⚠️ Content warning: This episode includes conversations about anxiety, panic attacks, trauma and mental health. Please listen with care and choose what feels safe for you.

Can psychics and intuitive practices change how we understand anxiety, healing and ourselves?

In this episode, Ellie is joined by Lisa Van Zuylen, also known as Soul Design Lisa. Lisa is an intuitive guide, energy practitioner and certified trauma practitioner who has spent more than 17 years helping people transform spiritually, emotionally and physically.

Lisa shares how experiencing severe anxiety and panic attacks led her to explore meditation, spirituality and energy-based practices. Together, Ellie and Lisa discuss intuition, trauma, nervous-system regulation, holistic healing and what it can mean to reconnect with ourselves beyond conventional approaches.

Ellie also talks honestly about her previous understanding of psychics and how speaking with Lisa opened her mind to the many different ways intuition and psychic practices can be viewed.

This is a grounded, open-minded conversation about anxiety, spirituality, personal transformation and healing, with plenty of warmth, laughter and possibly the best bouncy blow-dry Ellie has ever seen, even though Lisa insists it isn’t a bouncy blow-dry.

Topics include:

• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Meditation and nervous-system regulation
• Intuition and psychic practices
• Trauma and emotional healing
• Spirituality and energy work
• Learning to trust yourself
• Finding hope through different approaches

This podcast shares personal experiences and general information only. It is not a replacement for professional medical or mental-health advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Find Lisa Van Zuylen:

Website:
https://www.souldesignlisa.com

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/souldesignlisa/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.zuylen/

Book a consultation:
https://souldesignlisa.as.me/?appointmentType=26765679

Find Ellie AuDHD:

https://www.ellieaudhd.com

When Ellie and Jax get talking, the conversation quickly becomes raw, honest, funny and beautifully unfiltered.

In this episode, they explore neurodivergence, trauma, relationships, healing and the complicated journey towards accepting yourself as you are.

Ellie shares her lived experience of ADHD and autism, commonly known together as AuDHD, and reflects on the unexpected journey that led her into podcasting. What began with a humorous social media mishap has grown into a thriving platform and a Facebook community of more than 50,000 people, all centred around education, connection and support.

Jax opens up about their personal healing journey, including their experiences with trauma therapy, learning to establish healthier boundaries and navigating relationships while carrying the effects of past experiences.

Together, Ellie and Jax discuss:

• The realities of living with a neurodivergent mind
• Trauma, therapy and the ongoing process of healing
• Learning to recognise and establish healthier boundaries
• Navigating relationships while protecting your wellbeing
• The importance of community, authenticity and feeling understood
• How humour and vulnerability can help us connect

This conversation is a reminder that understanding neurodivergence is about far more than recognising a list of traits. It means listening to lived experiences, questioning harmful assumptions and creating space for people to be fully themselves.

Expect laughter, vulnerability, emotional honesty and plenty of wonderfully chaotic conversation. If you are navigating neurodivergence, trauma, difficult relationships or your own healing journey, this episode will remind you that you are not alone.

Content warning: This episode includes discussions about trauma, mental health and difficult relationship experiences. Please listen with care.

🐺 Find Jax and listen to Black Wolves Confessions with Jax on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/6NHRtVKaaAyXKotzY2T61X

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes conversations about childhood and adult trauma, cancer, chronic illness, mental health and emotional distress. Please listen with care and choose what feels safe for you.

Can emotional trauma affect our physical health, and what role does the nervous system play in healing?

In this episode, Ellie is joined by Dr Noushin Izadifar Hart, a board-certified radiation oncologist with more than three decades of medical experience. Dr Hart brings together conventional medicine, trauma-informed care and a whole-person approach to health and wellbeing.

Together, they explore the connection between emotional stress, unresolved trauma, nervous-system dysregulation and physical health. Dr Hart discusses the importance of looking beyond symptoms, reducing fear around illness and helping people feel informed and empowered within their own healing journey.

They also talk about cancer, chronic illness, prevention, lifestyle, emotional regulation and why caring for the mind, body and nervous system can be such an important part of supporting our overall wellbeing.

This is an open and thought-provoking conversation about trauma, health, resilience and hope.

Please remember that this podcast is for information and lived-experience discussion only. It is not a substitute for individual medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Find Dr Noushin Hart:

Healing by Hart:
https://healingbyhart.com

Hart to Heart Cancer Consultants:
https://h2hcc.com

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dr.hart2heart/

Find Ellie AuDHD:

https://www.ellieaudhd.com

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes detailed and potentially distressing conversations about school shootings, childhood sexual abuse, trauma, grief and other sensitive experiences. Please listen with care and choose what feels safe for you.

Author, entrepreneur and Jess Saying podcast host Jessica Danel joins Ellie AuDHD for one of the most unfiltered, shocking and unexpectedly funny conversations yet.

Jessica shares raw stories from her no-filter memoir, Bucket List from a Redneck Girl, including childhood trauma, motherhood, marriage, raising children with additional needs, building a million-dollar preschool business and finding the strength to begin again.

