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
72 episodes
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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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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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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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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29:50
BONUS EPI: The Good-Girl Recovery: Healing from the Rules That Keep You Small
The quiet moment when pretending stops can feel like an earthquake: your body tenses at rest, your mind bargains for worth through productivity, and the smallest no sets off alarms. We explore that turning point with honesty and care, tracing h...
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23:17
Stop Calling It Lazy: The Real Story Behind Executive Dysfunction and Trauma
We explore how executive dysfunction is often a nervous system issue, not a willpower problem, and why safety must come before productivity. I share body-based tools, micro steps, and practical supports that melt freeze and honor invisible labo...
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Episode 30
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35:23
BONUS EPI: When There’s Never Enough: Time, Energy, Money, and Worth
Scarcity isn’t just about money. Feelings of scarcity are a nervous system rooted in the belief that there’s never enough time, energy, or worth to feel safe.In this Epi, we’ll explore how trauma and neurodivergence shape our relat...
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38:10
Burnout vs. Neurodivergent Shutdown: Understanding the Difference Between “Tired” and “Done”
If you’ve ever hit a wall where no amount of rest seems to help, this epi is for you.Let’s unpack the crucial difference between burnout, (the exhaustion that comes from doing too much for too long), and neurodivergent shutdown, (the pro...
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Episode 29
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16:42
BONUS EPI: The Sacred Pause: Lessons from Surgery
Sometimes life hits pause for you even when you don’t want it to.In this bonus episode, I share my personal story of gallbladder surgery, vulnerability, and what it means to truly surrender to your body’s wisdom.This isn’t a medic...
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12:33
Intense Emotions as Gifts: How Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Is Your Superpower
If you’ve ever felt crushed by criticism, overanalyzed a text, or spiraled when you thought someone was disappointed in you, this episode is for you.Today we’re exploring Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), a term often connected with A...
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Episode 28
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30:41
Taking a Break This Week
I had to take a break this week due to having my gallbladder removed. I will be back next week!!!
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BONUS EPI: The 10 Songs That Saved Me: A Healing Journey Through Music
This is a short episode to share my favorite songs I’ve listened along my healing journey! Click the linktree link and listen to the Divine Woman playlist - songs are in order on the playlist!
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Friendship Trauma: Why Social Relationships Feel So Hard
Have you ever walked away from a coffee date or group hangout feeling lonelier than when you arrived? Have you carried the sting of being called “too sensitive,” “too much,” or “hard to get along with”? If so, you may be carrying friendship tra...
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Episode 27
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17:39
BONUS EPI: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Good Therapist (and Questions to Ask So You Don’t Settle)
In This Bonus Epi:For many trauma survivors and neurodivergent women, finding a therapist isn’t just about scheduling a session, it’s about risking trust again. And too often, that trust gets broken by therapists who overshare, push tren...
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12:17
Drama Queen? Too Loud? Too Sensitive? The Wounds of Growing Up Misread
Have you ever been told you’re “too sensitive,” “too loud,” “too quiet,” “too dramatic,” or “too much”? For many women, especially those who are neurodivergent or trauma-experienced, being misunderstood doesn’t just sting in the moment, it crea...
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Episode 26
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