This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet Podcast

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  Coming Home to the Body: Somatic Safety and the Wisdom of the Nervous System with Jolene Ironside 01.09.2026 15мин

  Jolene Ironside, DL team member, integrative counsellor, ADHD coach and holistic therapist, joins Dr Emma Offord for a conversation about the body's own language, and why so many neurodivergent people were taught to stop listening to it. Jolene explains how children learn to override exhaustion, sensory overwhelm and physical discomfort just to keep pace with environments that were never built for them, and what that disconnection costs later in life: anxiety, hypervigilance, and a nervous s...
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  The Myth of the Easy Baby: Fear, Perfectionism and the Truth About Motherhood with Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall 25.08.2026 50мин

  In this honest, funny and deeply human conversation, Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall, psychologist and mother of three, joins Dr Emma Offord to talk about the truth of modern motherhood: the fear, the perfectionism, and the shame around feelings we were never taught to name. Tuesday shares how she left an academic career built on perfectionism behind when motherhood made it impossible to keep performing, and how a single moment on her own driveway became the turning point that changed everything. T...
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  Chosen In Every Lifetime: Sibling Love, Institutionalisation and the Fight for Ewan with Ruby Peace 18.08.2026 1ч 2мин

  Ruby describes herself first and foremost as the little sister of her big brother Ewan, who is profoundly autistic, non-speaking, and has a severe learning disability. In this episode of *This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast*, Ruby joins Dr Emma Offord to talk about a devotion that has shaped her whole life, and a system that has repeatedly let her family down. Ruby shares what it meant to lose her closest companion to residential school at seven, to learn to be let down, and to live insi...
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  Love Needs No Words: Fatherhood, Non-Speaking Communication and Finding Connection Beyond Language with James Hunt 11.08.2026 1ч 7мин

  James Hunt, founder of the Stories About Autism community and SAA Clothing, and author of Love Needs No Words, joins Dr Emma Offord for a tender conversation about fatherhood, communication and connection. James is dad to Jude, 18, and Tommy, 15, both autistic, non-speaking and living with global developmental delay. He shares how one Facebook post grew into a community of hundreds of thousands, and how his family have found ways to communicate without spoken words, from eyes and body languag...
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  The Late Bloomer: Dyslexia, Autism, Motherhood and the Making of a Resilient Family with Ashlyn Firkin 04.08.2026 55мин

  In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord sits down with DL Clinical Psychologist Ashlyn Firkins, an HCPC registered assessor with over a decade of experience across NHS and private practice. Ashlyn was diagnosed dyslexic in childhood, an experience that shaped how she sees the world and, later, how she came to understand her son Ted, diagnosed autistic at three. She talks candidly about being a late bloomer, holding two sides of herself (the perfectionist and...
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  How to Save Your Own Life: Autism, Eating Disorders and the Hope That Saves Us with Rachel Clark 28.07.2026 1ч 3мин

  Rachel Clark was seventeen when she wrote her debut book, How to Save Your Own Life. In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Rachel talks to Dr Emma Offord about growing up as an undiagnosed autistic girl, the years she spent internalising difference as personal failure, and the eating disorder that became the only way she felt she could be heard. Rachel speaks openly about situational mutism, about a treatment system that wasn't built for her brain, and about the nurse wh...
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  Choosing Him Every Time: Autistic Burnout, School Trauma and a Life Without School, with Linsey Biggs 21.07.2026 54мин

  In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord talks with Linsey Biggs, full-time parent carer to three and the voice behind Unschooling Stanley, about the years that led her to take her eldest son out of school entirely. Linsey describes watching her son's distress build until it became impossible to ignore, and the moment she finally trusted what he was telling her over what the school system kept insisting. She talks about recognising her own ADHD and school tr...
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  You Are Always Believed: Menopause, ADHD and the Fight to Be Heard in Women's Health, with Dr Helen Wall 14.07.2026 58мин

  Dr Helen Wall spent years quietly noticing something no one had trained her to see: that hormones shape the brain, and for neurodivergent women, that shift can be seismic. Her own perimenopause took her ability to function before it touched anything else. She was told she was too young. She believed it, for six months, until she couldn't cope and finally sought help. In this episode, Dr Emma Offord and Jolene Ironside talk with Helen, GP, menopause specialist and author of Menopause and ADHD,...
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  You Were Never the Problem: Late Diagnosis, Shame, and the Power of Finally Understanding Your Brain 12.05.2026 50мин

  Lou was diagnosed ADHD in her 30s. By that point, she had already been through secondary school struggling and unidentified, failed college three times, experienced serious mental health crises, and spent years being told to try harder. When she finally sat with a therapist, everything she brought to that room turned out to be ADHD. Not failure, but simply a neurotype the world had never named for her. In this episode, Dr Emma Offord and Lou, founder of ADHD Interrupted, have the kind of conv...
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  Internal Realities: Tuning Into Your Neurodivergent Body with Dr Clare Jacobson 05.05.2026 1ч 4мин

  Dr Clare Jacobson has spent over 20 years holding people's most intimate inner worlds. As a specialist clinical psychologist in teenage and young adult cancer care, she knows what it means to sit with invisible experience - the kind that doesn't show up on a blood test, but is completely real. Over the past year, Clare has been on her own journey of neurodivergent identification. And in this conversation with Emma, she brings both lenses: the clinician who has learned to approach people's inn...
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  When Everything Shifts at Once: Hormones, Neurodivergence, and the Midlife Unmasking with Sophie Cartledge 28.04.2026 57мин

