief without tryi...
Honoring the Losses & Heaviness after Sexual Trauma
Grief can rise when numbness finally softens, and that doesn’t mean we’re failing or sliding backward. We name the double grief of healing after sexual trauma and practice a slower, body-based way to carry the ache without turning recovery into...
BONUS EPI: Holding Space for the Numbness after Sexual Trauma
We slow everything down and meet numbness with respect, treating it as a protective boundary rather than proof we are broken. I explain the freeze response, offer body-based practices to build safety, and end with a guided sanctuary meditation ...
Your Freeze Response Was Survival Not Consent
We start season two with a slow return to the body and a clear truth: you were not broken and you did not fail. I name numbness and freeze for what they are, explain why survival can look like compliance or dissociation, and share five gentle s...
How Mother Wounds And Father Wounds Shape Your Nervous System
We close season one with a clear look at parental wounds and how your nervous system learned what love, safety, and connection feel like. We connect those early patterns to freezing, fawning, people pleasing, and boundary struggles, then share ...
Feeling like the World is Against You? Let’s Talk About It!
We name victim mentality for what it often is: a trauma-shaped nervous system pattern of powerlessness, not a character flaw. We walk through how to move from stuck to steady using awareness, regulation, small choices, and self-trust that your ...
BONUS EPI: When You Have No One: The Loneliness No One Talks About
We sit with the heavy reality of baseline loneliness and the specific ache of being unseen by people who are supposed to feel like family. We reframe “why not me?” through the lens of family systems, grief, and nervous system safety, then map a...
Navigating Toxic Masculinity
We name the real-world patterns of toxic masculinity and the ways numbness, rage, and control show up as silence, intimidation, gaslighting, and guilt. I keep the focus on safety and give you clear scripts so you can stop shrinking and start pr...
Reactive Abuse: When Survival Looks Like Aggression
Reactive abuse can make you feel like you became the “problem,” even when your body was responding to prolonged provocation and control. I break down the difference between abuse and survival, then share a somatic reset to help you come back to...
SEASON 2 TRAILER
Season two of The Awaken Heart opens a dedicated space for healing after sexual trauma through a 13-week journey of nervous system repair and claiming sovereignty. We will map the process through numbness, rage, and rebirth while holding the tr...
If January Didn’t Work, Try This Spring Reset Instead
We celebrate spring as a more natural “new year” and name why January resolutions often collapse under pressure, shame, and winter biology. We shift into a nervous-system-first way to set goals using seeds, small experiments, supportive environ...
Understanding Trauma Bonds; Why Leaving Can Feel Impossible
Today I break down trauma bonds with clear language and grounded tools, showing how the nervous system, attachment patterns, and brain chemistry make leaving feel like withdrawal. • defining trauma bonds and clearing up common myth...
Somatic Healing Explained in Practical Terms
I share a grounded guide to somatic healing for women who have learned to override their instincts, showing how social conditioning, trauma, and neurodivergence erode body trust and how to rebuild it through simple, steady practices. We move fr...
BONUS EPI: How To Switch Off Squirrel Brain And Turn On Hyperfocus
I share a quick, heartfelt guide to turn scattered energy into steady focus using a journal activity, HALT check, and playful gamification that respects a sensitive nervous system. We close with body-based reminders, pelvic floor softening, and...
Ingrained Misogyny: The System We Learned Without Knowing
We unpack how ingrained misogyny becomes survival patterns and how to unlearn them with nervous system tools and community support. We end with a grounding somatic practice and a clear path toward self-trust and steadiness.• defining in...
BONUS EPI: Grounded Action For A Heavy World Where Billionaires Get Redactions
I speak honestly about the weight of the Epstein files, the absence of accountability, and how survivors bear the cost while power stays protected. We pair nervous system practices with practical mutual aid and voting prep so action feels doabl...
Understanding Weaponized Incompetence And How To Shift It
Today I talk about weaponized incompetence, trace how it drains intimacy and spikes the nervous system, and offer seven grounded shifts to move from managing to partnering. We close with a somatic practice, journal prompts, and an invite to a s...
LATE DIAGNOSIS SERIES: From RSD To PDA - Common Terms Explained
We celebrate a milestone and close our neurodivergent series by translating common “buzzwords” into clear, humane guides for daily life. We name RSD, PDA, masking, stimming, task paralysis, autistic inertia, shutdowns and meltdowns, then show h...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