Despite the difficult subjects, Jessica brings warmth, honesty and humour to every story. The conversation feels less like an interview and more like two friends chatting at a bar about the experiences that shaped them.

Find Jessica, her podcast, book and social-media links at:

https://jesssaying.net

Find Ellie AuDHD:

https://www.ellieaudhd.com

Content note: This episode includes conversations about trauma, emotional overwhelm and mental health.

What does it really mean to be a highly sensitive person, and how can we learn to treat ourselves with greater compassion?

In this episode, I’m joined by Elizabeth Cush, a licensed clinical professional counsellor, women’s life coach and highly sensitive person. We explore high sensitivity, anxiety, trauma, nervous-system overwhelm and the importance of learning to understand your own needs.

Elizabeth shares her personal and professional insight into why deeply feeling people can become overwhelmed, how past experiences affect the way we respond to the world, and why self-compassion is so important. We also discuss boundaries, people-pleasing, rest and learning to be kinder to ourselves instead of constantly believing we should be coping better.

This is a warm, honest conversation for anyone who feels deeply, becomes easily overwhelmed or has spent years believing they are simply “too sensitive.”

Topics include:

• What it means to be a highly sensitive person
• Anxiety, trauma and nervous-system overwhelm
• People-pleasing and boundaries
• Recognising your emotional needs
• Practising self-compassion
• Learning to work with your sensitivity rather than fighting it

Please follow AuDHD and Then Some for more honest conversations about ADHD, autism, trauma, mental health and the beautifully complicated reality of being human.

Find out more about Ellie AuDHD:
https://www.ellieaudhd.com

Find Elizabeth Cush:

Website: https://www.elizabethcushcoaching.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenyourwisewoman/
Podcast: Awaken Your Wise Woman
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/64SRf073AoPVAAg8TEyc4i

Find Ellie AuDHD:

Website: https://www.ellieaudhd.com

The Great ADHD Myth: An AuDHD Panel Discussion on ADHD, Diagnosis, Medication & Lived Experience

What happens when the people actually living with ADHD get a seat at the table?

In this special panel episode of AuDHD and Then Some, Ellie AuDHD Capstick is joined by her co-host Daran, aka Man on Pause, and a diverse panel of voices to discuss and respond to Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth.

Together, the panel explores some of the biggest and most controversial conversations surrounding ADHD today, including ADHD diagnosis, late diagnosis, ADHD medication, overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis, neurodivergence, mental health, stigma, access to assessment and the reality of living with ADHD and AuDHD.

Rather than reducing ADHD to statistics, headlines or a television debate, this conversation puts real lived experience at the centre.

The panel shares personal perspectives on what ADHD actually looks and feels like, the impact of spending years without understanding your brain, the barriers people face when seeking diagnosis and support, and why conversations about ADHD need nuance, compassion and the voices of neurodivergent people themselves.

Expect disagreement, honesty, humour and some very big conversations.

Whether you're ADHD, AuDHD, autistic, questioning whether you might be neurodivergent, supporting someone with ADHD, or simply interested in the debate surrounding ADHD diagnosis in the UK, this episode offers perspectives that often get lost in the headlines.

With so much thanks, gratitude, kindness and appreciation to Chloe-Louise, Abdul-Ahad, Chris Anderson, Mick Miller, and, of course, our fabulous Daran Man on pause.

And last but absolutely not least, Angie Rhys.

Thank you all so much for giving your time, your voices, your experiences and your perspectives to this conversation. It genuinely wouldn’t have been the same without you. ❤️🌈

🎙️ AuDHD and Then Some, hosted by Ellie AuDHD Capstick

Topics include: ADHD, AuDHD, autism, ADHD diagnosis, late-diagnosed ADHD, ADHD medication, neurodivergence, ADHD assessment, ADHD stigma, mental health, lived experience, Channel 4's The Great ADHD Myth, and the ADHD diagnosis debate.

In this episode, I speak with the inspirational entrepreneur Joshua Griffin about everything from ADHD, school and diagnosis to business success, burnout, debt and starting again.

We talk about Joshua’s belief that ADHD can be a superpower when it is harnessed correctly. I agree, but with a very important emphasis on the words “harnessed correctly”, because ADHD can bring incredible drive, creativity and determination, while also making life and business incredibly difficult without the right understanding and support.

Joshua shares the honest story behind building a successful company, experiencing major losses and finding himself £35,000 in personal debt. We discuss what that level of debt does to you emotionally, how it can affect your confidence and decisions, and how you begin rebuilding when it feels as though everything you worked for has fallen apart.

We also talk about Joshua’s journey back from that point, co-founding his agency Intrinzi and writing his upcoming book, Built It. Nearly Lost It. Built It Again.

This is an honest, natural conversation about ADHD, entrepreneurship, resilience and the version of business success that people rarely post online.

Nervous System Regulation, Sensory Overload & AuDHD Burnout | Ellie & Tasha

This month, Ellie and Tasha are back together for their monthly AuDHD & Then Some catch-up — and this one is very real, very candid, and recorded while both of us are feeling a little bit frazzled ourselves.

Our theme this month is nervous system regulation, sensory overload and overwhelm in AuDHD, and we're talking openly about what that actually looks like in everyday life.