  What happens when perimenopause and neurodivergent identification arrive at the same moment? When hormones shift, the mask starts to slip, and nobody in the medical system has any idea what is actually going on? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Sophie Cartledge, founder of Hormones on the Blink, a training platform working at the intersection of hormone health, menopause, and neurodivergence. Sophie is late-identified autistic and ADHD, discovered both through her own perimenopau...
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  Different, Not Less: Communication, Selective Mutism, and Finding Your Voice with Eve Harrison 21.04.2026 54мин

  What does it take to build a movement of over a million people when you started secondary school unable to speak a single word? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Eve Harrison, founder of Let's Make A Difference, a grassroots campaign raising awareness about communication challenges and the power of small acts of understanding. Eve is autistic, learned BSL during the pandemic when speech was not available to her, and has since used that journey to educate, include, and advocate for o...
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  Be Gentle With Your Giant Heart: Self-Care, Self-Advocacy, and Reclaiming the Right to Receive with Suzy Reading 14.04.2026 49мин

  What does it actually mean to take care of yourself, when every version of self-care you've tried has felt like another thing to fail at? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Suzy Reading, Chartered Psychologist and author of How to Be Selfish, about what it takes to heal our relationship with self. Not with a checklist or a spa day, but with the slow, courageous work of coming home to your own needs. Suzy unpacks the gender conditioning that teaches women their worth depe...
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  Riding the Tornado: ADHD, Skateboarding, and the Power of Finding Your Thing with Ryan Swain 07.04.2026 57мин

  Ryan Swain was told from childhood that his energy was too much, his focus was wrong, and his way of being didn't fit. Teachers called him a liability. Nobody asked why. In this episode, Dr Emma Offord talks with Ryan, founder of the You, Me & ADHD awareness campaign, about growing up undiagnosed in a system that had no language for who he was. Ryan shares the story of finding skateboarding at eleven and how it gave him something school never could: a space where his neurobiology made sen...
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  When They Look Fine at School But Fall Apart at Home: Nervous Systems, Masking, and the Invisible Load of SEND Parenting with Jo Rodriguez 31.03.2026 49мин

  What happens inside a child's body when they hold it all together at school, only to fall apart the moment they walk through the front door? And what does that cost the parents who are there to catch them, every single day? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord is joined by health psychologist, CBT therapist, and EMDR practitioner Jo Rodriguez for an honest, warm, and deeply grounding conversation about what it actually means to parent neurodivergent children inside a system that was never built fo...
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  Permission to Parent Differently: Burnout, Regulation, and Finding Your Voice with Lisa Galley 24.03.2026 50мин

  Lisa Galley built her career in autism the long way round: studying part time, raising three children, sitting her finals at nine months pregnant, and working in high-pressure NHS autism outreach before burnout took it all away. What followed was years of frightening physical symptoms, a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, and a profound loss of identity. What she built on the other side was something she never planned: a community, a business, and now a book. In this episode, Dr Emma Offo...
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  The Voice of Anger: What Maternal Rage Is Really Trying to Tell Us 13.01.2026 54мин

  In this episode of This Voice Is Mine, Dr Emma Offord is joined by clinical psychologist, author, and maternal mental health specialist Dr Caroline Boyd for a deeply honest and necessary conversation about motherhood, anger, and the stories we are taught to silence. Together, they explore the realities that so many parents live but rarely feel able to name: intrusive thoughts, maternal rage, emotional overload, and the crushing weight of expectation placed on mothers, particularly within a cu...
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  Permission to Be Seen: Nervous Systems, Shame, and Voice 06.01.2026 53мин

  In this intimate, reflective episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord and the DL team are joined by Helen Marie, a UK-based registered integrative therapist, author of Choose You, and host of the podcast I Don’t Think We Talk Enough About. Together, Emma and Helen, along with Jolene and Jo, explore what it really means to grow full size: not as a performance of confidence, but as a nervous-system-led journey of becoming. Helen shares her path from a first career in p...
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  Parenting Unplugged: Raising Neuro-affirming Families with Charis Halsall 16.12.2025 47мин

  Parenting a neurodivergent child in a system that was never designed for their brain is hard. Parenting that child while you are still healing your own school trauma is something else entirely. In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord is joined by parenting coach and host of the Parent Unplugged podcast, Charis Halsall. A mum of three and an outspoken advocate for children and adults with dyslexia, Charis was diagnosed at seven and spent her school years coll...
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  From Silence to Voice: Charlotte Hunt on School, Survival & Raising Neurodivergent Kids 09.12.2025 35мин

  In this emotionally rich and beautifully honest episode, Charlotte Hunt, the powerhouse behind Twin Tides & Autism Vibes, joins Dr Emma Offord to explore the hidden stories behind advocacy, identity, motherhood, and living a neurodivergent life that was never built for your wiring. Charlotte shares her journey from being a school refuser at 14, to navigating complex family dynamics, to discovering her neurodivergent traits through her children, to becoming a voice of truth and connection ...