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
119 episodes
Soft Without Surrendering Power after Sexual Trauma
We welcome rebirth season by exploring how softness can return after rage without dragging us back into smallness. We name armor, hypervigilance, and people pleasing for what they are, then practice softness as a real form of power we can feel ...
BONUS EPI: What If Your Home Held Your Truth
We slow down and take a needed exhale, then we build a simple altar practice to honor Lilith as the part of us that refused silence and chose autonomy. We keep it grounded, practical, and body-based so your sacred rage has a safe place to land ...
The Silence & Not Being Believed After Sexual Trauma
We name the deep wound of not being believed after sexual trauma, including the quiet cruelty of life continuing as if nothing happened. We talk about how family image, minimization, and forced secrecy shape rage, grief, and the long road back ...
BONUS PEP TALK: Stop the Performance and Choose YOU!!!
I go full rage mode about unsafe relationships and the quiet ways women get pressured into performing, especially sexually, to keep the peace. I draw a hard line between love and safety, and I am here to remind you that you can change your mind...
BONUS EPI: Shadow Work Tools For Sexual Trauma Healing
We name shadow work for what it really is: turning toward the parts of us that went underground after trauma, especially the rage, grief, and shame that were never allowed to exist out loud. I share practical, trauma-informed tools for nervous ...
Comparison Rage after Sexual Trauma
I name comparison rage as the grief and fury that can sit underneath “I’m happy for them,” especially for trauma-experienced, neurodivergent women watching other lives look easy. I unpack where it shows up, why it makes sense in a survival-wire...
BONUS EPI: Lilith And The Backlash Against Boundaries
I pick up Lilith’s story after her flight and name the brutal truth many of us meet after we finally say no: the backlash can rewrite us into the villain. I connect demonization to the trauma freeze response, then share ways to stay anchored in...
Rage At Lost Years After Sexual Trauma And How To Reclaim Today
We name the rage of sexual trauma stealing years of your life, not as an abstract idea but as missed safety, missed support, and a body that learned to freeze. I walk through why the freeze response persists even after you understand it, and ho...
BONUS EPI: Lilith And The Power of No
We link Lilith’s mythology to the lived reality of neurodivergent women and sexual trauma survivors whose needs get labeled as defiance. We show how reclaiming your no starts in the nervous system and becomes a practical path to boundaries, con...
Dropping The Performance After Sexual Trauma
We name the double life so many neurodivergent, trauma-experienced women live: performing neurotypicality while also performing “I’m fine.” We walk through what unmasking looks like in real life, why it can trigger rage and grief, and how small...
BONUS EPI: Somatic And Mindset Tools For Body Anger After Sexual Trauma
I share grounded, real-world techniques to soften body rage and body shame after sexual trauma, with a focus on moving slowly and staying safe in your nervous system. We walk through somatic tools, parts work, and practical therapy skills that ...
When Your Body Feels Like The Enemy After Sexual Trauma
We name the rage that has no clean target, the anger that turns inward toward your own body after sexual trauma. We unpack why your body responded the way it did and how healing can begin with safety, ownership, and a small ceasefire instead of...
BONUS EPI: Honoring Sacred Rage
We go deeper into sacred rage and why the urge to keep listening can be your nervous system signaling readiness, not rumination. I share concrete ways to release anger safely, especially when the person who harmed you is still in your life and ...
Your Anger Is Proof You Are Healing
Numbness can keep us alive, but when it cracks, rage often arrives first because we finally have the energy to name what was wrong. I give you direct permission to feel sacred rage and channel it into boundaries, creativity, and safer relations...
Recovering From Sexual Trauma Without A Safe Space
We close the numb arc by telling the truth about healing after sexual trauma when nobody in your life feels safe. I walk through why “good enough” keeps you stuck, how numbness protects you, and the small steps that help you build real safety f...
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...
