The Awakened Heart: A Podcast for Neurodivergent and Trauma-Experienced Women

Episodes

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  Inanna Part 2: Losing People After You Heal and How to Rebuild 28.10.2026 30m

  When Inanna climbs back out of the underworld, her husband is on the throne. Comfortable. Not mourning. Not looking for her. That’s the part nobody puts on a graphic, and it’s the part that happens to us. You go through something that nearly ends you, and the people closest to you carry on like it’s any other Tuesday. This episode is about the return and what happens after the healing, when you come back changed to a life that didn’t change with you. In this episode: ∙Why nobody came do...
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  Finding Meaning After Sexual Trauma 21.10.2026 18m

  I’ve been told I was fine by people whose job it was to help me. Therapists. Religious counselors. Every time, I walked out feeling more alone than when I walked in. This episode is about what happens after and about what I refuse to say to you. It was not a blessing. It was not a gift. It did not happen for a reason. But there is something real underneath all that toxic positivity, and it’s worth separating out: post-traumatic growth doesn’t say trauma is good for you. It says that for some ...
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  Ninety Seconds in the Bathroom: A Practice for Hard Family Visits 16.10.2026 1m

  A 90-second guided practice for the middle of a difficult family visit m; when you’ve stepped out, shut the door, and you need to come back to yourself before you go back in. No preamble. No long introduction. You press your feet into the floor, you breathe, and you walk back out as the woman you are now instead of the girl who’s still hoping for something. Save this one before you need it. It works sitting down, with your phone in your hand, and it makes no noise. This is a companion to the ...
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  Healthy Masculine Energy & Boundaries After a Father Wound 14.10.2026 23m

  My no is a no. If something feels off in my body, my mind, or my heart; it’s off. I don’t need to build a case for it anymore. This is the practical half of the father wound. How to build the protector you didn’t have, how to tell safe from familiar, and what healthy masculine energy actually means; which has nothing to do with being a man. If you grew up without a good example of a gentleman or a gentlewoman, you didn’t end up with bad judgment. You ended up without a blueprint. This episod...
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  Healing the Father Wound: Grief, Silence & Daddy Issues 07.10.2026 20m

  The father wound is quieter than the mother wound, and that’s exactly why so few women ever grieve it. In this episode I share my own father, one lunch in my whole life, no gifts, no advice, and complete silence when something terrible happened to me as a teenager. We look at three fathers: the frightening one, the absent one, and the one who was in the house but unreachable. Then we go into the two things that actually move this wound; grief, and discernment. In this episode: ∙Why a fa...
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  Boundaries With an Unsafe Mother Without Going No Contact 30.09.2026 32m

  What do you actually do when the mother you’re healing from is still calling, still coming to Christmas, still in your life every week? This episode is the practical one: how to set boundaries with a toxic or emotionally unsafe mother without going no contact, and without losing yourself in the process. Most advice on narcissistic or unsafe mothers treats this as a choice between cutting her off or accepting her. This episode refuses that binary. Most women aren’t going no contact, and ...
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  Healing the Mother Wound: Reparenting Yourself After Trauma 23.09.2026 26m

  What happens when the mother who was supposed to protect you didn't, or when she competed with you, bullied you, or made you the problem? In this episode of our Healing from Sexual Trauma season, we go deeper into healing the mother wound and what it means to reparent yourself after sexual trauma. We talk about the two wounds so many women carry fused together: what happened to you, and who didn't come. We name the mother wound that rarely gets spoken; the jealous, competitive, or emotionally...
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  How to Identify Safe People: Red Flags, Trauma Dumping, and Limerence for Neurodivergent Women 16.09.2026 48m

  Believe actions over words. Every time. In this episode, Autumn Moran, LPC gets practical about identifying safe people - the real timeline for new relationships, the red flags media taught us to romanticize, and why limerence hits differently for ADHD and autistic brains. Plus: the trauma dumping pattern most women don’t realize they’re doing, and scripts for real situations. In this episode: ∙The 3-6-12 month relationship timeline and why it protects you ∙Red flags disguised as romanc...
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  Signs of Healthy Love, Love Bombing, and Trauma Bonds: Breaking Generational Cycles 09.09.2026 21m

  Words and actions match. Every time. Not eventually. That’s the whole test. In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn gets fiercely honest about what healthy love actually feels like - and how to tell the difference between real connection, love bombing, and trauma bonds that get mistaken for passion. This episode is deeply personal. Autumn shares her own journey of refusing to settle, breaking generational patterns, and what it actually costs - and gives - to choose a different kind of...
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  Aphrodite Energy And Sexual Trauma Healing For Neurodivergent Women 02.09.2026 29m

  IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: - Why reclaiming your erotic self has nothing to do with being desirable to others and everything to do with desiring your own life - The difference between sensuality and sexuality - and why sensuality is where reclaiming starts - What the solar plexus chakra has to do with your glow and your aliveness - How the GLOW framework connects directly to reclaiming your erotic self - What sensuality actually looks like in daily life after sexual trauma - Why intimacy c...
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  Reclaiming Pleasure, Sexuality, Intimacy and Safe Touch After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing 26.08.2026 33m

  ⚠️ Content note: This episode discusses sexual trauma recovery. Please care for yourself while listening. Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 | RAINN: 1-800-656-4673 This episode goes somewhere most healing conversations avoid - directly into the body and what sexual trauma did to your relationship with pleasure, desire, intimacy, and touch. In this episode we cover: - Why reclaiming pleasure starts in everyday sensation not sexuality - What sexual trauma does to your nervous system and ...
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  Inanna Part 1: The Descent - How to Lose Everything and Find Yourself | Sexual Trauma Healing for Neurodivergent Women 19.08.2026 40m

  You are not lost. You are descending. There is a difference. In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn Moran LPC takes you into one of the oldest stories in human history - the descent of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth - and connects it directly to what you are living right now. The stripping. The darkness. The losing of everything you thought you were. This episode is not for the woman who already came through. This is for the woman who is in the middle of her descent right now and ne...
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  Who Am I After Sexual Trauma? Identity Emergence for Late Diagnosed Neurodivergent Women 12.08.2026 27m

  IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: - Why the identity vacuum after healing is normal necessary and temporary - How freedom and guilt arrive simultaneously when you start living for yourself - Why unmasking is a process not a moment and what you find underneath the mask - Why you will lose some people when you stop performing and what that actually means - What identity emergence actually feels like - the exciting parts AND the disorienting parts - How to literally learn to play again as a healing ...
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  How Do You Reparent Yourself After Sexual Trauma? Shadow Work for Neurodivergent Women 05.08.2026 21m

  What if the healing you’ve been waiting for has been waiting for YOU to show up first? In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn Moran, LPC, takes you into one of the most tender and transformative parts of trauma recovery: shadow work and reparenting. Not the Instagram version. The real version - where you become the adult who finally shows up for your younger self with protection, validation, softness, and real boundaries. If you’re a late diagnosed neurodivergent woman healing from ...
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  You Don’t Need to Be Fixed to Be Worthy: Healing from Sexual Trauma 29.07.2026 22m

  You were never broken. But somewhere along the way - through trauma, through a late diagnosis that came decades too late, through adults who failed you and systems that weren’t built for your brain - you learned to believe you were. This episode challenges that belief directly. Because the life you’ve been waiting to live? You don’t have to be fixed before you’re allowed to have it. In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn Moran LPC unpacks the difference between healing and fixing, w...
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  Your Nervous System Is the Eternal Flame: Burnout Recovery for Neurodivergent Trauma Survivors | Brigid Part 2 22.07.2026 38m

  Your nervous system is not a machine built for maximum output. It’s a flame. And flames need tending. In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn Moran LPC uses Brigid’s eternal flame - the sacred fire kept burning for centuries through consistent, intentional care - as a direct metaphor for your nervous system. Because the same thing that kept Brigid’s flame alive for thousands of years is what will keep you from burning out: not intensity, not willpower, not pushing through. Tending. I...
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  ADHD and Trauma: Why Nervous System Dysregulation Is Evidence of Wisdom Not Weakness 15.07.2026 29m

  If calm has always felt out of reach - if your nervous system runs hot, your emotions run deep, and rest never quite restores you - there’s a reason. And it’s not because something is wrong with you. In this episode of The Awakened Heart, Autumn Moran LPC names the real reason calm can feel impossible after sexual trauma, chronic stress, and neurodivergence - and reframes everything you’ve been told about dysregulation. Because your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s brilliant. It learned exa...
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  BONUS EPI: Honoring Brigid Part 1: Healer Poet Smith - Celtic Goddess Healing for Neurodivergent Women and Trauma Recovery 10.07.2026 42m

  We meet Brigid as a living metaphor for healing after sexual trauma: soft and fierce at once, a steady flame you can tend without losing your power. We break her three domains down into practical, trauma-informed steps for nervous system regulation, voice, and transformation. • the triple goddess framework: healer for restoration, poet for truth, smith for transformation • the shift from sacred rage to a tended fire that stays warm and sustainable • questions to identify which “flame” you...
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  How to Be Soft Without Losing Your Power After Sexual Trauma | Neurodivergent Women Healing 08.07.2026 40m

  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 in the body. • letting go of performing for other people’s opinions • how sharing our real story cracks the armor over time • defining softness as nervous system permission to relax • speaking truth in the present moment as regulation • building s...
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  What If Your Home Held Your Truth: Sacred Space and Altar Practice for Sexual Trauma Healing 03.07.2026 29m

  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 and your healing has something you can see and return to. Work With Me Individually I offer trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women navigating: • Complex trauma • Late-diagnosed ADHD or autism • Nervous system dysregulation • Relational patte...