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    neuroatypical

    Explore "neuroatypical" with insightful episodes like "Top 8 Most Helpful Tips from (UN)Broken Souls - Enlightening 8", "How To Live Well With Neurodiversity - What Really Works - with Kofi Ayivor", "How neurodivergent women can light the way for each other and the world - Lucy H. Pearce", "Autism Sexuality Advocacy with Amy Gravino" and "An Unkindness of Ghosts" from podcasts like ""The UnBroken Podcast", "The UnBroken Podcast", "The Waking The Wild Show", "Sex Ed with DB" and "Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast"" and more!

    Episodes (5)

    Top 8 Most Helpful Tips from (UN)Broken Souls - Enlightening 8

    Top 8 Most Helpful Tips from (UN)Broken Souls - Enlightening 8

    Join us for an entertaining and enlightening tour of what has been the most enlightening parts of the process for those amazing people striving to be (UN)Broken, living their lives authentically, magnificently and totally unapologetically.

    Starting with some tips of what collectively have helped the (UN)Broken tribe members the most in their unique, individual and bespoke journeys of awareness, acceptance and amazement. It is a common trait when feeling broken to feel that we are not as human as the next person, not the same, however this episode seeks to break that taboo and show how human we all are and our paths may be different but in essence we all have the same fears, un-comfortability and worries.

    Key Insights From This Episode:

     

    • The only person that we have control over is ourselves.

     

    • I encourage people to actually start to cultivate the art of resting because we don't get enough.
    • I tell people that doing nothing is doing something. We never, ever are actually doing nothing.
    • The brain doesn't differentiate between good or bad. It doesn't. And it also doesn't differentiate between true and not true. The brain is not any kind of referee over things. Its job is just to keep us alive.
    • It takes at least eight weeks for a new neural pathway to start developing in the brain. Eight weeks, 56 days.
    • They have experienced the battle between “now is okay, and I'm going to give okay up for what is in the future, which I don't even know what that is”. The uncertainty of it all. I have to live with the anxiety, I have to live with these unfamiliar feelings to something that isn't really even that tangible anymore.
    • Learn how to say no to anything that doesn't feel right. That doesn't seem right. That doesn't sound right. That doesn't make you feel right. Learn how to say no.

    Keywords: self-help, rest, processing, uncertainty, emotions, support

    About Our Host

    Dr Rachel Taylor

    drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

    Dr Rachel Taylor is a neuroscientist with decades of experience exploring, discovering and solving everyday challenges faced by many, as well as listening to and telling the stories of people she comes across in her endeavour to show difference is good, trauma is endemic and joy is connection. She started UnBroken as she wanted to highlight that the system is broken not people and uses the UnBroken podcast to share her learnings, honest conversations and words of wisdom with the UnBroken Tribe of listener.

    About UnBroken 

    https://un-broken.me/ 

    UnBroken is founded upon the belief that the environment in which we were born, grew in, live in, work in, play in and rest in has a huge impact on how well we believe we are and how well we perform. Wellbeing and optimal human performance are not simply about the absence of disease, they are about the ability to live purposefully, intentionally, joyfully and freely.  

    UnBroken provides a range of supportive online resources including a podcast, blog, apothecary and monthly online membership for people who dare to be different, are open to possibilities and want a different pathway to their own version of success.

    How To Live Well With Neurodiversity - What Really Works - with Kofi Ayivor

    How To Live Well With Neurodiversity - What Really Works - with Kofi Ayivor

    This episode is dedicated to all the ‘differents’ in life, wherever they may be. The world needs different for innovation and creation, discover what has worked for one man who discovered is difference makes a huge difference.

    This episode features a Q and A exploring all things wonderful and neurodiverse with Kofi Ayivor. Being different is hard enough but being neurodiverse in a neurotypical world is another level of difficulty. Listen to how you can find what works for Kofi and could be useful for you in navigating the beauty of difference against the backdrop of normalcy. With laughter, fun and lots of talk of food as medicine.

    Key Insights From This Episode:

     

    • I'm in awe of what you've just said, Kofi around human's greatest asset, because probably about 20 - 30 years ago it would not be thought of that somebody who had an atypical brain would actually even understand what empathy was. - Dr Rachel

     

    • In order to gain a better life, we often have to lose something. We need to go through a grieving process. - Dr Rachel
    • And the more I accept myself, the more I like myself. It's interesting. Because the more you tend to like yourself, it’s because you're accepting who you are. - Kofi
    • The one thing I say to people don't tend to do, and I was guilty of this before, we tend not to be present in the moment. We tend to either live in the past or live in what we want to be in the future, but we never live in moment. - Kofi
    • A key part of the process for me when helping anybody to be who they truly are, is for them to embrace of awe, wonder, magic and play, because these are the things make the human life wondrous really. - Dr Rachel
    • An old man said to me before… we have a tendency to make ourselves small, so that we don't expose our greatness. Because we are too busy worrying about whether we're going to piss somebody off. - Kofi
    • I work hard to play hard, and if I can't play, I can't recharge. And if I'm not recharging just means I'm just working. - Kofi

    Keywords: neurodiversity, neurodivergence, difference, autism, ADHD, dyslexia

    About Our Guests:

    Kofi is a finance professional and an outstanding legal graduate with a strong career foundation in a statutory dispute resolution service dealing with FCA regulated firms, in addition to experience working in legal organisations. At his core he’s a passionate and enthusiastic people person and a keen advocate of fairness in society and doing the right thing in work and my life.