We chat about our own experiences of feeling close to burnout, recognising when our nervous systems are overloaded, what helps us regulate, and the small things we can do when our brains and bodies are screaming, "ENOUGH."

We cover:

🌈 AuDHD and nervous system regulation
🧠 ADHD, autism and sensory overload
🔥 Recognising neurodivergent burnout
😵‍💫 Overwhelm, exhaustion and feeling frazzled
💚 Ways we can support ourselves when we're dysregulated
🫶 Recovering from periods of burnout
🎧 Sensory needs and understanding your own nervous system
💬 Our own very real experiences this month
✨ Practical tips and ideas that may help
🌱 What we're working on ourselves — because we definitely don't have it all figured out either!

We also talk about what's coming this month inside the AuDHD & Then Some Membership, including our resources around nervous system regulation, sensory overwhelm and understanding your individual needs.

Members can access resources through our website and our Facebook Subscribers Hub, with resources designed to be downloadable, printable and fillable, so you can actually use them in whatever way works best for your brain.

And yes… we were BOTH slightly dreading recording this episode because we're tired, frazzled and feeling the effects of a very busy month.

But we showed up.

And actually? We're bloody glad we did. 💚

This is what our monthly episodes are about — no pretending we've mastered neurodivergence, no perfect morning routines and no telling you to simply "regulate your nervous system."

Just two AuDHD women having an honest conversation about what life looks like when your nervous system has had quite enough, thank you very much.

🎧 AuDHD & Then Some

Explore our membership, downloadable resources, tools, information, merchandise and more at audhdandthensome.com.

Topics: AuDHD, ADHD, autism, neurodivergence, nervous system regulation, sensory overload, sensory overwhelm, autistic burnout, ADHD burnout, AuDHD burnout, emotional regulation, dysregulation, overstimulation, executive dysfunction, neurodivergent women, ADHD women, autistic women, burnout recovery, sensory processing, mental health, self-regulation, neurodivergent support.

Childhood Trauma, Emotional Healing and Learning to Love Yourself with Danielle Bernock

In this episode of AuDHD and Then Some, Ellie is joined by Danielle Bernock, an author, speaker, trauma-informed self-love coach, relationship repair specialist, childhood trauma survivor and founder of 4F Media.

Danielle, known as “that lady on the internet who loves you,” helps people understand childhood trauma, emotional neglect, shame and the lasting effects unresolved trauma can have on our self-worth, identity, nervous system and relationships.

Together, Ellie and Danielle explore childhood and emotional trauma, trauma recovery, self-love, people-pleasing, shame, feeling unseen or unworthy, repairing your relationship with yourself and moving from survival mode towards genuine healing. Danielle also answers some deeply personal questions Ellie had wanted to ask, offering an incredibly enlightening, refreshing and compassionate perspective.

This is an honest and supportive conversation for trauma survivors, neurodivergent adults and anyone trying to understand their past, develop self-compassion, rebuild their confidence or begin healing their relationship with themselves.

Danielle was an absolute pleasure to have on the podcast. She shared her experience and wisdom so openly and generously, and Ellie would love to welcome her back again.

Find Danielle Bernock:

Website: https://www.daniellebernock.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbernock/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellebernock/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellebernock

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielleBernockLovesYou

Find Ellie and AuDHD and Then Some:

https://linktr.ee/Ellieaudhd

Topics include: childhood trauma, emotional trauma, emotional neglect, trauma recovery, self-love, self-worth, shame, relationship repair, nervous system healing, people-pleasing, neurodivergence, autism, ADHD, AuDHD, mental health, self-compassion and moving from surviving to thriving.

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains sensitive discussions around child loss, accidental overdose, grief, trauma and bereavement. Please listen with care.

This was an incredibly moving and meaningful conversation with Malisa Hepner, LCSW, author, podcast host and speaker, and I cannot thank her enough for joining me and sharing so openly.

At the heart of this episode is Malisa’s beautiful son, Jake, who tragically died at just 18 years old following an accidental overdose. Malisa speaks about Jake, motherhood and navigating unimaginable grief with such love and honesty. I am incredibly grateful to Malisa and her family for allowing us to hear part of Jake’s story and for using their experience to raise awareness and help others.

We also explore motherhood, mum guilt, spirituality, trauma, healing, perfectionism, self-compassion and what it means to keep moving through life when your world has fundamentally changed.

Unfortunately, technology was absolutely NOT on our side! One of our connections struggled throughout the interview, resulting in several technical difficulties, and after around 52 minutes we eventually had to admit defeat. 😂 We gave it everything we had, though, and what we managed to capture was far too important and beautiful not to share.

Malisa, thank you profusely for your patience, your honesty and your willingness to share such a deeply personal part of your life with AuDHD and Then Some.

We hold Jake, Malisa and her family in our thoughts, and I sincerely hope Malisa will come back for another conversation. Next time, preferably with the internet behaving itself! 💜

🎧 AuDHD and Then Some
Conversations about neurodivergence, trauma, grief, mental health, motherhood, healing and the beautifully complicated reality of being human.