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
93 episodes
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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39:09
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...
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8:09
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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30:46
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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32:10
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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27:41
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...
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Season 1
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11:26
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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36:43
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...
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Season 1
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16:47
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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29:23
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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51:33
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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4:44
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:08:11