    Kofi describes himself as a motivator, moderator and connector as well as being a mean chef! Kofi is neurodiverse, and has dyslexia. 

    About Our Host

    Dr Rachel Taylor

    drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

    Dr Rachel Taylor is a neuroscientist with decades of experience exploring, discovering and solving everyday challenges faced by many, as well as listening to and telling the stories of people she comes across in her endeavour to show difference is good, trauma is endemic and joy is connection. She started UnBroken as she wanted to highlight that the system is broken not people and uses the UnBroken podcast to share her learnings, honest conversations and words of wisdom with the UnBroken Tribe of listener.

    About UnBroken 

    https://un-broken.me/ 

    UnBroken is founded upon the belief that the environment in which we were born, grew in, live in, work in, play in and rest in has a huge impact on how well we believe we are and how well we perform. Wellbeing and optimal human performance are not simply about the absence of disease, they are about the ability to live purposefully, intentionally, joyfully and freely.  

    UnBroken provides a range of supportive online resources including a podcast, blog, apothecary and monthly online membership for people who dare to be different, are open to possibilities and want a different pathway to their own version of success.

    How neurodivergent women can light the way for each other and the world - Lucy H. Pearce

    How neurodivergent women can light the way for each other and the world - Lucy H. Pearce

    This week's show is with Lucy H. Pearce. Lucy is the author of nine life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award winners Medicine Woman and Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment and creativity. She is currently working on her next book, She of the Sea.

    Her words have been featured internationally in online and print media and featured in Earth Pathways Diary, WeMoon, Divergent Mind and If Women Rose Rooted.

    Lucy is the founder of Womancraft Publishing, which publishes paradigm-shifting books by women for women.

    The mother of three children, she lives by the Celtic Sea in East Cork, Ireland.

    In this show, Lucy and Lian (both autistic women) spoke about neurodivergent women, the unique struggles we face in, how we're like the canary down the mine of a distorted culture that's actually not beneficial for anyone, and how people with neurodivergences have specific, necessary but currently little understood gifts for the world. 

    I’d love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let’s carry on the conversation…  please leave a comment below.

    What you'll learn from this episode:

    • Neurodivergent women in particular struggle with a real lack of understanding and diagnosis and therefore we often also have trauma from years of struggling and being bullied that further complicates us discovering our neurodivergence
    • It becomes possible to recognise that all of us are precious, necessary parts of the whole when we take the emphasis off  valuing people purely on their "doing", and particularly the specific kinds of doing deemed worthwhile by our culture, and instead recognise the value of our being
    • If what we spoke about resonated with you then two next steps that could be aligned for you are:
      • Looking at resources, descriptions and tests that are specific to neurodivergent women
      • Finding ways of honouring your needs to allow your nervous system to be relaxed and in flow

    Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

    Thank you for listening!

    There’s fresh episode each week, if you subscribe then you’ll get each new episode delivered to your phone every Tuesday (that way you’ll never miss an episode):

    Thank you!
    Lian & Jonathan

    Autism Sexuality Advocacy with Amy Gravino

    Autism Sexuality Advocacy with Amy Gravino

    In this fourth episode of Sex Ed with DB, Season 5, DB has the pleasure of talking to Amy Gravino about sex education needing to be inclusive of folks on the autism spectrum. Amy is an autism sexuality advocate and Relationship Coach in the Center for Adult Autism Services at Rutgers University. Follow Amy on Twitter (@AmyGravino) and Instagram (@amy.gravino) and visit www.amygravino.com to learn more.

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    Sex Ed with DB, Season 5 Team:

    Creator, Co-Producer, Sound Engineer, and Host: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

    Co-Producer and Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen

    Graphic Illustrator: Andrea Forgacs

    Social Media Intern: Leslie Lopez

    Website: Alex Morton 

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    Sex Ed with DB, Season 5 is Sponsored by:

    Clone-A-Willy, Pandia Health, Uberlube, and Emojibator.

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    Love Sex Ed with DB? Email us at Sexedwithdb@gmail.com for comments and questions about what's coming up this season.

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    About the podcast:

    Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ folks and BIPOC. We discuss topics such as intersex rights, abortion, dominatrixes, sex toys, queer sex ed, sex and disabilities, HIV, sex in entertainment, and more.

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    An Unkindness of Ghosts

    An Unkindness of Ghosts

    An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

    This month, host Lisa is joined by David Sloane, Denise McIver, and Aubrey Hicks to discuss An Unkindness of Ghosts, the science fiction novel about a young neuroatypical woman on a generation ship in search of the "promised land" looking for evidence her mother had discovered something important about the ship and its journey.

    We talk about slave allegories, generation ships, spatial hierarchies, gender, autism ... so much to talk about with this debut novel from Solomon.

    Warnings: spoilers & triggers, and we apologize for any misgendering speakers may have done on this podcast.

    Other things we're reading:

    Lisa: Mueller, She Wrote, State of Resistance by Manuel Pastor
    Denise: Quicksand and Passing, by Nella Larsen
    Aubrey: The Savage Shore, by David Hewson

    Read along with us! Let us know what you think of the book & our podcasts on Facebook or Twitter.

    Our April read: White Fragility: Why It's So hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

    Bonus episode: an interview with Professor Manuel Pastor on his book State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America's Future, coming soon.

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