In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked challenges of gift-giving and share practical gift-giving tips that reduce stress and help you stay authentic to your spirit of giving. Whether you're buying for a loved one, a coworker, or someone you barely know, this episode is packed with gift ideas and strategies for managing the complexities of gift-giving with neurodivergence in mind.

Are there things to be thankful for? Sure. If you look hard enough you can always find something, but you know what’s often even easier to find? Things you’re not thankful for. That’s why gratitude journaling is so often recommended in pop psychology. Join us as we explore and discuss some journal prompts intended to inspire gratitude. Do they work? Let’s find out.

This time of year is the perfect opportunity for crafting, creativity, and community! With that in mind, we’ve decided to do something we’ve never done before on the podcast: a craft-along! This is also an opportunity to explore some therapeutic techniques: art as therapy, writing prompts, and stream of consciousness.

It’s spooky season! How are you going to spend your Halloween? Over here, we’ll be having a nice big group hug with the boogeyman and all his friends. Why? Because that’s one of the best parts of spooky season. Join us as we take a look closer at the symbols and icons of the season in order to learn from them and face our greatest fears.

What do you do when it all falls apart? Well, you rise from the ashes like a phoenix, of course. Yes, but how? What does that look like and how do you do it? In this episode, we’re exploring what it means to rebuild your life and your sense of self after everything has fallen apart.

Join us for this two-part episode on what it actually means to rise from the ashes and rebuild your life. In this first episode, we’ll be discussing survival mode: what it is, how to know you’re in it, and how to start stepping out of it so that you can thrive rather than just surviving.

Does developing management strategies and learning self-mastery, communication, and relationship skills actually help in the long run? Join us as we share some of the management strategies and skill sets we’ve developed, and assess whether it’s been worth all the work we’ve put in over our nearly 50 years of combined experience on this mental health and trauma recovery journey.

Heeeey! So the bad news is that we don’t have a new episode because Ivy is moving. The good news is that we still have an episode for you, a compilation of some clips from our Patreon vault. The other good news is that we’re finally going to be able to record again soon so we’ll have a brand spanking new episode for you next time.

Join Autumn and her boyfriend, Jake as they discuss the lessons they’ve learned over their decade-long relationship about how to cope with the fear of being hard to love and how to navigate the challenges and benefits of being neurodivergent in love.

Chances are you will never know how many lives you’ve touched, how far your influence spreads, or how meaningful your words and actions might be. But you do matter. To someone. To lots of someones. Join us as we explore the butterfly effect of human interaction and share stories about some of the people who have touched our lives in both big and small ways.

While the old adage: “You are what you eat” has been around for a very long time it’s only in recent decades that science has actually been discovering just how extensively our dietary lifestyle impacts our overall health and well-being. Join us in this two part series as we discuss how we navigated our own elimination diets and how the lifestyle changes have impacted our lives in both the better and the worse.

While the old adage: “You are what you eat” has been around for a very long time it’s only in recent decades that science has actually been discovering just how extensively our dietary lifestyle impacts our overall health and well-being. Join us in this two part series as we discuss how we navigated our own elimination diets and how the lifestyle changes have impacted our lives in both the better and the worse.

If you feel like your life has been completely upended and you’ve found yourself, willingly or unwillingly, on a transformative journey as a result, you’re not alone. Join us as we explore the ways in which we can take comfort, inspiration, and guidance from pop culture as we close one chapter in our lives and navigate the uncharted territory ahead.

Being on a healing and self-discovery journey is one of the most powerful things we’ll ever do for ourselves and for our loved ones, but sometimes we can get so focused, for so long on correcting what is wrong that we forget to take notice when things start to go right. Join us as we flip the script on our pathologies and discuss some of the “symptoms” that are proof-positive of healing and growth.

The truth is, most of us tend to burn the candle at both ends, and that habit has a way of catching up to us in the form of burnout. We’re not here to judge, but we are here to help. Join us for a discussion about how to cope with burnout, lessen the impact of it on your life, and replenish your reserves.

S-E-X is almost always a taboo topic of discussion, especially among neurotypicals and “civilized society”. For those of us who are neurodivergent and already struggle with the subtleties of social scripts, the topic of intimacy can feel more taboo. Join us as we discuss the intricacies, oddities, and awkwardness of being neurodivergent in the bedroom, and help us answer the age-old question: “Is it just me, or…..?”

Like many other things in life, neurodivergence is a bit of a double-edged sword. Some of our neurodivergent traits are so impressive that they almost seem like superpowers, while others impair our ability to function so much that they can feel like a curse. Join us as we explore the duality of our neurodivergence, discussing our perceptions of both our best traits and our biggest challenges through the lens of autism and ADHD.

Increasingly more of us are being diagnosed with some form of neurodivergence and/or are accidentally stumbling upon an unexpected sense of kinship among neurodivergent communities on social media. As our knowledge expands, both clinically and culturally, our vocabulary around neurodivergence is also evolving at a rapid rate. Join us as we discuss the definitions and origins of some of these terms and explore what they actually look like as part of the lived experience for neurodivergent people.

We have our tried-and-true coping skills but let’s face it, sometimes you just need a little something extra to get you through the storm; so we did a little internet search to see if there were any suggestions that maybe we hadn’t thought of before. Join us as we put these suggestions to the test and discuss our views on their efficacy and shortcomings as two neurodivergent women in search of some heavy duty stress busters.

Many neurodivergents learn early on that they have to slip on a persona and play by certain rules, and over time it can become difficult to know where the mask ends and you begin. We want to show you our strange, little neurodivergent selves, as unmasked and unfiltered as possible; so we’ve compiled clips with our more candid moments that never made it into the episodes.