After taking a break, we're starting up a new season of the podcast focusing on dysfunctional family systems and healing. In this episode, we explore in detail 7 PRESENT-day reasons for going no-contact.

❤️‍🩹 Parents’ inability to accept the individuated version of their adult-child

❤️‍🩹 Parents’ refusal to stop upholding rigid roles adult-child have been playing since childhood

❤️‍🩹 Parents’ chronic lack of healthy attunement

❤️‍🩹Chronic use of manipulation, gas-lighting, denial, triangulation, guilt-tripping, blame-shifting, projection by the parent/s

❤️‍🩹Defensive posture vs. a receptive posture of repair

❤️‍🩹 Parents’ chronic lack of interest in the adult-child’s genuine well-being

❤️‍🩹Refusal to get help and become a healthier person and in turn a safer parent

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BONUS EPISODE! Luke and I had the privilege of chatting with Jodi Carlton on her podcast, "Your Neurodiverse Relationship".Jodi says: "Together, they open up about their own marriage, healing past trauma, working through attachment styles, and what it really takes to make a #neurodiverserelationship not only work—but thrive. They also share their professional insights into #neuroplasticity, rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD), attachment wounds, and how their personal growth journey empowered them to help other couples navigate similar challenges.✅ Navigating ADHD & demand avoidance✅ Anxious + avoidant attachment in marriage✅ Overfunctioning, burnout & masking✅ When to accept… and when to seek change

Check out the rest of the neurodiverse couples interviews Jodi does on YouTube.
‪@JodiCarlton‬ is a leading world expert in mixed neurotype relationship dynamics and communication. Her personal and direct style of educating and coaching is a favorite with all neurotypes around the globe. Her unique blend of personal and professional experience with neurodiverse relationships positions her to help people with a blame-free mind-set, and a goal of clarity. Check out all her offerings and freebies at her site: ⁠⁠https://jodicarlton.com/⁠⁠

Have you ever heard my experience with brain retraining? It’s been a few years since I did an episode about it, and because it’s SUCH valuable information I wanted to talk about it again, and add in my new insights and perspectives from this point in my journey.

In this episode I share:

-an overview of my healing process through brain retraining

-a guide to explore what is behind you dysregulation and chronic symptoms through mining your story, early conditioning, unique vulnerabilities such as neurodivergence, and your present environments and relationships to understand the reasons behind why you became dysregulated in the first place

-the important concept of sustainable nervous system regulation

-brain retraining or trauma healing? which should go first

-finding the important healing balance of grief/trauma work and beauty/goodness seeking

-who I would recommend brain retraining for

-what I recommend if you’re noticing symptoms crop up, but you’re not really unwell yet

-how brain retraining has changed my life and opened me up to possibilities I would not have had without it

Make sure to check season 2, episode 18 if you want to hear more details about brain retraining!

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Join us for the third and final episode in our series on neurodiversity! In this episode we interview Jodi Carlon, a Neurodiverse Relationship Expert. We had an amazing conversation, evidenced by the number of times Luke and I said “beautifully said” to Jodi!

We cover:🌿how trauma affects the brain🌿the role of safety🌿fleshing out what accommodation really is🌿how to figure out healed and what needs to be accommodated🌿the nature of neurodivergent nervous system and it’s highly likelihood of becoming traumatized🌿expectations, needs vs preferences in relationships🌿how some difficult neurodivergent traits are made more intense by trauma🌿common co-occuring mental health conditions with ND🌿how much neurodivergent people accomodate for neurotypicals🌿masking as a survival response and way to accomodate neurotypical folksWe hope this episode and entire series is an encouraging support on your personal journey, and in your neurodiverse relationships!

Jodi Carlton is a leading world expert in mixed neurotype relationship dynamics and communication. Her personal and direct style of educating and coaching is a favorite with all neurotypes around the globe. Her unique blend of personal and professional experience with neurodiverse relationships positions her to help people with a blame-free mind-set, and a goal of clarity. Check out all her offerings and freebies at her site: ⁠⁠https://jodicarlton.com/⁠⁠

We’re back for episode 2 in our series on neurodiversity! This episode is quite personal, as Luke and I detail several of the challenges we experience navigating a neurodiverse relationship.

We are so excited to offer this series to our audience as a route to more deeply understanding a really big aspect of ourselves and our relationships: NEURODIVERSITY.

In this episode, we tackle the hard-to-talk-about realities of harm in relationships (i.e. betrayal, addiction, abuse...) and the necessary imbalance needed for repair of such relationships. What does it take to create trust and safety after it's been lost? What does the timeline for recovery of connection look like? How much will genuine repair cost you? You won't want to miss this conversation if you have a difficult partnership and you're not sure what healing and relational repair should look like.

We're confident this episode will be valuable to so many as we see this relational dynamic all the time. Listen in as we explore factors behind under and over-functioning such as societal conditioning, religious teachings, family roles and neurodivergence. We share some key things that have been monumental in us unraveling from this imbalanced dynamic, and insight on how to move forward if you find this pattern to be true of your intimate relationship.

Join us for this episode as Flourish Therapy practitioner Bethany Randolph walks us through how the way we address our triggers and young parts can actually be keeping us stuck. Bethany guides Lauren through an impromptu therapy session, gently showing how to allow the wounded parts of us EXPERIENCE our strong and compassion Self. It's a powerful practice that can open you up to new neural pathways of healing and transformation.